wb.com has been good to me

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

After reminiscing about a story surrounding a black out drunk event, I thought about all the good things that have come my way from this website.

Besides the countless hours of entertainment and information I've received from this site, I've been hooked up and helped out from many members on wb.com.

March 16, 2006

Spring break trip to Ventura, Ca to visit a friend. We spent a few days in Mexico and went up to Santa Barbara on the 16. Met up with Bethany that night. Started doing shots and the rest of the evening became a blur.

Our friend, the Ventura resident gets a dui when were leaving the bars. We were all drunk so no one could drive. He goes to jail and the car gets towed. It's 2 am on St. Patties day and I'm told I could barely stand. All of our luggage is at Ventura guy's apartment in Ventura. We are now stranded in SB at 2 am with only our cell phones.

I got Mike Isler's number in some wb.com messages before the trip in case we had time to meet up. Apparently I called him and asked for his help. He picked up myself and 3 of my friends and let us crash at his place. When I woke up, I had no idea where I was, but there was this extremely friendly guy working in a room of computers, cameras, and a bunch of other electronic equipment. He explained that I had called him and he had picked us all up in his Excursion and let us crash with him. He dropped us off in the downtown area of SB. The following 12 hours included us exploring the boardwalk and other touristy areas of Santa Barbara as well as figuring out how to get our friend out of jail AND getting back to LAX where our flights were leaving the next day.

Bethany happened to be driving to Ventura that afternoon. So she gave us a ride to Ventura from Santa Barbara (~30-40 minute drive) where we planned to break into our friend's apartment to get our stuff. Just as we get to his apartment, he calls us. He is out of jail and on his way. That night, we crashed at an apartment in LA that my other friend managed and made our flights the next morning. GREAT TRIP!!

Two months later, I visited Chicago with my then girlfriend lakeuor_chic. Muckmeister set us up with some tickets to a Cubs game. 4 years later, we went back to Chicago. Again, Muck was too busy to meet up but he gave us a number of different recommendations including a burger joint that is still the best burger I've ever had in my life. I still keep in touch with 8824.

Rocko and I met up shortly after I turned 21. Still friends to this day. If I ever get married, that guy will be in my wedding.

jt09 hooked me up with a car dealer friend of his this spring. I didn't buy a truck through him but JT got the ball rolling.

E.J. introduced me to some new cigars this summer. Since then I've been expanding my palate thanks to him.

I've messaged many people on this site and received some great advice, recipes, and recommendations. I never thought checking out a wakeboarding site for trick tips 10 years ago would have resulted in what it has. Thank you to everyone!

E.J. · Ladies Man Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7597 City: Mogadishu

Good stuff.....and good place!

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

jryoung found himself in austin a couple of weeks ago and we hooked up for a couple of beers and an iron maiden concert. that got me to thinking how many people i've met from here.

dpierce37 - he responded to a room for rent post i made here and became my roommate for a year or so and is still a good friend.

raiderlefty and i still hang out/text/talk regularly. stayed at his place in houston a couple of months ago.

kyle
grouch
aubs
premierchick135
haugy (and wife)
chavez
ed (flixmaster)
htownbdr let me race his porsche
one of the aggies that lives just outside of austin (scott)
b-rad and i still keep in touch
b-fly
jason ssr
the aussies

i'm sure i'm forgetting several

churchy · Posted: Sep 23, 2013 11:13 am Post subject:

I have had several opportunities to meet a bunch of peeps from this site, but our paths did not cross. I have met Dees due to him being local a friend of friends, however.

Swass · Soul Rider Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 427

I haven't met any of you people. Laughing

Tbonez · Posted: Sep 23, 2013 11:30 am Post subject:

Too bad this place is shutting down..Its been nice knowing all of you guys.

goofyboy · Posted: Sep 23, 2013 12:11 pm Post subject:

i've moved up from just the message board to face book friends with a few folks on here. I do know a couple of folks IRL.

Vette
B-Fly (she was one of 16 of us that started the Houston wakeboarding group back in 2001)
K-wood Kid
Htownbrd (met at a friend's baby shower)

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

Met many of the Cali folks here

Scotta
K-Dub
Nor*Cal
Russian
Bethany

The Aussies

Many people on the Tahoe Trip, DPierce, Haugy, The brothers from Memphis?

I think I'm down $300 to eeven73 from UW/Oregon bets.

And of course many of us are now on Facebook.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

htownbdr · Posted: Sep 23, 2013 3:19 pm Post subject:

Met several people through here.

Got to reconnect with JassonSSR and witness someone way too tall to do inverts on a wakeboard but still pull them off well.

Swass converted my personal statement for law school from a turd to at least a shiny turd. Smile

JT09 almost single handedly made my friends daughter win an online contest.

Got to help a few of the local folks with easy legal issues.

Got in more dumb arguments that I care to remember.

Witnessed more stupidity than I care to remember either.

All in all, been pretty fun.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

forgot about this one - dragonlady entered me into an online contest w/ a picture that had been posted on here when i was in dallas hanging out / jason ssr, premierchick135, and raiderlefty. i won, and was astroglide's sexiest man. they sent me a $500 gift basket, but damned if i can find the pictures of all of it - there was SO much stuff. 2 big boxes. all kinds of astroglide, t-shirts, hats, chocolate, dvds (not porn), a badass picnic basket that i still have, all kinds of bath salts/lotions, victoria's secret gift certificates that i sent to dl. girls LOVED those shirts and all the lube - i had like a dozen little ~4oz bottles and a half dozen shirts, half dozen hats, maybe 100 one shot ketchup packet sized samples. gave that out at the titty bar and downtown like candy. even wrote the marketing chick back about 6 months later and asked for more - she sent another 500 sample packets and another dozen shirts/hats.

