cannot stomp my tantrum...

grady · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 547 City: d-block

so ive got the flip down...land on the board everytime but cannot seem to just stand up w/ the handle and ride away...i seem to b flipping fine, not overrotating or n e thing, but just cant land that bitch...n e body got n e suggestions?

toothpick · Posted: Jun 08, 2003 8:51 pm Post subject:

Bend your knees a lot on the landing, and......don't let go of the handle!

Want2ride · Outlaw Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 182 City: Layton, Utah

You might be flipping to early off the wake. Do you come around easy or are you having to flip really hard to make it? Make sure you flip at the top of the wake. Oh and cut hard enough to make it w2w it sucks when you think you have it and you land on the top of the wake and fall.

Partyb · Posted: Jun 09, 2003 8:41 am Post subject:

I would say you are not riding up the wake enough. In other words, throwing the move too ealry, not getting the necessary pop, and therefore when you land the water is more of a surprise then you being able to spot your landing and ride away. Also, don't look down too much, if you look down, you go down. Just a suggestion.

BigTimer · Posted: Jun 09, 2003 9:16 am Post subject:

hold on to the rope and don't leave early

Snow Skate Wake · Outlaw Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 124

It has always helped me to land it and ride away. You should try that. If you ever have a trick that you always fall on, all you have to do is land and ride away. Good stuff.

grady · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 547 City: d-block

Want2ride, i flip very easily and dont have to struggle to get all the way around at all...

Partyb, im definitely getting enough pop becuz i land a few feet in the flats everytime i try it...

Snow Skate Wake, i'll try that sum time lol great advice my friend

Slaytwebeling · Addict Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 892 City: Houston

I didnt want to make a new post but i need some help on my tantrum. I have the rotation down and everything but in about the middle of the trick i'm looking at the boat and throwing a 180 in at the end. i know to keep looking back but i just dont ,just wondering if any1 had the same problem and what they did.

Snow Skate Wake · Outlaw Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 124

Without sounding mean or ignorant, I have something to say. in Slay's case here, which I see alot. He knows what he is doing wrong and still asks for help. All you ever really have to do is just suck it up, lett all the pusssy out, and just do it. In your case, just say, "I'm gonna throw a tantrum and look straight over my back." and then follow through. I learned at an amazing rate all of a sudden just because of that. I had known how to do just about everything in wakeboarding down to the specifics, but was just afraid to do any of it. Then I just told myself, you know what to do, now just do it exactly how you know, and threw all of my inhibitions out the window and did them. I picked up 9 inverts in two months and learned to spin on and off axis uo to 5's, and a ts fs 7. It would only take two times to land a new trick. THe first time just to see what it was really like, and then the second time just to make myself do what i know how to do. It is really quite simple once you set your mind to it.

Slaytwebeling · Addict Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 892 City: Houston

Yea i'll try that but when i do that i tend to not flip to early. And its not that i'm wussing out of it cuz i'm not. Maybe i just dont have the mind capacity to do it. Confused

grady · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 547 City: d-block

Snow Skate Wake, thats a big problem i have too...i need to grow sum huge f'n balls and just do that stuff...its just a mind block i guess

Snow Skate Wake · Outlaw Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 124

I had the same thing, I wouldn't really try things, and if I did, I'd know exactly what the problem was, and I'd take the same approach you all are. I'd say it's a mental thing and I just keep doing it. Then one day i just realized, all i have to do, is do it the right way. If you are throwing it too early, simply think, I AM WAITING. Then just trust it and go. Alot of it does have to do with trusting yourself. Just keep your word, and do it. Sometimes it helps to basically talk stuff to other people and tell them what you are going to do. That way they will hold you to it. For my first backroll, I promised my friends they could film it all winter, and I'd throw it first hit off the wake, first time out. When it came time to doing it, i didn't want to do it that way anymore, but had too. I got concussed. But I realized that all I did was leave the wake too early, and the next time out, I threw it first hit again, and landed it. Backroll in 2 try's, that easy if you just do it.

grady · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 547 City: d-block

u just gotta get out there and commit to that stuff...throw like it like u've landed it all ur life

and im going wakeboardin w/ gregg necrason wednesday, so if i dont land it until then, im sure he can help me

Nathan Newman · Addict Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 711 City: Baylor

ooh... good inspiration here
I haven't wakeboarded in 3 weeks now Sad

hundel · Criminal Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 93

Snow Skate Wake, all in all, I don't mind your advice. A lot of our blocks are mental. But to land a toe side 720 with front side rotation on your second attempt goes way beyond that. To do so would make you by far the most naturally talented boarder I've ever heard from, especially if sticking that hard of a trick on that few attempts is typical for you!

Maestro · Posted: Jun 16, 2003 8:18 am Post subject:

Grady - I don't think you're getting pop as much as you're throwing it backwards. I'm doing the same thing on my tantrums. I cut in to the wake, stop, but instead of waiting for the pop and throwing it up I just kind of huck it backwards. I don't lay it out so it's nice and smooth, I just throw my head back and my board follows. For me I know it's just a mental thing 'cause I can't do backflips on a trampoline. There's something about going upside-down with my head leading the way and spotting my landing that freaks me out. So it sounds like you just gotta pop up and lay it out nice rather than pop out.