This is Parks Bonifay, the best free ride wakeboarder of all time. Parks was born right here in Wisconsin, West Bend to be exact. He Became a professional wakeboarder in 1994 when we took the extreme sports world by storm winning X Games gold medal at the age of 14. (His very first x games appearance) He has held many major titles including the Pro Wakeboard Tour titles in 1999 and 2001. Parks got a young start when his father put him on a ski at the age of 7 months!
Parks is the first wakeboarder to ever land a switch toe-side 1080. (Doing so at a photo shoot)
A full-length feature documentary on Parks' life was released on August 21, 2009, aptly titled The Parks Documentary. It chronicles the story of Park's life, from his roots in water skiing and show skiing via his parents and grandparents, to his exploits, accomplishments and sheer dominance of the world of wakeboarding the past 12 years.
He is feature on MTV's "Nitro Circus". He has many sponsors including Ronix, Fox, RedBull, Spy, MasterCraft, and Performance Ski & Surf.
He is the only wakeboarder to have a video game named after him. "Parks Bonifay Wakeboarding" for PlayStation 2.
A documentary on Parks' life was released on August 21, 2009, The Parks Documentary. It chronicles the story of Park's life, from his roots in water skiing and show skiing, his parents and grandparents, to his exploits, accomplishments and sheer dominance of the world of wakeboarding the past 12 years.
Parks now resided in Florida.
Parks is always mentioned in the talks about the best wakeboarder of all time. He is personally my favorite rider! Keep doing your thing Parks!
