Wakeboarding is a community

The thing that makes wakeboarding a community is that we all love to wakeboard.When we get together it is great because everyone is supportive and are trying to become better wakeboarders and in the process often make good friends and help them to be better wakeboarders as well.
The wakeboarding community is held together by the love of wakeboarding because without out it there would be no wakeboarding community. Another thing about this community is that when you get together your in a boat that is in the middle of a body of water, so there isn't much else to go until we get back to shore and the time that happens whoever wanted off most likely has gotten over whatever they were mad about in the first place. Wakeboarding is a stress release, it helps you to forget about whatever is troubling you if only for a few hours. This community focuses soley on wakeboarding and tries to be a stress-free happy situation.
As far as tensions go against the community I'm not really sure. There are different skill levels of wakeboarders like in anything else, which can be good or bad depending on the persons attitude.
How anyone fits into the group seems pretty obvious to me, you wakeboard! I've been wakeboarding for three years now and love it. Plus my father owns a ski boat, so most of the time our boat is the meeting place for wakeboarders and the center of that community.
The reason I want to be apart of this community is complicated.This community isn't just a group of people who got together because they wakeboarded, they most likely started off as a friend, family member, co-worker, maybe a friend of a friends. Then through wakeboarding have become close in another way. The wakeboarding community becomes an extended family in a way even if they start out as strangers, if they choose to stay in the community and pursue wakeboarding you don't just gain a community member you gain a friend!