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Do you want to be the hottest rider out there? 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. And what does it take to do all those cool wakeboard tricks? Time, patience, and practice. Better get a move on if you haven't started yet!

There are lots of fantastic and exhilarating tricks just waiting for you: The slides, the spins, the blinds, the inverts, the loops, and more. 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.

You are going to make a great many mistakes as you embark on your wakeboarding journey, but you must be patient with yourself while you're learning surface tricks. These include the backside butterslide, backside butterslide 180, tumble turn, surf carve, surface 360, surface 180, powerslide, potato peelers, and perez.

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.

Once you have some of the simple grabs and rotational tricks down, you can attempt at something a little more complicated. Here's some wakeboard tricks that intermediate riders should think about practicing: Toeside frontside 540, indy backside 180 (blind), heelside 540, tantrum, heelside off-axis 360, roll to revert, and backroll.

But then you have the advanced riders, who can pretty much do whatever they set their minds to. Some of the most notorious wakeboard tricks for progressed riders include more difficult moves such as complicated inverts and spins. These tricks are often mingled 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.

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