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Josh Sanders	Tom Fooshee	Steve Campbell

Ben Horan	John Rodriguez

Josh Sanders

Where I call home: Nowra, Australia & Orlando, USA

Age: 26 years

Birthdate: Aug. 11, 1981

Stance: Regular

Vest: Josh Sanders' Division

Handle: Josh Sanders' TCH II 15"

Rope: Suspension Line

Sponsors: Helium, Supra, Red Bull, O'Brien, Ocean & Earth Clothing, Ogio, Roswell, ewake.com.au

Years pro: Since 1996

Tour events won:
2005 - US Pro Tour Champion
2005 - King Of Wake
2005 - Australian National Champion
2005 - APTW - Rider of the Year
2005 - 1st - Australian Pro Tour #6
2005 - 1st - Australian Pro Tour #5
2005 - 2nd - Australian Pro Tour #4
2005 - 1st - Australian Pro Tour #3
2004 - Redbull Double Up Competition Champ
2004 - 3rd Wakestock Rail Slide Competition
2000/01/02/03 - Moomba Masters Champ
2002 - Firstever Teahupoo Wakesurf
2000 - US Open Champion
2000/01/02 - X-Air Champion

Upcoming tour stops: 2008 US Pro Tour

On my mp3 player: Wolfmother, The Killers, Johnny Cash

Favorite Food: Anything Healthy

Personal website: www.joshsanders.com

Josh’s Bio:
Australian Wakeboarder Josh Sanders has built a huge reputation as one of the best wake boarders in the world. He has taken wakeboarding to new levels, being the first to wakesurf world famous Teahupoo, Tahiti and chartering underground slider parks in St Louis, Boone Terra Mine. From 2000 - 2005 Josh has finished in the world's top 10 and also taken his first major title - the US Open in 2000. After a taste of this sort of success he hasn't let go. He has been a dominant figure in the media eyes since the beginning of wakeboarding in Australia. He was Australia's first Junior National Champion back in 1996, has been to Eight World Titles and Five US X Games. As well as the US Open, he has won Melbourne's Moomba Masters four years consecutively, the Asian X Games and the Planet X Xtreme Games, and is constantly at the forefront of all mediums. He also operates the successful Wakeboard School in Nowra, NSW,and in 2004 he began the Josh Sanders' Ride Australia Tour, doing wakeboard clinics around the country. He is also the director and organizer of the most promoted Wakeboard event in Australia - the Australian Open of Wakeboarding which he has ran for 4 years, and has also developed a junior wakeboarding tour, the Supra Grom Series, which he has ran for the past 3 years. After some knee injuries putting him on the sidelines, Josh is back in training and ready to take on the world again!

Tom Fooshee

Nickname: Foosheezzy

Where I call home: Austin - San Marcos, TX

Age: 23

Birthdate: Oct. 5th 1984

Stance: Goofy

Sponsors: Helium, Liquid Force Wakeboards, Liquid Force Clothing, Reef Footwear, Spy Optics, Texas Ski Ranch

Years pro: Since 2005

Tour events won:
2007 Wake Park Series - stop #1 - 1st place
2007 Wake Park Series - stop #3 Nationals - 1st place
2007 WWA Wake Park Series - Tour Champion
CWC Open, Camsur Phillipines, 2nd place
T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds, Hamburg Germany - 1st place
2007 Texas Ski Ranch Cablestock Boat - 3rd place
2007 Cablestock Cable – Champion
2006 Cablestock Cable – Champion
2005 Cablestock Cable - Champion
Southern Collegiate Regionals - 1st Place

Upcoming tour stops:
U.S. Pro Tour
WWA Wake Park World Series
WWA Wake Park Domestic Series
Camsur Riders Cup – Phillipines
T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds - Pinneburg, Germany.

On my mp3 player: Cky - Vol.1, Tool - All Albums, U.G.K., Color Changin Click - Homer Pimpson part 1 and 2, Pantera - Reinventing the Steel

Favorite Food: Chinese

Foosheezzy Bio: Being born and raised in Austin, TX my whole life put me in such a high demand and popular area for football. Playing football has always been one of my favorite sports to participate in (other then wakeboarding) and graduating high school was the last time I was ever going to be able to play due to my size. So wakeboarding was always a love for me and it became my life as soon as football was done. After graduating high school I moved to San Marcos, TX and enrolled at Texas State University. Go Bobcats! I also started working at Texas Ski Ranch which is a premier action sports facility where they provided me with the perfect set up on the cable lake and plenty of friends that love to shred behind the boat. There are several lakes and rivers to go ride on, such as the Guadalupe River, Lake Austin and then TSR's Cable Lake, so riding is pretty much an everyday thing. Now I am a senior at TSU getting my Bachelors Degree in Exercise Sports Science with a Minor in History and I am finishing up getting my Texas teachers certification so one day when I am done being young and wakeboarding, I can go back to the game of football and coach. I am sooo lucky to have such a supportive family and getting to live in a wakeboarder’s paradise. I am also very greatful to be representing Helium, Liquid Force Wakeboards, Liquid Force Clothing, Reef Footwear, Spy Optics and Texas Ski Ranch.

Steve Campbell

Nickname: Southside

Where I call home: Lake Sheen, Orlando, FL

Age: 28

Sign: Capricorn

Stance: Regs

Vest: Helium Swat Team

Handle: Helium TCH II Assassin

Rope: Helium Black Suspension Line

Sponsors: Helium, Gator Boards, DBOT 5

Years pro: Since 2005

Tour events won:
2007 Byerly Toe Jam – 3rd (two events)
2007 Worlds – 3rd

On my mp3 player: Young Buck, Lil Wayne, Old Wu Tang

Favorite Food: Ice Cream and French Fries

Bio: What’s up? I’m Southside Steve. I am a super easy going, quiet dude. I love to wakeskate, just about as much as I like to surf and go skateboarding. In never really wakeboarded too much, so most of my steez comes from skating and surfing. I am very stoked on this past year (2007), I did pretty good on the pro tour. I got 3rd place at two of the Byerly Toe Jam events and then got 3rd place at Worlds. I am very fortunate to be riding for such a unique, stylish, and super sick vest and handle company, and also for everything else that that happened to me this year.

Ben Horan

Nickname: Chap

Where I call home: Nahunta, GA

Age: 20

Birthdate: Oct 8, 1987

Stance: Regular

Vest: Josh Sanders

Handle: Spur

Rope: Suspension

Sponsors: Helium, Oak Wakeskates, Nike 6.0, VonZipper, Aacadia.com

Years pro: Since the end of 2007

Tour events won:
1st in rail at final stop of toe jam
2nd in pool jam at toe jam/hippo stop
4th at 2007 wakestock.):

Upcoming tour stops: toe jams only

On my mp3 player: modest mouse, liam finn, devendra banhart, clap your hands say yeah!, oh no oh my, arcade fire, and many other indie/folk bands.

Favorite Food: BK, Subway, and my mom’s spaghetti!!

Chap’s Bio: Well, I live in a small town in GA and there is nothing else to do but skateboard and winch. Skateboarding is my life and wakeskating is what I do!