history of wakeboarding
history of wakeboarding
Wakeboardig came from surfing. Surfers got a ski rope and towed themselves behind a boat or a truck on the shore. From that there became shorter boards and in 1985 a San Diego surfer named Tony Finn developed the skurfer. Surfers used a board without straps or bindings. In the summer of 1985, Mike and Mark Pascoe, two windsurfing friends of Finn gave him a couple of foot straps and inserts to drill into the skurfer. Skurfers took sport from free boarding into something more then surfing and much more then water skiing. Tony Finn promoted, popularized and marketed the skurfer. The sport of ski-boarding was born evolving into wakeboarding. The hyperlight wakeboard was invented by Herb O'Brien. He shaped the board to what it is known today as the wakeboard. All this happend around 1990. It became a sport in 1992 and is still increasing in popularity. Today the wakeboard is usualy used with two fins some times six yes six in the case of Liquid Force.
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