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Originally Posted by Endor

Are there any bindings involved when "wakesurfing", or are you just getting up and holding yourself steady? How can you flip otherwise? Lower impact I can see, but it's gotta be tough to do anything but zip back and forth.

I have been able to get up on two feet on a 3-footlong kneeboard. That took me an entire summer to accomplish, and all I was able to do was hang on for dear life in some chop. Still made me feel like Superman though.

Wakesurfing there are no bindings, and no flips, Just surfing, you can do spins, big cuts, floaters, slides. You are going about 10mph, and you are about 1 ft off the back of the boat due to the low speed. There is also wakeskating, where you are on a larger skateboard deck, like wakeboarding you ride from 15mph up to around 23 for some of the pros. No bindings for wakeskating, but you can do kickflips, and other skateboard tricks. Also wakeskating does not envole a boat, you can do it behind anything that can get you up to speed, a wave runner, a strong river current, or even a truck pulling you along a trough of water. So it is much more accessable to more people.

Kneeboarding is a great starter sport behind the boat, gives you an idea of how things work behind the boat. BUt it is tough on your knee and back as you get older(im21) it starts to take a toll. Wakeboarding is much easier to handle the chop in because your knees act like shocks, but that wears you out quick as you could imagine.