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(VIDEO) How Do I Ride A Wakeboard?

Local champion demonstrates how to get more "pop" on Lake Minnetonka.

"It's easier to get out of the water, but it's a little harder to stay there," Alex Marine says.

Marine is the lead wakeboard instructor at Waketonka, a local water sports school. Wakeboarding is a combination of water skiing and snow boarding which is becoming more popular on Minnesota's lakes.

Marine offered a few key tips to get body and board out of the water and cris-crossing over the wake. He also demonstrated some tricks, but those are for more advanced students.

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Waketonka students Andy Longval and Mike Evanson also offered some demonstrations of correct wakeboarding technique.

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