So you have already experienced this relatively new sports craze? The following are some wakeboarding tips to make your riding a whole lot easier. Keep them in mind and you won’t get a hard time as a newbie wakeboard rider.
Make sure that you are comfortable with whatever foot you placed forward. Sometimes, just switching feet is all that is needed to easily learn to wakeboard.
Put your arms on each side of your front knee. Your weight should be about 60% forward on the board. Keep in mind to place more than half of your weight on the front foot when getting up. Shift your weight to the back foot only after you have successfully gotten up.
Squat down as much as you can to easily swing to an upright position when close to the board.
Keep the board on its side while in the water. Relax and let the boat cause the board to swing around into the forward position. Do not attempt to stop the board from swinging around either. Just go with the flow.
Dont get too fast. Someone said “give him full throttle until hes up”; this is one biggest problem that people (especially large people) have when getting up. Dont go...