Felix. Cover kickoff. Photo: Rutledge

Felix. Cover kickoff. Photo: Rutledge

What’s up, wake fans? The June issue of Alliance is here, and that should have you stoked for several reasons. One, it’s a new issue of Alliance full of awesome content to fuel your stoke tank. And two, it means summer is here and you should be on the water shredding your face off.

This issue is a special one for all of us though because it’s been nicknamed “The Oz Issue”. This past winter we sent associate editor/staff photographer Bradlee Rutledge to the land down under to experience what the Australia wakeboard scene was all about. He came back with hilarious stories and of course some awesome photos, so we put together an issue full of content from Oz.

First off, the cover. It might not be an Australian, but it’s at one of Australia’s best wake parks. Felix Georgii came from his cold Germany homeland to the warm winter weather of Australia for some off season shredding and managed to karate kick his way onto the cover of this special issue. It goes to show how global our sports are becoming when a German rider can travel to Australia to ride and score the cover of a North American mag.

From there you can check out “Life in Oz,” a story all about the current wake scene in Australia and what makes it unique, awesome, and crazy all at the same time.

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“Life in Oz” is followed by “On Tour”, a piece dedicated to one of Australia’s wakeboarding finest exports: Brenton Priestley. BP, as he’s affectionately (and sometimes not affectionately) known, is one of the most hilarious guys you’ll ever meet. And he’s a kickass wakeboarder too. “On Tour” is all about what makes BP who he is.

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The issue wraps up with our now famous “No Filter” department. For the Oz issue we had to sit down with the one and only Mitch Langfield to get his take on the current state of wake, what he’s up to, and what he sees happening in the future. He also happens to be hitting one of the gnarliest winch spots we’ve seen.

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Be sure to pick up a copy of the June issue and check out all this content and everything else. Celebrating an Aussie “summer” is a great way to kick of yours.

Cheers, mates!