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Thanks to the visitors, skaters and wakeboarders at Lakeside Paradise, "Het Vlot" now has two new IPads for the children. Beau De L'air, recognised assistance housing in the Meerlaan, also made a contribution and sponsored many laps on the cable car. All residents joined together and sent an assistant into the water ... Read more

Gold in Flanders, Silver in Europe After winning the Westtoer Innovation Award, Frank Vanleenhove and Natalie Camerlynck from Lakeside Paradise went to Canterbury in the United Kingdom to compete in the "Tourism Awards 2019" against the other European Finalists. However, they had to lose in the second round of voting by one point ... Read more

Diving into cold water at temperatures of barely 7 degrees? Sunday, a number of warm-blooded people did it for a good cause. They collected money for the therapeutic day centre Het Vlot. Sports in, on or next to the water does not deter the many members of water sports club Lakeside Paradise. The temperature of the water is ... Read more

In the presence of the Alderman for Tourism Knokke-Heist Anthony Wittesaele, the skating rink at Lakeside Paradise was solemnly opened on Saturday. Liselotte Robeyns gave a wonderful demonstration to the sound of Swan Lake, followed by the slightly rougher ice hockey of the Yeti Bears against the Maple Leaf team. Then it was the turn of the youth and the curling specialists. ... Read more

On Saturday 16 November Lakeside Paradise opens the first ecological skating rink in the Benelux. In addition there are also 2 ditto curling rinks. The material used for skating consists of sustainable and recycled synthetic material that requires almost no maintenance and offers a constant gliding factor of 98% compared to real ice. There is thus ... Read more

Will there be a wave park for surfers in Knokke-Heist? And can Lakeside Paradise win the Westtoer "innovation award"? If it were up to Frank Vanleenhove...he has submitted a proposal to the municipality to allow surfers to surf on artificial waves in a real wave park, specially built for that purpose. This project would be the ... Read more

King & Queen of the Lake! This weekend Lakeside Paradise put an end to its summer activities. On the programme were the club championship "King & Queen of the Lake" and the UFO session. The latter stands for Unidentified Floating Objects, which means that anyone with any kind of floating object can enter the ... Read more

43 Teamriders from Lakeside Paradise travelled to Oudenaarde last weekend for the Belgian Cable Wakeboard Championships. With 40% of the participants Lakeside Paradise was very well represented. There was a 40 year difference between the youngest and oldest competitor. Vic Drooghmans of Lakeside Paradise, was the ... Read more

Twins Cable Park Beckum Germany was the scene of a lot of young wakeboard talent the past few days. They were responsible for the organisation of the European Junior Cable Wakeboarding Championships. On the programme 160 boys and girls U16 and U19 from 17 different European countries, complete with coaches, supervisors, osteopaths, masseurs...the whole package. And...there was for ... Read more

A 9-headed Belgian delegation is preparing for the upcoming European Championships, as it is officially called "European & African Cablewakeboard & Wakeskate Youth & Senior Championships". Team Belgium gives the best of themselves from 10-15 September in Beckum, Germany. The competition consists in riding your wakeboard (fixed bindings) or wakeskate (loose bindings) on ... Read more