Starting Positions Do’s & Don’ts When Wakeboarding

Video Transcript

"Hello! I’m Francisco Escudero here in Miami, Florida. If you want to learn more about wakeboarding, go to skybanditz.com. So now we’re going to overview parts of the water on land; the do’s and don’ts. We’re going to be sitting on the water here, boat’s going to be in front of us, and it’s going to want to start to pull us. We’re going to have our arms a little bit bent. The boat’s going to start to pull us, and like I said, we’re going to have our board this way and as the boat pulls us we’re going to point the board downwind and allow the boat to bring us up. Some don’ts would be if you pull the bar too much and don’t allow the boat to pull you up, then you’re going to kind of come under your bar and you’re going to start to just fall and kind of slide back this way and your board is going to slide out; you’re going to fall back. We’re going to go back here and then we’re going to progressively, as the boat pulls us, and we’re going to be getting up and just relaxing our hands letting the boat take us with it. After we get comfortable, we want to stay in the middle of the wake and stay side to side. "