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magazine features articles on the sport of wakeboarding ... Read more

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Chapters: Kids Who Rip, Oysteins. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. The rider is usually towed behind a motorboat; typically at speeds of 1824 miles per hour depending on the water conditions, board size, rider's weight, and rider's comfort speed. But wakeboarding can also be performed with a variety of media including closed-course cables, winches, PWCs, and ATVs. Boards are buoyant with the core usually made up of foam or honeycomb mixed with resin and coated with fiberglass. Metal screws are inserted to attach bindings and fins. The most popular wakeboards are Ronix, CWB, O'Brien, Hyperlite, Liquidforce, O'Brien, Company, Gator, Byerly and Slingshot. The configuration and positioning of the fins and bindings varies according to rider preference and is adjusted for a variety of reasons. A wakeboarder will change the type of fins they use for different types of tricks. For example, shallow fins (which do not protrude into the water very far) are better for surface tricks, such as flat spins. Many newer board models contain small molded fins on the board which allows the rider to use smaller center fins and also to create less drag. Board hardware is often set up to allow a rider to ride "Switch" or Fakie, with either foot forward. Such setups are usually symmetrical in layout. New riders normally set up their boards to be comfortable to ride with their "natural" foot forward, which does not allow for riding Switch without modifications. For best results and easy wakeboarding, this sport is normally done in lakes, though the intercoastal waterways are...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33623 ... Read more

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Das Warten auf ideale Windbedingungen, um anschließend auf der perfekten Welle zu surfen, ist nicht nur ein Kultsport, sondern auch ein Lebensstil. Das Surf-Mekka schlechthin ist Hawaii, aber auch in Deutschland gibt es an Nord- und Ostsee beliebte Windsurfgebiete, wo Weltcups ausgetragen werden. Derzeit sind einige Deutsche unter den weltbesten Surfern. Neuester Trend bei Flaute ist Wakeboarding.Dieses Buch liefert einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Surfsportvarianten, die weltbesten deutschen Surfer, Surfvereinigungen, Wettkämpfe, Surflabels, Surfmusik und die beliebtesten Surfspots in Deutschland, Europa und weltweit. ... Read more

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Fast-paced X Games Action at your fingertips! Your readers will blaze through these extreme sport titles! With high-action photos, diagrams, and Fact! boxes. ... Read more

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This was purchased for a our local library.Can't comment on the book itself, as I haven't read it.But shipping was fast and book was in the condition promised. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rebirth in Buddhism is the doctrine that the evolving consciousness (Pali: samvattanika-viññana) or stream of consciousness (Pali: viññana-sotam, Sanskrit: vijñ?na-srot?m, vijñ?na-sant?na, or citta-sant?na) of a person, upon the death or dissolution of the aggregates (P. khandhas, S. skandhas), becomes one of the contributing causes for the arising of a new group of skandhas. The consciousness arising in the new person is neither identical to, nor entirely different from, the old consciousness, but forms part of a causal continuum or stream with it. The basic cause for this persistent re-arising of personality is the abiding of consciousness in ignorance (Pali: avijja, Sanskrit: avidya); when ignorance is uprooted, rebirth ceases. ... Read more

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Read about today's most fearless athletes...and the electrifying sports they take to extremes: Skateboarding, BMX, Wakeboarding, Snowboarding and profiles of surfer Kelly Slater, "wonderboy" Travis Pastrana and in-line phenom Fabiola Da Silva! ... Read more

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the cover says it all
This is a really great book to buy for your daughter if you also plan to buy her thongs and a brazillian wax for her birthday. My sister read this book and loved it, which made me sad. The girl on the cover doesn't have a head. Its her body that matters and after flipping through the book I learned that the other, more important things that matter in life are cute popular boys. I highly recommend this book to anyone who considers herself an object.

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Chelsea is a wakeboarding lover!

Her parents own a resort that is right on Lake Tahoe and she is in love with the wakeboarding instructor, Todd. He was the one who taught Chelsea her passion at age fourteen, and now she is better than he is at his own sport! And now they are competing against each other at the Northwest Extreme Watersports Competition that is going to be held in the resort's part of the lake!

