Riding the SPINE

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

Anyone have any spine pics? I was BSing with another poster via PM about it and realized I didn't have any pics to showhim exactly what I was talking about....getting 2 boats side by side and riding the shoulder high spine created by the outside of the 2 wakes colliding. Great fun! So anyway - if you have any pics, please share!

Jeffro · Addict Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 659 City: Austin, Texas

jt09, i just hit one last week, but no one was rollin film!! we were in jades boat when greg showed up in his GG ssv, i waved him over and blam, big spine!

first time i ever hit one, it's almost like a d-up the way it tosses you up there....gonna be addicting.

p.s. didn't the cali boys have a vid of them riding a spine?? i remember seeing the video, but not sure who or where it was from.

churchy · Posted: May 05, 2004 10:38 am Post subject:

would love to see the footage if anyone has some.

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

Jeffro, the guy who was there filming for Austinights has video, but I checked his site (www.austinights.tv) and couldn't find it - his archives button didn't seem to work. I don't know if there was any spine footage on the piece he put together (where I sound like a jackass in the interview).

I wish I had his email so I could ask him for the raw footage and someone could edit out that part.

K-Dub may know if Bobby or Schmaltz got any of that on their vid.

Dpierce37 · Ladies Man Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 7659 City: Austin

Got your back Jt..here ya go!

http://www.wakepics.com/media/Spine.wmv

I got it from wakepics, so here is the main site http://www.wakepics.com/view_single.php?medid=9681

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

Nice work Dpierce37. That is cool, but nothing like what we had going on the Perd and Lake Austin during Waketoberfest. Justin was flat killing the spine that weekend - pulling tantrums back onto his own side, backrolls to revert over the spine. It would be awesome to watch a sick wakeskater ride on that - the mini ramp in front of the spine would be great to play in and the spine itself is like wall riding.

NAW · Posted: May 05, 2004 11:14 am Post subject:

I think in Running with Scissors, Shane is ripping up a spine. Clearing 4 wakes, lip slides, etc, etc.

churchy · Posted: May 05, 2004 11:55 am Post subject:

Cool.. thanks fellas.. I think I have running with scissors, so I will have to check that out too.

Face-Plant · Addict Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 703 City: Riverview

Yea, I think it is running with scissors too. Me and my friend noticed it when watching the trailer dvd for relentless we got at the orlando tour stop. Pretty crazy stuff.

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

jt09, I don't know if any of that footage that we shot on the Perd that day came out very well. It's been a long time since I have seen that tape. I'll have to ask Bobby if he still has any of it laying around for you. I know I have the pic. of me riding next to that MONSTER spine the day of waketoberfest that you took....

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

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

K-dub, sweet pic! Ahh...reminds me of fun times!

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

jt09, you took it did'nt you??
I remember shorty after that pic was taken, I was booted into the blue yonder, and ate s hit harder than I did that whole week. Laughing

unlawfulsessioner · Criminal Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 95 City: The SRQ

yah the spines are fun. i wakeskate and landed a shuvit on it this weekend.

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

K-dub, I may have - not too sure. Getting booted is fun, right?

Like Jeffro, said - spines are addicting!

J_DOGG · Posted: May 07, 2004 3:49 am Post subject:

I've rode the spine before, some crazy stuff. We are usually always all in the same boat so it rarely ever happens.

You know it's hard keeping up with you west coast guys out here in the east but we try!

churchy · Posted: May 07, 2004 5:26 am Post subject:

Do the wake sizes have to be the same or close from both boats?

vance · Guest

unlawfulsessioner,

Jb get mike to snap a picture of that off the video, or make a small video clip.

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

churchy, yeah...pretty much the same size, and the boats need to be going the same speed. In the pic that I posted we had a fully weighed Super Air, and a fully weighed X-2, both with about 8 people on each. The wake behind both boats was very large and solid that day.

churchy · Posted: May 07, 2004 8:53 am Post subject:

I was hoping the wakes didn't have to be very closely matched. Most of my friends aren't throwing as big of a wake, but I will find someone... Thanks.

WakeTech · Addict Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 949 City: Edmonton

I never thaught of that, we'll I guess I 'll have something to try next time were out on the water.

Jeffro · Addict Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 659 City: Austin, Texas

churchy, we just hit another one last night....and in 3 different boats....

to me i couldn't really tell too much difference between the 2 spines. One set was setup with my 21i and an older x-star. The next set was done with a 22v and my 21i. But i'm sure, like K-dub says, the more matched the wakes are and the larger they are, the better the spine will be!

another thing we sorta figured out was, longer ropes help, and if you don't have that, try to slow down a few mph. like 21 instead of 23.5 or so.

salmon_tacos · Posted: May 07, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject:

3 boats = 2 spines = half pipe?

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

salmon_tacos, I think you are on to something man!!! Quick, someone try it and take pics! Twisted Evil

pureliquid · Posted: May 07, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject:

Stephan · Guest

I watched Shaun Murray ride a few years back & he was killing it off the spine, nose grabbed mobes & whirly's it was crazy. Not to mention the wake-to-other wake 313. I think like 4 people $#!T themselves in that boat! It's fun stuff, just like the Triple up whip. Now who has a good shot of someone going huge off one of them?

Magic · Outlaw Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 240 City: Seattle

Here are links to a couple of spine pics from our trip to Shasta last year.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/92654270/92655697QDLOyU

http://community.webshots.com/photo/92654270/92655708SBGcxq