Tabla de contenidos para April 2014 en WAKEBOARDING

Rewind-style rotation has become quite trendy lately. Don't get us wrong — that's not a bad thing. It is actually a refreshing direction for our sport to grow. Due to the nature of rewind tricks, the potential combinations are endless — especially when each rider adds his own unique look to it. Let's clarify this topic a bit by defining a few terms before we get too deep into the history of it. A rewind trick is any in-air maneuver where the rider uses line tension to reverse the direction of his rotation on a vertical axis. In other words, the term “rewind” applies only when the rider changes the direction of a spin midtrick, regardless of the flipping axis. These types of maneuvers are unique to our sport because…

The Tigé MyWake Global Challenge is a massive pro-am event that blends the two best aspects of our sport: free-riding and contest riding. At the start of summer, the free-riding portion kicked off the event with a user-generated online contest of wakeboarders, wakeskaters and wakesurfers who submitted videos of themselves riding at home. The videos were then judged; monthly winners were chosen, and a specific number of riders in each division were invited to the live Tigé MyWake Global Challenge event in Sparks, Nevada. The event brought together a bunch of new faces and made for an insanely fun time with all the different types of riding that went down. Here are the top five things that made the weekend in Sparks an unforgettable one. Everyone rides more comfortably at…

ENTRY: Most wetsuits have zipper-based openings to allow the user to put them on. One style is a horizontal chest zip, where the wetsuit has a flap that goes over your head to seal it up. The other common style is a back zip, where the user steps into the wetsuit from the back. Back zips are typically easier to get on, while chest zips tend to be more efficient at keeping water out. THICKNESS: Wetsuit thickness is measured in millimeters. Many wetsuits have thicker panels in the body and thinner panels in the arms and legs. The thicker panels are warmer, while the thinner panels are more flexible. To give you an example, a suit that is 3 millimeters in the body panels and 2 millimeters in the limbs…