Teen People Love Dallas Too

The nominations for the 2008 Teen People Choice Awards are out! Malibu Boats Team Rider and Wakeboarding phenom Dallas Friday has made the list of five for "Choice Action Sports Female". She is the only wakeboarder nominated, guy or girl. Kids 13-19 can log on to the Teen Choice Awards web site and vote. Remember you can vote as much as once a day until August 1st.

In October 2006, Dallas took an award for the top woman wakeboarder at the Arby's Action Sports Awards, and in 2004 won the ESPY for Best Female Action Sport Athlete. Let's get this added to her resume by voting for her! The polls are open until August 1 at 12am, so support our favorite female wakeboarder at the Teen Choice polling site. The awards show will air on FOX at 8:00 PM August 4, 2008.

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Will Asher Skiing For Another Malibu Victory This Weekend

Team Malibu Pro Slalom Champion Will Asher leaned past the competition last weekend in Fenton, Michigan and he is primed for similar success this weekend at the 4th Slalom Pro Tour Stop in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Yesterday, the first day of the event, Will ran 4 @ 41 off. To view this event as it unfolds visit the live web cast. Go Will!

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Reserve the "Best Seat in the House" at the Malibu Open

The Malibu Open returns to U.S. soil this summer as part of a unique water sports double-header. The Malibu Open/Quake on the Lake will be an event like non-other and one of the highlights of the competition will be the Pro Wakeboard Championships.

The top pro wakeboarders in the world will be competing for their share of the $40,000 and Malibu would like to offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch the action unfold from the "Best Seat in the House," the boat!

This is an awesome opportunity for true action sports fans to watch their heroes going big behind the Malibu tow boat while the competition is in progress! Space is limited and will be available on a first come – first serve basis.

To find out more about this innovative promotion visit the Malibu Open web site and reserve the best seat in the house.

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Fuel TV Scar Story on Dallas Friday

Fuel TV just posted a story about Team Malibu Pro Rider Dallas Friday on their "Scars" blog. This web site features short stories about your favorite action sports athletes and their injuries.

In October of 2006, Dallas Friday suffered from a wakeboarding accident that took her from a broken femur to a coma, in a matter of minutes. Dallas was competing at the World Wakeboard Cup Championships in Singapore when the injury occurred, and was rushed to the Changi Hospital for treatment.

To read more visit Fuel TV's Scars Blog.

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Brostock Goes Off in Powell

Brostock went off this past week with three days of action; Liquid Force demo day, the Broshop Challenge and the pro Brostock Double Up contest. Thursday's demo day allowed anybody who made it out to the festivites at Lake Powell to try out Liquid Force product behind one of their 2008 Malibu boats.

To read more about Brostock visit WakeWorld.com.

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Malibu Tows Texas Ski Bees

Just reading the Central Texas Water Sports blog and came across this post about the Lake McQueeney Ski Bees.

The Ski Bee ski show (home of the original ski show in Texas) is held every Thursday night during the summer at Lake McQueeney in New Braunfels, Texas. Recently, Malibu Boats was chosen as the official towboat of the Ski Bees and will pulling shows at the Lake Breeze Ski Lodge all summer long.

The first performance behind a Malibu boat was last Thursday. If you missed that show drop by this Thursday to enjoy the skiing. Read more about about the McQueeney Ski Bees, Malibu Boats and Central Texas Water Sports.

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Central Texas Ladies' Day Big Success

Central Texas Water Sports posted a blog entry on Saturday about the success of their Ladies' Day Out. Sounds like they had a great turn out and they are making plans for another day like this on the water with ladies only.

CTWS offered instruction for the ladies on boat features, safety and trailering. One group was driving and docking while another group was receiving wakeboarding lessons and a third group was learning to wakesurf. The ladies received a crash course in boating and it sounds like they had a blast!

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Soven Captures Thrid Consecutive Tour Title

Team Malibu Pro Rider, Phillip Soven, earned his third consecutive Pro Tour this season. Congratualtions Phillip!

By capturing the Twin Cities win in the Pro Men's Division, Phillip Soven became the first rider in the Tour's 17-year history to start a season off with three consecutive tour stop wins. Soven continues to dominate the Pro Men division, as the Florida native now leads the Tour's Indmar Performance Standings with 300-points. With his third win of the season, Phillip Soven, the reigning Tour champion, appears to be well on his way to winning his second straight Tour title.

To read the story on the Twin Cities Pro Tour Stop go to WakeWorld.com.

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Soven Takes Another Pro Wakeboard Tour Stop

Thousands of pro wakeboarding fans braved a sweltering summer day yesterday at the Pro Wakeboard Tour stop in Fort Worth to witness an epic battle in the Pro Men's Division final heat. Malibu Boats' pro rider Phillip Soven came out on top.

JD Webb (USA), Rusty Malinoski (CAN), Andrew Adkison (USA) and Phillip Soven (USA) duked it out on the waters of Lake Moser to see which rider would claim the top spot in Fort Worth. All four rippers put up some exciting runs, but in the end, reigning Tour champion and Team Malibu Pro rider, Phillip Soven took home the win. Adkison and Malinoski rounded out the podium respectively.

"It was really tough out there today, but I pulled it off and came out with the win," said Soven. "I've been riding well and I am feeling pretty confident going into the next Tour stop."

Read the full story on the Ft. Worth Pro Tour stop at WakeWorld.com.

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