Waterskiing

If you ever wanted to learn to barefoot ski but just could not figure it out, then this is the article for you. If you are athletic and you can ski, you should be able to barefoot.

Use the rails of your kneeboard to steer and to control your direction.

A high jump is vital when you do a full back flip off the wake on your kneeboard.

You'll need to get a lot of air off the wake to do a front flip on your kneeboard.

This trick is just like a normal kneeboarding wake jump, but instead you'll spin 180 degrees in the air and land riding backward.

Though fairly simple, achieving the proper riding position on your kneeboard is the key to a good foundation of skills.

You've probably already done some porpoising by accident while learning to kneeboard. Now learn to control it until you can do rhythmic bounces of 1 to 2 feet in height.

Jump off the wake and grab the rail of your kneeboard in the air for a trick that looks killer from the boat. This is one of the first ways to start styling out your kneeboard aerials.

Jump off the wake on your kneeboard and point the nose down while in the air for a good intermediate-level trick.

Clean, sharp turns are the key to a good slalom run. The two-handed turn will help keep you right on course.

Jump into the air and tweak your kneeboard back and up for a great flashy trick. It's easy to do - just follow these steps.

Once you've learned to ride backward on your kneeboard, it's only a matter of smoothing out your transitions to do a 360 spin.

Spinning one-and-a-half rotations and landing backward is one of the most advanced spins you can do on your kneeboard. Before you attempt the 540, though, be sure you've mastered the 180 and 360...

One-handed slalom turns, while slightly more difficult than the two-handed turns, give you an advantage because you can lean further to get better reach and, therefore, use a shorter rope on the...

For a very stylish and advanced maneuver, do a nose dip air on your kneeboard and then tweak it back, so the people in the boat see the bottom of your board. Because facing backward allows you to...

The layout air is one of the most difficult and impressive aerial maneuvers in a kneeboarder's bag of tricks. Jump into the air and extend your arms and legs out, as though you're lying above the...

Deep-water starts are more difficult than beach starts, but they are a must for any serious kneeboarder. With the deep-water start, you can start riding from anywhere in the water.

The easiest way to start out riding a kneeboard is to start from the beach.