Wakeboarding is one of those sports that can be practiced on almost any more or less large body of water. However, top-level athletes conquer even seemingly completely unsuitable places on the planet for wakening.
Thus, Parks Bonifay rode icebergs in Newfoundland, Brian Grubb maneuvered a wakeskate through the canyons of Jordan, and Pedro Caldas, pictured here, polished the roofs of boats in the city of Afua, which is considered the Venice of Brazil.
However, if your goal is to find not just adventures to your liking, but points on the map where nature itself has created the ideal scenery for boarding, it is better to pay attention to other places.
Take the turquoise waters, surround them with lush tropics and you have Bora Bora — a wakesurfing mecca that attracts surfing enthusiasts from all over the world. The feeling is as if you are walking on water in real paradise.
Do you want the sweet life? Choose Lake Como for skating — the shores with world-famous villas and the boats of millionaires and movie stars will fly past you.
Looking for more surreal landscapes? Head to Dubai, where countless skyscrapers juxtapose the serene waters of the Persian Gulf.
Well, if you want to feel like you’re on another planet, try wakeboarding in the Kuril Islands or Kamchatka. By the way, this year three documentaries about extreme sports in these places were released: “Kuril Islands. On the southern shores”, “Wave 41” and “History of Kamchatka snowboarding”.