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Xanadu
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 Posted: Sep 16, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: so...um...i cant get up... |
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I can get up wakeboarding fine, but I can't seem to get up on the skate. i go slow so that the board gets sucked to my feet, then i tell my driver to hit it, and the board goes all wonky, and i cant get up. ill try to stand up and i get pulled over. does the boat just need to go faster, as the board is like half the size?
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bjr
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| Posted: Sep 17, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| Yes go fast at the start...try standing on the board more than letting it float in front of you...It is alot easier for me. |
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Xanadu
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| Posted: Sep 17, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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^^
so like push the board down?
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RUSSIAN
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| Posted: Sep 21, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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its really no different from wakeboarding once there is tension on the rope........
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Xanadu
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| Posted: Sep 22, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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| RUSSIAN wrote: | | its really no different from wakeboarding once there is tension on the rope........ |
yes it is. i have tension on the rope, and i can't get up. I can get up just fine on a wakeboard.
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Wakebrad
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| Posted: Sep 22, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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well, there is very little difference in getting up. The difference being that wakeskates are typically looser than wakeboards and they are smaller. I'd say keep practicing. If you are comfortable on a wakeboard it should come easily. Just make sure to keep your needs very bent.
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frymantcu
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| Posted: Sep 22, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| If your having problems keeping your footing, try holding the rope with one hand and keep the other on the front edge. Once the tension builds the board should stay put. Getting used to your feet not being strapped in is really the only difference in getting up. |
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Lewski03
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| Posted: Sep 23, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| To be honest i learned by slow strats at first, now ithe driver can hit it and i can get up, if you stand up to early the board will become unstable. try to squat until the board is more on a plane. if you have a balence board at home practice, turn it so you are riding as iff you were do a 50-50 on a skateboard if you master that it will get easier. and yes the more you practice the better you'll get. |
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jlaws
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| i hope it's just like wakeboarding, thats what i hear |
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ccameselle
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: |
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One time... in Band camp.. I was able to get up on a kneboard... and I was able to ride it like a skateboard... it was so cool.
Actually it was last weekend. One of the bindings on my board broke so I took out the kneboard and started to waterskate. It was supppeeeerrrr loose in the water but we had a blast. I actualy had an idiot in the lake come and ask me if I knew that the board was a knewboard. 
Nope I said.. I though the two holes were so two people could ride it. 
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Xanadu
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 10:43 am Post subject: |
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^^lol my friend did that too, but then he broke the kneeboard later. He wasnt used to a big wake and tried a w2w, on his knees, got like 10 feet of air, and went straight into the water nose-frist, bent the board right in half. This was an 80s board. 
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provin1327
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| Posted: Oct 08, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: |
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I heard that standing on the board underwater and letting the boat pull you is harder then doing it like you would on a wakeboard.
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| Posted: Oct 09, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| you basically just get up like you do on a wakeboard |
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johnboy1892
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| bjr wrote: | | Yes go fast at the start...try standing on the board more than letting it float in front of you...It is alot easier for me. |
yeah i do that too, just keep the board about a foot or 2 under the water....it might not be the best way to learn how to get up, but its alot less tireing once u get it!!!
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johnboy1892
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2006 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| Xanadu wrote: | | ^^lol my friend did that too, but then he broke the kneeboard later. He wasnt used to a big wake and tried a w2w, on his knees, got like 10 feet of air, and went straight into the water nose-frist, bent the board right in half. This was an 80s board. |
hahahhahaha i didnt think i was possible to break a kneeboard!!!! i have a couple of the thick plastic ones from the 80's too!!!!!
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LakeIolaLuke
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| Posted: Oct 12, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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johnboy1892, Once you start dragging them around the yard behind a 4 wheeler, they get pretty quick to break once you tak ethem back out on the water.
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cadence_131
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| Posted: Oct 12, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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wakeskating on a knee board, i gotta try that one  |
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johnboy1892
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| LakeIolaLuke wrote: | | johnboy1892, Once you start dragging them around the yard behind a 4 wheeler, they get pretty quick to break once you tak ethem back out on the water. |
haha ok ill have to try that!!!!
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DCAP
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| Posted: Oct 28, 2006 11:30 am Post subject: |
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just get up like you do on a wakeboard..
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| how close togather were yur feet? try to get yur feet wider like 2ft apart and just get up like its a wakeboard |
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Waking up the World
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| Posted: Feb 01, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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go ask trick help section
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