Glass to Powder

Glass to Powder

People often compare wakeboarding and snowboarding as similar sports, although they have many differences. Wakeboarding and snowboarding require similar techniques. They both involve weight shifts, edge control, carving techniques, lateral movements requiring balance and substantial pressure on the legs. It is no surprise that wakeboarding is the perfect crossover sport for its winter counterpart, snowboarding. Most professional wakeboarders hit the slopes in the off season to keep in shape and vice versa with snowboarders. These sports incorporate the same muscles, rhythm, body movements, style, and the same type of tricks. People who are involved in both sports seem to catch on a lot quicker and easier. Everything comes more naturally. Riding both water and snow really boosts your confidence level allowing you to realize that there definitely are similarities and differences between the wakeboarding and snowboarding.

The riding style of snowboarding and wakeboarding is very similar in many ways. In both sports rhythm is very important to keep everything flowing and staying clean. Over the last few years the similarities are becoming even more evident. The introduction of hardshell boots and bindings on wakeboards are intended to prevent ankle injuries almost exact to snowboard boots and bindings. Both sports require you to face your upper body down the course, across the center line, and around the turns. This means you turn your legs and hips at the waist instead of turning your entire body. They both incorporate weight shifts from side-to-side very frequently. The carving technique is similar, both using a toe edge and a heal edge. Edge control is very important too. It is obvious that if you don't have ...

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...f freedom and self expression. Although while wakeboarding you fly from wave to wave in the wake left by a boat. Wakeboarders adore the waves, which means the more friends in the boat, the merrier. This sports extreme nature attracts the young and affluent. The forgiving water allows more experimentation that snow. Most people would consider wakeboarding as the ultimate big rush.

There are many similarities and differences between wakeboarding and snowboarding, such as the riding style, the nature they are done in, and how they are rode. Both of these sports rank as the fastest growing sports in the world and are getting better every season. Millions of people enjoy riding down the slopes or riding the waves of the lakes everyday. With both of these sports the competition formats, the tricks get harder, everyday they are evolving into something bigger and better.