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INTRODUCTION

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth 10,000 words.  

 

Thrill Village encourages you to take a few moments to watch two short videos and look at the pictures to get a general understanding about a new and exciting type of recreational watersports facility.

 

The passion, excitement, enjoyment, and dedication of these riders is clearly evident in the pictures and videos and supports the fact that cable parks provide significant recreational, athletic, social, economic, environmental, and community service benefits to communities.

 

The watersports industry frequently refers to the type of recreational watersports facilities shown in the pictures and videos as "Cable Parks."  

 

If you search the Internet or YouTube using key words "Cable Parks" and "Cable Wakeboarding," you will find numerous videos and pictures from existing cable parks located throughout the world.

 

The purpose of this website is to:

 

  • Introduce individuals to Cable Parks and how various ages and skill levels can enjoy recreational watersports without using a boat; and

 

  • Announce Thrill Village's goal to become the premiere Cable Park in the Midwest Region and the United States.

 

Cable Parks provide individuals of various ages and skill levels unique, exciting, and convenient access to recreational watersports enabling riders to waterski, wakeboard, kneeboard, and wakeskate on water without creating the noise pollution, water pollution, and air pollution generated when using a boat.

 

Through a private stock offering, Thrill Village is currently raising $2.5 million of capital to open the premiere Cable Park in the United States with the largest lake and longest cable system in a safe, clean, controlled, and professionally operated environment.

 

Thrill Village is devoted to providing beginner to professional riders a custom-designed Cable Park for individuals, parties, group meetings, corporate events, teambuilding activities, and community service organizations to enjoy.  Thrill Village will operate in a manner very similar to pro-shops, rental facilities, and lounges commonly found at golf courses and ski resorts.

 

Outside, Thrill Village will have two custom-designed lakes, one with floating obstacles and one without floating obstacles, patio seating, picnic areas, spectator viewing areas, storage lockers, and showers.  Additionally, Thrill Village will provide free use of sand volleyball, tetherball, bocceball, and cornhole courts.

 

Inside, Thrill Village will have an air conditioned retail store, rental area, offices, storeroom, restrooms, and a large lounge providing a panoramic view of the lakes where family, friends, and spectators can relax, watch television, access free Wi-Fi Internet, and socialize while watching everyone enjoy the premier services Thrill Village offers.

 

The retail store will carry a wide-range of watersports products from select manufacturers featuring apparel, sunglasses, wakeboards, waterskis, kneeboards, wakeskates, bindings, helmets, wet and dry suits, gloves, lifejackets, and nutritional snacks, foods, and non-alcoholic beverages.  Thrill Village will also rent wakeboards, waterskis, kneeboards, wakeskates, helmets, lifejackets, wet and dry suits, and related equipment to those riders who do not own their own equipment or who would like to try new and different types of equipment.

 


 

BACKGROUND

The concept of waterskiing and wakeboarding without a boat originally developed in Germany with the engineering expertise obtained from European ski resorts.

 

Throughout Europe, the number of individuals using a boat to enjoy recreational watersports was decreasing due to the limited access to public lakes and waterways, excessive price of fuel, maintenance, transportationn, and operating expenses associated with owning a boat, and the inconvenience, logistics, and difficulty of using a boat.


The rapid development of Cable Parks in Europe has significantly increased recreational watersport activities and simultaneously provided a safe and controlled environment with a “green solution” to reduce noise, air, and water pollution.

 

Currently, there are approximately 160 cable parks operating in 35 countries worldwide, with approximately 60 cable parks operating in Germany.  The first cable park in the United States opened in 1988 and there are approximately 11 cable parks currently operating.

 

Based on market research with information obtained from watersports industry representatives and watersport enthusiasts, Thrill Village has identified a strong demand for a Cable Park in the Midwest Region of the United States.  This strong demand is supported by population demographics and traffic counts of several strategically identified locations conveniently accessible by interstate highways and in close proximity to retail, lodging, and dining establishments.

 

Thrill Village will market its services and products to beginners who will be able to learn and improve their skills with the assistance of Thrill Village’s courteous, knowledgeable, and trained staff.  Additionally, intermediate, advanced, and professional riders will be able to enjoy the challenges of Thrill Village’s jumps and grind rails.

 

 

HOW DO INDIVIDUALS RIDE?

Thrill Village will use multiple types of cable systems to tow individuals on water without a boat.  One cable system is for beginner riders with two towers suspended over a small custom-designed lake without floating obstacles.  Another cable system is for beginner, intermediate, advanced, and professional riders with six towers suspended over a large custom-designed lake with various types of floating obstacles.

