Landed My First Wake to Wake!

donm3ga · Newbie Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 12

I did it! It was sweet feeling. I still eat it on the landings a lot. I can probably land 1 out of 10 haha. I keep looking down in the water! I also learned how to do a butter slide on the wake as well. I did catch my toeside edge one time and face planted hard.

Here is a w2w pic!

Tron · Newbie Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 14

Nice air man. I recently did the same, Had a huge smile on my face in the rest of the pics that day lol.

Wakeboarding=Life · Outlaw Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 200 City: Castle Rock

Congrats man, it's a great feeling anytime you land something new

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 10:22 am Post subject:

awesome feeling man! congrats! ive only landed a handful of w2ws

what kinda boat is that? the wake looks really long. ie distance from valley to crest.
i take it your a goofy rider?

TnR6Rida · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 10:46 am Post subject:

Congrats man. Its a good feeling when you land that first one.

howabouttheiris · Addict Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 677 City: Austin, TX

Looks like you are coming out the front a bit on that jump.

Try to push your hands to your knees a bit more and you should be able to land back on your heelside edge and ride out more consistently.

V8 Killer · Outlaw Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 207 City: Bridgeport

Where you located donm3ga? Scenery looks familiar.

Congrats on the w2w!

Regards,

Dusty

donm3ga · Newbie Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 12

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lynchie40 · Newbie Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 21 City: Rochester

Good Job, I tried a couple of times I can make the jump but cant stick the landing, How long have you been boarding? Great air too! Twisted Evil

donm3ga · Newbie Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 12

roosterjuicerZ28 · Newbie Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 6 City: Lincoln

Ive only been wakeboarding for a couple weeks but i cant seem to get enough speed to jump wake to wake. I can go wake to just on the other side of the propwash and i have no problem landing but i feel like im not going fast enough or perhaps my wake isn't big enough, although it does look wider than what i saw in that picture.

what do you do to get your speed up? what speed is your boat going? Do you start out pretty wide and cut in fast or slow or what?

lynchie40 · Newbie Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 21 City: Rochester

The boat is normally at 22mph on a 70 ft rope.....I normally cut out pretty far, and I am going to get really good speed on the back edge first, I am still struggling with toe edge tricks but we are working on it. Cut out as far as you can and them try to move out a couple more feet by goingt one handed. Surprised

roosterjuicerZ28 · Newbie Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 6 City: Lincoln

Is there any reason to stay on edge the whole time? Why not just ride with your board flat whenever possible?

lynchie40 · Newbie Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 21 City: Rochester

you will be much faster on edge then on the belly of the board, at least for me it seems to increase speed enought that I can get out of the water cleaner

V8 Killer · Outlaw Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 207 City: Bridgeport

You'll definitely get faster going in on edge than on the belly. The key is to stand straight / tall at the top of the wake right before you launch. If you are still on edge you won't fly as high and you'll be off balance. This will lead to very hard falls as you catch the heel of your board when you land because you weren't on balance when you popped off the top of the wake. Or at least that's what happened to me...I was hitting the back of my head repeatedly hard enough to see stars.

Punkpenguin · Outlaw Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 224