wake culture

Wake Culture: Matt Manzari Recovery update For those of you who don't know, Matt Manzari is a super awesome Pro-Wakeskater. He's currently in the hospital recovering from a really tough accident that left him badly burned but in high spirits. We're praying for you Matt. It seems the week of July 4th was hard on the Wakeboard Industry. By now you've hopefully heard the story about Pro-Wakeboarder Brad Smeele who shattered his vertebrae while wakeboarding on the Big Air kicker and is in the fight of his life to recover from paralysis. You've hopefully also been able to give or help in some way, even by just sharing his story. Read more here. Well coupled with that incredibly traumatic event

Check out this awesome game of S.K.A.T.E. produced by Red Bull. Game of S.K.A.T.E is as simple, or technical as you choose to make it. Wakeskater Matti Buys and skateboarder Jean-Marc Johannes don't do basic... Check out the teaser, full video to be released very soon:

Drop The Gun- Shredtown Trailer Love wakeboarding? If you haven't heard, or seen, Shredtown's Drop The Gun is up on the iTunes store. You're gonna want to watch this movie. You can tell the hard work that these guys have put into their riding and filming over the years, and we can only imagine that Drop the Gun will be the culmination of all of their skill. Check out the trailer and then go buy the movie. iTunes store There are so many gnarly shots in this trailer that it was hard to pick just one screen grab. This movie is going to be so dope!

Wake Culture: Max Van Helvoort goes to Texas for a wakeboarding trip, and he goes hard. Check out this quick edit comprised of huge hits and on-point slides from Max on both boat and cable.

Breddas are back at it with their easy going Spring Feelings edit. Smooth lines, Swedish summer sunshine, and 3 brothers easing back into the good life. We always love to see what Breddas are up too. Description: A little spring edit showing our first self made 100 % plastic obstacle. Filming and editing: Filip Snabb* Riders: Ruben Snabb Mattias Hoppe Jeremia Hoppe Benjamin Hoppe Thank you: Obrién, Rixen, GoPro, Ridestore, Jaybird, Jetpilot, Blåkläder, Dope, Brandt

Wake Culture: Nick Ennen at Picture Lake Nick Ennen has been putting out some really fun and creative edits lately, taking advantage of the winters in Washington State rather than letting the season halt his riding. Check it out as he and his friends build a jenky rail and winch the frozen Picture Lake.

Swedish Wakeboarder and Elevated Pro rider Christian Forssten just released his new wakeboarding edit today, and it is siiiiick!! Christian spent all of April shredding BSR Cable Park in Texas with a few of his close friends. You can tell he had a lot of penned up stoke that came out in full force from spending the cold Swedish winter in anticipation of Summer shredding. You'll see some huge hits, locked in rail slides, and crazy spins from this kid. Check him out shredding in the ELEVATED Front Tee. Christian Passos Forssten- "After being away four weeks on one of the best trips ever me and Fredrik decided to caption the best moments on film and it turned out pretty good. I would like to thank everyone working at BSR Cable Park for makin this edit happen you guys are the best! also i would like to thank everyone else we met along the trip. Thank you Slingshot

Wake Culture: We'd love to introduce you to Graci Morgan, a babe amongst babes in the Texas wake scene. She rides out of Dallas, TX and frequents the cable at Hydrous Wake Parks, Cowtown Wake Park, and also rides boat on Lake Lewisville. She's been a part of ELEVATED for about a year and has never stopped surprising us with her ability to shred, learn new tricks, and push her style in the process. She just sent in these photo shoot pics, compliments of Matt King with FloodLab, and we wanted to share them with our fans. She can be seen rocking the ELEVATED Storms tank (white), Truth Love Freedom burnout deep v (white), as well as the Vision

Each Week Elevated will release a new design or new product and put it on sale for you to buy. As part of our new site and release, we'd like to present to you Elevated Techtronic, a design especially for our Wakeboard clothing series. Techtronic is wake culture through and through. Check out the options below, find a style and color that you like and then go buy before the weekend is over and they're no longer on sale. Don't forget that you can also get 20% off your order (Yes, even sales items), by using one of our athlete/rep codes, such as "elevatetexas" We want you rocking our product, so we have no problem dropping the price low low for you. Check out this weeks men's tank tops and t-shirts, and women's burnout deep-v's, burnout racerback tanks, and dolman sleeve t-shirts rooted in wakeboard culture and action sports clothing.

After a brief recovery period from his hurt ankle, ELEVATED Wakeskater Erik Nilsson took to the waterways of Hip-Notics in Turkey with his good friend Lars Holte. Check out this sick edit they put together from their trip. QUALITY! [caption id="attachment_5567" align="alignnone" width="250"] Shreddie Approved[/caption]