Got an ambition to be the coolest rider alive? Some wakeboarders just like to ride the little swells and not take any chances, while others like more of a challenge. Serious wakeboards want to take that challenging route, or at least most of them will. It takes a lot of time, practice, and patience to perform wakeboard tricks, so you better get started if you haven't already!

There are so many great tricks out there just waiting for you. There are spins, slides, inverts, blinds, and loops, just to name a few. But if you're a beginner and still getting use to controlling your board, you should probably stick with the surface tricks until you're comfortable maintaining balance and navigation.

As you start off on your journey through the wakeboarding world, be patient with yourself; you're going to make mistakes and there's just no way around it. Some of the better known surface tricks include potato peelers, backside butterslide, backside butterslide 180, perez, surf carve, powerslide, surface 180, surface 360, and tumble turn.

But if you feel like you're prepared to get some air between you and the water, you could try out some board grabs and simple rotational wakeboard tricks. Some wakeboarding tricks include progressive toeside edge, progressive heelside edge, heelside frontside, method grab, ollie backside, butterslides, 180s, and switching. But you should only try these out once you feel comfortable maintaining balance and control.

Now once you get down some of the more basic grabs and rotational tricks, you can get fancy and try something a bit more challenging. Intermediate riders should consider practicing some of these wakeboard tricks: tantrum, heelside off-axis 360, heelside 540, roll to revert, indy backside 180 (blind), back roll, and toeside frontside 540.

Advanced riders on the other hand can do just about anything they set their minds to. Advanced riders can dive into learning the most notorious wakeboard tricks around that incorporate difficult moves, like spinning and inverts. These moves are often mixed with cool grabs.

If you are an advanced rider, you should try these out: tantrum to blind, whirlybird, front flip, elephant, crow mobe, heelside mobe, and wrapped KGB. Remember, you can use your imagination to create your own wakeboard tricks.

You don't have to be a follower and stick only with what other people came up with. Once you've been doing some of these tricks and feel comfortable with them, it's time to move on to your next personal level of achievement.