The Physics of Wakeboarding

[@daanvandongen1422]

Yo i came here from tom scott's video from 2016 and you've grown and thats awesome to see that you're still doing this, subbed.

[@JaydenJinx]

I just watched his video as well. Glad to see you're still making videos too. I've subscribed. Keep it up!

[@matthewjamestaylor]

Great video. I could smell the water. Only because my memories of water skiing involve water shooting up my nose for what seemed like an eternity while I attempted to plane using an under-powered boat. I can still imagine the discomfort and smell the water. Water and I are not friends. I think that's why I quit water polo in high school and played basketball instead. I was short, but at least I didn't drown. Cheers.

[@uvbe]

Water is too wet

[@MrBoldSLOTHDUDE]

Read this comment while I am currently hi, i felt different things but now I can't remember what I was really going to say. Oh dear but yes excellent video and comment hehe haha

[@qwertyTRiG]

That was a fun one. The 10° is certainly an oversimplification, but not an entirely unreasonable one.

[@eey-bee]

Something I've been curious about for a while is regarding your map in the background of your videos - is there a specific reason for blue shading in some regions/countries? Always find the videos you post very interesting - thanks for sharing!

[@ScienceC]

I don’t think there really is, the map only has two colors so I guess they mix it up so the different countries stand out.

[@eey-bee]

@@ScienceC Hm, fair enough - thanks for the response!

[@blakezurman1934]

wake boarding is mad hard. fire vid tho

[@sandycodfish]

I just subbed Somehow this is better than crash course physics Be more like Mark Rober and you’ll get more subs

[@nickhodgskin]

Amazing video!! I love that shirt :D. Do you know where I could get one? :3

[@ScienceC]

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[@backstept]

I don't think the math takes getting up into account. If you were to accelerate to 3MPH while on a dock before entering the water it might work at that velocity.

[@kinderwagen6168]

Nice, this is helping me in trying to determine if my wakeboard tower is strong enough...I'm trying to find the rope tension during a deep water start for an amateur young wakeboarder. Anyone has an idea? My guess is 40-60 kg. Of such individuals, who could hold much more weight in two hands? Anyone?

[@maccrazy7335]

A slight point off for mixing metric and American systems...

[@ScienceC]

The jet ski measured speed in MPH so that was the easiest way to test, but I did try to use metric as much as possible.

[@odd1097]

Maybe now i wont be so trash at wakeboarding

[@somekek6734]

Why did i read "The physics of Waterboarding"?

[@aether44j]

Good attempt hahaha