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Sheffield Cableing from Kenneth Enggaard on Vimeo.

Enter to win the new Liquid Force Noserider wakesurf board ($500; liquidforce.com), which is a faithful recreation of Liquid Force shaper Jimmy Redmon’s original lightweight longboard shape. Like its name suggests, this wakesurf board allows you to nose ride with lift and glide, thanks to a full nose outline with concave. While it’ll float even the biggest riders, the Noserider’s double concave hull provides the lift and acceleration to keep you in the wake.

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To celebrate the first event of Liquid Force’s 2011 Free For All cable tour, we’re giving away four limited-edition Free For All New Era caps to our Facebook friends. On May 1 — the same day Free For All kicks off at Texas Ski Ranch — we’ll select at random four of our Facebook friends and set them up with up with the New Era 9Fifty caps.

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Lake Elsinore’s inlet channel could become a wakeboarding mecca if the city goes along with a proposal to create a cable ski park there.

The City Council is scheduled to review the proposal Tuesday during its study session on agenda items starting at 4 p.m., followed by the regular meeting at 7 p.m. in the Cultural Center, 183 N. Main Street.

Chuck Sacks, who owns the California Skier boat dealership on Collier Street, and Scott Towsley of California Cable Parks are marketing the cable ski park concept to the city.

Their idea is to erect several towers in the channel with cables running between them that would pull wakeboarders over the water. Although water skiers could also use the cables, Sacks believes they would primarily be used by wakeboard riders, who skim along a water surface on boards similar to those used in snowboarding.

“Wakeboarding is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country,” Sacks said. “Physically, they need a boat and a whole crew. With this (cable park), you can just show up and buy some cable time, and go out without the help of anyone else.”

During the rainy season, the lake inlet channel, which is west of the city’s minor league baseball stadium in southern Lake Elsinore, conveys water from the San Jacinto River into the main body of Lake Elsinore. Most of the time, the channel’s surface remains calmer than the rest of the lake because it lies below a levee on the south side and an elevated bank to the north.

Sacks said the channel is designated as an aquatic park and his company has operated a wakeboarding area and a slalom course there since 1997. The channel also has hosted jet boat races, most recently in March.

Although cable ski parks have been proposed in various locales, including Lake Santee in San Diego County, there are none operating in California, according to Sacks.

“There’s other places on the map for cable parks, but so far nothing has come to fruition,” he said.

Along with the cable structures, Sacks and Towsley want to establish operating headquarters in mobile buildings at the southeast corner of Lakepoint Park, which is adjacent to the channel. The proposal also calls for the installation of 60 dirt parking spaces at the park and a stairway that would give patrons access to the lakeshore from the park.

“I think it’s an excellent location,” he said. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to utilize portions of Lakepoint Park. I think it would really increase the flow of people into the park.”

City administrators want to learn if the council supports the idea before they proceed in working with the applicants through legal, environmental and permitting issues. Eventually, a final plan would have to come back to the council for approval, the city’s staff report states.

The SPY crew made their way to Florida before the dawn of wake season to catch-up with Shane Bonifay in his ‘hood. The venue wound-up moving miles away from Shane’s stomping grounds of Orlando to Clermont, and the agenda switched from pre-season biz to mandatory good times on and off the water. Always easy to kick-off the season’s planning session with a couple boats, good friends, a mindset bent on fun and cool people cheering our boy Shane on. Check out the video below.

Choosing five possessions for someone like Collin Harrington is tough, the guy not only wakeboards but he surfs, he jams on guitar, he films, he edits, he parachutes, he loves coffee and he lives a Aloha lifestyle. Check out Collin’s six top possessions.

#5 Collin’s Editing Room- I usually spend a couple hours a day on the computer. Sometimes spending 12-14 hours here editing stuff for Liquid Force films.

To read more, head to: http://www.alliancewake.com/wake/top-five-possessions-collin-harrington/