another question

als132 · Soul Rider Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 462 City: shoreline

sorry, this might sound kinda stupid, but i live in seattle, and we have no sliders around here, were all about nature i guess......but here comes the stupidity: i snowboard a bunch, and i know you can catch your edge on rails with a snowbaord just from the steel edges creating burrs, but do you ever catch your edge on a wakeboard when on sliders (catching on a loose screw or nail doesn't count.). thanks

Maestro · Posted: Apr 11, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

Yes, you can catch your edge, but its not very common.

Ctipping · Posted: Apr 11, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

als132, only if you clip the end of the rail....see froggy's section in "relentless" Shocked

als132 · Soul Rider Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 462 City: shoreline

yeah i know i've seen that^^....brutal as sh*t....and i knew you could clip the rail obviously, but i just wasnt sure if your edge dug into the rail/pvc...

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Apr 12, 2005 5:56 am Post subject:

It is very rare. I have cot my edge on sliders when the screws are sticking out but other then that is is very rare.

Ctipping, W0W! ! isn't that crazy. Shocked

Beaver · Posted: Apr 12, 2005 6:25 am Post subject:

I have hit screws and once on a A frame on the up part it was screwed i got caught and fell down the side and did a noes press with my noes (noes on face not board) Embarassed

als132 · Soul Rider Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 462 City: shoreline

awesome!!! thats a true hippy nose press BEAVER...

Jeff206 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 1002

what's up, I'm from seattle too and plan on building a slider this summer when I get home from Australia (June 30th), I'm in North Seattle so right next to shoreline pretty much. Just letting yo uknow in case you ever want to check it out, I'll probably be posting pictures of the build ans stuff on here so just look for that i guess. Oh my parents live on Lake Wa, that's how I'll be pulling this all off.

chilly willy · Criminal Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 93 City: Vancouver

i hear that catching your edge is super rare. and that makes sense, cause a snowboarding edge is much sharper than a round wakeboarding edge? oops, no question mark.

als132 · Soul Rider Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 462 City: shoreline

JEFF206. sounds rad, where on lake washington are you located? towards kenmore and bastyr and lake city way? cus we have our boat right by there all summer on a dock, thats where i go out of. we should try and make a floating slider this summer if i catch up with you. what kind of boat will you be riding behind?

Jeff206 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 1002

Yeah I'm off lake city way at about 125th. The boat we have at our house right now I haven't rode behind yet but it's a '95 Sea Ray 19' I/O so not the best but ok. and hopefully it will have a tower by the time i get back but that's kind of up in the air.

I'm planning on building a half rainbow kind of like the one in the slider plans section here (http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=138) but it will be a bit longer and easy to disasemble/reasemble.

I'm also planning on wakeskating a lot this summer maybe more than wakeboarding depending on how it goes.