Copter1_Soven with Helicopter
Copter2_Drew Beno with Helicopter
Drew_My son, give the man some love!!!
Palma_Palma giving words of wisdom to Chloe Harrold Am rider
Adkison_Andrew with the best Crash Winner Casey Lumia
Team Butler_Third Place team, in order Shelby King, James Loisel, Nicola, and Sofia Mendez
TeamErrington_Second Place team, in order Tripp Brown, Justin Lee, Juan Mendez and Adam
TeamPowers_Fourth Place team, in order Merritt Fay, Michael Fay, Kevin Duffy and Daniel
TeamWebb_First Place team, in order Jake Baynham, Jd, Noah Flegel and Brooke Grassman

South Florida Wake Associations 5th Annual Pros and Joes Wake Event

The 5th Annual South Florida Wake Association (SFWA) Pros and Joes Wake event was held on November 12th, 2011 in West Palm Beach at beautiful Lake Okeeheelee.  The event was a success highlighted by incredible riding from both the Pro and Amateur riders, excellent weather, a wide variety of sponsors and a great crowd.

This year’s event Pro List included Scott Stewart, Daniel Powers, Nicola Butler, Steele Lafferty, Adam Errington, Zane Schwenk, Josh Palma, Andrew Adkison, JD Webb and Phil Soven. Not to be outdone, the amateur rider list included some up and coming names like Noah Flegel, Keenan Allen, Robby Holihan and soon to be known Juan Mendez. The tone of the event was set by the smooth vocal stylings of the Dano-the-Mano and overall this year’s event boosted the best all around level of riding seen in all five past events.  In addition, this year’s event included filming via helicopter.  The resulting footage was amazing and available to be seen on the SFWA website, www.sfwake.com.

The tournament is simple; each pro is paired with three amateur riders to form one team. The teams each take two sets. The score for each team set is added together for one team score.  From there first to fourth places were handed out along with a best crash award. The trick level was insane this year with numerous wake-to-wake sevens being thrown by the am riders.  In the end the winning teams were as follows:

1st Place-Team JD Webb
Noah Flegel
Jake Baynham
Brooke Grassman

2nd Place-Team Adam Errington
Juan Mendez
Trip Brown
Justin Lee

3rd Place-Team Nicola Butler
Sofia Mendez
Shelby King
James Loisel

4th Place-Team Daniel Powers
Michael Fay
Merritt Fay
Kevin Duffy

Best Crash-Casey Lumina for a wake-to-wake 180 that went horribly wrong.

The SFWA is proud to host this event each year but the hosting of the event would not be possible without our sponsors.  The sponsors this year included South Florida Mastercraft, Motion Watersports, CWB Board Co., Red Bull, Muscle Milk, Broward Motorsports, Jamba Juice, Exceed Wetsuits, Nacho Bizness, Wakeboardingfilms.com, Boca Raton Helicopters, R2R productions, Evidence Clothing, Virtue Wakeskates, Nike 6.0, Billabong/Von Zipper and Just-In-Time window tinting.  Again without our sponsors the event would not be possible.  In addition, the SFWA would like to thank the event volunteers and Zane Schwenk.  Zane is a great ambassador for the sport of wakeboarding and it is through his help that this event happens each year.

In the end it was another successful event.  If you missed out then you really missed out.  We hope to see you at next years event and until then keep the stoke and shred the South!!