Seizing the Day ... and the Pro Wakeboard Tour

Aug 09 2006 / Los Angeles, CA

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This is it—the final stop of the Mastercraft Pro Wakeboard Tour just outside of Reno, Nevada. Pro men and women wakeboarders, wakeskaters, and junior riders who've been gunning for the title can now put it all on the line. As if there isn't enough action on the water, vendors, autograph signings, free stuff and an FMX demo of big back flips entertain all. But the crowds lining the shores of Sparks Marina came to see if X-Games champion Danny Harf, wakeskate ruler Brian Grubb, most decorated woman wakeboarder Dallas Friday, and junior threat Adam Errington will throw down and land their divisions.

After winning the season opener outside Atlanta, Dallas Friday returns to Reno for a repeat title. Despite her dominant nature, Friday finishes second behind chief rival Emily Copeland Durham, but still rides off away with the season and her second championship in as many years. In the Rip It JX series, Adam Errington has played this tour so well he takes the series with only a 5th place finish. Jimmy LaRiche scores his first win since Minnesota's Twin Cities as the juniors open the eyes of the pro men to future competition.

In the Sea Doo Wakeskate Series Brian Grubb, only needed to make the finals to capture his title. But when he makes it to the finals he rides like the title is still on the line. With technical spins, slides and flip tricks, Grubb edges Brandon Thomas by thirteen points and scores a two-fer in Reno.

In the widely anticipated Pro men's division, the upset of the weekend goes down in the round of 32. 2005 King of Wake Josh Sanders returns to competition after a knee injury to oust King of Wake leader Andrew Adkison from his neck-and-neck title race with Danny Harf. And with Adkison out of the way, only Rusty Malinoski stands in the way of D-Block's first-ever tour championship. Then Malinoski gets dropped by a hungry Phillip Soven in the semi-finals. Like Brian Grubb, Harf knows he's already wrapped the title coming into the finals. But in the finals, Harf puts his stamp on history as his first-trick 900 and winning run topple Phillip Soven. Danny Harf scores his third event win of the season and leaves Reno the double-down victor and is still in the hunt for King of Wake.