Daniel gives us a detailed explanation on Progression Session Program
by Gold Coast Wake Park
Transcript:
Are you ready to progress your wakeboarding?
We’ve created a 10-level program to help you go from your first time on a wakeboard, all the way up to turning pro.
This is progression sessions.
In level one, starts by just getting out there.
Level two, getting around the features, we start hitting a few of the rails.
Level three, we start to progress, we go switch, so switch is comfortable in level three, let’s pass the handle in level four, so we start doing some surface 360s.
360s on the rainbow, we’ve actually also broken the whole park down into four different sections. Flat water tricks, rail tricks, kicker hits and transfer box hits.
Moving up into level five, We’ve got grabs and spins off the kickers.
Level six, we start to do flips, so flipping out.
So this is level seven, what we’ve done is broken down the tricks into flat water tricks, rail tricks, kicker hits and transfer box hits.
Okay so what we’re saying is in level seven, if you can do a raley on the flat water, you should be doing a toeside ollie onto the pipe, a scarecrow or a tantrum on the kicker. Up to a 360 off the transfer so to progress your riding as a full complete rider you’ve got to be good in all the different areas.
Level 9 we start to work up to be doing moby dicks off the kicker, back mobes off the flat water, transfer 270s on the transfer box so you can
start to see now, that we’re really starting to get to the pointy end of becoming a pro.
In Level 10, we start getting into S-bends, 270 tail presses, mode 540. So this book isn’t just for the first levels. It’s all the way up to turning pro and all the way through.
If you’re in level 10, you’re going to be in open division in points chase, and next level on there is making money and becoming a pro wake
boarder.
As you progress through the levels, you tick the boxes as you learn the tricks and get them ticked off by your coach
then over the page the certificate of achievement, so you get to write your name in here the date that you signed off, on it cut it off take it home and put on your fridge, when grandma comes over and says oh you’ve got a certificate.
Uh, six in wakeboarding that’s fantastic, what did you have to do to get that you turn it over the page and say look at this grandma.
I know how to do all these tricks how fantastic is that.
There’s a different coloured circle on the top of every page, we’ve had some fun here and if you go to the back of the book.
We’ve got a sticker sheet so if you’re part of boarding school, kids club, ladies session pro wake, gold coast wake park, you’ve got stickers to put on your board.
These ones here are the progression session stickers so once you get past level one you take it off, you put on your helmet level two take it off put on your helmet put it on your board, all the way through so if you once you get to a pro wake or you get the gold sticker.
You put that on your board, and you can show off to your mates.
If you want to be part of the progression sessions program, check out our website for the next 10-week program, we’ll see you there.
