Oakley Moves of the Year

If you did not know, every year an Oakley Move of the Year is given out to the wakeboarder with the best wakeboard trick that year and the wakeskater with the best wakeskate for that year. The award is typically given out at the TransWorld Wake Awards. If you have not heard, Erik Ruck won the award for Wakeboarding Move of the Year, and Stu Shinn won the award for Wakeskating Move of the Year. Erik Ruck won the award for his mute back mobe off of a kicker. Stu Shinn won the award for his wake-to-wake backside flip. While these tricks do go above and beyond any other tricks performed in 2011, the Ruck and Shinn did have some pretty steep competition. Here is a list of the other wakeboard and wakeskate nominees and the tricks that they were nominated for:



Wakeboard Nominees:
-Adam Errington: Melon Double Frontroll 180
-Harley Clifford: Wake-to-Wake Backside 1080
-Daniel Grant: Blind 515
-Danny Harf: Backside 540 and Double Indy Tantrum and Switch Heelside 720
-Dean Smith: Backside 720 and Heelside 1080
-Tom Fooshee: Tailgrab Dum Dum 540
-Jeff Langley: Mute Double Roll 180
-Randall Harris: Heelside 720
-Bob Sichel: Indy Double Tantrum
-Parks Bonifay- Double Half-Cab Roll
-Rusty Malinoski: Stalefish Double Back Roll


Wakeskate Nominees: 
-Ben Horan: Backside Bigspin and Varial Heel Flip
-Matt Manzari: Grape Flip
-George Daniels: Boardslide Body Variable Backlip 270 Shuv
-Brandon Thomas: Switch Boardslide Body Varial Backside Big Spin
-Austin Pastura: Pull Jam Shuv
-Matt Hooker: Huge Backlip
-Marcus Knox: Bigspin Heel Flip and Lazer Flip
-Kyle Walton: Back Foot Heel Flip and No Comply
-Nick Taylor: Hard Flip
-Aaron Reed: Front Board Hippie Jump 270 Shuv