Articles
by Sim Bradley
20 / 05 / 2010
This week we were invited to FlowHouse in Bedford to
be some of the first people in the country to try out their new
FlowRider standing wave ahead of the opening next weekend. So to make a
day of it i assembled Dec Clifford, Matt Crowhurst, Taylor Dell, 'Solid'
Jim Sedgwick and Will Manns for a nice day out in Bedfordshire.
We met at FlowHouse in the afternoon for an exclusive session and
photoshoot on the FlowRider, and while Matty and Solid had been on it
before, the rest of us were complete beginners and ready to get worked
by the powering jets of water just begging to send us face-first into
the mat. This thing was so much fun I can't begin to sum it up, there
will be a full article in Alliance 2010.3 with all the details on just
how badly or well we did on the FlowRider.
by Tim Woodhead
12 / 05 / 2010
The North West of England is finally getting a much deserved cable wakeboard park. Blackpool Wake Park based at Ream Hills Farm just outside Blackpool and only 5 minutes from the M55 motorway will open its doors for the first time on 22nd May 2010. The Wake Park will use the revolutionary Sesitec System 2.0 cable tow and will include 4 floating obstacles designed by Alliance Wakeboard Magazine.
by James Bowler
11 / 05 / 2010
Friday April 31st wasn’t a good day for James Hooper; after setting off at 4am, spending 5 hours stuck in traffic, missing his flight, crashing his car, trying to buy food with a card that stopped working, he finally made it to Glasgow that evening looking pretty miffed off! Fortunately though, after a couple of sausage rolls and a bacon sandwich he was back on form and we made our way up to Loch Lomond Wakeboard for the first Loch Stock weekend of the season.
by Sim Bradley
29 / 04 / 2010
We're
currently in the process of putting together the Alliance 'Ride Guide' for
this year, which if you didn't see it last year, it's a mini book that
serves as a beginners guide to all things to do with wakeboarding and
wakeskating. It's our way of helping to bring new people into the sport,
and we distribute tens of thousands of them at events like Boardmasters
& Wakestock and through chain shops like Freespirit and Route One.
For
the cable section of this year's book, we travelled down the M4 to
Cirencester for a private session on the WMSki cable. Will
Gibney and his crew had a very busy winter building an entirely new set
of rails and obstacles for their wake park, and with a funbox, flat bar,
incline, two kickers, arguably the best rooftop rail in the world, and
wide beginners box called 'The Taxi', their efforts have promoted WMSki
to one of the premier cable sites in the country.
by Sim Bradley
26 / 04 / 2010
On your way back from work today, make sure to take a
quick detour to the lake or your local pro shop, as the new issue of
Alliance Magazine is out now. In our annual travel issue, we take you
around the world through a series of features and articles all written
with the intent of showing you new places to visit and ways to spend
next winter.
We start out in the United Arab Emirates for a week in Abu Dhabi with
Dan Nott, Nick Davies, Aaron Rathy and Amber Wing. This elaborate city
emerging out of the desert is a fantastic place to ride a wakeboard,
with miles and miles of flat water pointing in every direction around
the series of manmade and natural islands. We did some touristy bits too
like visiting the new Formula 1 circuit on Yas Island and bowling in a
very westernised mall. This city is a pretty crazy place.
by Sim Bradley
25 / 04 / 2010
We’ve kept quiet up until now with details for this years
Alliance wakeskate jam, in fact we haven’t said anything at all. Over
winter we’ve been working on some big projects, the most exciting of
which is a collaboration with a cable and boat club near London to build
the UK’s first true rail park, and to launch the new facility we are
bringing ThinkTank to London!
In just over a month’s time from May 27-30, Princes Club in Ashford,
Middlesex will be opening the gates to their amazing new jet ski rail
park on the previously unused back lake to host ThinkTank. This new
facility is ideal for the event with up to 8 new aluminium rails
including the obligatory flat bar & incline, a rooftop, double sided
kicker, manual pad, banked ledges and more, the jet ski portion of
ThinkTank is going to be hands down the best it’s ever been. And for the
main feature, we are already in the process of digging a custom pool
with a System 2.0 overhead, and two perfect hubba ledges either side of a
steel handrail and some concrete stairs. Skateboarding is still very
much the inspiration for our event.
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