Worst ride of the season.

brotherbrown831 · Outlaw Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 154 City: Oklahoma City

Ever have one of those days that you just feel off? Yesterday after work we went to the lake to get a couple hours of riding in and it just felt like nothing clicked, the riding was crap, the boat wasnt holding speed, the wake didnt feel right. What do you to when your not "feeling" it? Do you power through it and try to ride anyway? Or is it better to just quit early? I kept trying to force it and all I did was find new ways to ingest water...

There wasn't any one thing wrong, I mean the water was nice and smooth, the weather was great, and there were hardly any boats around but my two buddies and me all could not get a good ride in to save our lives... It was very disappointing because I feel like I have been progressing so well lately. Any rant over.,,, Just wanted to share that... Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

kriggs · Posted: Jun 26, 2009 7:51 am Post subject:

When I have days like that, usually i just have fun. get the wake skate out.. if you have a friend do a doubles set.

jctwake · Newbie Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 46 City: Leawood

Yesterday I was out in the morning and I couldn't ride for my life. I wasn't feeling anything and couldn't think straight. I ended up hitting a buoy full force right after landing a simple toe fs 180. I hate days like that.

pet575 · Posted: Jun 26, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject:

We all have days like that. I find that they are usually the days that I forget I'm out there to relax and have fun and am getting too intense and overdoing things. Usually a little time in the boat before I go back out helps me remind myself that I'm supposed to be having fun.

jctwake, where do you ride?

dalderman · Soul Rider Joined: 08 Aug 2008 Posts: 356 City: Carlsbad

I had one of those days a few months ago. I'll slow the boat down and do some surface tricks or just ride switch for the whole set. Anything to get water time but break up the rut that you are in.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

I will change it up. Some days when I'm riding crappy I'll just go out and have fun with stuff. Do a bunch of ollies/bs180s, powerslides, tailslides, wake carves. Just play around on the water. Sometimes goofing around lightens my mood and then I start to get in a groove.

Other days I'll just switch to skating early. I always do 1 skate set anyway so maybe I'll do 2 or 3 if I'm not feeling it. If I'm not skating well I do the same thing, carves, ollies, surface spins.

JeffreyCH · Posted: Jun 26, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject:

I had one of those days a few weeks ago, I just took a break, had a couple beers and relaxed. By the last set of the day I was riding better. It was an off day all the way around.

I was in such a hurry to get out there that I forgot to get gas in my truck, sure enough, ran out on the way back to town. My brother was following me, so I jumped in his van and we went to the nearest small town 6-7 miles down the road. The gas station was still open so I thought we were in luck, but they didn't sell gas cans or even have a loaner, I couldn't believe it...WTF? So we have to drive another 20 miles into Lincoln to get a can. Finally get a can, get gas, and get back to my truck, by this time it's close to midnight. As I'm pouring the gas into my truck I remember that I keep a 2 gallon can full of gas under the back seat of the boat Rolling Eyes

Yeah one of those days.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

JeffreyCH, Laughing

that's good stuff.

m_lesney · Soul Rider Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 358 City: Austin

JeffreyCH, i think we all have had one of those days

b33nine · Soul Rider Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 311 City: Salem-ish

double-ups,

one good double-up will fix any bad day Very Happy

Se7en · Posted: Jun 27, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject:

If I can't put a good run together I usually slow the boat down, shorten the length and just try new tricks

Rhawn · Posted: Jun 27, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject:

Chocoholic · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 363 City: Dubai

I hate those days. I tend to just have some fun with it - which it should be anyway - practise doing some drills, working on the technique. Literally just do some carving, surfing the wake, goofing around, soon brings back the mojo.

And yeah break out the wakeskate.

Rhawn · Posted: Jun 28, 2009 9:20 am Post subject:

I had the same sort of day yesterday.

OuachitaWaker · Addict Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 577 City: Hot Springs

Wake surf FTW!

ctgretzky99 · Posted: Jun 29, 2009 7:46 am Post subject:

Medina · Posted: Jun 29, 2009 8:50 am Post subject:

I like faceplants so much, that feeling on my face after i just hit it... For me fun with wakeboarding is deliberitly making faceplants, on higher speeds the better... Ooh and the pictures definetly are more fun to watch then of backrolls or raleys Very Happy

Christobull · Addict Joined: 29 Jun 2009 Posts: 898 City: Tulsa

Medina · Posted: Jun 30, 2009 10:31 am Post subject:

Had it today, a worse ride, i made some nice high inverts, but with one i slipped out of the handle, busted some blisters, and now my hands are in pain...

stupid thing about blisters that it hurts to make inverts for another 5 days...

Evil or Very Mad