Vans Rococo Rail Tour

With the increase of rails throughout every aspect of wakeboarding, the Vans Rococo Rail Tour brings the best riders and hardest tricks to only meters from the crowd. This monstrous structure built in the middle of the music arena holds over 200,000 gallons of water between two split-level pools with three 40-foot rails separating the two levels. This new type of event is geared around the crowd, with the action right there for everyone to see, and MC's on hand keeping you up to date on what tricks are being thrown down and who by.
The split-level pool idea comes from skateboarding, where stair sets and handrails are the common obstacles. While this is great for wakeboarding, the even newer sport of wakeskating lends itself perfectly to this format. Wakeskating is essentially skateboarding on water - with wooden boards covered in grip tape and a pair of skate shoes, the riders perform skateboard tricks such as shuv-it's, kickflips and ollie 360's on the water, and technical rail tricks from backside lipslides through to nose blunts and crooked grinds. You're not going to see any backflips from these riders, but the speed, danger and precision of wakeskating will have you baffled beyond belief.