With the advent of wakeboarding in the country, an extreme number of people suddenly felt the inclination to learn one of the extreme sports in the history of water sports. Perhaps this mania was instigated by the establishment of the World Wakeboard Association which is the world renowned governing body of the said sport in 1989 by the famous Jimmy Redmon. He was known as the 'guru' of wakeboarding with regard to the fact that he was responsible for the formulation and promulgation of rules and formats of the sport. This is said to be done for them to be able to maintain the veracity and spirit of the sport nowadays. The sport even became successful in 1992 when wakeboard events were staged by the World Sports & Marketing, a Florida-based sports promoter and events organizer. Such launched events gave a wakeboarders increased motivation to compete professionally as they were simultaneously exposed in ESPN and later in ESPN 2.
These portions of the wakeboarding history were the grounds why wakeboard schools started to sprout, in every corner of beach dominated areas such as California. Recreational wakeboarder wannabes of all ages and lifestyle began to enroll in wakeboarding schools in California, for various reasons like to further enhance their skills for the intermediate and to know the basics for the beginners. The styles and attitudes taught in wakeboarding schools are quite similar to the skateboarding field though it entails one to be slightly upscale because it requires more than boats and blades but also a boat.
One of the most famous wakeboard schools is found in San Diego and Southern California. This school concentrates in summer youth camps, boat rentals and private wakeboarding lessons. They are open for beginners and the intermediate riders only with different pricings. Whether you would settle for a private or group wakeboarding lesson their rate is $100 per hour which they can teach aspiring wakeboarders from ages 6 and up. As part of their service to ensure their clients to get all the attention and aide they need during their private lessons in the wakeboarding schools, they are to critique their students on what they have done right or wrong. As to their motto of exceeding the expectations of their customers whether beginners or advanced wakeboarders, they resolve in using land techniques on the first hour of the lesson.
In each session the learners have the option on different skills such as getting up on the wakeboard, edging on a wakeboard, juming or the actual waking, to perform the 180's heelside and toeside, to make progressive wakeboarding cuts, to perform the proper positions for wakeboarding and to exhibit tricks such as tantrums, backrolls, scarecrows, roll to blind, raleys, bat wings, moby dick, crow mobes, front flips, tantrums to fakie, or tantrums to blind and backroll to reverts.
Yet of course before each act is to be performed by the student he has to undergo a series of warm ups that would allow the instructor to determine the ability of his student.
