Wakeboarding is the latest action sport to take over the world. Born through a lack of waves and a desire to further surfing, wakeboarding has grown from it's routes in Carlsbad, California to cover every continent around the world, from Cuba to Russia and everywhere in between. This high speed action sport is predominantly participated behind a purpose built speed boat with the rider towed behind at around 25mph where they use the boat's wake to launch into the air, pulling technical inverts and spins of up to 1080 degrees.

Over the last 10 years, rails have become a dominant part of wakeboarding. Wakestock was the first contest in Europe to embrace this new development and has been home to some of the most famous rails outside of the USA. The Wakestock rail course in Pwllheli marina challenges the worlds best riders to not only make it to the end of their run, but to bring their own style and technical rail tricks to the table in order to come out on top in front of the contest's 8,000 spectators.

In the same way that snowboarding has brought about a cultural revolution in the ski market, wakeboarding has reinvented water-skiing. Wakeboarding is the fastest growing watersport in the world and now has over 3 million participants worldwide. 63% of these participants are under the age of 24. Along with the three million plus wakeboarders worldwide there is now a growing faction of wakeskate enthusiasts. When included in the wakeboard figures you have a community of boardsports enthusiasts who outnumber surfers by more than two to one. Although very different in principle, all boardsports like skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding, crossover very easily, not just through the similarities in the tricks which are pulled off and the names that they are given, but also with the fashions and lifestyles which they encompass. It is this lifestyle that Wakestock embraces and results in a unique, unmissable event, with a fantastic atmosphere.