Wakeboarding is an up and coming sport. It's defined by ones love for the water, nature, and devotion to the outdoors. We will begin with some history on wakeboarding and what we know about wakeboarding in the west coast verses elsewhere. The goal is to find out how much is know about the sport and why. With collected data we anticipate to find the best ways to promote the sport and one day bring it to the Olympics.
I believe that the survey composed of 10 questions will help us better identify how we may better understand the public’s ideas on wakeboarding. The questions are as follow:
1. What is your gender?
2. What is your age?
3. Have you ever heard of wakeboarding?
4. Have you personally every wake boarded?
5. Have you seen a publication of Wakeboarding (Magazine, Media of any type, Advertising, Video, TV, Poster)?
6. Do you know of any water-ski or wake boat brands? Please list
7. Have you ever been on a boat? If yes, what kind, where, would you do it again?
8. Do you enjoy the outdoors? (Ex. Camping, Rafting, Skiing, Motocross, Snowboarding....) If Yes, Please specify.
9. How many people do you have to have on the boat in order to properly water-ski or wakeboard?
10. Would you be interested in learning or trying wakeboarding?
This questioner was build in a format to find links between what people like to do and wakeboarding. It seems that the art is under promoted, especially in the west coast, specifically California. California has an estimate 37 million people according to the Census bureau of 2009. What this means, is that there is a ridiculous amount of opportunity to make the Golden State one of the top places to wakeboard.
I believe that the survey will show that individuals know about the sport and want to learn about it. They find the means to do the sport difficult but would be willing to do it if they way an easier then actually owning your own boat.
Lets go over what wakeboarding is. By definition it is a sport of jumping boat's wake: a water sport in which somebody riding a single board is pulled behind a motor boat and performs jumps while crisscrossing the wake of the boat
Anyone who is athletic can successfully wakeboard. You must have cordination, strength, and durance to perform successfully...I stress the world successfully because anyone can wakeboard, but the idea of jumping the wake and learning tricks is an aquired skill you learn over practice, not necessarily time.
Let's analyze the results.
72.7% where women who responded to the survey
24 was the average age group of responces (21-54)
90.9% have heard wakeboarded
54.5% have never wakeboarded
77.3% have hear of some type of advertisment
2% could name a brand of waterski or wakeboarding boat
100% have been on a boat
100% enjoy the outdoors
36% knew the right number of people it takes to properly ski or wakeboard (3)
77.3% are interested in learing about or trying wakeboarding and the rest said maybe
What this means is that there is a vast opportunity for the sport to grow. The general public enjoys the outdoors and there are different levels of wakeboarding that is fun for all ages. I would have to set up a different survey to see how we can get people to enjoy the sport. But my hypothesis was correct, that people know what it is and would like to do it.
Why do we care? For many reasons. This is either a completitive sport, a group activity that excercises your mind and body, a family sport, a hobby...ect. Anything that requires you to get out, get some fresh air, and enjoy mother nature is good for you. The more people know about wakeboarding the healthier an individual can be!
Thank you
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