What an incredible weekend for Hyperlite. Hyperlite riders not only took the podium, but won almost every single division.

Junior Men’s had Jimmy LaRiche taking first overall yet again. First, Board Up Miami, and now Wake Games! He had some tough competition with Bob Soven, but Jimmy’s nose grab crow, batwing, huge floating bs 180, bs 5, dum dum, and very solid backside lipslides put him ahead of the competition as the clear-cut champion.

Nicola Butler won her first event ever as she competed in her first Pro Women’s competition. She was a tireless worker all week. After her heat would be done for the day, she would take off for the cable park and ride for an hour or two really working on her sliders and a few of her spins. But what is most amazing is that she dominated the Women’s competition only four weeks after dislocating her shoulder!

Brian Grubb had an incredible finish to his final run to fend off Danny Hampson and Reed Hanson for first place. After a fall on his first pass, Brian put together a clinic of a second pass landing including a shuv-it indy, shuv-it indy 180, and a bs 3. The whole riders dock was pumped up seeing him dominate his second and final pass to take first place as the Pro Men’s wakeskate champion.

Rusty Malinoski had as close of a finish as you could ask for with Phillip Soven in the final heat of the Wake Games. Rusty came out charging in his final run with a melon crow, heel 7, a huge bs 1 way out into the flats, 270 transfer on the transfer box, stale glide, switch malto mobe, nuclear backroll to blind, and nailed a huge heelside backside 7 off the double up. Rusty stood up both passes and edged out Phillip by one point. And when the announcer called Rusty’s name for the Wake Games Pro Men’s Champion, the crowd went crazy, and Rusty walked up to the podium displaying his Marek 146 as his weapon of choice as he continues his quest to capture the King of Wake title for 2008.

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