Wakeboarding
· v2.6
About
WakeTrack is the first dedicated wakeboarding activity app for Garmin watches — built for cable parks and boat sessions.
AUTOMATIC JUMP DETECTION
Using your watch's built-in accelerometer, WakeTrack detects your jumps automatically — no button pressing. Each jump logs air time, estimated height (via kinematic calculation), and horizontal distance. Detection is tuned for cable-park and wake physics so arm movements and board chatter don't count as jumps, and you're in control: choose how the watch buzzes on a jump (or turn it off), set the sensitivity, or switch jump tracking off entirely in the app settings.
THREE RIDING MODES
• Cable Circular — automatic lap detection when you return to the start point (6 and 7-tower parks)
• Cable 2-Tower — automatic lap detection via GPS heading reversal at each end tower
• Boat — manual lap logging with a single button press or tap
REAL-TIME DATA (4 SCREEN PAGES)
Page 1: Clock, 5-second delayed speed, current-ride distance vs total distance, current-ride laps vs total laps, heart rate (bright red, with a live pulse dot) and jump count
Page 2: Last jump vs session best — air time, height, distance, spin — plus live heart rate with zone bar
Page 3: Session stats — best spin, wake time vs dock time, top speed, total spins
Page 4: Info — large clock, location, an hourly forecast table (wind direction + m/s, rain %, cloud %), date, temperature, heart rate, phone notifications
Every value auto-sizes to fit its space, so numbers stay sharp and never overlap or clip — from the largest AMOLED fenix down to the compact Instinct displays.
5-SECOND DELAYED SPEED
Speed is shown with a 5-second delay so you can check your approach speed after landing, not while riding.
SETTINGS YOU CONTROL (Garmin Connect Mobile → WakeTrack)
• Buzz on jump — Off, Single, or Double
• Buzz on lap — on or off
• Track jumps — turn jump detection off entirely for a distance/speed/laps-only ride
• Jump sensitivity — Strict, Standard, or High
GARMIN ECOSYSTEM
Recorded as a native Wakeboarding activity — fully integrated with Garmin Connect, Body Battery, Training Effect, and calorie tracking. Custom FIT fields export jump count, best air time, best height, and best distance directly to your activity file.
COMPATIBLE WITH
Venu x1, Venu 2/2S/2 Plus, Venu 3/3S, Fenix 7/7S/7X/7 Pro series, Fenix 8 series, epix 2/Pro series, Forerunner 255/265/965, Instinct 2/3 series, Enduro 3, MARQ 2, and more.
What's new
V2.6 — Minor fixes
V2.4.1 — Denser tracks, jumps on the map
GPS TRACKS ARE 2× DENSER
Your ride now uploads in small pieces instead of one big
transfer, so we no longer thin the track to fit. A 2-hour
ride keeps a point every ~4 seconds (was ~8). Instinct
watches improve the most: every 4s instead of every 16s.
JUMPS ON THE MAP
Every detected jump is now pinned to the spot you took off,
with height, air time and rotation — so you can see exactly
which hits were tracked.
MORE JUMPS DETECTED
Detection was tuned for a wrist that goes weightless, which
never happens on a cable — the handle stays loaded the whole
time. Takeoff thresholds are re-tuned for cable riding, and a
timing bug that clipped ~300ms off every jump is fixed (air
time and heights read low because of it). Adjust in settings:
Jump Sensitivity Low / Standard / High.
DETECTION REPORT
Each session now shows how many jumps were nearly detected
and why they were skipped, so sensitivity can be tuned from
real riding instead of guesswork.
UPLOADS SURVIVE A BAD CONNECTION
A ride that can't upload now keeps its full-detail track and
sends it later — previously only a rough outline survived.
Rides are held 14 days if your account link needs fixing, and
the watch tells you plainly when that's the case.
V2.4.0
WakeTrack — what's new
• Never lose a ride: after you save, the watch now tells you clearly if the
activity hasn't uploaded yet — and how to get it up — instead of finishing
silently.
• Smarter background upload: if a ride can't sync right away, the watch keeps
retrying and eases off to hourly after the first hour to save battery.
• Stability: sealed a rare crash when saving an activity that could drop the ride.
• Custom wakeboarding data fields recorded to every activity — jumps, air time,
total & best spin, top speed, laps and more.
• New home: WakeTrack now syncs to waketrack.app; watches already in use switch
over automatically on the next launch.
v2.3.0
NEW — Ride Effort: see how hard you actually rode. WakeTrack measures your
park's real cable speed each session, then scores every second you spend
cutting above it (drive) or losing tension below it (slack). Includes a
per-minute intensity score you can compare across sessions and parks.
NEW — Crash detection from GPS: a fall stops you in one second, letting go
at the dock doesn't. WakeTrack now tells them apart and counts your crashes
— no more guessing from memory.
IMPROVED — Lap counting rewritten for parks with more than one cable
system. Laps are now detected from your actual turning around the loop, so
they count correctly on any circuit, in either direction, and your final
partial lap is no longer thrown away.
IMPROVED — Session uploads are now saved to watch storage the moment you
finish riding. A crash, a dead battery, or closing the app can no longer
lose a session — it uploads automatically next time you're near your phone.
FIXED — Rare crashes on exit and during background sync.
FIXED — Riding time, jump stats and map track accuracy improvements.
Increase GPS tracking density to improve accuracy.
WakeTrack 2.1 — What's New
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FIXED false jumps. The accelerometer no longer counts arm movements, board
chatter or a rough landing as jumps — so your jump count reflects real air,
not hundreds of phantom jumps a session. Detection now requires a genuine
launch, a sustained airborne phase and a real landing, with a minimum gap
between jumps, and a single stray spike right after the pop no longer
mis-fires.
NEW settings (Garmin Connect Mobile → WakeTrack → Settings):
- Buzz on jump — Off / Single / Double. Choose Off if you don't want a
vibration on every jump.
- Buzz on lap — on or off.
- Track jumps — turn jump detection off entirely if you only want distance,
speed and laps (no jump counting, no buzzing).
- Jump sensitivity — Strict / Standard / High. Standard is the new default;
Strict counts only clear kicker/wake air, High als