WAKEBOARDING

QUESTIONS

• What is it?
• What are the physics?
• How do different board styles affect the way you ride?

"Imagine that you are skateboarding on water while being pulled by a powerful motorboat and you're on your way to understanding wakeboarding."

WHAT IS IT?

• Who? Tony Fin (Skurfer) Howard Jacobs (Wakeboard)
• Where? San Diego
• When? 1985
• What? "Surface Water Sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water"
• Board Style: Concave Base & tapered edges

WHAT ARE THE PHYSICS?

• Center of gravity
• Bouyancy
• Surface tension
• Newton's third law of Motion
• Drag and tension
• Speed of going into the wake, curvature of the board, impact of the wake versus board, and deceleration of landing

DIFFERENT BOARD STYLES

• Beginner: small and fitable
• Intermidiate: medium and more fins
• Advanced: great curvature, high boots, shorter fins, and light
• They affect the way you ride because of the length versus weight, width, heavy, light, how many fins, and the curvature.

FUN FACTS

• Boards are made of fiberglass, foam, and resin
• It is identical to trick skiing
• You go about 16-23 mph
• Howard Jacobs who made the wakeboard, wake boarded on the St. John's river in Jacksonville Florida
• It "has been apart of the World Games since 2005"
• Amber Wing was the first woman to land a frontside flip

MY FAMILY WAKEBOARDING

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GAME

WAKEBOARDING

• What is skurfing?
• What is the speed?
• Who was the first woman to land a toesided flip?
• What year was it invented?
• What is wakeboarding described as?

QUESTIONS?

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