Change of seasons

chawk610 · Addict Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 668 City: Fort Worth

I tell you what... I have always been a HUGE fan of Fall and the holidays... but after this summer of buying a boat and learning how to ski and wakeboard... I HATE THE WINTER. I haven't looked into a dry suit... thining about it though!

swift6six · Criminal Joined: 02 Nov 2010 Posts: 74 City: Boise

In Ft Worth... it's that cold?

FlyZone CR · Posted: Dec 07, 2010 7:47 am Post subject:

Just head south!

da Liks · Addict Joined: 22 Aug 2010 Posts: 594

there's ice over here and just had severe wrist surgery so no dice.. i'm glad i'm not missing out!

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

It does change your perspective, huh?

da Liks · Addict Joined: 22 Aug 2010 Posts: 594

it does.. all i'm doing these days is sit at home hoping that the bone will heal.. uckf the rest, i just want to be able to use my wrist fully again!

chawk610 · Addict Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 668 City: Fort Worth

It is cold enough to not be that fun... I do not have a dry suit... Of course... it is 65 and sunny today... but I bet would be cold on the water. I am busying myself with boat projects at this point. But it makes me fiend for long hot days!

LopsidedMidget · Newbie Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 28

I'm dying to get back on the water. It's 85-90 degrees in southern California right now.. This is seriously a weird January.

chawk610 · Addict Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 668 City: Fort Worth

Wow... really... get out there.... not the ocean though I hope!

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

I got a drysuit about 5 years ago. I only use it about once a season. A lot of people are still going once a week. We'll usually find a warm day (like today 70 degrees) and go out then.

Also we've found that the less winter riding you do, the more excited you are about regular season to get there. Of course when you're first starting out, you can't wait to get out there. When you've been doing it for 12 years it's nice to take breaks.

3MileBayWaker · Posted: Feb 01, 2011 5:34 am Post subject:

We've got 18" of ice here on the lakes in the northeast... Wakeboards are in the storage racks, snowboards are getting their use now.

Summer can't come soon enough tho.

PabloIbiza · Newbie Joined: 17 Feb 2011 Posts: 4 City: Ibiza, Spain

We waterski and wakeboard all year here in Ibiza, Current temp about 60degrees. 4mm wetsuit a must for me - friends are still in shorts!

Obsessed · Criminal Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 74 City: Bahrain

We can get out on the water pretty much all year round here in Bahrain, we do get some pretty windy days though, and theres no lakes here.
I only started wakeboarding in September, and the winter starts about November here, its been the longest winter of my life! Anxiously waiting for the warm weather which is just starting to come right about now. Still been getting out for a few rides wearing a wetsuit in the last few months, I dont see anyone else here doing it though, they must think were crazy. I cant imagine how it is in colder countries!

chawk610 · Addict Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 668 City: Fort Worth

Does anyone Kite board there?

Obsessed · Criminal Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 74 City: Bahrain

If you were asking me....
Yeah, quite a few people kite board here, mostly foreigners who live in an area called Amwaj, they've nick-named a beach after it.
Ive never tried it myself, but Ive met someone who does it here and he says the wind here is amazing for it, whatever that means. It does look like fun I might give it a go one day but am still too obsessed with jumping a boat wake.