Porterwake · Posted: Sep 23, 2013 6:08 pm Post subject:

I met three people on this website in Wisconsin and went wakeboarding. Wakeboarding has slid since I joined this site in the early 2000s, a lot us still remember the switch from the old forums to these. Looking at the date, wow it has been 10.5 years since that switch. Toast to all wakeboarders, I don't do it anymore, but I slide in to check out the new gear. If only gas would fall back to 1.20

Bowen · Posted: Sep 23, 2013 7:56 pm Post subject:

Jumalian became one of my best friends while I was living in CA, I would drive down and pick up his ass almost every weekend for us to go mooch off of someone else's boat.

Also, because of this site I met and became friends with Nauty and Wakebrad. For quite a few years we were a really tight crew. Priorities change as we get older and we drift apart, but we still keep in touch; both were at my wedding. I love those guys.

More recently I started riding with Funkybunch. Awesome guy, we both have young kids so we get on the water super early and are off the lake in time to go spend the whole day with our kids.

I love this site, this site was my saving grace during some really rough years in college. Plenty of flame wars and Scotta tearing newbie's a new one mixed with some great advice from Leggester and many others who I sort of viewed as big brothers.

Chattwake · Posted: Sep 24, 2013 4:14 am Post subject:

I've partied with Haugy a few times at a wb tourny in Nashville.

Partyb · Posted: Sep 24, 2013 5:43 am Post subject:

Good thread.
When I moved to FL in 2002 and knew nobody I joined here looking for people to ride with. I met a guy Dave, and then met another guy Dale...and these guys introduced me to some other local riders and basically these people are the foundation of all my friends here now. These folks were never really on here that much, and certainly not now, but basically this site introduced me to all my FL friends.

I also took some guys from out of town riding who posted in "looking for a ride" or whatever that forum is called, and am still good friends with these people. My friend Frank from Boston who vacations in my house every winter, my buddy Paul who is from FL but was living in Hawaii when I met him and wanted to ride over break--he went to Annapolis and served aboard submarines and is now married with two kids, great guy, I took that dude from Australia riding, and actually Aubs moved down here and I have taken her riding a couple times--she is a wonderful, smart, ambitous young lady--if ya'll have not met her.

I'm sure I've met a bunch of other folks from here along the way. Anywasy, two thumbs up for wb.com

Partyb · Posted: Sep 24, 2013 5:46 am Post subject:

Good thread.
When I moved to FL in 2002 and knew nobody I joined here looking for people to ride with. I met a guy Dave, and then met another guy Dale...and these guys introduced me to some other local riders and basically these people are the foundation of all my friends here now. These folks were never really on here that much, and certainly not now, but basically this site introduced me to all my FL friends.

I also took some guys from out of town riding who posted in "looking for a ride" or whatever that forum is called, and am still good friends with these people. My friend Frank from Boston who vacations in my house every winter, my buddy Paul who is from FL but was living in Hawaii when I met him and wanted to ride over break--he went to Annapolis and served aboard submarines and is now married with two kids, great guy, I took that dude from Australia riding, and actually Aubs moved down here and I have taken her riding a couple times--she is a wonderful, smart, ambitous young lady--if ya'll have not met her.

I'm sure I've met a bunch of other folks from here along the way. Anywasy, two thumbs up for wb.com

Chad H · Posted: Sep 24, 2013 6:20 am Post subject:

I've met quite a few guys who were local who I don't think post here anymore.

Haugy came into auburn for a came a few years back with the wife. Asked me what I was up to that night so I invited a few friends over and told haugy to come by and drink. Shows up with a handle of Jim Beam as a party favor. It was a pretty long night of drinking.

Damn I think that was my freshman or sophomore year.

K-wood Kid · Posted: Sep 24, 2013 12:56 pm Post subject:

This place is shutting down???

pyrocasto · Posted: Sep 24, 2013 2:02 pm Post subject:

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Winter is coming... Tahoe anyone?

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

goofyboy · Posted: Sep 25, 2013 4:12 am Post subject:

eeven73 · Posted: Sep 25, 2013 6:53 am Post subject:

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Broccoli B · Posted: Sep 25, 2013 8:58 am Post subject:

One of the Ruleman's is a commercial pilot or something. I fly a lot and always try to catch the names of my pilots just in case.

Bethany · Posted: Sep 25, 2013 9:02 am Post subject:

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

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

I've had the pleasure to meet a few folks through this site and some are really good friends now. Obviously, I don't have the history of being around since the beginning like a lot of you. It's cool to read about the friendships that have developed and the fun times. Good idea for a thread!

K-wood Kid · Posted: Sep 25, 2013 1:36 pm Post subject:

Dragonlady8 · Black Widow Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 9198

brew · Posted: Sep 30, 2013 3:33 pm Post subject:

I bought my first wakeboard boat off this site from NAW. Drove to Chicago and picked up. I sold that same boat on this site a couple of years later. I'll probably end up trying to sell the one I have now on this site at some point.

I've also received a bunch of good advice from people when I've been in their areas. Muck put me on some awesome out of the way restaraunts and a nice hotel in Chicago.

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac