"You shouldn't call yourself
a wakeboarder unless you
know your roots"

Sort of the stepchild of surfing and skiing, wakeboarding has evolved from the daring experiments of bored water skiers and surfers. We can back track our sport as early as the mid eighties when the "Skurfer" (a hybrid of the ski and surf board) was thought up but there was so much more involved. The Mastercraft Pro Wakeboard Tour website does a well-researched job on the history of wakeboarding. So much has changed since the 20 some-odd years of wakeboarding evolution, with better board upgrades and a wide age range of followers, I wonder what the next couple of years will bring.

The History of Wakeboarding