Wakeboarding

Wakeboarding combines elements of water skiing, snowboarding and surfing to create a new form of water sport.

A rider is towed by a boat standing sideways while being attached via bindings to to a floatable board with a convex tip.

The rope which tows the rider is attached to a wakeboarding boat and is about 2 metres above the water line.

The wakeboarding boat is weighted and trimmed and uses strategically placed ballasts tanks to create large wakes which the wakeboarding rider can use to launch themselves into the air.

Wakeboarding Tricks

As with many freestyle sports, wakeboarding comes with its own set of tricks which are performed by cutting rapidly towards the wake on either the heelside or toeside.

Common terms used for describing wakeboarding tricks include off-axis, tantrum, elephant, whirlybird and toeside/heelside 360.