Opening stop of the Industry Grassroots Tour: Sunday 5^th May

The first stop of the Industry Grassroots Tour 2013 will be held at Glasfryn Wake Parc on Sunday the 5th of May. Featuring three System 2.0’s and six obstacles, Glasfryn is a fitting start to the 2013 tour.

The open men’s division will also be a qualifier for the Rail Europeans at Wakestock 2013. It is super simple, if you finish in the top 3 then you win a place to ride at Wakestock on the famous pool gap. This incredible prize includes your riders ticket, full VIP treatment and the chance to stand on the pool gap and ride with the likes of Daniel Grant, Nico Von Lerchenfeld and many more.

The Industry Grassroots Tour is proud to announce 3 great supporting sponsors for the tour this year. CWB wakeboards, Mystic and MUVI cameras will be heavily involved and dishing out over £6,000 worth of prizes!

A big change for the 2013 tour are the regional winners, as well as overall champions, for more info please check out www.grassrootstour.co.uk

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Glasfryn Wake Parc hosted a fitting stop for the finals of the Grassroots Tour, over 40 riders entered and battled out for the Welsh Open titles and the Grassroots Tour over all positions. The open men, junior open and men’s rookie divisions were wide open with regards the top 3 overall positions, so the final stop was super important! The weather was a mix of beautiful sun, torrential rain and monster hail storms! The one thing that remained constant was the flat water and Glasfryn mixed up their setup ready for the days activities. The Leviathan and 2 kickers made up the course for the riders to do battle.

Here are the results:

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We just had a box of goodies arrive from Bro! Clothing for the overall standings. Once we have done prize giving for the 8th stop of the tour we will move straight into the prize giving for the overall winners.

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The 7th stop of the Grassroots Tour went down at Club Wake Park today. The standard of riding was high in all the divisions especially juniors and open! The wake park is now 2 seasons old and progressing very nicely, the long thin flatbar is one of the most simple yet tricky obstacles we have seen on the tour so far and combined with a rooftop, box and two spine kickers the setup was great. The 10m high System 2.0 also allows for big and technical air tricks and we saw back mobes, S Bends, roll to blinds and all sorts get thrown down.

Here are the results:

Men’s Rookies

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We always knew that running the Grassroots Tour late in the season may mean we get nailed by the weather! Well our first real bad day of weather came for the 6th stop. Lee Debuse and CK Koester drove through snow on their way to Just Wake and the staff had to clear ice off the rails in the morning. But the weather was certainly not going to beat us and over 30 riders rode all day and braved the conditions to ride at one of the most unique and progressive wake parks in the world. All day riding, pro coaching from Dave Knight, Lee and CK, and a selection of obstacles to bang a smile on anyones face! As they say there is no such thing as being cold, just being poorly dressed! A stand out mention needs to go to Toby Oliver’s run in the open men, which was one of the best runs we have seen so far on the tour.

Here are the results:

Men’s Rookies

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The 5^th stop of the Grassroots Tour went down at Foxlake Adventures on Saturday. The risk of running a tour this late in the season is the weather and we got lucky at Foxlake. The sun was out all day and the lake was like a milk pond! During the week running up to the comp Foxlake had floodlit their lake so that riders could get on the water after work and most nights saw the last rider coming in at 11pm. A wood burning stove kept people warm during the day and Dave Knight coached his heart out all morning with loads of riders learning new tricks. Here are the results from the 5^th stop:

Men’s Rookies

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The 4^th stop of the Grassroots took place on Saturday at Hove Lagoon on the South Coast. The wake park is in one hell of a sick location, based in a lagoon on Brighton promenade! Scotty Broome and Toby Yeo represented Industry Wake Parks and ran the day with the Lagoon crew. Scotty and Toby coached in the morning on System 2.0’s and then judged and MC’d the event in the afternoon. Here are the full results from stop 4:

Men’s Rookies

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Here are the results from the 3rd stop of the Industry Grassroots Tour, held at South Coast H20 in Portsmouth. The sun was out in full force all day and over 20 riders enjoyed all day riding with pro coaching and a fun comp at the end. Thanks to all the riders and South Coast crew. We will post some pics over the next few days.

Men’s Rookie

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Here are the results from stop 2 at WakeUp Docklands. We will post some pictures over the next few days. It was a great day with over 30 riders and the sun seemed to stay out for most of the day! Loads of the locals learnt new tricks and that is one of the key aims of this tour! Big thanks go out to all the riders and the crew at Docklands.

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Men’s Rookies

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This weekend sees the Industry Grassroots tour head to London and Portsmouth. On Saturday 13th we visit Wakeup Docklands and the following day we roll down to the south coast and to South Coast H20.

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