How To Do Wakeboard Tricks

Hey, I'm Brett Hodgins, one of the wakeboarding instructors here at Princes Club, in Ashford, near Stains, and we're going to move onto how to do wakeboarding tricks. The first fundamental trick I think everybody should be learning is single wake 180's. There are four different types: toe-side, switch-toe-side, heel-side, switch heel-side.

And we're going to go out and do a little demonstration of those tricks, today. When learning 180's, I basically keep people real close to the wake, so they're not actually gaining too much momentum going across. So we're making the 180's just single wake tricks.

A lot of pressure on your front foot, we don't want to be riding the tail of the board. And basically wait until you get up into the air to actually turn the trick. A lot of people start turning the tricks too early and get caught up in the wake.

So you must get your pop first and then make the trick. Nice soft knees when you land. Head and chest up, as always in wake-boarding and the handle, nice and close to you.

When approaching the wake on a switch half cab roll, you are basically going to be coming in with plenty of pressure on your front foot, hitting the wake, starting to rotate up with your hip, keeping the handle nice and close as it's going to be your pivot point, make the roll, be spot in the wake and head up, knees bent as you land. Try and make this trick wake to wake, don't come up short. Okay, those are just a few tips on the 180's.

And mainly the fundamentals of wakeboarding in general, as I've said before, the basics are: handle in, plenty of weight on your front foot, get your pop first, and then turn. .