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Wakeboarding is a fun and adventurous water sport. It was created utilizing techniques of snowboarding, water skiing, and surfing. The rider is towed behind a boat, or a cable setup, at speeds of 16 - 25mph. Typically, Beginners start at lower speeds with shorter ropes. More experienced wakeboarders use faster speeds such as 22.5 - 24 mph (speed changes can affect wake shapes drastically), but use 60 feet or longer ropes. Riders ride a single entity, known as a wakeboard, with locking bindings for each foot, standing crooked like snowboarding and skateboarding. The boards are shorter and wider than snowboards! Wakeboards are concave and have what is known as a rocker. A wakeboard with a continuous rocker has a steady curve to it, and a board with a staged rocker has two or more straight areas at different slopes that create a curve.