Wakeskating

A Wakeskate is a water sports equipment, which is like a wakeboard towed by a lift or boat, but without binding. The possible with the wakeskate tricks are therefore a mixture of wakeboarding and skateboarding. The lack of commitment is more feeling when driving with the Wakeskate needed as the wakeboarding and there is not the high knee loads that arise (lack of height ) when landing inverts the wakeboard. But there is a great risk of missing the board for a trick or just to meet up with one foot. With Wakeskates all other tricks are possible as a wakeboard with bindings. Popular tricks include the Shove -it, in which the board under the feet rotates about the transverse axis, Kickflip (rotation around the longitudinal axis ), Big Spin (rotation of the board 360 ° rotation of the body about 180 °) or the Madonna which is run in shallow water.

There were competitions in the beginning only as an addition to wakeboard competitions, since 2006, a German Championship at the lift in this sport.

The first German Championship was in 2006 in Schwandorf, further, there were 2007 in Magdeburg, 2008 in Xanten, 2009 in Lake Heede, 2010 in Blaichach and 2011 in Damp. Responsible for German federation competitions is the " German Water Ski and Wakeboard Federation " ( DWWV ). National and International competitions for Wakeboard and Wakeskate be announced on cablewakeboard.net and organized.

The first world championship at the lift took place in 2008 in the Philippines instead.

Another difference from Wakeskates Wakeboards to the different implementation of the gain of the maintenance on the board surface (grip tape ) - needed by the lack compared to the wakeboard binding. The most popular are griptapes how they are used in the Skateboard - rough, sandpaper -like pads ( adhesive sandpaper ). Another possibility is to use a foam mat made ​​of EVA (because of the English word for foam also known as " foam" ), similar to the Surfpads surfboards. Some skates are also with growth driven like surfing the waves.

Also, the shape of Wakeskates is different from wakeboard. Wakeskates are usually flat on the lower hull and are often driven without fins. The average length for a Wakeskate is between 100 to 115 cm and the width about 40 cm (manufacturer and model dependent). For some time, the trend is that the Wakeskater can build their boards by the manufacturer individually according to your wishes, so to customer (English: custom made skate ).