High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakesurfing (similar to but not the same sport as wakeboarding) is a water sport in which a surfer trails behind a wakeboard boat, surfing the boat`s wake without being directly attached to the boat. The wake from the boat mimics the look and feel of an actual ocean wave. After getting up on the wave by use of a tow rope, wakesurfers drop the rope and ride the steep face below the wave`s peak in a fashion reminiscent of ocean surfing. Wakesurfers generally use special boards, usually five feet or shorter. The first wakesurf patent number 001765.0134 was given to Alfonso Corona in 1997.