favorite wake vest?

wakensmoke420 · Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 4 City: Bogota

sup bros

seen a lot of sick vests around. wondering which one yall like.

mine is body glove's rusty malinoski 6w vest either the white one or the black one. also like the body glove vapor vest.

peace

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

I love Jetpilots A-10 attack vest, super light weight, flexible and dig the combat patterns.

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

For Non cga stuff I like the Billabong stuff.

Chattwake · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 5:56 am Post subject:

I love my old O'neill vapor.

logan · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 2:44 pm Post subject:

Jet Pilot sky hawk

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

I go retro. Rocking the standard orange USCG horse collar style.

NKCrider · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject:

im rockin a Helium SWAT cg

Blindside_137 · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject:

I'm only buying helium from now on... mine is CGA and very thin yet floats great.

I love the style from Billabong and loved my old cga from them but the new vests seem to always be non-cga.

heres the helium inmate i use.

curtblanchette · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 4:59 pm Post subject:

shaggyboarder · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject:

My personal fave is the ripcurl stealth vest. Whats your guys opinion on the most comfy/thinnest/flexible cga approved vest? Im tired of renting ones at the cable that i dont really like.

hco · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 7:43 pm Post subject:

I love my hyperlite cga vests, but for non cga I have some crappy 35$ liquid force vest.

Blindside_137 · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject:

shaggyboarder, yea the stealth has always looked interesting to me, I'd love to try one out.

as far as a thin/comfy/flexy vest, I love me helium inmate.

they make a similar vest that looks like it might be even better.. but it's a pretty penny

http://www.stearnsflotation.com/Celtic-Wake-Vest-P1757C34.aspx

jondextan · Criminal Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Posts: 52

i've only tried a jet pilot falcon and helium assassin vest, kept the helium. great vest and fit!

Vea · Posted: Feb 24, 2010 11:44 pm Post subject:

I got myself Ronix Muse CGA vest. I has some extra padding round the chest area. And I was thinking that my backroll wipeouts will not hurt as much but no...just as painful...However, i still love this vest. It fits very nicely and it is quite snug.

holdsworth · Posted: Feb 25, 2010 5:52 am Post subject:

O'Neil Checkmate is my vest of choice. Feels like you're wearing an Under Armour sleeveless since it's so light and fairly thin. It doesn't float the best (air in lungs, about to my nose, air out, down I go, but slowly) but protection-wise, it's really nice to have. I love the mobility in it since it doesn't irritate my arms when moving around in it and I have full range of motion of my core...it's perfect!

Recently got a 2010 Frank vest, but the medium was too small since the shi.t is made in f'ing China now. Even my friend who is smaller than me said he would need a large. Other than that, seems like an okay vest but I don't like the full pad going across my stomach...it's really awkward but it looks siiiiiiick. Laughing

ky1e · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 2693

shaggyboarder, The Hyperlite Murray vest is probably the thinnest CGA vest. That's the one I bought. It isn't thin by any means and still makes you feel pregnant and just sucks in general but out of the CGA's I thnk its the thinnest and best. I hate these new rules about wearing CGA vests at the cables. I just looked it up and now it is called the Special Agent vest. They say that they removed the padding around the ribs so you don't get the CGA pregnancy feel but I can say that is definitely not the case but whatever. You don't have much of a choice lol

ky1e · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 2693

These two vests looks like they allow for a lot of flexibility as well

shaggyboarder · Posted: Feb 25, 2010 9:37 am Post subject:

Yeah I think its a dumb rule I mean you already sign a waiver, I would gladly sign another one letting me wear a ncga vest and taking my own risk... maybe someone can propose one? Next time im at miamiskinautique, Im just going to try on all the cga vests they have and see what one I like best.

hco · Posted: Feb 25, 2010 12:14 pm Post subject:

Hyperlite side entry cga is my favorite. No pregnant look. Only downfall is when you take a bad spill, the vest can come unzipped a bit.

dbismyname · Posted: Feb 26, 2010 7:31 am Post subject:

So can someone put up a link or tell me where they bought their CGA online? I can't see boardstop at work so I don't know what prices I'm lookin at. Lookin for a good comfortable CGA. Probably between the Special Agent or Murray if I find one. Looked at Perfski and I'm guess I'm gonna be spending 100. So hit me up with any links to CGA's you like for 100ish.

dbismyname · Posted: Feb 26, 2010 10:06 am Post subject:

Ignore last post, Boardstop has the hookup. Secret Agent for 90 with free shipping. Ed's got my back. Now to find a way to measure my chest at work Confused