How to Start Wakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a sport where you ride the wake from a boat. It's similar to waterskiing. Wakeboarding is to water skiing as snowboarding is to snow skiing. Wakeboarding has become especially popular in the Florida area. Follow these steps to start wakeboarding.
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Instructions
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Purchase or rent a wakeboard with adjustable foot straps. When you become more advanced, you can also use boots. Familiarize yourself with the board. Notice it has four fins on the bottom.
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Put your feet in the foot straps and adjust them to your feet. Stand with your shoulders parallel to the board to make sure the fit is comfortable.
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Get behind a boat in the water allowing enough room between you and the boat so there's no slack in the pull rope. Hold onto the rope handle with your arms slightly bent. Squat with your feet in the foot straps, leaning slightly backward.
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Bring your body up out of the water slowly as the boat pulls you up. Let the right end of the board point out of the water slightly to the side. Be careful not to lean too far back or forward.
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Stand with your board almost parallel to your shoulders, but keep the front pointed at a point halfway between your right shoulder and the boat. Stay wakeboarding in the center of the wake.
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Turn to the right by leaning your body slightly to the right. Turn to the left by putting your weight up on your toes and leaning your body slightly to the left.
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Tips & Warnings
You can point the left tip of the board forward instead of the right if that position feels more comfortable for you.
