Manuals anyone????

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Jul 05, 2003 11:40 am Post subject: Manuals anyone????

Hey I was just wondering I call it a manual when i balance on my back foot and ride one footed like that do you guys manual like that or just lean back???

vance · Guest

i do a one footed manual with my front foot. Its pretty easy.

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Jul 05, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject:

tight i did it with my back foot and then one time i turned frontside like a powerslide (no fins) put my hand on the taail and pointed my back foot forwards for like 10 secs then stood back up.

Jester · Posted: Jul 05, 2003 4:55 pm Post subject:

vance · Guest

Jester,

Then whats the correct term?

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

i think in wakeboarding/ wakeskating its called a nose/tail blunt. i got this info from WU so there is a good chance it could be wrong. but in the 10 year version of WBM it had a shot of murray doing a nose or tail blunt (i forgot which) and it looked like the equivallent of a wakeboarding manual. and vance when you said you were doing a manual with your front foot like a nose manual or did you shift the foot back for a normal manual. a nose manual sounds as possible as a manual.

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Jul 05, 2003 9:58 pm Post subject:

WHatever its called I can take my frontfoot off and ride and trun the board Fs in a powerslide and using my hjand to hold down the tail pull my back foot off.

vance · Guest

The Headless Chicken,

I put my front foot on the very front of the board and lift my back foot up and ride around. Just like onmy avatar just on the water.

DockSecret · Addict Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 756 City: Austin, TX

If you take your frontfoot off, you're board will go flying up a bit, you see it in SNAP when Aaron Reed demonstrates it, and he loses quite a bit of control. I highly doubt you (dumbassonwheels89) have any control when you lift your front foot off if your back foot is on the tail of the board.

And for the one footer vance, when I think of manuals, I think of a raise in one side of the board, when you put all your weight on the front foot, the tail doesn't lift off the water at all. I don't think what you are doing is anything close to a manual, but just a simple one-footer.

vance · Guest

yea the back of the board doesnt really come up. all im doing is whats in my avatar but on water

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Jul 06, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject:

W/e Dock your the know it all. All I know is that i can do it.

DockSecret · Addict Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 756 City: Austin, TX

I'm going to need to see video footage or something to believe this, i've seen too much of people coming onto these chats and going "I just landed a hippy flip, and then to blind!"

Jester · Posted: Jul 07, 2003 7:36 am Post subject:

Vance,

Manual is the correct term, but it's just somethat that can't be done on a wakeskate since you don't have wheels. I don't know what you'd call it instead, but it's definitely not a manual. 1-foot something or other, invent a name, that'd be cool!

silver girl · Soul Rider Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 496 City: England

all i know is u call it a manual on a skateboard

electricsnow · Posted: Jul 07, 2003 8:05 am Post subject:

In order to do a "blunt slide' like murray's, you actually have to cut out hard and revert your board and end up on your nose or tail. It originally appeared in a summer issue of wbm in like 1999, and shaun first cut out hard on his toes and then reverted in such a way that he broke his fins free and then ended up sliding on his nose. I think it was probably inspired by the cordial because those things were finless and had curved, snowboard like tips and tails.

In my opinion, that trick is more like a butter on a snowboard. A technicality that comes to mind is the fact that there arent' any trucks or wheels on a wakeboard, and the fact that he wasn't jibbing anything when he did it. It's still a fun trick to do though, and shaun makes it look good.

Jester · Posted: Jul 07, 2003 8:19 am Post subject:

Here's a picture of a bluntslide sequence 'cuz it's kinda hard to explain if you've never seen one or are confused about what it is. This is a backside bluntslide.

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Jul 07, 2003 11:04 am Post subject:

Dock all I'm saying is that I pull my front foot off the skate and balance and then you have seen aaron (the guy who hurt his ribs at TSR) do the powerslide one footer. You just squat over your board and use your back hand to take the weigth your back foot should have and lift it forward.

Jim M · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 2933

dumassonwheels89
, can you post a pic of this to help demonstrate what you mean?

DockSecret · Addict Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 756 City: Austin, TX

Yes, I'm awfully confused, and Aaron (not Reed, but another wakeskate coach, or used to be one...) hurt his Ribs previously before TSR too, guess he just re-injured them.

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Jul 07, 2003 11:45 am Post subject:

Yea but when I was at camp he popped them out again and went to the hospital then after a few days quit cuz he couldn't ride anymore. He taught me 180's and 360's on the surface. Just come up on wednesday and I will show you what I'm talking about ok.

orzech · Posted: Aug 05, 2003 8:18 pm Post subject:

"manuals" on boards like snowskate,snowboards are called presses

ex/ tailpress, nosepress

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Aug 07, 2003 7:58 am Post subject:

I'm working on taking my back foot off the board and doing surface 180s one footer style but they are hard. I haven't lanbded one but I'm close.

otiswunguy · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 871 City: Sammamish

vance · Guest

thats cool.. but what im talking about looks nothing like that. I bring my back foot completly off the board, at least a foot or two away from it, and ride around with only my front foot on the front of the board.

77 · Posted: Aug 11, 2003 6:01 pm Post subject:

otiswunguy is right. Thats the closest Ive seen.

hypeskatr_03 · Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 5 City: omaha ne

the new hyperlite gate wakeskate looks like youll be able to do them effortless!!