Most serious wakeboarders though have the vision of being able to take the challenging route. It takes practice, practice, practice, lots of time, and a large helping of patience to perform wakeboarding tricks. Better get started quick!



There are so many great tricks out there just waiting for you. There are spins, slides, inverts, blinds, and loops, just to name a few. For starters, you may want to only do surface tricks as you are still getting used to controlling your board, balance, and navigation.

Some of the most well-known surface tricks are backside butterslide, backside butterslide 180, potato peelers, perez, powerslide, surf carve, surface 180, surface 360, and tumble turn. As you begin your wakeboarding journey, be patient with yourself because you are destined to make many mistakes.

If you feel like you are ready to get a little bit of air, you might want to try some board grabs and simple rotational wakeboard tricks. Some wakeboarding tricks include progressive toeside edge, progressive heelside edge, heelside frontside, method grab, ollie backside, butterslides, 180s, and switching. But you should only try these out once you feel comfortable maintaining balance and control.

You can move on to something a bit more challenging and complicated once you have the simpler rotational tricks and grabs down. Examples of wakeboard tricks that intermediate riders should think about trying include the backroll, heelside off-axis 360, heelside 540, toeside frontside 540, indy backside 180 (blind), tantrum, and roll to revert.

Advanced riders on the other hand can do just about anything they set their minds to. They can tackle some really notorious wakeboard tricks that include difficult moves, which could include complicated spins and inverts. These tricks are often joined up with cool grabs.

If you qualify as an advanced rider, you ought to try these on for size: Wrapped KGB, crow mobe, front flip, tantrum to blind, whirlybird, elephant, and heelside mobe.

You don't have to be a follower and stick only with what other people came up with. Once you've been doing some of these tricks and feel comfortable with them, it's time to move on to your next personal level of achievement.