 

An operator separately controls each cable system, provides instruction, assists individuals leaving the starting dock onto the water, and monitors the safety of the lake.  Individuals wait on the starting dock holding a handle connected to a continuously rotating cable suspended approximately 30 feet above the water.  When an empty carrier is available, the rider is gently pulled off the starting dock onto the water, which is much easier than being pulled up and out of the water by a boat.  Depending on the rider’s skill level, riders will either navigate around the floating obstacles or use the floating obstacles (such as ramps and grind grails) to perform tricks.

   

FROM BEGINNERS TO PROFESSIONALS

The operation of Thrill Village will be very similar to ski resorts and golf courses and will provide unique opportunities for riders and spectators of all ages to enjoy watersports with varied terrain and levels of difficulty in a safe, social, controlled, and professionally operated environment.

 

Regardless of the riders' skill level, Thrill Village’s experienced staff will be trained in lifeguarding, CPR, and first-aid and be readily available to provide instruction and assistance to riders on both the large and small lakes.

 

ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS

Cable Parks provide individuals the unique and economical opportunity to enjoy numerous types of recreational watersports without the cost, logistics, storage, maintenance, transportation, and pollution generated when using a boat.  The cable systems use high-efficiency, variable-speed, direct-drive electric motors which are energy efficient, environmentally conscious, and operate at approximately 55 decibels (which is less than the sound level of normal human speech).  The electric motors only use approximately 10 kilowatts of electricity per hour of operation (which is less than the amount of electricity required to dry two loads of laundry).

 

The cable system is suspended approximately 30 feet above the water by towers constructed of high-strength, open-lattice steel that blends into the surrounding natural landscape.  When riders break the water’s surface as they ride, jump, fall, and swim to shore, approximately 10,000 pounds of oxygen is annually incorporated into the lakes creating excellent water quality and habitat for fish and other wildlife.

   

WHO IS BEHIND THRILL VILLAGE?

Thrill Village is the shared passion and vision of Ross Dantonio and Frank Dantonio.  Ross originally created the vision and concept of Thrill Village and Frank expanded on Ross’s concept by providing financial, tax, legal, zoning, and regulatory experience.

 

Frank is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and provides the administrative and financial leadership for Thrill Village.  Frank graduated from Otterbein College and has more than 30 years of diversified financial and tax experience with government, corporate industry, and accounting firms while at Wendy’s International, American Electric Power, Abbott Laboratories, American Express Tax & Business Services, tax partner with the international accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche, and is the Managing Principal with Multistate Tax Service.

 

Ross is the Chief Visionary Officer and Vice President of Operations and Marketing and provides the vision, industry experience, and operational leadership for Thrill Village.  Ross graduated from Bowling Green State University, was the President of the BGSU Waterski and Wakeboard Team, has more than 10 years of experience in the watersports and various action sports industries, and has experience with marketing, sponsorship relations, retail, apparel design, trend predictions, graphic design, construction, metal fabrication, mechanics, and web design.

 

Additionally, Thrill Village has established a Board of Advisers consisting of Adam Wensink (Professional world-champion wakeboarder), Brian Grubb (Professional world-champion wakeskater), Clayton Underwood Pprofessional world-champion wakeboarder), Gil Harris (CEO of Aspen Ski and Board Company), Mark Dantonio (Head Football Coach at Michigan State University), Paul Miller, CPA (CFO at The Frank Gates Company-dba Avizent), and Steve Barnes, CPA (President of Advanced Practice Management). 

 

The combined passion, vision, and business experience of this father and son team, with the assistance of Thrill Village’s Board of Advisers and investors, are working together  Thrill Village to become the premier Cable Park in the Midwest Region and the United States.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Thank you for your interest in Thrill Village’s website.

 

In the near future, we will publicly announce our first location and update our website with a new look, sponsorship announcements, and pictures / videos of construction.

 

In the interim, if you have any questions, would like to receive additional information, need assistance in starting your own Cable Park, or would like to join the Thrill Village Team, please contact:

 

 

Frank Dantonio


Chief Executive Officer

Chief Financial Officer


614. 440. 2491

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Ross Dantonio


Chief Visionary Officer

Vice President of Operations and Marketing


614. 208. 1589

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DISCLAIMER

Although Thrill Village is currently raising $2.5 million of capital with a private stock offering to construct and operate Thrill Village, the Thrill Village website and all statements and contents contained therein is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to be and cannot be construed to be an advertisement, solicitation, or offer to sell securities (stock) to anyone or any entity because such action would not be in compliance with the various regulatory and securities laws of the Securities Exchange Commission and / or any applicable states.