DexterWakeboarding – An Introduction
April 18th 2008 00:03
Wakeboarding – An Introduction
wakeboarding style
A hybrid sport that originally involved a power boat pulling the rider along Wakeboarding combines Water Skiing, Snow Boarding and surfing. Now with indoor arenas and organised extreme sports events like the X games Cable towing has become just as common.
The camera man puts himself into the action
The idea of wakeboarding is to perform stunts by exploiting the wake left in the trail of the speed boat, though again with the cable pull coming into play it can utilise obstacles to achieve rail slides, big airs off jumps and many variations of the traditional moves.
Big Air wakeboarding
Birthed in 80’s as an extension of toboggans or free boards, from wikipedia.com:
“Wakeboarding arose in the late 1980's after the advent of skiboarding. The actual sport of skiboarding is credited to Tony Finn (who invented the Skurfer in San Diego, CA) Jimmy Redmond (Austin, TX)later drilled holes in skurfers to affix bindings. The term "wakeboard" was coined by Paul Fraser(Vancouver, Canada), as well as the concept and design, along with his brother Murray and a Pro snowboarder they sponsored. Paul approached Herb O'Brien with the idea and the introduction of the "liquid force" wakeboard, named by Eric "The Flyin Hawaiian" Perez, laid the groundwork for evolution of the wakeboard throughout the 1990s.”
Riding off into the sunset
Also from Wikipedia here is a list of some of the most common manoeuvres executed in wakeboarding:
”Raley - the rider hits the wake and allows their body to swing backwards, up overhead, parallel to the water. The rider then swings the board and his or her body down and lands on the other side of the wake.
Fakie or switch - the rider rides the board with their weak foot forward (opposite of their normal stance,i.e. If you normally ride with your left foot forward you would ride with your right foot forward).
911 - A raley tweaked out(shifty) with a whole ton style
Switch air raley - the rider starts and ends an air raley in the switch position.
Batwing - Toeside raley with Indy grab with the board perpendicular to the water as opposed to parallel.
Butter slide - a rider approaches the wake, "snaps" the board sideways so that they can slide on top of the wake.
Surface 360 - a rider spins the board 360 degrees while riding the surface of the water.
Shuvit
Tantrum - a rider back flips over the wake on an axis perpendicular to the direction of the board.
Backroll - a rider flips (or rolls) over the wake on an axis parallel to the direction of the board, as if he/she were following it around like a continuous loop
Frontroll - a rider flips forward (or rolls) over the wake on an axis parallel to the direction of the board.
Boardslide - a rider approaches an obstacle and slides the board-- perpendicular with the obstacle-- along the obstacle,with the obstacle in between the rider's feet.
Half-cab - when doing a trick from your switch stance and landing it with your regular stance.
Tootsie Roll - Front roll to blindside 180.
Blind Judge - Backside raley to blindside 180.
Scarecrow - Toeside front roll with frontside 180.
Crow Mobe - Scarecrow with an extra 180 (Frontroll with a frontside 360)
Dev-glass - Butter slide one side of the wake and from that side jump all the way to the other side of the wake landing on a Butter slide.
Bel Air - Tantrum without using the wake for air.
Air Krypt - Toeside air raley with 180 degree turn, land opposite direction from take off.
Hoochie Glide - Air Raley with method grab.
Whirlybird - Tantrum Mobius with overhead 360 (no handle pass)
Tweety Bird - Whirlybird without using wake for air.
Osmosis 540 - Frontside 540 where instead of passing the handle behind the back, the rider pops the handle and catches it again upon the end of the rotation.
Backslide Alley-Oop-Huge jump with 180 turn landing on reverse butter slide on same side of wake as you hit.
S-bend - Heelside raley with hands overhead spinng a backside 360 horizontally
S-Bend to Blind - Heeliside raley with handside overhead spinning a backside 360 horizontally finishing with a quick 180 with one hand behind your back
S-Bend 720 - Heelside Raley with hands overhead spinning 2 quick backside 360 horizontally landing in triumph”
For more information about wakeboarding in Australia please visit wake.com.au
Video 1 - Wakeboarding tricks
Video 2 - Gravity Games (Perth)
Video 3 - Pushing the limits
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