If you’re like me and don’t always have a state of the art wakeboarding boat available to you, sometimes you will need some extra help getting waves big enough for all your water sports. Wakesurfing behind a ski boat is especially challenging because it requires a wave big enough for you to ride down the …
The best wakeboard gloves that I have personally used are the O’brien Pro Skin Watersport Gloves. These gloves were made for elite rope handling in wet wakeboard and waterski conditions. If the rope keeps slipping out of your hands on that new trick you’re trying to land, or if your hands and fingers are getting …
The most important part of being a wakeboarder is… GETTING UP! Before you can even think about impressing anybody with some gnarly 180s and fronside backrolls, you need to know how to get up, and stay up, on a wakeboard. Let me walk you through the steps, and touch on some common mistakes so that …
If you don’t have the luxury of living on a private lake or being near a cable park, odds are you are going to have to deal with rough water conditions from time to time. It can be pretty intimidating to get out on the wakeboard when the water is chopped up. In rough waters, …
One of the most common questions beginner wakeboarders ask is “How can I get more air when I jump?”. Getting the skills to jump higher on your wakeboard is actually pretty simple in theory, but just takes some guts and commitment to execute. Also, many wakeboarders will often make excuses like “My boat doesn’t have …
So you’ve mastered body position, leaning against the line, the progressive edge, and wake to wake jumps, aka the fundamentals of wakeboarding. Chances are you now want to take it a step further; it’s time to try some flips on your wakeboard. There are two easy flips that I suggest you start with: the backroll …
Hyperlite Indy CGA Wakeboard Vest Life vests are a necessity for wakeboarding. If you injure yourself or knock yourself unconscious on the water, your life vest will keep you afloat so you can be rescued! But let’s be honest, major injuries like this don’t happen all that often. So besides keeping you above water, the …
There are 3 fundamentals of wakeboarding that you, and everybody else, should learn at the inception of your water sporting career. These will serve as the foundation in which you will build your wakeboarding game around. These 3 things will give you a fantastic base of knowledge, technique, and form that will allow you to …
Wakeboarding behind a boat and wakeboarding via cable. On paper, these 2 things are the same sport, but in practice, they are wildly different. Here are the key differences to boat vs. cable wakeboarding: Water Start vs. Dock Start Behind the boat you are sitting in the water and simply getting pulled up. On the …
Wakeboarding is one of the most fun and exhilarating things you can do, so why should you settle for only doing it in the summer? Wetsuits are a great way to keep warm in winter-time water, and extend wakeboard season into the colder months. There are a few different styles of wetsuits to choose from. …