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  • How To Do A Cable Raley
    The Raley is one of the core skills on both cable and boat, and there is a lot you can teach yourself if you have a solid Raley down. The Raley really teaches a rider how to use the tension of the rope and the speed you generate to control yourself in the air...
    2010-02-17 20:17:39 | 742 views | 1 Comments
  • How To Hit a Cable Park Kicker
    Hitting a kicker at a cable park is one of the best ways to take your tricks to the next level. Often times, a kicker can feel like a consistent wake or even a consistent double-up, depending on the kicker’s shape...
    2010-02-17 19:43:04 | 252 views | 1 Comments
  • How to: Create the Perfect Contest Run
    Contests are important for wakeboarders of all levels, because they push you to be a better rider. When you’re matched up against other riders and everything is on the table, you can gauge yourself and find out what your strong points are and where you could use a little work...
    2009-12-16 16:36:33 | 374 views | 0 Comments
  • How to: Do More With Less
    If you really understand the physics of wakeboarding, you’ll realize how much more pop you can get off the wake simply by doing less. It’s the first thing I tell my students when they come to The Boarding School, because working too hard to get air is such a common mistake...
    2009-11-16 19:04:59 | 2781 views | 1 Comments
  • How to: Master the Double-up
    Double-ups have really allowed wakeboarding to progress to the next level. They definitely helped me land the first backside 900 and gave Danny Harf the boot to land a 1260. Wakeboarding wouldn’t be where it is today without double-ups, but they aren’t easy to tame...
    2009-10-22 17:55:28 | 1691 views | 1 Comments
  • How to: Ride Natural Terrain
    Riding natural terrain has become a big part of why I strap into my wakeboard. Things like jibbing trees and rocks and riding a waterfall or ollieing over a dam require just as much focus and determination as moves off the wake, and it’s a different kind of challenge that drives me to progress on a whole other level...
    2009-10-22 16:41:04 | 741 views | 1 Comments
  • How to: Learn a Toeside Frontside 360
    Spins are a big stumbling block for a lot of new riders. In fact, Julz Heaney and I see students all the time at Wake Experience who can do a back roll or a tantrum but can’t do any spins. Those wakeboarders' progressions tend to stagnate because they don’t develop the board skills they need for more intricate wakeboarding tricks...
    2009-10-22 16:01:27 | 1137 views | 0 Comments
  • How to: Focus on Style
    Every wakeboarder develops his own style — it’s just a natural part of the progression in your riding. Personally, I’d much rather watch a wakeboader who grabs and pokes all of his tricks than watch someone go out and do a bunch of not-grabbed mobe 5s or spins...
    2009-10-22 15:36:45 | 757 views | 0 Comments
  • 4 Wakeskate Tricks With Ben Horan and Matt Manzari
    Ben Horan and Matt Manzari show you how to do pop shove it, inside-out 180, kickflip and backside big spin on a wakeskate: Kickflip Ben Horan shows you the secrets to landing a kickflip on a wakeskate...
    2009-09-16 17:39:41 | 1553 views | 1 Comments
  • Wakeskate Tricks: Pop Shove It
    Ben Horan walks you through how to do a pop shove it on a wakeskate, which is a great early trick for beginner wakeskaters to learn.
    2009-09-16 17:09:33 | 1951 views | 1 Comments
  • Wakeskate Tricks: Backside Big Spin
    Matt Manzari walks you through one of his favorite wakeskate tricks, the backside big spin, which is a variation of a backside 360 shove in which the wakeskater's body rotates backside 180 degrees while the board spins 360 degrees...
    2009-09-16 16:41:37 | 1221 views | 1 Comments
  • Wakeskate Tricks: Inside-out 180
    Ben Horan shows you how to do a inside-out 180 and a 180 in the flats on a wakeskate.
    2009-09-16 16:00:43 | 996 views | 1 Comments
  • Wakeskate Tricks: How to Land a Kickflip
    Ben Horan shows you the secrets to landing a kickflip on a wakeskate. It's all about the pop, flick and catch.
    2009-09-16 15:45:03 | 1810 views | 1 Comments
  • How to: Ride Strong
    Riding with power, intense edging, going big off the wake — they all require strength and a higher level of fitness than regular riding. Taking your riding to the next level, beyond the second wake, puts far more stress on your body than wake-to-wake riding...
    2009-08-24 11:34:20 | 2641 views | 3 Comments
  • How To Rule Re-entries
    When I started seeing a handful of riders land moves re-entry, it immediately became one of my favorite varieties of wakeskating. Re-entry means riding up the face of the wake, popping an ollie or another move off the lip and then landing back in the transition of the same wake you started from, like you would if you were riding a wave or a quarter-pipe...
    2009-08-24 05:00:56 | 1091 views | 1 Comments