Last week Sesitec upgraded a preexisting Rixen cable park from a 4-tower cable to 6-tower cable wake park, near Graz, Austria. The Wake Park Project sent Pat Panakos to back up Fritz and Tony from Sesitec to install the new 6-tower cable system. From what Panakos said, they got all 6-towers up in less than 24 hours, which is a testament to Sesitec’s decades of installation experience and on-site efficiency. The new Sesitec cable design is similar to our CWC installation, but with a shorter running length. The new cable layout by Sesitec will also feature 4 custom fabricated wake park obstacles to start, and there are plans to expand to 8 for next season.
Other cable parks in Germany are also in the process of upgrading to Sesitec cable systems. Many exisiting installations want to take advantage of the innovative layouts that Sesitec offers for cable wakeboarding and other water sports in today’s marketplace, along with cutting edge equipment options such as Lake Control for turn-key customer management. These new Sesitec layouts are optimal for advanced riders but also yield an amazingly consistent and forgiving pull for beginner to intermediate riders, which helps park owners to maximize their revenue potential.
FISE, the International Extreme Sport Festival is pleased to announce its 13th edition in 2009, giving you rendez-vous from May 20-24 in downtown Montpellier on “Les Rives du Lez,” in the South of France.
FISE is the biggest European Pro Freestyle Contest and will once again be host to more than 1,500 professional and amateur athletes from all over the world in Skateboard, Wakeboard, BMX, Slopestyle MTB and Inline Skating.
It is home to the largest European BMX and roller street course and with more than 200 hours of TV broadcasting, hundreds of pages in the press and 300,000 visitors expected over the 5 day event, this is sure to be one of the highlights of the action sport season. New for this year, the pro wakeboard contest will be held in joint collaboration with WWA France and WWA Europe, bringing you the top international athletes in the sport, along with world renowned US rider and master rail builder Pat Panakos as Chief Judge. The wakeboard portion of the event will also be more intense this year with the help of 4 Sesitec System 2.0 cables. The Sesitec System 2.0s will pull riders continiously giving them the chance to maximize rail hits and spectator appeal.
The World Wakeboard Association Europe (WWA-E) is proud to be partnering with the FISE to bring you the very best in wakeboarding action. Stay tuned for more information on featured riders, prize money, format and event news and be sure to check FISE-Events for online registrations, highlight videos and more.
Red Bull North America has recently been throwing down the most progressive contests in wake sports. The same is true in Europe. Red Bull Germany with the help from our friends at Sesitec Cable Systems put on one of the sickest contests to date, Red Bull Wake the Line. Wake park obstacles and features were built between three olympic size pools. The highlight of the comp definitely was the quarter pipe at the end of the third pool. It’s crazy to think the last quarter pipe a wakeboarder hit (which was also the first in wake) was built in 2001 for the Carnival contest at The Projects Wakeboard and Wakeskate Camp. The difference this time was a Sesitec System 2.0 straight-line cable pulling the contest. So instead of edging in and letting go, the riders held on to the handle, hit the quarter pipe and rode back out. It was an amazing contest that really showed the direction our sport should head.
TheWakePlace.com – We shot this video on the 6th of May, and both of these guys had only been learning air tricks for less than a week. I think this was Bob’s 3rd or 4th time out and Harleys 3rd. Either way, these guys are learning multiple tricks a day, and Bob has even taken his SBends to a triple. This was all the lead up to that, and just a few shots from one evening out with the System 2.0’s. Matt Hickman and the Wake Park Project are really paving a new direction in the sport. We have plenty more to come from these guys soon….
The season opening for European Wakeboarding couldn’t have been better. At Red Bull Wake The Line more than 7,000 spectators saw incredible wakeboard action on a new level performed by top riders from all over the world. The obstacle setup included a massive quarterpipe at the end of the run and offered a platform for tricks never seen before in wakeboarding. Towed by Sesitec’s System 2.0 straight-line cable, the four pools in the stadionbad of Cologne made a total of 320 meters of wake heaven. In the superfinal, Keith Lidberg showed the best performance, winning ahead of Germany’s Bernhard Hinterberger and Shawn Watson (USA). (more…)
