I Ask for Your Input

toothpick · Posted: Aug 04, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject: I Ask for Your Input

Howdy. Billy here. Soon I'll be on the lens side of the camera for the next ad for The Wakeboard Camp, as I'm one of the coaches.

I've been trying to decide what tricky maneuver I should perform for said ad. I figure that this could be a fun chance to see what the Wakeboarder.com community has to think about it.

So, suggestions? I've got things I can do, things I can't do, and I'm certainly not too cool to do something more stupid than cool for it...if the idea is good enough. The ad will be a single riding shot, no sequence or anything.

The only thing that I'm ruling out is the girlfish grab.

Thank you kindly.

kent2010 · Soul Rider Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 281 City: Needles

a good fashion air never hurt anyone. lol

HHI Dave · Posted: Aug 04, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject:

How about a switch 9 right over Bob's head? Mr. Green

MasonH · Soul Rider Joined: 10 Jan 2009 Posts: 422 City: Eufaula

Raley to blind or a nice back 5.

holdsworth · Posted: Aug 04, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

I'd say get someone out there to do a steezy Beesting.

Rusty's grabbed toe backroll to blind would be sick too!

Medina · Posted: Aug 05, 2009 1:27 am Post subject:

Backflip with Nuclear grab? Naaah...

Something realistich, Whirleybird Cool

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

nuclear whirly

GnarShredd · Posted: Aug 05, 2009 12:27 pm Post subject:

Whirlclear Newly (?)

A solid, steezed out, off axis stalefish.

Lyle · Posted: Aug 05, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject:

Before The Wakeboard Camp he was just Peter Parker. . . .

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

yea whirley Mr. Green

NorthwestRider · Posted: Aug 05, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

Huck some double flips.

Prizzy · Soul Rider Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 360 City: Milwaukee

steezy nose press down a 120 ft long slider booooiy

holdsworth · Posted: Aug 05, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject:

Medina, realistic? Huh? What's unrealistic about a nuc backROLL (to blind).

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

Lyle, lol Nice!

toothpick, do a HS jump with no line tension and let go with both hands to do a two handed method then grab the handle and do a late 180. Can't say I've ever seen that, but I think it would be sick.

lake shredder · Newbie Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 46

going off of what christobull said, a tail grab nose grab with a 180 would be pretty cool i think too

DRAGON88 · Posted: Aug 05, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject:

I personally like a big ol' batwing off of the double up. I've always thought it was by far the best looking trick...

toothpick · Posted: Aug 05, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject:

Lyle, awesome, haha. Many of these suggestions wouldn't really come through in a single photo, ya know? Also, no nukes for me thank you. Christobull, I was thinking of possibly whipping out my suicide method fashion. Not too sure.

Lyle, I just got my tantrum to blind tonight...FINALLY!

So, not sure I've seen anything I'm super excited about. I was thinking of riding in formal attire, since I'm the church-going coach here at TWC. Maybe that route, not sure. We'll try to make it good somehow.

Ooo, maybe a tindy frantrum!

Prizzy · Soul Rider Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 360 City: Milwaukee

on a side note, where can we veiw this ad once it has been made???

toothpick · Posted: Aug 06, 2009 5:00 am Post subject:

It will run in Wakeboarding Magazine. It won't be for a few months probably. I think the next one we're running is a group shot of the camp staff and the campers who were with us at the time.

toothpick · Posted: Jan 07, 2010 1:22 am Post subject:

I forgot to update this post when the ad ran. So here goes.

This is the ad that was in Wakeboarding Magazine. As a neat little bonus, my neighbor and good friend Ben Greenwood was on the cover, yeah! This was a switch mute hs 180.

And as a Wakeboarder.com bonus, here's the other ad Kyle made that we didn't use. Just a little indy tantrum.

So really, I kind of just went out there, rode around, and did the moves that felt good that day. Sorry I didn't really honor anybody's request!

More bonus because I'm up late and still not tired!

We had an idea to do a basketball shot for the non-wakeboard part of the ad. So on the first take, if you will, we got a decent shot, but when I came down, I screwed my ankle over pretty good. I think I was all nervous or something, pretty weak really. So, as a result, that day was my last real good riding day in 2009. Now you know! Pics below:

The dunk with a healthy ankle.

About 5 minutes after the above picture.

I was all sweaty and shaky after that ankle sprain, so I went home and we did sitting shot the next day. Thanks Kyle! The End

JeffreyCH · Posted: Jan 07, 2010 1:29 am Post subject:

Great ads, and further proof that basketball is a dangerous sport Mr. Green

holdsworth · Posted: Jan 07, 2010 6:30 am Post subject:

toothpick, if you want to do another one in the future, I'd be down to throw some 911's Smile

( http://vimeo.com/8540083 )

mala1967 · Outlaw Joined: 04 Aug 2009 Posts: 155 City: Pepper Pike

Great Ads. I cant wait to come down. I will be there the first week in March