But, over the summer, she meets a guy that likes her, so they begin going out, but she quickly realizes that the sparks just aren't there. But Sebastian, her boyfriend, makes her realize something important -- that she can make a guy like her.

Will Chelsea be able to beat her crush at his own sport? Will the sparks ever fly between Sebastian and Chelsea? Will Todd ever think of Chelsea as more than a fierce competitor?

Read this fun summer novel to find out! After reading WAKING UP TO BOYS, I even wanted to learn to wakeboard myself!

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"Pam's books have wide appeal to boys and girls, to avid and reluctant readers, to teens and to younger children who are looking for a challenging high-interest book."
-The Bookmark

Since the Take It to the Xtreme series was launched, 15-year-old best friends Jake and Peter have survived whitewater rapids, an avalanche, a forest fire, movie stunt work, killer surf waves, perilous rock-climbing, and much, much more.

In this latest installment of the series, Jake and Peter are junior instructors at a noisy wakeboard school that is attempting to share a remote lake with a community of save-the-Earth society dropouts (otherwise known as hippies). Jake and Peter love performing their own tricks behind a powerboat driven by the school's founder, a macho young wakeboard fanatic known as "the party animal." Then, Peter decides to encourage the wild streak in a rebellious hippie girl across the lake. She runs away to hide in a nearby abandoned sawmill, only to discover it's not as abandoned as it looks.

Community tensions soon erupt -- and the boys get more than they bargained for.

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When entering the sport of kiteboarding it is crucial that the rider have a simple plan in place prior to launching a kite. After reading Kiteboarding's Simple Plan The Book, the rider should have a basic idea of how to formulate his "simple plan" to kiteboarding which, when properly used, will increase the enjoyment of the sport, while decreasing the damage to the rider, his gear and those around him.

Having a plan for kiteboarding is important. Effectively applying that plan in different places, conditions, and with equipment is the key to continued riding success and enjoyment. With professional instruction, lots of water time, good winds, great gear and this book, developing your personal kiteboarding plan should be filled with fun and "next level" excitement.

Aloha & Mahalo,
John Holzhall ... Read more

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lengthy but lacking
Unfortunately this doesnt give enough basics and shows very little structure in its outline.Few diagramns that are really instructional.
Strong on safety and danger but little direction to the beginning kitesurfer.
It seemed more like the dialogue that a instructorwouldgive you through a series of lessons and in that context would most likely be excellent.
I have been kitesurfing for about 5 months and can ride a board in and out - so I'm still learning alot but found the thrust ofthe book not really helpful.
With the amount of experience the author has,he would have a huge lot more to offer and perhaps may do next time.

Kiteboarding's "A litte too" Simple Plan
I had a season of kiteboarding under my belt when I picked up this book. By the end of the season, I could maintain upwind ground pretty well, but actually getting upwind was still elusive. I had been reading Kiteboarding magazines feverishly and was excited to see someone had written a whole book on the subject. I was hoping for some good tips in such a concentrated source of kiteboarding knowledge.
I don't know how much money it takes to write a book that will be sold to such a small niche audience, but it seems that costs were contained by sending the book to press without it being edited. Their were-many annoying punctuation, errors not too mention sentences that were entirely to long with little continuity between paragraphs and peppered with a lot of slang probably in efforts of making the book cool. I didn't even know that this kind of thing bothers me until I picked up this book -probably because everything else I read HAS been edited fairly well.

I'm guessing that another cost cutting measure was the money saved not hiring a graphic designer to create diagrams that should have accompanied detailed descriptions of body position, wind direction and kite steering maneuvers. There were plenty of times that after I read a description of something I already knew how to do well I thought to myself "I can't see how a beginner will make ANY SENSE of this!" In the book's 278 pages I counted a whopping less than 10 diagrams.

Anyway with all that being said, if anything the book is comprehensive. It does cover quite a bit of material and the author's style is entertaining. And I did pick up some tid bits of knowledge after all. If you wanted to get into kiteboarding you may still like to have this book around. With any luck, you might even find a future "volume II" that flows well and includes many clarifying illustrations.

