3/8in OD 1/8in ID Speargun Band/Sling Thick Walled Black Latex Rubber Tubing ONE Continuous Piece(#408) (Select Length)

I don’t kmow where to begin. Well okay. It starts back in the mid 90’s and there was this new thing called skurfing. Like surfing but behind a boat. You might have heard of it by another name…wakeboarding. Yeah we’ll back in the 90’s HO made what is quintessentially the daddy of wakeboards. My family happens to have this wakeboard or skurfboard. In fact when I was 12 it’s what I learned to ride. This thing was a blast on. All water and was fun for everyone. Flash forward many summers and years later. Somewhere around 2006 one of the bindings, which consisted of a neoprene foot loop and a stretchy tube that went behind your ankle, snapped. Right there it was like I lost a best friend. We were told it was a relic and not worth the space it took up. So it sat in the basement as a reminder of summers past. That is until I attended a boatshow spring 2017. There hidden in the back of a booth like a mystical unicorn stood what I thought was my childhood skirfboard. It was actually a 25th anniversary edition of the board that really kicked the sport off. I had to have it! I could finally ride a board that took me back to childhood. With that purchase I immediately had to see what could be done to salvage the original. The sales people were shocked that I had the original board and told me to hang it on my wall. That it wasn’t worth messing with. Well that’s dumb I thought. Thus the quest began. I had to figure out what exactly would work to fix the bindings. Free some searches I came across this tubing. It is exactly what shipped on te bindings 25 years ago. Now in my garage I not only have a. We wakeboard that pays homage to the beginning but I now have my unicorn. The original board back in its factory fresh glory. This summer will be the summer of dreams. All of this thanks to seven dollars of latex rubber tubing. 2017. You are the year of the unicorn!