Wakeboarding is a combination of water skiing, snowboarding, and surfing,
in which a rider is towed along by a boat while riding a board.
寬版滑水是結合滑水、雪板、衝浪的運動。
用船拖行寬版，讓運動員踩在寬版上滑行
This sport was developed in the 1980’s, it used to be called skurfing.
這個運動起緣於1980年代，以前叫做skurfing.
It was said to be created in Australia and New Zealand.
據說在澳洲和紐西蘭開始。
The wakeboarder or the rider is usually towed by a boat.
寬版滑水員經常是被小船拖行
The rider can also be towed in other ways like closed-course cable systems, winches, personal watercraft, trucks, cars, and all-terrain vehicles.
他們也可以被其他方式拖行，例如封閉水域的纜繩系統、絞繩、私人遊艇、卡車、汽車、或全地形車。
The rider can hop on the board flat and follow the cable; they can also be on the edge of the board so they can move from side to side.
滑水者站在寬版上、隨著纜繩拖行前進。他們也會用板子側邊移動，讓他們可以往左往右滑行。
powered wakeboard
Various jumps and other techniques are performed by the riders.
滑水者可以做很多跳躍和其他特殊技巧動作。
They usually do this by riding towards the wake of a boat and launching into the air.
他們常利用船尾的水花來做動作，跳向空中
The boards used in wakeboarding are usually made of foam, honeycomb, and coated fiber glass.
寬版滑水用的寬版通常用發泡材質、蜂巢板和玻璃纖維。
Wakeboarding is usually done in lakes, while others also do this by the beach.
寬版滑水通常在湖泊進行，也有一些在海邊
Similar Sports類似運動
- Kneeboarding — a participants are pulled along while kneeling on a convex board.
跪板滑水-運動員跪在中間凸起的板子上、被拉動前進
- Waterskiing — riders are pulled along behind a boat skimming atop the water wearing one or two skis.
雙板滑水-運動員穿著一或二個鞋板、被小船拉動滑水
- Surfing — participants stand on a surfboard, and use the waves for propulsion.
衝浪-運動員站在衝浪板上，利用海浪前進
- Wakesurfing — riding the boat wake using a modified surfboard
無繩滑水-利用改良過的衝浪板在船尾浪上滑行
- Tanker Surfing — surfing the wake of lagre ocean tankers
遊輪衝浪-在大型遠洋郵輪的尾浪上滑行
- Jet Ski Racing — a water sport similar to powerboat racing, in which riders use jet skis to compete.
水上摩托車競速-跟動力小艇競速很像的水上活動，騎士駕駛水上摩托車競賽
