GETTING UP

crhockey66 · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 19 City: Coon Rapids

Okay i went out with two lady friends today, and both of them just kept pushing water? I've gotten many people up.. and aparently my tips just arn't working for these girls so you wanna help me out?

wakedjs679 · Outlaw Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 105

I dont no if you are talkin about wakeboarding or wut u do in the bedroom. Smile

nick@night · Posted: Aug 20, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject:

crhockey66 · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 19 City: Coon Rapids

HAHA guess i shouldve clarified that I was talking about wakeboarding with all you guys on here huh?

nick@night · Posted: Aug 21, 2006 7:49 am Post subject:

no, man, we were just playin'

what do you think they were doing wrong, tell us what happened

crhockey66 · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 19 City: Coon Rapids

ha yea i kinda figured that, but yea they just never really got out of the water, they would always just let go of the rope. Both of them kept complaining about there forearms hurting and how they didnt think they were strong enough?

jpminter · Posted: Aug 21, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject:

crhockey66, have them try to turn the board flat (parallel with the water surface) earlier when they are trying to get up. Otherwise it takes a lot of strength to get up. Which isn't that hard for most of us guys but I could see it being a problem for girls.

FROMWITHIN · Posted: Aug 21, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject:

Keep your knees bent inwards (so your knees are basically touching)..Keep your arms straight out infront of you..Get your driver to tow you a little bit and make sure your boards is around 5-6" out of the water. Its not like waterskiing where the driver hits it full throttle to get you out..you're driver should slowly put the throttle forwards up to speed, as this happens let your knees come to your chest on their own (you shouldn't be pushing with your legs at all). When this happens you should fell like your almost "sitting" on the board. It will plane on the water and turn on its own and from their you stand up and your off!!!
I too own a 15' 90hp. and it has no problems getting me up, im 190lbs and it will pull me up on a slalom ski..
Just make sure your driver eases the throttle slowly to about half...otherwise if he hits it full, thats a lot of water for your board to push out of the way and it will usually end up going under!!!
Hope that helps..

barbarebc · Newbie Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 17 City: Raleigh

I have had many people have this problem and I recently found that it helps to tell them to try to hold the top of the board even with the water, so that the board is slightly under, and drag them for a second or to a little bit faster then just in gear, and then give the boat about half throttle and slowly pick up to full throtle. I used to just give it full throtle right away but people learning have trouble with that sometimes. Holding the board underwater is what really helps those people.

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

Best thing I've found to tell them, and I tell them every time.

"Knees all the way into your chest, arms all the way out. Don't try to pull yourself up!"

big air tom · Outlaw Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 141 City: sheffield

Gotten many people up ay, good on ya!!! lol Razz

Robert Harp · Guest

this should be in the noob section... yes?

WtSteve · Outlaw Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 112 City: Atlanta

Wakebrad, same thing I tell people, works wonders.

Some of my friends were leaning back with their legs too straight, like they were expecting the boat to yank them up standing straight up. Nope. They gotta compress as the boat pulls them so it pulls them up, dont fight the water and try to pull yourself up.

bradb · Outlaw Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 204 City: Parksville

Relax in the water with your arms straight and knees bent up to your chest. The board will naturally float up in front of you.
Take off slowly, and when the rider feels pressure on the bottom of the board, pull their heels down to their butt.
That's it...
From the boat, take off slow & steady, and make sure they aren't pulling in with their arms, or trying to stand up with their legs. Tell them to stay in this low crouched position until they are comming up on top of the water.

The heels to the butt thing forces them to do 3 things without thinking about any of them:
1) keeps the knees bent (you cant have straight legs if you are trying to kick yourself in the butt)
2) angles the board under them such that the water pushing on it will cause the board to rise to the surface (instead of plowing against it)
3) rolls their hips up and over the board.

I always knew how I got up, but had a hard time explaining it to other people. Once I figured out these tricks, we havent had a single person miss. (probably up to about 40 - 50 noobs by now over the last 5 years)
B

crhockey66 · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 19 City: Coon Rapids

Okay, thanks everybody. I think that with all these tips they will be able to get up.