Wakeboard Trick List
Surface 180
Point
Value: 125
Surface 180's are a fun trick to learn as
you become familiar with riding fakie. Try to place your
weight over the center of the board (Boards with more rocker
make this a little easier). In one smooth motion, swing the
board around leading with your rear foot. Once you are in the
fakie position, place more weight on the tip to allow the
board to track for stability. To get back around, do the same
thing from back to front. After "mastering" this
trick, try a Bunny Hop 180.
Surface 360
Point
Value: 200
Surface 360's are next in line after
you've mastered the Surface 180. In fact, you could even do a
Surface 180, hold that position for a minuite and then
continue the rotation. At this point, you will want to pull
the handle in towards you and turn in the same motion. Let go
with your trailing hand, bend the elbow to make the handle
pass in the small of your back, grab it with your trailing
hand and keep turning until you've made it all the way around.
Air 180
Point
Value: 1 wake = 200 2 wakes = 450
Approach the wake at a comfortable speed.
Generate some pop to you can level out in the air and make
your 180 turn. Make sure you are in the air when you turn
otherwise the landing is more difficult and will feel
off-balance.
Bunny Hop 180
Point
Value: 200
Similar to other Bunny Hop maneuvers, it
is important load the line with a little resistence from the
handle and a downward push on the tail of the board. When you
get enough air to free the rear fin, rotate around to a revert
position and transition your weight very similar to a Surface
180. (Bunny Hops are similar to bouncing on a trampeline, you
must first push down in order to leave the surface)
Half Cab (1 wake)
Point
Value: 200
Starting from the fakie position (switchstance),
the rider uses the wake to get into air and then changes
direction.
Frontside Air (2 wakes)
Point
Value: 250
Just like the Backside Air over 2 wakes,
it is very important to edge all the way through the wake...
right as you approach the crest of the wake, most people ease
up the pull and flatten out- not good. By easing up, you take
away most of that tension the rope has built up and
significantly lessens that force that pops you into the air.
Keep in mind, your maximum speed should be at the TOP of the
wake- not as you first make the cut or anytime during the cut.
Best approach is to make a gradual turn into your carve, dig
that edge in as you build up speed toward the wake, spring
with your legs when you reach the wake and hold on until
you're in the air.
Off the wake 360
Point
Value: 250
This trick can be one in progression from
the Off-the-Wake 180. Ride up the wake, at the very top do a
360 without leaving the surface of the water and ride back
down.
Ole
Point
Value: 250
This is just like a Surface 360 with some
added style! It works like this- instead of doing a
behind-the-back handle pass through your 360 rotation, keep
the handle in your trailing hand and hold it over your head as
you rotate the trick. It's best to do this after cutting
outside the wake about 10 feet. Remember, the handle never
leaves your hand as the rope goes right over you making for a
stylin' move. OLE!
Backscratcher
Point
Value: 400
This one is very much like a Fashion Air-
As you jump the wake, all you need to do is bend your knees to
a 90 degree angle so the board reaches back toward your rear.
Very Fun Trick to learn.
360 Heli (1 wake)
Point
Value: 450
A 1 wake 360 Heli is like every other
heli - keep you position vertical, lead with you head and let
the rest of your body follow.
Backside Back Roll
Point
Value: 1050
"Remember on the Roll to load the
line by edging all the way through the wake away from the
boat. Then turn your head over you right shoulder and spot
your landing! (right shoulder goofy foot -- left shoulder
regular foot) The force developed with the edge and cut away
from the boat will shoot you around. Its all physics. Two
forces acting -- one the handle pulling and the other on the
board resisting. The forces are equal until you edge through
the wake and the force on the board releases. By edging away
and going off the wake you start a rotation and the handle
force is now the only acting force so it pulls you around. All
you have to do is keep good body position and hold on for the
ride.
Backside Roll-to-Revert
Point
Value: 1100
"The first half of the backside roll
to revert is thrown exactly like the backside back roll. But,
unlike the regular roll, once you hit the peak of your jump
let go with your front hand and spot your landing. This will
automatically bring you and your board to the fakie position.
Stick with it until you can stick the switchstance landings
consistently."
Fontside Back Roll
Point
Value: 1100
"When I work on a new trick I try to
break it down into three steps, 1) Approach, 2) Rotation, and
3) Landing. With this in mind let's talk about a Frontside
Back Roll. 1) APPROACH is everything. Start at about 10 to 12
feet outside of the wake on your toeside, progressivly cut
into the wake, board more on edge the closer you get to the
wake. Be sure you don't bend at the waist or lean way foward.
On most rotational tricks, the body position you are in when
you leave the wake is the same body postion you will land in.
