Why am i so bad a tantrum....in the right forum this time

AndyAndy · Addict Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 660 City: cutchogue

Ok, ive been doing tantrums for a while now, and when i started trying to take it to blind, i notice that i had some major issues with my normal tantrum. Heres a sequence of what happens sometimes because im just not getting it around enough. Any help is appreciated.

http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showphoto2.php?photo=10659&cat=all&si=tantrum%20sequence

Mitchell · Posted: Aug 16, 2005 7:27 am Post subject:

try stretching your back out so it looks like kinda like a C, your knees are bent.

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Looks like you may be trying to throw it back more, away from the boat like you would for a tantrum2blind or whirly.

Try not to turn you back to the boat but keep your shoulders more lined up with the wake for your normal tantrum. On the one in the sequence you landed a bit short too on the roation, speed it up a bit so you don't crush your ankles. Wink

Lyle · Posted: Aug 16, 2005 7:31 am Post subject:

Load your front foot more when you are coming into the wake. The best instructor I ever had said 95% of the time the way you take off is the way you are going to land.

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Lyle, would that be mr. murray? Laughing

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

yep, you are squaring up too much as you leave the wake. Don't turn so much toward shore.

AndyAndy · Addict Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 660 City: cutchogue

should i try to grab it, to get my self tucked up to rotate faster

Lyle · Posted: Aug 16, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:

ontrider,
No actually I have never rode with him although I would love to some day. You can really learn a lot about someone when you go wakeboarding with them. It was Dave Briscoe. He wrote the instructionals for WBM for about 4 years and did a really good job with it.

Hey jflo452, do you have access to a trampoline. That usually helps alot with Tantrums.

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Lyle, ah. Well I know Shaun stresses that as well. You land how you leave.

And yes, the tramp will help you learn to control your rotation on the tatrum for sure.

AndyAndy · Addict Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 660 City: cutchogue

Anyone know of any good, non-ebay sites where i could buy a sick trampoline set up. Ive been wanting one for so long and i think im finally gonna do it. Ebay has been good to me so im willing to spend 3 or 4 hundred $s

dizzyj · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 485 City: Austin, Tx

there are basically the $200 jumpking wallmart tramps, then $1000+ professional tramps. I ended up with a 14' from academy. Works good, but Im too chicken to do a backflip on it.

shadow rider · Newbie Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 1 City: Blountville

QNev · Posted: Aug 29, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:

Try a backdrop and flip from that Razz

. I tried a backflip when I was babysitting this kid..haha he's got some skills.... made me do it and well... once you get it you'll stick with them. They really aren't scary at all. Just try and land on your knees haha.

AndyAndy · Addict Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 660 City: cutchogue

No thanks, ill keep my inverts on the water.

QNev · Posted: Aug 29, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject:

haha good call. if you want to practice your inverts i suggest letting go right before the flip and doing it. That way it almost never hurts.

KooJo_MoFo · Newbie Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 19 City: Blythe

AndyAndy · Addict Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 660 City: cutchogue

Alright, well thats pretty dick because sometimes you have to drop the handle in the air. Why dont you just make the rule, "If your first trick isnt a whirly 7, your turn is over....loser"

And to explain this, i can do tantrums, i was just asking why no matter how big i take em i still slightly under rotate them, thats what the sequence was for