rough water

Waker4 · Newbie Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 16 City: Bradenton

hey! i gotta question. lately there has been alot of wind so there has been rough water. will this rough water make it easier to ride on flat water next time???? is the rough water good practice for flat water?

Blindside_137 · Posted: Dec 31, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject:

rough water will make flat water seem much better. but i dont think practicing in rough water would help to much because of not being able to edge progressively with a solid stance or anything else. just do what you can with what your given....

Vampyre · Addict Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 622 City: Ooltewah, TN

Riding on rough water seems more like a pain in the ass to me, also risking injury. To me, I just got somewhere else, or if there isn't, I just don't bother. It is more frustrating than anything.

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

yes. and rough water is good practice for rough water. riding in chop is different than riding butter. you need to focus a lot more on your technique cause it is a lot harder to set a solid edge.

Wakemaster_17 · Outlaw Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 123 City: Vicksburg

if the water is ruff when i go out i just try surface tricks behind the wake

CP3 · Outlaw Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 219 City: SC

Tried to go to mead yesterday, didnt even leave the harbor.
3 to 4 foot swells, guess I should have checked the weather.

Liquidmx · Addict Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 755 City: San Jose

When we ride rough water we either wakesurf or short rope it. Short ropping it we pull around 20ish (in nice water we ride around 26) and ride about 30ft out. Work on all our more basic stuff, like: re-entry spins (backside and frontside, hs and ts) surface spins and just building up our stamina and muscle memory so we can take longer sets when the water is nice.

Garyh · Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 43 City: Manchester

you guys want to try riding on the sea i knowsome of you will have, but when youv boarded in sea swell tide rips and chop on that it makes riding on a glass lake like heaven Laughing

ride whene ever you can and give it up when your cream ckrakerd (nakerd) Exclamation

just drope the rope back a bit and get in the wake play in there

Garyh · Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 43 City: Manchester

you guys want to try riding on the sea i knowsome of you will have, but when youv boarded in sea swell tide rips and chop on that it makes riding on a glass lake like heaven Laughing

ride whene ever you can and give it up when your cream ckrakerd (nakerd) Exclamation

just drope the rope back a bit and get in the wake play in there

Garyh · Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 43 City: Manchester

you guys want to try riding on the sea i knowsome of you will have, but when youv boarded in sea swell tide rips and chop on that it makes riding on a glass lake like heaven Laughing

ride whene ever you can and give it up when your cream ckrakerd (nakerd) Exclamation

just drope the rope back a bit and get in the wake play in there

Garyh · Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 43 City: Manchester

you guys want to try riding on the sea i knowsome of you will have, but when youv boarded in sea swell tide rips and chop on that it makes riding on a glass lake like heaven Laughing

ride whene ever you can and give it up when your cream ckrakerd (nakerd) Exclamation

just drope the rope back a bit and get in the wake play in there

surfersarah · Posted: Jan 18, 2006 2:58 pm Post subject:

well said Garyh!! some people just take butter for granted Shocked

HOLLOMAN101 · Soul Rider Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 478 City: Austin

wow quadrouple post, havnt seen one of those since 1973!!!

Foote · Outlaw Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 190 City: Richmond

easy there Garyh lol

marcuskg · Posted: Jan 19, 2006 7:59 am Post subject:

lol me and surfersarah have to put up with what the great british weather throws at us Sad

surfersarah · Posted: Jan 20, 2006 11:13 am Post subject:

indeed we do marcus indeed we do Sad

although it can be fun launching of the 3-4 foot rollers Laughing

lake erie waker · Newbie Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 47 City: eastlake

yea i board lake erie, it does give u one heck of a workout. definitly builds satmina and strength. although the wipeouts do tend to suck a little worse. Twisted Evil

Garyh · Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 43 City: Manchester

wow dont know what hapend there to post 4 times sorry guys... wasent that fired up! nice to c some fellow brits here posting ....

jp14 · Criminal Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 62

rough water just sucks

wake_carver · Outlaw Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 157 City: sydney

true, it plain and simple sucks, you cant cut into the wake without being knocked around. Evil or Very Mad

Kingeuyghn · Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 11 City: San Fernando

i agree rough water sucks...i board in trinidad and tobago and trust me it feels like heavvenn when the water is flat calm!

newbie_boarder · Newbie Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 11 City: brisbane

im just a beginner...for my third time out i wa son rough water...i was so cut cos it was at a dam..the wind was just rediculous...i found it absolutely useless to learn in...i couldnt cut in...id sit outside the wake for 5 minutes before i had even the slightest chance at hittin the wake...its stuff...i cant wait till next time i get glass...maybe rough water is easier as u get better?

nick

jeffh · Newbie Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 38 City: Theodosia

Rough water will also change the wake, so when it is calm you won't be used to it. I have been on water when the chop was so bad it was like hitting a d-up all the time. bad water sucks

surfersarah · Posted: Feb 16, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:

I learnt on rough water and the first time i went out on a lake on butter i was so shocked I just let go of the handle when I first cut in at the wake, but now I'm back to the chop again Evil or Very Mad

NightAngel · Outlaw Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 219 City: Union Grove

I personally hate the chop. I am a beginner as well so its really hard to learn on. I guess we might have to invest in a tube or learn how to wakesurf!

surfersarah · Posted: Feb 16, 2006 8:08 am Post subject:

Hmmm tubes are ok but you have to go pretty fast to make it fun, falling off a higher speeds can hurt like a bitch Sad

NightAngel · Outlaw Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 219 City: Union Grove

good point. But if it is rough water just spinning around can be fun hitting the chop + wake. I just need to find something to do when its like that. Suppose though if the water was bad I could just give up and head out the the barn to ride the horses.

Northseawakeboarder · Newbie Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 32 City: Schagerbrug

rough water sucks, I was boarding at sea once while the water was rough, suddenly my board got caught by the chop, my face hit the water so hard that my nose was bleeding.
I was very lucky that we don't have any sharks around here in the nothsea!

surfersarah · Posted: Feb 19, 2006 6:43 am Post subject:

Dam you Americans with your endless lakes of butter Shocked

marcuskg · Posted: Feb 21, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

surfersarah, well guess whos going over and your not Mr. Green

surfersarah · Posted: Feb 21, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject:

you have really gotta stop rubbing that in Marcus! Its getting old now! Rolling Eyes

im savin up to go after my exams next year! Razz

ramseyglastron · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 335 City: Ruston

i practice riding switch, and that helps when the water is calm