Life Jacket, sand castle equipment...Wake Board?

Wakeboarding is a sport you MUST try, especially when you have the chance to glide over deep waters, on a warm day. With expierince with a sport like that, thrill would absolutey enter your life!!

According to the dictionary, wakeboarding's a surface water sport that allows you to ride a wakeboard atop of a body of water, towed by a motor boat.

If your the type to enjoy the cool sensation of water, then wakeboarding was especially made for you! But! To be above dark water, not knowing what was under them, having a dear that, out of nowhere, something could popp out and knock you down, leaving you to sink like the Titanic. That NEEDS guts. You need to be brave to do wakeboarding.

I have a lot of favourite stunts, such as these. But for nearly all of them, it was impossible for me to do.

List of Wakeboard tricks

Wakeboarding is a little tricky at first, but you'll get used to it. If you are a true Dare Devil, then you could try these stunts. Take the risk. 

Backside Butterslide: This one's a bit tricky at first, you turns the board backside 90 degrees and grinds the wake. You twist your feet to take the board to the direction you want it to be at. 

Backside Butterslide 180: Even trickier. You have to turn the board backside 90 degrees and grinds the wake. Then grabs the handle with opposite hand and does another 90 degree turn in the same direction.

Backside Start: You get up in a backside position where the backside is facing the boat.

Body Slide: You lie back onto the water. Don't be fooled, it's a lot harder than it sounds.

Butterslide: You turn the board frontside 90 degrees and grinds the wake.

Butter slide 180: Same as regular butterslide but with an additional 90 degree rotation in the same direction. I find it bi harder than the butterslide. 

No-Hander: Make sure you don't fall, because you have to put your handle between knees, then lets go with both hands.

Nothing Butterslide: You put handle between knees while in a butterslide.

Perez: You carve outside of the wake and slides into a surface 360. You need to be REALLY impressive to handle that!

Potato Peeler: Body Slide with fin release. Even I couldn't do this one.

Powerslide: Board is turned backside 90 degrees in the flats. Fins are broken loose. If done correctly, it creates a huge spray. I don't know how, but I think it may be a myth that people can do this.

 Surf Carve: You cuts back and forth in the wake in a surf-carving fashion. Not as hard as you think if you take the risk.

Surface 180: This is super hard, because you have to make a 180 degree turn on the surface of the water.

Tumble Turn: You lays back on water, board is taken out of water and above the head, body is spun around backside and the You stands back up onto feet. Practically impossible... If you don't practice!

Now that you have the boat and the board all you need is a place to ride... Here are the top ten best places to ride in the world.

LakeShasta, California (United States)

Considered by many to be the best ski and wakeboard lake around. Shasta has four arms, and each is itself like a separate lake. That's in addition to the main lake near the dam. Add to that the thousands of little coves and secret inlets, and you’ve got a body of water so big no wakeboarder can ever fully explore it.

ColoradoRiver, US Southwest

Hot weather and cool, calm water make this one of the water-ski centers of America. There are plenty of hot bodies and hot boats, and water events are the dominant summer activities. The roar of the big V8s in the jet boats can be incredible, along with the bright wakes spewing from boats and skiers alike. There are also yearly speedboat races which employ the river’s wonderful capabilities for various competitions.

StoneyPark, Australia

Stoney Park consists of two man-made lakes which have been specifically built for water-skiing and wakeboarding. The lakes have been carefully constructed at right angles to each other, to best utilize the varying sun and wind conditions. The Eastern Lake is fully equipped with a slider and a kicker ramp, to make for hours of fun for the braver wakeboarder.

Boats come with a custom made high pole and wedge for wakeboarding. These innovative pieces of equipment create the perfect shaped wake that boarders crave, and take only minutes to install.

LakeHavasu, AZ

Giant Havasu stands out like a lone sapphire in a pile of coal. Only the Colorado River breaks up the surrounding expanse of desert. It’s 45 miles long and covers 19,300 acres at the low elevation of 482 feet. This is one of the most popular boating destinations in the entire southwestern United States, and its size, weather, warm water, and proximity to Las Vegas make it one of the top vacation and water-skiing hot spots in the West.

TSRExtreme Sports Complex, Texas

The Texas Ski Ranch Complex says it all on its website: “No boat needed on this lake! Experience the thrill and excitement that the cableway offers riders of all levels. 

They also have a tried-and-true, old-fashioned boat lake for you sticks-in-the-mud, but with a subtle difference: “Imagine...no other boats, no other wakes. Just you, buttery water, a Mastercraft towboat, and an experienced driver and coach. It doesn’t get much better than this.” Indeed.

CobleSki Camp, NC

The camp in Lillington is ready to start its 11th season in operation. 


One of the world's foremost and most comprehensive water ski/wakeboard training facilities, Coble consists of 10 private lakes. Only one boat is allowed on each lake at a time, so you will enjoy premier wakeboarding conditions. Thousands of boarders from around the world have shared this one-of-a-kind facility.

Lake Lure, NC

The Chalet Club has been synonymous with water-skiing sports ever since the late '50's, when they added water-skiing to their guests’ activities list.


 Proudly continuing in that vein, the Chalet Club hopes to have the same experience with wakeboarding. It offers wakeboarding capabilities which take place behind pontoon and ski boats - all using the latest Connelly equipment.

Bow Lake, WA

Located just 60 miles North of Seattle WA in the beautiful Skagit valley, at the gateway of the San Juan Islands. Guests at Bow Lake Training Center may be of any ability: from first timers to the professional wakeboarders and avid water-skiers, they want all to enjoy their stay at Bow Lake. Spring and summer season runs from April until October. During this season they offer some outstanding features for the aqua-sports fan.

While they have most equipment, they do encourage you to bring your own board.

AquaSkiPark, Costa Rica,

Stimulate your senses as you cut across immaculate liquid glass. Take a deep breath as you inhale the sweet fragrance of the constantly blooming flora, or simply blink your eyes as you focus on the brilliant colors of an exotic tucan as he sails across the sky. Whatever you’re looking for, Costa Rica has it.

The ski/wakeboard park consists of a private, man-made 3,500 ft. long fresh water lake surrounded by a 250-acre orange plantation and coconut palms with a view of Arenal Volcano.

Smuggler'sWreck Bay, Greece

The Passage Water Ski Center’s located on one of the greenest and most picturesque islands in Greece, with some 


of the clearest, most beautiful waters on Earth. 

For wakeboarding Kyprios uses a 2005 Malibu Wakesetter VLX, a boat specially built to tow wakeboarders. The wakesetter makes the biggest ridable wake in Greece.

 From what you have read, maybe you've been convinced that wakeboarding  is more fun have you could have imagined. I know it is, and hopefully, you will have the guts to do it. Try wakeboarding, I dare you.