Why is wakeboarding so hard?

However, once planned, wakeboards don't have the direction that fin skis have. For most cyclists, turning and maintaining balance on a wakeboard is more difficult. In addition, jumps and tricks are more difficult on a wakeboard and falls are harder than on water skis, even if you go slower.

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has more to do with the ultimate goal than with the here and now, especially at the beginning anyway.

While snowboarding and wakeboarding are extremely fun in and of themselves, wakeboarding has an easier and faster learning curve for beginners. If you start learning to wakeboard at a cable park instead of behind a boat, you're likely to jump from an exit dock, which is a floating platform that is at the water level, allowing you to start sitting on dry land, which can make getting up and going much easier compared to starting in deep water. Wakeboards have a larger surface area and the traction speed is much slower, meaning you have more time to stabilize. Many wakeboarding beginners won't even be willing to try such difficult flights and somersaults before having at least a dozen “normal” wakeboarding classes.

If you've never stood on your side and gotten on a board, it's probably easier to learn how to wakeboard than to snowboard. You can wakeboard behind most deck or outboard boats, but special wakeboarding boats work better (read this recent post for more information). Whether wakeboarding or snowboarding is more difficult for you will largely depend on your level of experience in each sport. Here's a list of wakeboarding lessons and boat trips or water parks, along with other water sports activities from around the world that you can book on Viator.

While wakeboard hits are quite hard, they continue to hit water instead of accumulated snow or, worse, ice. And Carlo and I have already talked about cross surfing, such as rowing on a windsurf board and using a wakeboard to kiteboard.

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