For example, if you leave the wake with more weight on your
back foot you will land more tail heavy, etc.... ROTATION -
When you reach the wake your board should be on a pretty
strong edge. Hold that edge and keep even pressure on the
balls of your feet. As your board reaches the top of the wake
the nose should be heading up and away from the boat. At this
point, if the board is "loaded" correctly it will
effortlessly rotate. Throwing your head back helps some riders
make the rotation, but I wouldn't suggest throwing it back to
hard if you do. I just simply look back and over my right
shoulder (I ride left foot foward). LANDING - As you are
rotating make sure you spot your landing. Your landing will
come pretty naturally if the approach and rotation is
correct."
Tantrum
Point
Value: 1200
" Set up for a hellside cut. You
will need to edge pretty hard to build up some speed. As you
start to come up the wake shift to your toeside edge, square
your shoulders and back to the wake, throw your head back, and
let the wake kick you around. The transition to the toeside
edge is the key. When I started trying it, I wasn't edging
hard enough into the wake and couldn't get the end over end
rotation. Because of that, I was landing on the back of the
board and my front foot was popping out. If you don't make the
transition to a toeside edge then your body will be in an
awkward position and it will be hard to get the rotation and
land standing up."
Backside Air Raley
Point
Value: 1250
"Like most big tricks, the Raley
requires a specific approach. The approach to this trick is
absolutely crucial to its execution. Speed is key. Edge out as
far as you can on your toes to set up for the backside/heelside
approach. Use your progressive cut but build it quickly and
increasing it as you get closer to the wake. As you get closer
to the wake, start dropping your butt lower than normal and
keeping your back straight. Stay low. Edge all the way through
the wake and you will feel the lift on the board. Let it go.
When you've reached the peak of your extension, start bringing
the handle down towards your knees and bring your feet back
underneath you for the landing. This is when you'll discover
whether or not you got a good cut to the wake...Plan for a few
painful failures. There is a huge psychological aspect of this
trick and overcoming it is half the battle. The key is all or
nothing. Good luck!
TANTRUM-TO-FAKIE
To do this, take off the exact same as a tantrum, only when you're
more than half way done with the rotation, grab the handle with
you're rear/free hand. Then pull the handle very hard to that
hand's hip. That should do her.
WHIRLYBIRD
The whirlybird is one of the coolest tricks in my opinion. What it
is is a tantrum with an overhead 360 rotation. Same approach, but
when you come off the wake, aggressively throw you lead elbow across
you're face and away from the boat. Lead the rotation with you're
upper body.
SCARECROW
This is just a frontside front roll to revert. Again, progressive
toeside edge. When you leave the wake, think about throwing you're
head under the handle to look at the wake you just came from, then
rotating to where you would look at the wake you're coming to, then
pull on you're rear hand to pull the board to fakie. I hope that
helps, but I can't really explain that one very well. The difference
between this, and a frontside front flip to fakie is that you start
the rotation to fakie right off the wake, the front to fakie you do
it at the end. They look and perform very differently.
FRONT FLIP
First of all, you want you're weight to be on you're back foot. Take
a moderately aggressive cut at the wake. You want to take off and
bring your front foot up, then throw your shoulders toward the tip
of your board. (kind of like a cartwheel). Keep the handle in close
and keep you're eyes open. This is a good candidate to practice on
the tramp.
BACKSIDE
360
Come in just like you would for a 180, try to get a lot of pop, but
don't come in hard because you don't want to go more than wake to
wake. You want to be straight up and down in the air. Get up in the
air before spinning, then pull the handle to you're rear hip and
that should start the movement. Put the back of your wrist with the
handle to your hip, this will make the handle pass easier. Turn
you're head in the direction you are spinning, grab the handle and
look towards the boat to land.
SHIFTYS
Shiftys can be done with 180's, 360's, 540's, and maybe some day
720's... The shifty is just a twister with a spin. Come into the
wake like normal, right after you leave the wake, pull the handle to
you're lead hip with both hands, and poke the board out the
direction that you just came from, then bring the handle to you're
rear hip and do a 180, so you land fakie. After you've got that
down, practice some BS 360's, then a Shifty 360.
FRONTSIDE 540
To get this down, do an FS 360, but spin a little more, and instead
of looking at the shore to land, look at the boat, and that should
help get the last 180 degrees around in your spin.
Begin with a light progressive cut, just like a roll to revert. At the top of your roll, let go with your lead hand pull the handle to the small of your back with your rear hand. Then grab the handle with the other hand and keep your eye's open
Roast
Beef
Description: Rear hand heel side grab, between feet through the legs.
Tip on performing this trick: This one shouldn't be a hard one to learn. If you're getting good air and landing pretty consistently, the Roast Beef is a great trick to start progressing into board grabs. As you jump the wake, bring your knees to you chest, reach through your legs with your trailing hand and grab the middle of the board.
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