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PostPosted: Jul 30, 2005 8:32 pm    Post subject: How does a cable park work? Reply with quote

Hey , I'm gonna be a post whore tonight. I was just wondering how a cable park operates. Is there a line to go next , and is there a dude in a tower runnin the cables? What happens when you fall? Do you pay by the run or by the day or what? Sorry so many questions , I'm just curious. peace.
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PostPosted: Jul 30, 2005 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Is there a line to go next , and is there a dude in a tower runnin the cables? What happens when you fall?

yes. yes. you swim back to the dock and get ready to go again. i dont know about the rest, im curious as well. Can you take as many laps as you want without letting go? choose your speed?
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PostPosted: Jul 30, 2005 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fixed speed. there is a line that you wait in for the cable to come by and pick up your rope to pull you around. charged by the hour. laps depend on the place you are at and how crowded. swim to the shore and walk back around to the line when you fall.
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PostPosted: Jul 30, 2005 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

at TSR the prices are $21- 2hours $28-4hours $38-all day pass and $25-night session(8:30-midnite) the speed varies at each place KC runs at like 18.4mph and TSR runs about 19.4mph
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PostPosted: Jul 31, 2005 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i wish i had one around me
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PostPosted: Jul 31, 2005 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea me too , it'd be a nice break from being behind a boat every time. Not that that's bad of course!! Just a change in pace.
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PostPosted: Aug 01, 2005 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm from red bud near you wakeboarder rez and i dont think KC is too bad, i'm gonna make it a weekend trip sometime this year
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PostPosted: Aug 02, 2005 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how long do you have to swim out of the way before the next guy? if you take a wicked fall and cant move out of the way fast enough wouldnt you be screwed?
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PostPosted: Aug 03, 2005 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wakerider07 wrote:
how long do you have to swim out of the way before the next guy? if you take a wicked fall and cant move out of the way fast enough wouldnt you be screwed?


There's plenty of time for the next guy to avoid you. If he can't steer round you, he should let go before running you over, its part of the safety briefing.


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PostPosted: Aug 03, 2005 3:11 pm    Post subject: Cable Tricks Reply with quote

The other day I found a video tape from a comp at Princes in London last summer (might have been the UK Nationals). This is Jack Wayne nailing a cablescrew (air double S bend) and then a vulcan:

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