 Founded by Mark Durston, the festival began in Abersoch, North Wales back in 2000, when it was a wakeboard contest with a party in a car park for 800 people, and from then on played host to some of the industry's leading bands and DJs, along with the biggest wakeboard competition in Europe.In 2008 50% of the festival was sold to Kilimanjaro Live aka KiliLive.com.In 2010 the festival entered its second decade and become part of the World Wakeboard Series.