Nautique WWA Wake Park World Championships presented by GM Marine
The 2025 Nautique WWA Wake Park World Championships presented by GM Marine will take place at Shark Wake Park September 9-12th. Awards will take place on site Daily following the conclusion of the event on site starting Wednesday, September 10th.
🚀 Ride with the Best at Shark Wakepark!
Practice is available September 9th through 12th from 8AM to 10AM and after the contest wrap up each day until 6PM at contest speed for $50 per day via the Rideline app.
Please ensure that you use app version 1.0.18 or web version app.thewwa.com
For four days only, Shark Wakepark will be fully taken over by the World Wakeboarding Championships. This is your exclusive chance to ride in the same park, at the same time, as the world’s top wakeboard athletes.
✨ Don’t miss this unique opportunity to:
- Train side by side with the best riders in the world
- Learn and progress like never before
- Soak in the atmosphere of a world-class event
🎟 All-day pass: $50/day (regular park rate: $45 for only 2 hours!)
📲 Book your spot now through the Rideline App
👉 Secure your session, ride with the pros, and make memories you’ll never forget.
How to get practice in Rideline
Please ensure that you use app version 1.0.18 or web version app.thewwa.com
Outside of these dates, Shark Wake Park is offering the following for practice.
Weekdays: 12pm – 2pm
- 2-Hour Pass: $45
August 25th – 29th, September 2nd – 5th, Monday, September 8th (12pm – 6pm)
- 2-Hour Pass: $45
- All Day Pass: $80
Private Rental Options
- 6pm – 7pm: $250
Daily: August 25th – September 8th, September 7th has been booked
Waivers & Check-In: Competitors
- Competitors will need to have a valid Shark Wake Park waiver on-file
- Competitors will need to check in through the Pro Shop building each day for SWP staff to verify waivers and provide a competitor wrist band
- If a wristband falls off during a heat, the operator will allow the competitor to finish the heat, but the competitor will need to receive another wristband before any riding after that tim
FEATURES
Amateur Features Divisions:
- 7 minute jam session
- Up to 6 competitors on the cable in each jam session
- NO outside assistance getting back to the dock, however if a rider removes their board from the lake, they are allowed to change boards in the middle of heat
- Tricks after the clock are not allowed, riders must be on the features to count trick
- Judges score riders and rank from first to last, no ties in a section so if riders do the same trick, judges must delineate using our DRIVE format (listed below)
- Only your single best trick on each section will be scored
- If you fall, safely make your way back to the dock and restart. (Time is still running!)
- Section 1: 20%
- Section 2: 16%
- Section 3: 19%
- Section 4: 21%
- Section 5: 24%
- We score on Execution and Difficulty
- Judges want to see good execution on all tricks (clean/well grabbed/not zeached/not prespun)
* Tie Breaker will go to the rider that placed higher in 3 out of the 5 sections
* Times, sections and percentages are subject to change, please prepare accordingly.
Elite/Open Features Divisions:
- Amatuer Feature Format until Finals
- Finals is a 30 min timed Run based Jam format (as many attempts at a run as time allows)
- The run starts at Tower 2 and ends at Tower 1
- No Air tricks allowed
- There will be no pickups
- If you drag, tumble up (your hips are behind you) your run WILL NOT BE SCORED and you risk being disqualified from the entire event
- Hot dog handles are caused by the rider, if you fall your run is over, if you do not fall, you have one lap to reset handle and continue your run after the hot dog handle occurred
- Final score will be out of 100
- Best run counts
- We score on the EDC format: execution, difficulty, composition
- Overall Impression. You will receive a single score from each judge out of 100.
Park Divisions:
- 2 runs per rider
- The run starts off the dock and finishes after a second kicker hit
- Air trick can be done anywhere in the run
- There will be no pickups
- If you drag, tumble up (your hips are behind you) your run WILL NOT BE SCORED and you risk being disqualified from the entire event
- Hot dog handles are caused by the rider, if you fall your run is over, if you do not fall, you have one lap to reset handle and continue your run after the hot dog handle occurred
- Final score will be out of 100
- Best run counts
- Kickers: 35%
- Rails: 35%
- Air Tricks: 30%
- We score on the DRIVE format: Difficulty, Risk, Intensity, Variety, Execution
- Judges want to see good execution on all tricks (clean/well grabbed/not zeached/not prespun)
Host Hotel Information:
Home 2 Suites by Hilton West Palm Beach
2375 James L Turnage Blvd. West Palm Beach, FL 33406
33 Miles from Boat Event Site, 9.2 Miles from Wake Park
Fairfield by Marriott Boca Raton – Book by August 15th for Special Rates
3400 Airport Road. Boca Raton, FL 33431
10 Miles from Boat Event Site, 26.9 Mile from Wake Park
Holiday Inn Express Boca Raton
8144 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33434
5.6 Miles from Boat Event Site, 22.6 Miles from Park Event Site