Wakeboarding A Jakeboarding is a fast paced triek driven extreme water sport It combines a waterskiing surfing skateboarding and snowboarding A rider holds onto a tow rope and is pulled by a boat personal watercraft PWC or cable The wake that is created allows the rider to perform cuts carves rotations jumps and spins More fun comes by getting big
XTREME DEFINITION Brake the ache The first ride of the
History n the early 1900s people rode boards called aquaplanes which were towed behind motorboats This was one of the first types of wakeboarding However modern surfing and waterskiing were the foundations for today s sport of wakeboarding T A man aquaplaning in about 1920 LIN FLY RESEE IT Trey
Tony Finn a surfer from California developed the Skurfer in 1985 This board was a cross between a waterski and a short surfboard Jimmy Redmon of Texas added footstraps to his wakeboard design This let riders get big air The two pioneers joined forces in 1995 to produce wakeboards and to promote the sport Tony Finn rides his Skurfer a in 1987 XTREME FACT Jimmy Redmon founded the World Wakeboarding Association WWA in 1989 The WWA today supervises wakeboarding rules and
