Wikipedia needs some help/ checking in.

Posterchild · Newbie Joined: 06 Jan 2010 Posts: 6 City: Manama

Hello!

Newbie from Bahrain checking in.

I was checking out Wikipedia's entry on wakeboarding, after checking this site out thoroughly of course, and noticed the riding section says "If a person is taller than 6'3" and weighs more than 230lbs, it is physically impossible for them to wakeboard." Thank goodness I did not read this a while back. I would have been more discouraged. I am not quite 6'3". I am 5'8" and ~260, but I still think this statement is nonsense.

It took me a quite a few tries to wakeboard but now I am practicing my edges, and learning to cross the wake without wiping out.

I am riding a Liquid Force Trip 146, with CWB Torq Bindings. I am 44 years old, and I am thrice divorced (Well, not really about the divorces). Lol, my board is so big it does not fit in my trunk. Hopefully I will drop a few lbs and get a smaller board but for now I like my setup.

/Cheers, JP

flixmaster · Site Owner Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7488

I am glad you did not let Wikipedia keep you out of wakeboarding. I have seen bigger guys than you wakeboard. Keep riding and stay off Wikipedia.

NKCrider · Posted: Feb 22, 2010 11:31 am Post subject:

Posterchild, damn your a big guy Shocked

Jensen · Posted: Feb 22, 2010 1:38 pm Post subject:

haha, i can see a max weight being possible but a max height? thats just stupid. Being 6'7 has never stopped me from wakeboarding let alone inverts.

Craig-R · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 1676

Jensen, not even max weight, i give lessons to a kid who's 5'5" and weighs 260 Shocked

biggest kid ever but he can even jump a little and wakesurf too

NKCrider · Posted: Feb 22, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

i mean im no lanky guy either, im like 5'9'' and ~210..

Posterchild · Newbie Joined: 06 Jan 2010 Posts: 6 City: Manama

JeffreyCH · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 2:54 am Post subject:

Posterchild, Welcome to the world of wakeboarding. Keep at it. you'll shed some pounds for sure. I started at age 36 and weighed about 250, now 4 years later I'm trimmed down to 220 and I'm in better shape then I was at 30. Props for not letting some stupid interwebs crap deter you from doing what you want.

flyhigh · Addict Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 809 City: Monticello

LFADAM · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 7:09 am Post subject:

Man I just looked at the wakeboarding entry on wikipedia...thats pretty awful. A good amount of wrong info, some useless info, and written like its talking about rollerskating or tubing. Laughing

olddude · Newbie Joined: 11 Jan 2010 Posts: 5 City: ST Cloud

Also a big guy. Love to wakeboard.

HHI Dave

Posterchild · Newbie Joined: 06 Jan 2010 Posts: 6 City: Manama

I always wondered why my kids teachers frown on them using Wikipedia as a reference, now I know...

I registered as a wikipedia person just to call "bs" on this one, however me being a noob I know I am not the right person to fix that page up.

CoryMiller · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 13 City: Las Vegas

wow, wikipedia is dead wrong! It took me a few tries to get up, but I board and I am the biggest person that I can think of that can get up. I am 6'4" and weigh 292 lbs. Funny thing is though, when I first got up on my board, I was 340 lbs. I can board so much better now! I have only boarded for one season but hopefully many more to come.

Oh and it does help that I ride a pretty big board. I ride a 146, but I bet I can get up on a 142 now.

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

Awhile back I had a friend who played football and was 6'5" and 315lbs. Got him up on a Byerly 142 behind a 19' Reinell. Hardest part about getting him up was convincing him that it's all about the form, and not strength.