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Basic Tricks

 

  • Cross One Wake

  • Cross Both Wakes (start outside, end outside)

  • Ride with One Hand (minimum 3 sec.)

  • Touch Water (one hand)

  • Off the Wake Turn (use outer wake as a reference point to change directions)

  • Moguls (turns across both wakes up-across-down the trough: min. 3 times)

 

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Jumps

 

  • Baby Jump (any part of front blade must clear the water)

  • Bunny Hop (entire front and rear blade must clear water)

  • One Wake jump

  • Double Wake Jump (ski leaves wake with foil landing past the 2nd wake)

  • Smacker (jump off outside of wake during off the wake turn)

  • One Hand Jump (free hand off handle during jump)

  • Fashion Air (free hand above head and back)

  • Mule Kick (wide, board twists into boat w/tip drop)

  • McThruster (wake/mid/wide; tip drop w/ forward hip thrust)

  • Tip Drop nose of board dips below the horizontal)

  • Stiffy (board horizontal to water w/ bottom towards boat)

  • Quiver (wake/wide, move tip of board up and down several times)

  • Typewriter (wide, jump w/ min. four handle passes in typing motion)

  • Flying Chicken w/ Sound (wide, flap arms min.3 time w/ audible bird sound)

  • Undertaker (wide jump with one hand handle grab under both legs)

  • Shifty -inside (wide, board spins into boat, then reverse direction for landing)

  • Back-at-Cha (wide, board & head spin away from boat & back)

  • Shifty 180 - outside (wide, board & body spin completely away & back)

 

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Release Moves

 

  • Floater (jump w/ two hand handle release and recovery)

  • Lazy Boy (floater w/ both hands behind head)

  • Spinner (floater w/ min. 360 handle rotation)

  • Nancy (floater w/ two hand rail grab near feet)

 

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Grabs

 

  • Seat Lift (grab near footman loop at side & pull up)

  • Reach Around (tower grab: rear upper vertical tower near top of "wineglass")

  • Method Air (right hand/right rail grab near foot, or left hand grabs left rail…)

  • Cross Rocket Stiffy (Stiffy with rail grab across board near foot)

  • Tail Grab (right hand right rail grab near tower base or left hand grabs left…)

  • Nose Grab (grab nose of board w/ either hand in air)

 

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Inverts: Wake

 

  • Backside Roll (side over side rotation, shoulders moving back)

  • Frontside Roll (side over side rotation, shoulders moving forward)

  • Blender (Backside roll with helicopter wrap) (counts in Backside roll group)

  • Gainer (must rotate end over end)

  • Front Flip (must rotate end over end)

 

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Inverts: Air (No wake)

 

  • Pogo Roll (Backside air roll: side over side rotation, shoulders moving back)

  • Submarine (Backside air roll to complete submersion w/ recovery)

  • Frontside Air Roll (side-side rotation, shoulders moving forward)

  • Air Front Flip

  • Air Blender (Backside roll with helicopter wrap)

  • Show Gainer (back flip cutting to left, must rotate end over end)

  • Gainer (back flip cutting to right)

 

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Inverts: Combos

 

  • Jump Combo Jump (double wake jump to immediate air jump)

  • Jump Combo Roll (2 wake jump to immediate Backside Roll)

  • Double Combo Roll (Backside roll to immediate Backside Roll)

  • Frontside Combo Roll (Frontside roll to immediate Frontside roll)

  • Triple Combo Roll

  • Quad Combo Roll

 

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Miscellaneous Moves

 

  • Skidder (bottom of wing rides on top of water, 2 second minimum)

  • Jump to Skid (double wake jump to skidder, board can’t touch water)

  • Wake Cross Skidder (skid crossing both wakes)

  • Skid with Floater

  • Skidder Wake Jump (skidder 2 wake jump to skidder)

  • Skinned Knee (skidder while holding handle vertically w/ knees)

  • Skid Roll (Backside or Frontside roll to skidder)

  • Power Turn (low slalom turn with weight supported on hand "surf turn")

  • Body Slide (entire arm and side must be supported by the water)

  • Air wrapped helicopter

  • Wake wrapped helicopter

  • Air hand-to-hand helicopter

  • Whip-tic (air 180, land backwards to front)

 

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Dismounts

 

  • LD (long distance gliding)

  • Backwards landing

  • McSkidder (go to skid before or after releasing rope)

  • 360 Tick-tock (back landing w/ release to front)

  • 360-540 Gyro (rider carves turn in circle)

  • Roll Over (Frontside roll)

  • Gainer

  • Gainer Combo

 

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