Winning the fight against your mind.

Avedis · Newbie Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 5 City: Anoka

I've been wakeboarding for a while now. I'm getting to where I'm throwing tricks like a toeside backroll and a tantrum, but neither very well. It's not because I don't know how to do it. For one reason or another, I can't pump myself up enough to just get out there and throw a trick hard. I need some way to build my confidence on the water. When I do try the more difficult tricks I have prblems even then. I get scared just as I start my progressive cut. At this point I start hesitating and thinking about it too much and almost always screw something up. If anybody's got some advice let me know. Wink

bluefish86 · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 8:28 am Post subject:

Don't think about it. Just go out and have a fun run, then when your pumped, say f*** it and try the trick without even thinking about what could happen.

Also, it helps if you visualize yourself doing the trick first, so you can have a clear image in your head of what to do. That way you can convince yourself that you can make it on the first try, so you have less worries.

NorthwestRider · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 9:04 am Post subject:

Play your favorite song as loud as you can be for you wakeboard, or a song from a wakeboard video or something. That really helps. A good song to get you pumped is Thursday "For the Workforce, Drowning." Also when you try you tantrum or backroll try to land something kind of hard right before it and then just cut out and cut strait back in so you don't think about it, it will get you in a rythem a little bit. Thats what my friend does when he skateboards like if he wants to like oli a stair set he will do like a 360 flip before he gets to it so hes not really thinking about the stair set, hes worrying about the 360 flip so when he gets there he doesn't have time to wuss out.

gotama176 · Soul Rider Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 341 City: Columbus

Try some tunes.... I don't have a tower for my boat so I just have to wait for somebody to go by with theirs cranked before I try and go big Laughing

Music and pre visualization really seem to help. From what I have heard it really helps to practice on a tramp too.

J_DOGG · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 11:25 am Post subject:

Wakeboard only after 4:20!

DTBoardin · Newbie Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 7

Purposely bail as hard as possible...may i suggest a raley faceplant... then think to yourself "thats the worst it can get" this was told to me by a quite righteous rider, works for him and me, the best advice i can give. hope it helps. Mr. Green

wkbd · Criminal Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 96 City: houston

tunes definitly tunes
they definitly help specially tunes from your favorite wakeboard videos

Cap'nPimp · Outlaw Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 131 City: Fenton

ya J dogg i hear that.

basically just know what you have to do to accomplish the trick and keep only that in your mind. if you think about what might happen or you psyche yourself out your gonna crash. just know what to do then do it and stick it.

hyperrider · Addict Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 City: Edmonton

i do the same thing. but then sometimes i get so pissed off that im wussing out that i just say in my head whatever im doing it who cares and then i just go for it. just find a way to say to yourself IM DOING IT and then if you back out it will get you more and mroe pumped

YelloJello · Newbie Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 43 City: San Jose

i agree with the 4:20, i tried it the 3rd time i wake boarded and was then doing 1/2 w2w consistently "mind free" Laughing

tunes helps too, but make sure you can hear it.

have a fine ass chick (or guy if you go that way Colorful

) cause for me, titties mean Razz

hyperrider · Addict Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 City: Edmonton

k9fxr · Outlaw Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 199 City: MI

please explain the 4:20 rule Question

AccidentProne · Outlaw Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 113 City: Portland

k9fxr 4:20 cuz thats when the waters flat HAHA!!!!!

Loud music gets me pumped up and breaking stuff

blairpoelman · Addict Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 595

Has anyone considered pk's?
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wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

I had the same problem as you until last week where I was getting so angry at myself I just went and tried a big backroll (I can barely clear the wake) and I kinda realised that for tricks like that crashes are necessary, so I tried to incorporate that into my wake jumps, especially TS.

I agree with DTBoardin, go out and try a big, new, hard trick that you know you'll bail on. Then you will realise that crashing is necessary and not that bad, so you will be able to go and really push yourself.

Then all you have to do is get over the fear, which should be much easier if you are really motivated to. It is however, easier said then done.

hyperrider · Addict Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 City: Edmonton

blairpoelman, what are pk's? Confused

hishy · Criminal Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 83 City: Bahrain

get cheer leaders on your boat.............. always works, cause then you'll think with your other head! Very Happy

nashvillematt · Addict Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 823 City: Nashville

4:20 (???)

