Personal Brand & Positioning
Is wake surfing easier than wakeboarding or water skiing?
Answered independently in 1 episodes. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
The short answer
What the archive says
01Trick progression in wake surfing: first let go of the rope and stay in the wave, then land a 360, then advance to technical tricks like kickflips and 900 shove-its. source →
02The 2018 signing with Phase 5 and co-creating the Phantom board was the moment he realized wake surfing was a lucrative, affluent industry worth doubling down on. source →
03Parker landed the first surf-style kickflip on a wake surf board on his 94th attempt of one morning, after roughly three and a half hours in the water and 10 years of trial and error; he has landed three total. source →
In their words
What was actually said
And it's hard. But I feel like wake surfing, at least at the basic level, is a little bit more accessible. Like, I think most, some people, a lot of people that can't get up maybe skiing or wake boarding.
The episodes