Never ridden? Perfect.

Pick how you want to ride. Every lesson includes riding time, and your coach talks you through each lap over a waterproof headset.

1. 0 min Gear up at the deskVest, helmet and board handed to you.
2. 5 min Dry-land run-throughYour coach shows the stance on the dock.
3. 10 min First pullYou fall. Everyone does. Coach is right there.
4. 20 min✓ Standing upMost first-timers are gliding by now.

Daniel Grant moved to Thailand as a child and spent so much time in the water that the locals gave him a nickname: เต่า, tao, turtle.

He was on a wakeboard at 8. At 13 he won the WWA Wakepark Pro Men world title and turned professional, riding for Rip Curl and then Liquid Force's International Pro Team.

In 2012 his first pro-model wakeskate came out. He called it TAO. The pro-model wakeboard and bindings that followed carry the same name, and to this day his helmet is sprayed like a turtle shell.

TAO Wake Park is that nickname, twenty-plus years on, with Thai Wake Park behind it. A place built by a rider who learned here, for people learning here.