The wakeboard is a water sportsimilar to water skiing, but with the exception that it is practiced on a board similar to a snowboard and, a boat or a boat will tow you thanks to a system of cables that you will hold on to with your hands.
Depending on such important factors as the weather conditions, your weight or height, the speed you are willing to reach or the characteristics of the boat you are using. guide you, you will be able to navigate between 29 and 38 kilometers per hour, approximately.
Both wakeboarding and other water sports similar to it have endless possibilities, with multiple tricks that you can practice with your board and the appropriate materials. Thus, you can practice maneuvers like the following:
- Grabs: these will be the first turns you will learn when wakeboarding, but don't trust yourself... They are not as simple as they seem! The grabs encompass different styles depending on the difficulty and the height you want to give it. Some of them are the Indy where you have to grab the board in the middle of the pointe rail with your back hand; the Nosegrab, which consists of grabbing the nose of the board with the front hand (right for goofys and left for regulars); To make the Roastbeef you have to grab the board with your back hand, passing it between your legs and in the middle of the neelside edge. There are many more tricks, like the Tai Pan el Palmer, theChicken Salad, the Canadian Baicon...
- Surface Tricks: this trick refers to the types of glides that you can do with the wakeboard in the water. To perform this maneuver there are various techniquess, from the No Hander which is an initiation trick in which you have to place the palonier between the knees and release your hands until the Backside Butterside where you will have to turn the board 90 degrees and do a slide on the crest of the wave. You can find others like the Slide 360 in which when you come down from the crest of the wave you will have to turn 360 degrees. Also don't stop learning the Surf Carve, the Surface (180 and 360), the Nothing Butterslide...
- Rotations: any good rider worth his salt must know how to rotate the degrees he wants starting from the imaginary longitudinal axis or even leaving it. Of course, there are also different styles, since a frontside turn will be done facing the boat and a backside will be done with your back to the boat. Of course there are other tricks, which with practice you will undoubtedly learn!
- Inverted: once you handle the grabs and rotations the inverted ones will practically come on their own. We keep in mind that this type of trick refers to any maneuver that we perform in the air as long as the head is the lowest point of the body. Within this modality you can find maneuvers such as the HS Backroll, where you will have to defy gravity by doing a backflip. On the contrary, theHS Frontflip consists of a side flip but forward. You can also ask your wakeboard instructor for tricks such as theTS Backroll, the TS Frontflip, theFrontroll, the Tantrum em>...
- Raley Tricks: It is related to the previous group, that is, with the inverted ones, but in this case there is no type of rotation, basically it consists of your body leave the vertical position, as long as you use the palonier. The main advantage of knowing this type of maneuver is that you can combine it with an infinite number of grabs and rotations. li>
- Handle Pass Inverts: this group of tricks is more complex, inverts combined with rotations come into play, both frontside and backside, with handle pass or not, etc.
So that you can practice wakeboarding and perform spectacular tricks, the first and main option is to choose a wakeboard school. professional that has top-notch instructors and materials. And remember, the board has to be appropriate for you and your level, otherwise you will not be able to handle it well and you may suffer some mishap.
Wakeboarding is an adventure sport in which you have to activate all your senses and not forget the good coordination of all the members of your body. What are you waiting for to practice it?