I have heard that is the time of day when everybody around the world is in the happiest mood. Or it could be some code name of sorts?

I am a big fan of 4:21.

J_DOGG · Posted: Oct 15, 2004 8:34 am Post subject:

k9fxr, I have to assume you are young and shouldn't know if you don't already know...

Talk to your homies in school if they know they will tell you, or they will fill you a bunch of bull like most kids in school try to do about stuff they know nuthn' about.

Go into every trick with confidence! refuse to lose!

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Wake_Turner · Outlaw Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 244 City: kelowna

There is no way to grow balls, either u have it or u dont, that just how it is. If you have it u will just go for it balls out and not psych yourself out. If u have to muster up the courage every time even after the first time u have done it then u wont get anywhere, u just dont have it. some people have it and others dont. it's a mentality u are born with and u cant teach yourself to have it. If you are worried about getting hurt, then u will get hurt. right now u have to decide whether u were born with balls or not, if u are then u should never ever second guess tryign any trick ever again. If u think twice, u just dont have it, no big deal just go out and have fun. You are way more likely to get hurt if u are thinking too much which causes u to hesitate. When u have it u dont have to think u just commit and it gets u a lot further.

hyperrider · Addict Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 613 City: Edmonton

colefooter · Posted: Oct 16, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject:

hyperrider, made some good points.

dont get careless just go for it though, i really like the cheerleader idea!

DJew Jake · Posted: Oct 17, 2004 9:18 am Post subject:

4:20 is when you smoke dope....
I dont recommend it it lowers motor skills just go try stuff Pain is temporary.

SupraBoarder · Posted: Oct 25, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

I actually agree with one of Wake_Turner's points. If you go into a trick worrying about getting hurt, it usually doesn't turn out very pretty. Especially Raley variations. You can not be thinking about getting hurt going in to these types of tricks, you just have to push that out of your mind and not worry about it.

ben8473 · Criminal Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 86

I don't think it is a question of all balls and no brain like WAKE TURNER said, though it was an inspiring post wake turner!
There is a balance and it is a very fine line between balls and stupidity. Stupidity is attempting something that you KNOW you cannot possibly achieve. Attempting something which could and probably will ( If you are not really expecting to pull it off) hurt you badly, like a novice rider attempting a 360 to blind the first time he gets on a board. Balls is knowing that you could possibly pull this off, you have a 50-50 chance. That you have watched the trick performed over and over again. That you have asked anyone who can do it for advice. That you have laid in bed at night and gone over and over it in your mind so that you know mentally that you are ready and there is nothing left to do but go for it 100 percent.
Basically, if you GENUINELY believe you are ready and at a level high enough to try something, then give it a go. Most of us know our own minds and know how far we can push ourselves. Some of us are born or have genuinely developed no fear. But having no fear is a dangerous thing, and definately not an emotion you can fake.
Know yourself, pump yourself up with adrenaline, get girls on board, listen to your fave track.....be brave and give it everything.......But don't be stupid and crawl out of the water with all confidence lost and a shattered body.....

Lyle · Posted: Nov 05, 2004 8:17 am Post subject:

It is kind of ironic how the term 4-20 came about.

I had the biggest mental block learning a Raley. When I first tried them I came super close to landing them. The board would just slide out of under me. Then I really had soem bad falls, on the verge of knocking myself out. After a few years of mental games with myself, the way I finally got it was actually from the trampoline. From the people I talked to they said they were more difficult on the tramp. So spent many hours doing them on the trampoline. I got it down so well I could do them in one bounce, 10 in a row. Then when I went out on the water and finally did it, we had huge wake, so I knew I didn't have to worry about that. I knew I could do it on the trampoline with only about 18" of air. So instead of doing what all the books and tips say about taking a huge cut which results in a whole bunch of speed, I went out about 5 feet from the wake and did it from there. Before doing it I told myself, "I have the perfect wake, the perfect board, and best driver, today is the day that I am going to land a Raley." As they say third time is a charm. Oh and as a side note, I dedicated the trick to my grandma who was recovering from surgery at the time.