How To Switch On A Wakeboard

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Switching on a Wakeboard
Many people have adversities or challenges that get in there way. And that is what make them who they are today. In this reflection it was very hard to learn how to switch on a wakeboard. If you don’t know what switching on a wakeboard or even what a wakeboard is. A wakeboard is a board that has boots that you strap your feet into and you get out on the water with a rope attached to a boat that is stopped and when the boat starts to move then you pull yourself up. It is fun but hard to learn and it takes a lot of perseverance to get up and learn any moves. It takes a lot of perseverance to even get up. I think that it took the most perseverance to switch. When you get up on the wakeboard you ride it like a skateboard

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