Big novelty cheques, big set-up and another round of Raph Derome‘s double back. We like big novelty cheques almost as much as doubles.

The masters of French wake haute cuisine down at Rouffiac had wake’s answer to candymonster Daniel Grant stop by recently. Cool, but it was the riding from disabled sit-waker (if that term didn’t exist, it does now) Manu that made us trip.

He’s probably one of the nicest people in wake and has some talent that regularly tears holes in most dimensions and ego’s out there.

Last minute injury prevented us from taking our stupidity to this year’s Wake The Line, but lucky for us Unit Parktech didn’t have this disaster.

Getting all jealous like about the backdrop to this one from Flax and Matty De Nittis up north in Aushtrayamate.

Wake The Line 2012 happens today and to avoid everyone looking like total noobs on the setup, wisdom dictated that practicing on it would be a good idea.

Last year Teva opened the Blue Line at DownUnder Cablepark and because it was fresh, no one had the idea they were working.

Remote Wakeskates haven’t been around for that long, but what they lack in existence-time, they make up double with a team that is more or less on a sharp trip of radness.

Liquid Force took it to Ski Rixen recently, regurlar heads turned up to ride for nothing while some heavy hitters got busy and Reach Films got it all captured. Simple recipe that seems to work out well every time.

With everything going on last weekend, we slipped off the radar for a bit and dove into the yearly Wake Up at Wakeboarding Langenfeld.

tBC’s International Man of Mystery Daan Rigter loaded up and trucked out through the wastlelands between The Hague and Cologne.

Cables Wakepark in near Sydney took some heat from newface on the scene Alex Klimowsow. LWA Wakeboards doing some team additions with this one.

The goodschnitzels handling ze German distribution for Liquid Force have been doing this roadtripping gig for several years now.

Mellow little one from Matty Hasler with the rad girlskidding of Angelika Schriber and manly manshred from Matty Hasler and Matty Dinitis.

Euro bound Canadians have to come and sniff a shitload of culture over here.