Wake The City
(2015)
No one ever did this before. Nowhere else did something like this happen before. The German beer brewing company JEVER just did it: wakeboarding right in the middle of a big city - wakeboarding in Berlin! Initiated as a marketing event for their alcohol-free brand JEVER FUN, these guys set up a pool with 70 m in length, placed a kicker and some obstacles in it - and urban wakeboarding was born.
WAKE THE CITY took place on a hot weekend from 1st to 2nd August 2015 and for these two days, the RAW area - Berlin's cultural heart - was all about watersports and the people who love it. The event offered free wakeboarding for everybody, workshops for beginners, a wakeboard nightsession and various side events like slacklining or SUP yoga. A central attraction was the wakeboard contest, for which pro riders from all around Berlin, Germany and even Australia joined in - showing the crowd what humans are capable to do when being pulled by a rope across the water.
Title Photography and photos:
Olaf Krüger // www.traffer.de
Music:
Flox Schoch - "Sekundenschlaf" / "September Light" (edited) // www.facebook.com/floxschochgfx
WAKE THE CITY took place on a hot weekend from 1st to 2nd August 2015 and for these two days, the RAW area - Berlin's cultural heart - was all about watersports and the people who love it. The event offered free wakeboarding for everybody, workshops for beginners, a wakeboard nightsession and various side events like slacklining or SUP yoga. A central attraction was the wakeboard contest, for which pro riders from all around Berlin, Germany and even Australia joined in - showing the crowd what humans are capable to do when being pulled by a rope across the water.
Title Photography and photos:
Olaf Krüger // www.traffer.de
Music:
Flox Schoch - "Sekundenschlaf" / "September Light" (edited) // www.facebook.com/floxschochgfx