Category Archives: Skate

With the 2013 National Champs now less than a week away we are getting into National fever here at NZWakeboard.com. We were looking over some of our nationals coverage from last year and have decided we are going to revisit the 2012 nationals this week to give you a taste of what you can expect next weekend.

Finlay Woods sent us this video he made as his entry for the NZ section of the mountain film festival. It stars our very own Cody Tucker! Finlay cam runner up with this video so make sure you watch it and you will see why!

Check this little video out!! Makes wakeskating look cool!!

Check out this little edit sent through to us from Matt Burns, still cold there apparently but won't be long until their waters warm up and Matt is spending a lot more time on the water so look out for much more from this guy over the next few months!

Riding all day with open mens finals approx 2pm for the best spectating All riders to be at the basin at 8:30 for briefing with a life jacket and helmet for the kicker. Bring $50 cash for entry and cash for raffle tickets to win a Ronix wakeskate. Parking is at the boat ramp and up land roa

If our last little feature wasn't enough to get you stoked on the Wakeskate Nationals check out this trailer, thanks to Riley Bathurst

The Original New Zealand Wakeskate Nationals are to be held in little over a week's time with skate rats dragging themselves from harbours and swamps all over country to the bright lights of Auckland. After a few years of floating around, the Orakei Basin will play host venue for the first time. Th

Get on a plane, train, bus or on your bike and get down to Orakei Basin for skate nationals, the info is still coming but the date is locked in with basin closure and check back here soon for more details as we get them and on the facebook event here. If you would like to be involved as a volunte

Cam Stenning along with friends Flick Blackmore & Tim Van Weer. Wakeskating from the lakes of Auckland to the Street spots of Christchurch. Song by Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Strong (The Algorithm remix) which is cool because you can download the EP here. Shot by Riley Bathurst on his Cano

It's one of the more unique aspects of riding wake that crashing is the best way to get something better than you otherwise would from the situation. First rollers are soo much fun but if your riding what is normally considered well and not crashing a lot, you pretty much miss out. In Almost any oth

There's not too many girls in the NZ wake scene that I can say have spent more time in boats than I have but Flick is one of them, and even better than that we have spent a fair amount of time in boats together, from back in the day when building a dam in the river was more important than learning t

[vimeo clip_id="34313363" width="600" height=""] Thanks to Wakepark, Video by Riley Bathurst.

So Cam Stenning is about to board a flight to come shoot some photo and video of him wakeskating and doing stuff, he's got sme new tricks so about now would be a good idea to release a shot from last time we were shooting in Ohope as it'l be outdated soon. Cam Stenning front big shot by Riley Bathur

This sort of stuff isn't slowing down anytime as GoPro have just released there new camera and plenty of skaters including Paul Maguire, check out more of what he's upto at Arcadium Wake [vimeo clip_id="33577846" width="600" height=""]

This little video was made thanks to Film Inc aka Liam Hall, the guys at Wakepark, Angus Gray, Mark Holder, Riley Bathurst & Nick Morris riding, Ben Comber boat paddling and Jazz for BGP's. [vimeo clip_id="33509137" width="600" height=""]

Cam Stenning pop shuv over the Ohope drift wood, shot by Riley Bathurst.

I'm not even quite sure what this started as, I think it was a 3 Shuv but when looking back on the shots after his set Cam Stenning asked if I could send this to him for a new profile pic, I got to editing a couple of the landed shot from the set this morning but decided this was more worthy of a po

Check out this little clip of a few shots that were left over from Reed Watson's A Cup A Tea vid posted earlier this season with kiwi skate shreader Matt Burns. [vimeo clip_id="31400930" width="600" height=""]

While down at the Canterbury Marine Festival we decided to test out the Rewind Winches in some shorter less boat friendly and far less sanitary ponds. Riley Bathurst pop shuv across the gap shot by Liam Hall.

A matter of hours before the clocks jump forward marking some kind of start to the New Zealand wake season Tim VW went for a winch. Video by Riley Bathurst [vimeo clip_id="29521351" width="600" height=""]