Wakeboarding started as Skurfing back in the mid 80's. Tony Finn developled the "Skurfer" a thick plastic, surf shaped board with foot straps that only went over the top of your foot. I believe the first "Skurfing tournament was in '87, but I have been known to be wrong before soooo.....In her defense though in the late 70's people were experimenting with all sorts of stuff to drag behind a boat, such as: surfboards, tubes, and wooden discs. So maybe as Dave said it may have been something similar but Wakeboarding hadn't really been invented and marketed at that time.
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