Wakeboarder to Wakeskater

Notorious · Criminal Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 52 City: England

Alrite every1. I'm not to bad at wakeboarding but I've always liked da look of wakeskating. How hard is it in comparisson to get up, stay up and do tricks? Cheers

Jensen · Posted: Jul 12, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

its not that hard to get up and stay up. i got up on my first try. as for tricks, i suck at them.

Kento911 · Addict Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 958 City: Devore

Notorious, sounds liek your taking a step in the right direction, have you conisdered wandering over to www.wakeskating.com?

colefooter · Posted: Jul 13, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject:

Kento911, no no a step in the wrong direction!! Hahaha Laughing

Notorious, Wakeskating is exactly the same as getting up on a wakeboard basically. The only main differences when you are up is the shape of the skate will feel a lot different and it's weird being able to move your feet around hah.

If you can do surface tricks and stuff wakeboarding, you will be able to do them really easy wakeskating. It's practically the same for those kind of tricks, like butter slides etc.

Shuvs and things seemed to come to me just like they did on a skateboard, the board control on a wakeskate and a skateboard are really similar.. except the size of the wakeskate makes it a bit harder to rotate the board. The landing can be a bit tricky, but coming from a wakeboarding background the balance for landing should be a bit easier.

Like Kento said, wakeskating.com is your friend for all your wakeskating questions and other things.. they have nice trick tips over there too. Might wanna try looking on those forums for tips on which skate to buy, and other basics.

Good luck!

Mike.H · Posted: Jul 13, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject:

also if you decide to join www.wakeskating.com make sure you say that you think integritys are the best skate ever, then everyone will love you

Kento911 · Addict Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 958 City: Devore

Mike.H, yeah and you cant post topics about the bi lev either hahahahahaha

Colclough999 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 410 City: Boston

I just bought a new one that should be coming in the mail soon. Is it like snowskating or skimboarding at all?

lake weir rider fl · Newbie Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 39 City: Ocala

doing tricks is just like wakeboarding or any sport for PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

Schimkat · Outlaw Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 136 City: Dunedin

lake weir rider fl, has the right idea. Practice practice practice.

Colclough999, a lot of my skimboarding ability came into wakeskating. I don't know about snowskating, on a count of me never seeing snow Sad

Just curious, what board did you get?

Colclough999 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 410 City: Boston

unfortunatly i got a LF tech 42... which every has told me is trash. BUT looking at the brightside I got it for $70 on ebay