“It feels like you can walk on water.”When you’re on the edge of your board, it’s an amazing rush. The more you do it, the better you want to get.”Wakeboarding is growing rapidly in the UK, with many retailers selling five wakeboards (costing pounds 200-pounds 600 each) for every pair of waterskis. Wakeboarding is about going out there and doing what you want.”You get points for style and creativity, so you’re encouraged to ride against the norm and try something new.”The brothers’ success means that they rarely see their native Newcastle and have to suffer extended trips to sun-kissed locations like Orlando, Florida.”You feel so free out there,” says 22-year-old Nick. Unlike most British extreme-sports protagonists, the Heaney bothers are among the best in the world at their chosen event.”There is a lot more free-riding compared to waterskiing,” says 20-year-old Julz. “In waterskiing, you have to be very controlled and perform tricks in a certain way. Wakeboarding flips the concept with boats that create as much disturbance or “wakes” as possible.Riders uses the wakes to launch themselves into the air; “raleys”, “hoochie- glides”, “tantrums” and “s-bends” – the aerial manoeuvres may sound like a different language, but wakeboarding is addictive for those who try their hand at the world’s fastest-growing watersport.Nick and Julz Heaney are both former waterskiing champions who switched codes.

Wakeboarding delivers enough excitement to attract adrenaline junkies, and gives mortals the chance to pull moves straight out of a Batman comic.
Wakeboarding adheres to the cult of “sideways”, and shares many characteristics with waterskiing, but it is entirely different in application and attitude.Waterskiing boats have hulls designed to cause as little water disturbance as possible. With conductor Gerard Schwarz demanding the usual high standard of performance, London’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and ’s Concerto Koln both make their debuts. Its not all Mozart: there will also be 35 Haydn quartets performed by six international string ensembles.Lincoln Center, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Broadway at 64th St, New York (00 1 212 875 5030) until 22 Aug, $20-$40TokyoA major exhibition exploring the history of architecture and urbanism in the 20th century, At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture, features work by architects from all over the world. Designed by Frank Gehry, the exhibition is divided into historical sections such as “Modern Learning and Living at the Bauhaus” and “Mass-Produced Housing and Industry after World War II”. The social, cultural and political influences on building in each era are explored through photographs, drawings, artefacts, film and computer models of unbuilt works.Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiba Park, Koto (Kiba station on the Tozai line), Tokyo (00 3 5245 4111) until 6 Sept, Y1,200. The only criterion for extreme sports is that there are no rules: you can ride any surface, and while gravity can never be defeated, it can be fooled for a few precious heartbeats.

The 115 works on canvas and paper encompass all phases of Rothko’s career, from the 1930s through to the year of his suicide, 1970. The show reveals his major contribution to American abstract expressionism and his constant search to express a philosophical truth, but it also gives y ou the chance simply to lose yourself in the vibrant beauty of his shimmering, colour-rich, large-scale pieces.National Gallery of Art, Constitution Avenue, Washington DC (00 1 202 737 4215) until 16 Aug, freeNew YorkIn this, its 32nd season, the Mostly Mozart Festival showcases authentic period-instrument performances of both baroque and classical pieces. As well as the usual sidebar frivolities we’ve come to expect at these events – amusement park rides, open-air cinema, human table soccer and something called scad-diving – Bizarre promises a truly star-studded musical menu, including Iggy Pop (above), Portishead, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Goldie, Fun Lovin’ Criminals and PJ Harvey. There’s even an on-site hairdresser for when the tent-dwelling takes its toll on your coiffure …
Butzweiler Hof, -Ossendorf (ticket hotline: 00 49 228 3676767) 21-23 Aug, three-day ticket including camping DM150Washington DCCatch this Mark Rothko retrospective – the first comprehensive US show of his work in 20 years – before it moves to New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art on 17 September.