Wakeboarding

Riding a short, wide board across the water while being towed by a boat, using the wake as a ramp for aerial tricks. Wakeboarding merges water skiing's pull with skateboarding's trick vocabulary.

History

Emerged in the early 1980s when surfers and skiers experimented with riding boat wakes on modified boards. Tony Finn's Skurfer and Herb O'Brien's compression-molded boards turned it into a legitimate discipline by the late 1980s.

Culture

Wakeboarding culture blends the lake-life social scene with the progression mentality of skateboarding. Cable parks have democratized the sport by removing the need for a boat and a driver.

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