Wakeboard Championship : German Open 2008 (27-28Sept)

It's a great weekend. The weather is fair, clear sky with sun, and 19DegC. It's perfect for wakeboarding! Of course, I don't do it ^^ But just so happen that German Open was happening somewhere near the northern part of Cologne, called Fühlinger See(which is a lake), and beautiful park for people to spend time sunbathing, cycling, inline skating, running, kayaking... all kinds of activities! I didn't watch the whole thing which started since Saturday as early as 9am. But I was there on Sunday for the finals at around 3pm, and just enough to watch the finalists doing performing some amazing jumps before the prize giving ceremony at 5:30pm. I don't think I'll ever wakeboard since I don't like water very much. Maybe someday I might try it just for fun, but you'll never know. ^^

Lotsa people, entrance is pretty much free, except for the 2.50Euro parking fee.

You can tell that it's not so cold, but people still brought sweaters just in case. The sun did its job well keeping us all warm.

That's the announcement stand, with a Land Rover carrying the loudspeakers, and of course bearing the sponsor's mark everywhere it goes.
DJ stand, and I think that's probably the coolest baby OrangUtan you can ever see. Check out the bling-bling.

This would be the boat towing those stuntpeople around.

I think this one is probably on sale, or just for display. It looks like a very cool boat!

Oh yeah, the cockpit's not bad too.

Here are some pictures of those wakeboarders doing Double-Up jumps.

Prize giving ceremony for boys' category.

And the ladies.

And these are the Champions for the Men's category.

Look at the dog ^^ It was following it's master who won the 2nd place in one of the events.

This is one scary-looking but very friendly Doberman. Look at all the muscles, and the legs are enormous!

This one just look like a walking carpet, or just bigfoot's cousin. ^^