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(VIDEO) How Do I Ride a Wakeboard?
A local champion demonstrates how to get more "pop" on Lake Minnetonka.
"It's easier to get out of the water, but it's a little harder to stay there," Alex Marine says.
Marine is the lead wakeboard instructor at Waketonka, a local water sports school. Wakeboarding is a combination of water skiing and snow boarding that is becoming more and more popular on Minnesota lakes.
Marine offered a few key tips to get body and board out of the water and crisscrossing over the wake. He also demonstrated some tricks, but those are for more advanced students.
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Waketonka students Andy Longval and Mike Evanson also offered some demonstrations of correct wakeboarding technique.