Wakeboarding Safety Tips

Video Transcript

"Hello! I’m Francisco Escudero here in Miami, Florida. If you want to learn more about wakeboarding, go to skybanditz.com. The other very important thing in wakeboarding is safety. With safety, we got to follow all the guideline of the boating industry. We have a powerboat; we’re using it to propelle us through the water, so we have to have distance from other swimmers, other boats, and you’ve got to judge the distance than the wake boarder with the line extension that’s going to be behind you. Every time you take a turn, there’s going to be safety zones where you’ve got to actually go slower. Then in that area, probably the coaches that are teaching you will not take you there. They go to designated areas where the water is flat and there’s other people that are either enjoying the sport of wakeboarding or getting told by different powerboats and different inflatable toys. It’s all about safely, low impact, wearing your helmet to make a good fun safe experience on your first days on the water in wakeboarding. "