Sports that use boards seem to have smitten the population. First there was skateboarding. And then came surfing. Now, the ‘in’ sport is wakeboarding. It is a sport that can easily burn lots of calories. That is what makes it so popular among the young.

Wakeboarding is not just for athletic young men. The fact that there are womens wakeboards is indication that the sport is also for women. While most will take to wakeboarding for fun, it is really a strenuous sport that borders on the extreme. How else would you describe a sport that hurls you 6 feet up into the air and drops you back into the water? To several million people it is the most exciting water sport ever.