It’s happening in snowboarding, downhill skiing, skateboarding & wakeboarding. The stuff portrayed on tv, the web and social media is unattainable for most. Especially in wake.... a 200k boat, double flips and 1080’s. What wake needs now to get the needle moving again is the industry acceptance of promoting an outboard boat/ cheaper inboard , cruising around, carving/ slashing around, some grabs, good times with friends..... that will get kids, teens and families interested again.
A lot of families keep walking at boat shows when the see boat, board, etc pricing and sales guys saying this is what you need! Easier to pick up a tube.