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Part of the next generation of board sports, wakeboarding is essentially like snowboarding on water. To be able to stay buoyant is the main objective as you are pulled along at between 18 and 23 miles per hour behind a boat or cable.

Wakeboards generally look like an inverted snowboard. Instead of the board having a convex shape to it like a snowboard, it has a concave shape to it and instead of being shaped in a bridge-like curve, a wakeboard is curved upwards like a rocking horse.

Wakeboarding is a lot of fun, and you can never stop learning. Once you have mastered getting up and riding around, then comes the real fun!

Where to go:

A lot of Scotland's centrally located fresh water lochs have water sports centres on them, where wakeboarding can be done. Even if it's a water ski club they could possibly have wakeboarding, because the sports are very similar except what you wear on your feet!

Key locations are the National Waterski Centre in Dunfermline, Central Scotland and also at Loch Ken in Dumfries and Galloway further south.

Want to get started ?

Generally you find that water skiing and wakeboarding are both run by water sports centres, usually situated on the edge of lochs in Scotland where the water is calmer, all equipment is provided and price varies around the £20 mark for 15-20 minutes.