Wake surfing is having a *moment*.
The fringe offshoot of real, ocean surfing has been picked up recently by all the hottest celebs – from Kendall Jenner to Shakira to Mark Zuckerberg to Dan Bilzerian.
Surprise: none of them are very good. However, this guy below…this guy is very good.
Meet Steel Lafferty, a professional wakeboarder per his Instagram bio, and former X Games gold medal winner in the same sport. However, Lafferty also wake surfs.
In the video above, he pulls off the wake surfing equivalent of a step-off – except instead of a jetski, he uses a floating dock in the lake to transfer onto the wake.
Captioning the post, Lafferty wrote:
“This was too much fun 😜!! Spent the whole day messin’ around with this @connellywatersports floating dock and just had an epic day on the lake. Nothing beats the #lakelife”
In another video, Lafferty transfers between wake surfboards mid-wave – six transfers in total. A friend in the boat tosses the sticks overboard, and Lafferty hops from board to board. (It’s assumed they went back and picked up the discarded boards after.)
Oh yeah, and he also took 2x Super Bowl champion quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, out for his first wake surf session, captioning: “Took the 🏈 GOAT @patrickmahomes out wakesurfing for his first time! Dudes an athlete, dropped the rope first go 🤙”
Praise for Lafferty’s next-level wake surf shenanigans showers the comments sections:
“When you think your [sic] the coolest kids on the block and this dude turns up”
“Gotta be some kind Guinness world record right there!!”
“Soooo Damn Good!!!”
“Oh yeah that was clean”
There’s another series Lafferty has going, in which he takes random objects, attempts to (wake) surf them, then ranks their (wake) surf-ability. Like a painting:
Impressive. Whacky, but impressive. Sorta like vintage Jackass. But on a lake. With a boat. And with some semblance of skill.
Wonder if he’s ever surfed for real? Ironically, for him, that would be a novelty session.
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