Wakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a combination of the simple and the complex. Simple is the main equipment used by a sportsman – a board, just as well as tens of other modern disciplines that may use boards (made from different materials though) almost everywhere – in parks, on snowy mountains, on the water or in the sky. The complexity of wakeboarding is in the combination of various techniques used (the ones from water skiing, snowboarding and surfing), as well as in the technologies used – a motor boat is necessary for such activity (though it may not be considered as a big technical achievement nowadays). The idea of wakeboarding is pretty simple – you must hold the rope and ride over the surface of a water body while standing on a wakeboard. Usually the speed of movement is about 20 miles per hour, but the speed may vary according to the weather conditions, some specific characteristics of the boat or preferences of the wakeboarder. The process may sound simple, but it is not. One has to be in a good physical condition, have strong muscles and enough experience in this sport to do the various tricks. As for the tricks, they are the thing that unites wakeboarding and other so called "extreme" sports (although as we know, the amount of adrenalin and the level of danger might be a lot higher in other, more traditional sports like American football, scuba diving etc.). The term "extreme" is rather a marketing trick to attract more attention to such activities as they are really spectacular with various stunts and tricks that can also be very dangerous.