Can he mount another comeback?

Okay, seriously we like Parks as much as the next guy, but this is starting to sound like a Michael Jordan comeback nightmare. How many times can you try to return to the pinnacle of a sport that you helped elevate to where it is, only to have your efforts shot down?

Sometimes you just have to know when to say when. For the sake of every person that ever has tried a wakeboard, or ever will for that matter, I hope that PB can reclaim his prestigious place as one of the world’s best wakeboarders. He certainly is one of the most talented riders I’ve ever witnessed ride sideways on a board (wakeskate, wakeboard or other) behind a boat.

But for some reason I have a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe it’s the numerous career-ending injury’s followed by rehab and an attempt to return to the level of riding that gave us the first double half-cab roll, 1080, among many others.

I really hope I’m wrong, and TheLiquidCircus.com has a fairly candid interview with Mr. Bonifay regarding what exactly he’s focusing on, and just why we shouldn’t count him out yet. Check out the full interview at TheLiquidCircus.com

A few weeks ago The Liquid Circus broke the news that Brad Smeele (who?) had landed the first regular 1080 in history. At the time we had to make do with Jeff Weatherall’s great sequence of the feet as the only documented proof.

Brad Smeele's 1080 Courtesy of TheLiquidCircus.com

Well suffer no more, Wakeboarding Mag has just posted a clip of from their MyWake Video site documenting the action in full 30FPS action. Apparently this is the video Josh Robinson shot for his upcoming flick Canvas, and thankfully he saw fit to release it prior to the video.

Brad Smeele may not have been very well known before, but he has everyone’s attention now. Hit the jump to see the first regular 1080 ever.