Kiteboarding's "A litte too" Simple Plan
I had a season of kiteboarding under my belt when I picked up this book. By the end of the season, I could maintain upwind ground pretty well, but actually getting upwind was still elusive. I had been reading Kiteboarding magazines feverishly and was excited to see someone had written a whole book on the subject. I was hoping for some good tips in such a concentrated source of kiteboarding knowledge.

I don't know how much money it takes to write a book that will be sold to such a small niche audience, but it seems that costs were contained by sending the book to press without it being edited. Their were-many annoying punctuation, errors not too mention sentences that were entirely to long with little continuity between paragraphs and peppered with a lot of slang probably in efforts of making the book cool. I didn't even know that this kind of thing bothers me until I picked up this book -probably because everything else I read HAS been edited fairly well.

I'm guessing that another cost cutting measure was the money saved not hiring a graphic designer to create diagrams that should have accompanied detailed descriptions of body position, wind direction and kite steering maneuvers. There were plenty of times that after I read a description of something I already knew how to do well I thought to myself "I can't see how a beginner will make ANY SENSE of this!" In the book's 278 pages I counted a whopping less than 10 diagrams.

Anyway with all that being said, if anything the book is comprehensive. It does cover quite a bit of material and the author's style is entertaining. And I did pick up some tid bits of knowledge after all. If you wanted to get into kiteboarding you may still like to have this book around. With any luck, you might even find a future "volume II" that flows well and includes many clarifying illustrations. ... Read more

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A teen devotional like no other. This book is a blend of lessons,sports tips,personal testimonies, and devotions.This book has over 140 great photos.Free 45 minute DVD of performance,testimony, and great music. ... Read more

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This is a beautiful book.
This is a series of stories by teenagers who through hard work, dedication, and belief have become champion wakeboarders.
It's well written, interesting, and very inspirational.
It would make a good gift for young skateboarders particularly. ... Read more

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Active, armchair, novice extreme surfers
This colourful easily readable book is packed with surfing information for the daring active as well as the armchair surfer, for the experienced surfer or for initiating the beginner surfer in both surfing techniques and the surfing culture, from 'Surfing Hot Spots', to surfing safety rules and equipment, 'big wave' surfing, 'tow-in surfing',bodyboarding, boardsailing, wavesailing, wakeboarding.It includes must-know 'surf jargon' such as 'closeout', 'green room', 'rinse cycle' and 'slam the lip', a useful glossary and an index, not forgetting a warning at the beginning on the dangers of extreme sports. Each double page spread presents a surfing topic illustrated with quality colour 'action' photographs. Guaranteed to hook the most reluctant reader, particularly that well-known class or reluctant readers: adolescent boys! ... Read more

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When Jamil and his friends are invited to a mystery weekend at a resort hotel, they soon find themselves involved in a real mystery-- someone has stolen the plans to a revolutionary new wakeboard. ... Read more

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Xtreme Mysteries
I liked this book because,it has to do with wakeboarding. I also like it because, the characters are really into the mystery that they are solving.
The best part of the book was when they were at the lake, and a kid named Jamil was on the dock and lost his balance and fell into the lake. They were all laughing at him. When he got out of the lake, he was laughing too.
I think the author was best at the characters,and the theme. the characters impressed me because, of their names, and their ability of what they did.I also liked the theme because,wakeboarding is really interesting to watch.The last thing I liked about the author is the way he made the book fun to read.

this book is awesome
this is also one of my favorites in the series it has a lot of stoke in it and the mistery is very good i would recomend this book to any one who likes extreme sports and another up side is that it has a semi dictionary in the back of the book to tell u all the lingo but i think there are two better books in the series the first and last one they are the two snowboarding books in the series (i might just like them the best because i love snowboarding.

This book rocks!!!!!!!
I have not gotten very far but I think this book is cool so if you read this summary and haven't read the book trust me you want to read it. But I'll tell you one thing I want that new wake board their coming outwith!!!!!! ... Read more

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The Book Building A Foundation Instructional Wakeboard DVD This thorough DVD instructional series is structured to show viewers the genetics of each trick, how it builds and breaks down, and the relationships of tricks between the base trick and the goal trick. Choose the DVD that matches your performance level and goals or get the whole series and save. ... Read more