Following an incredible opening day of riding at Pwllheli Marina with those qualified riders all set to join the big guns today, the party was most definitely on! There was a palpable anticipation in the air for Relentless Wakestock’s headline acts of Fedde Legrand and Eric Prydz as well as massive array of sounds to suit all including such big names as N-Dubz, Roll Deep and Audio Bulley’s.

The rest of Friday night included the first of the Wakeskate Jams, the girls doing their thing in the Pool and the last chance for the guys not already qualified from Thursday’s Pool Gap riding to make it through to Saturdays Quarter Finals. Extremely difficult decisions had to be made between the girls, Amber Wing and Nicola Butler reenacting the Pool Gap battles of Wakestock Abu Dhabi. It was also extremely tight with the guys, who were fighting to stay in the competition. Just four out of the 12 were chosen with Sam Carne’s stomped Gap to Back 450 to Backside 90 out the stand out move of the weekend so far securing his place in the next round.

Some serious bouncing then took hold across the entire Wakestock arena as the three stages continued to pump out the music until the early hours! No rest for our festival going athletes though as game face time hit North Wales and all focus moved to Pwllheli Marina where the masses lining the water’s edge of the wakeboard arena would finally catch the ‘out of this world’ wakeboarding action, as they paid witness to the sports’ best going all out for the 10 places available for Sunday’s final. With a who’s who list of international wakeboarding this was going to be an all out war to handle the pressure, wrestle with the Relentless Leviathan and take on the 16 foot high roof top rail, never mind the world class riders from the UK who were all hungry for another day of riding in the finals on Sunday.

This year the entire Nation got a taste of the wakeboarding goodness with Radio 1’s Huw Stephens broadcasting from a boat floating in the middle of the wakeboarding arena as the drama unfolded on the water. At the same time R1’s Tom Deacon roamed the highly charged atmosphere of the crowd on the marina boardwalk that were doing all they could to cheer on their favourites. The Girls Finals got the action underway and although the wind was up and making the water conditions so friendly, the ladies still pushed hard. Miss Butler was the first to get the crowd cheering for more as she bashed out a good array of tech moves. Amber Wing then cranked it up a notch again, schooling the rails once again and knocking out a Moby Dick and Whirly along with an array of solid grabs, spins and flips.

With so many big name riders from the UK and abroad, Relentless Wakestock 2010 was definitely the most ‘international’ it had been’. Randall Harris had made the trip and he absolutely tore the course apart with that unmistakable style, some serious hang time and that special certain something that makes Randall the legend he is. Having been bitten by the Wakestock bug a few years previous Australia’s Dean Smith schooled his group to move through. Andrew Adkison touched down into the UK the morning he had to ride after 40 hours in transit but still came up with the goods to make finals. The out and out best performance which literally blew everyone away came from the last rider of the day, current WWA Wakeboard World Series Champion, Phillip Soven, dropping a Toeside 720 straight out the blocks, G-Spot and Whirly 5 right at the end of his run cleaning out any chance of another rider taking the heat victory.

It was then time for the masses at the marina to head back to the Festival site for some well needed R & R right before some more killer rail action on the Pool Gap. None other than Chase & Status, Plan B, Maximo Park and Feeder amongst many others would make the Saturday night the big one Wakestock always lays on.

Finals day beckons and one almighty send off to Relentless Wakestock 2010.