Due to a long history of high gas prices, European countries like Germany, France and the UK kickstarted a cable park revolution that’s democratizing the sport in an explosive way. In the process, it’s also making the sport of wakeboarding cheaper, more diverse, more inclusive, and, best of all, so much cleaner. Surprisingly enough, once Europe single handedly established this new industry by the 90’s, it wasn’t the US that followed suit, perhaps because cable technology was seen as a serious threat to the powerful core of the US wake boat market. Instead it was growing Asian nations like Thailand (1990’s) or the Philippines (2000’s) who foresaw an interesting opportunity to leverage a new market, as they were enjoying a high increase of international tourists at the time.
