please help..

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 18, 2003 12:52 pm Post subject: please help..

hey... ive been trying to wakeboard for the past 2 years .. and went out my first time this year yesterday.. and i tried wakeboarding agian.. but i just couldnt make it up. does anyone have any suggestions on the easiest way to get up? like.. do u start sideways like u are when u are up.. or do u start with ur feet right out in front of u ? please let me know anything that might make it easier for me... thanks...

dabra01 · Newbie Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 15 City: Blackwater

put 1 tip of the wakeboard out of the water, put the rope over the wakeboard, look at the wakeboard untill your up then look at the back of the boat. Smile

adela · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 270

Put the board horizontal (perpendicualr to how u ride), bend your knees all the way in, put the rope over the board with your arms straight. Let the boat pull you up, and then rotate the board to your riding position! That's the easiest way that i have found to teach people.

WakeBabe07 · Posted: Jun 18, 2003 1:11 pm Post subject:

another thing that works great for me is have the driver go very very slow just to make your rope tight, then give him the ok and make him floor it. You get a really great pop out of the water nad it will make it a little bit easier for you! It worked with me!

vance · Guest

You also won't be able to move your shoulders for about a week Laughing

ckligor · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 454 City: A-town

Look I don't want to sound like the best at this but I have helped many people get up on the board !!! The only thing you need to do is RELAX.. Let the boat do all the work! Keep your knees to your chest and put your elbows on top of your knees, put the boat in gear (SLOW) and let them get use to the feel on the roap and then pull them a bit faster but still slow so they can see what needs to happen to the board and make sure that it comes to the top of the water once they have that pull faster and your there.. I don't turn the board until I am up and moving about 15 MPH. I ride a butterslide if you will until 15-18 mph the turn it.. You just need to turn it when it feels right to you!

vance · Guest

exactly, dont get into a rush trying to stand up or you will go right over

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 6:08 am Post subject:

thank you guys so much.. i went out yesterday and finally made it up. It feels so great to finally be able to wakeboard after 2 years of trying...and u are right.. i cant move my shoulders lol.. even though i am going again today.. my grandpa said i wont be able to go today cuz ill hurt to much.. i told him the best thing to do is keep using those muscles lol... neways thank you for all your help. talk to you later

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 6:10 am Post subject:

oh yah.. its kinda weird how i got up though.. i was trying to keep my board in front of me... then my brothers like this isnt working too well try it sideways.. so i did.. and i made it but as im going up i turn the board and then when im all the way up i have it sideways again lol.. but it works.. so.. w/e works i g uess right lol...

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 6:14 am Post subject:

yea u may have gotten up that way and thats all good but u dont want to form bad habbits

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 6:29 am Post subject:

my brothers gonna help me some more today.. so i can make it up right... he said he might even call in sick to work and come out to the lake..

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 7:18 am Post subject:

thats cool, yea i wasent trying to be mean, its just when u get bad habbits down its really hard to get rid of em, when i first started baording i had some and im just now gettin rid of em

WIDE-A-WAKE · Soul Rider Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 370 City: Otis

Hey you might wanna try a dock start too. I think they are easy and dont need that much effort.
Hey Vance, very nice Avatar, looks like it would hurt a little.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 7:25 am Post subject:

WIDE-A-WAKE, have u ever watched boombox cause thats exaclty what happend to harf

WIDE-A-WAKE · Soul Rider Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 370 City: Otis

Nope, sorry haven't watched BoomBox. I haven't watched every film out there. If i had seen it, i would not have said that.

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 7:42 am Post subject:

we dont have a dock i can start from Sad

. theres too many ppl around the dock our ski team uses cuz its right next to the swimming area.. and we cant use the one by the boat landing cuz of other boats coming in and out... my dad says he dont wanna be in the way.. i dunno i think hes crazy.. cuz during the week we pretty much have the lake to ourselves lol.. oh wel... my brother has been a big help so far.. and hopefuly he can help more today..

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 7:42 am Post subject:

i dident mean to be mean, i was just wondering cause that part was in the fall section so u may have skipped it or whatever

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 8:21 am Post subject:

i know u werent trying to be mean lol. i didnt take it as u were being mean... the only movie i have seen is shaft/shafted... i dunno i relaly dont have any friends that wakeboard.. the only person i know that wakeboards is my brother.... and hes always at work.. so.. i need some friends around here lol.. like noone that wakeboards is from wisconsin... they are all from like arizona and florida and stuff... oh well... i gotta get outta here when i get old enough lol..

J_DOGG · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 8:59 am Post subject:

Erick Ruck is from Wisconsin.....I heard somewhere he is a wakeboarder...LOL....

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 9:01 am Post subject:

how old are you, yea it sux when nobody can ride with ya, u dont get as pumped to bust out a new trick

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 9:17 am Post subject:

i am 14.. 15 in 4 days... i think erik ruck is from madison...dunno who he is though lol.. but madison is 2 hours from me.. so. how old r u ?

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

wher eu from?

WAKE99 · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject:

you should sit in the water liek your sitting in a chair and have the rope between your legs and when the boat goes just pull back and the boat will pully ou up and then you have to turn your board...........if that doesnt work then im out of guesses but that is what works for me.

Rockstar · Outlaw Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 164

Hey wakechick you are my age Very Happy

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 6:56 pm Post subject:

im 16, and im from dallas, but yea i hope u start getting up consistenly and just remeber to have fun

WAKE99 · Posted: Jun 20, 2003 9:43 pm Post subject:

im 14

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 6:17 pm Post subject:

where u from wakedemond? i went out again yesterday.. and i dunno.. i just couldnt get up.. thats what happened to me with skiing too... i learned how to slalom ski.. and i went for a couple days or w/e and just couldnt make it up nemore.. maybe i should just cool it for a couple days lol.. i do have blisters on my hands.. which dont bother me.. but maybe it would help with holding onto the rope lol... but i did get up the right way finally... lol

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 6:20 pm Post subject:

thats cool, never ever say ur gonna take a couple days off Wink

, u need to go out as often as u can

wakebordchick · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject:

i have to take a couple days off... my grandpa said we cant go till wednesday Sad

.. if i didnt have to i wouldnt.. id for sure keep trying..