How long til i can jump some waves.

Seanth8 · Newbie Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5

Hey, i haven't been out riding yet, but i'm gonna seriously get into it this weekend, i'm buying a lighting bolt board later today. I'm an alright learner and i'm just wondering when i should maybe expect to get some good air. I know everybody's different, but i've been looking at these photos on here and they look pretty sick, that's what i want to be doing. Am i looking at at least a year of going out every weekend, or a couple months, or what.

I know alot of different things are gonna go into this, but i'm just wondering what kind of level i should be at in a month, 2 months, and so forth.

FunkmaztafoX · Outlaw Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 238 City: Charlotte

depends on who you ride with, how fast you learn, whether you've had any influence with snowboarding or skateboarding, and how gutsy you are..

if you progress and first thing to do is learn to carve well, then start carving into the wakes harder and harder every time and eventually you should be able to get w2w within a few weeks

WickedClimber · Outlaw Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 157 City: Annapolis

FunkmaztafoX, agreed

username:* · Newbie Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 18 City: the bay

i started jumping the wake in about 2 weeks when i started it helps to know the progressive edge and haveing balls just do it man

bighitbiker3 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 386 City: Seattle

It is gonna take awhile for you to be doing stuff that people on this board do if you haven't even gotten up yet. Getting up is half the battle.

doubleup09 · Newbie Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 2 City: hastings

jeez u want to jump the wake and u havent even gotten up yet maybe u should think about just trying to get up first

jkeeler11123 · Criminal Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 62 City: Lake Geneva

Yea go with getting up first, then it will help a lot if you have someone in the boat thats good at wakeboarding, because i didnt have anyone and i had to learn by myself, its really hard too, this site helps a lot though, then start doing surf carves, and progressing harder into the wake each time, then remember to stand tall at the wake, and who konws how long it will take you before u can jump the wake, it depends on a lot of different things.