South Florida’s premiere wakeboard festival hits the beach April 23-25, 2009 in Miami, FL.

We are Boarding Up Miami all week long leading up to the main event on Saturday April 25th. The Board Up™ pre-party continues today at Automatic Slims in Ft Lauderdale (15 W Las Olas Blvd). Happy hour from 10-12. In conjunction with Board Up™‘s presenting sponsor Don Q rum and 93 Rock, we’ll have drink specials, giveaways, the 93 Rock prize wheel, and a chance to ride your skateboard on Slims mini ramp.

We keep rocking it out Friday April 17th with 93 Rock and Don Q rum at South Florida’s oldest bar and one of the great live music venues around, Tobacco Road (626 S Miami Ave). Happy hour from 5-7. We’ll have drink specials, giveaways, the microkitten.com girls in REALLY TINY bikinis, live music, ticket giveaways, the 93 Rock prize wheel, a chance to see the Don Q competition boat up close and blast the speakers!

The Board Up™ tour continues on Saturday night at Automatic Slims in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Ft. Lauderdale…drink specials and cool prizes from our presenting sponsors Don Q rum and 93 Rock…like our friends at Slims say, it’s the place where the beautiful people come to get ugly!!

Don’t forget to snatch up your tickets on-line for only $15 (event day tix are $20) via our website at www.boardup.net or at any one of 19 South Florida Smoothie King stores and get a free smoothie!! Board Up™ Miami is South Florida’s premiere action sports festival featuring some of the world’s best wakeboarders, amateur skate contests and demos, BMX demos, swimsuit fashion shows, live bands, Red Bull DJs, great food and drinks, and MORE…its all happening Saturday April 25th from 12-4 at the Miami Marine Stadium on Key Biscayne!!

A portion of the event’s proceeds will go to the H2O’s Foundation, Helping Others Swim, www.h20swim.org.