Your most frightening moment on a wakeboard.

ty540 · Addict Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 603

Describe you scariest moment on a wakeboard/skate.

My friend and I were reminiscing about the good ol' days, and I decided that it would be fun to share.

Here's mine. I was wakeskating before school one morning and was trying hs fs 3's off the doubleup. Near the end of my set, I got bucked a little bit on the takeoff. Now, usually when this happens the board goes flying off in some random direction or stays well below you. On this occasion, however, the board floated up right in between my legs. So I was about ten feet up, frantically trying to bat the board away with my hands to no avail. Shortly before I hit the water I pinched the skate between my legs, leaned back, and hoped for the best. I got minor bruises on the inside of my thigh but that was it. I had been expecting the worst, so I lucked out big time.

nickdakoolkat · Posted: Mar 30, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

my most frightening moment came last season I did a backroll, I landed with a lot of weight on my front foot (ackwardly) and I ripped my watsons in half so I heard a really weird tearing sound. I felt a substantial amount of pain in my knee so my first thought was stuff I TORE SOMETHING!!!!! And i did, I tore my "dental floss bindings" I did sprain my knee, but not bad.

kmagnuss · Posted: Mar 30, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

Smacked the side of my head on a faceplanted 3 attempt. Ruptured my eardrum. Lost sense of direction and balance (no equilibrium). Thought I was going to drown. Just bled a bit.

LFADAM · Posted: Mar 30, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

For me it was probably the first time when I hyperextended my knee and thought I tore my ACL, or when I had a bizzare crash of the d up and didnt know what was wrong with my arm. (crazy pins and needles, bruised, red, felt like it was on fire)

JeffR · Addict Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 608 City: Victoria, BC

2 years ago i was demoing a Byerly setup with the Canadian Hyperlite Team, I went huge off a fully loaded malibu wakesetter wake at the end of my run, so i was getting tired, somehow caught my edge, did a massive faceplant, felt my knee twist and heard a snap. I freaked out, but it was the board, I ripped the insert right out of the board and snapped the left binding plate in half. But my knee was pretty messed and that ended my season. As for the board, it was a write off, but i didnt have to pay for it luckily

ty540 · Addict Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 603

I remembered another funny story. It wasn't scary because it happened so quickly, but last summer I had the worst faceplant of my life on a switch ts5. I hit so hard that my teeth felt loose and my lips were swollen.

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

I was cutting in last year and didn't see some boat waves coming, sort of hit the wake like a bad double up and my knee locked as I hit it. Heard some weird noise and my knee hurt a lot for a second... thought I had screwed it. Sat in the water for a couple minutes, got back up and it seemed to be fine though.

RufioSwashbuckle · Posted: Mar 30, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

I cant remember my most frightening moment on a wakeboard because I got knocked the F out...but my friends say it was pretty scary considering that I was bleeding out of my nose and wouldnt wake up so...

kind · Outlaw Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 118

luckily i havent had any really scary momemts yet.. took a head diver (with a helmet on) and was pretty dazed for a minute.. dont remember the boat coming back to get me.. but ya... another re-inforcment for me to wear a helmet.. if that happened with a helmet what woulda happened without one.

OuachitaWaker · Addict Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 577 City: Hot Springs

i was tryin to ollie like reed and some how got my foot/ankle caught in the handle. my buddy drove around for another 30 secs wondering where i was LOL i thought i was gonna drown

i got a gnarly scar now on my ankle

OuachitaWaker · Addict Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 577 City: Hot Springs

i was tryin to ollie like reed and some how got my foot/ankle caught in the handle. my buddy drove around for another 30 secs wondering where i was LOL i thought i was gonna drown

i got a gnarly scar now on my ankle

NorthwestRider · Posted: Mar 30, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject:

About 6 years ago when I was 13, I was working on my half cabs. Well I landed one straight legged and felt some pain in my knee so I let go and sat down in the water. When I look at my knee, my knee cap is stuck on the outside left side of my left knee. As soon as I see that I start freaking out and the pain increased like 10 times. The boat came back around and my knee cap was still all messed up and nobody knew what to do. So I just sat in the water for about 5 more minutes freaking out the whole time. Finally, my knee decided to go back in to place after almost 10 minutes. It really sucked.

Another was when my friend Danny caught his edge on a raley. He wasn't messing around either, I am talking like full Darin Shaprio cut. Well he didn't get much pop and couldn't get the board back under him. We came back to get him and go him on the back of the boat and he was spitting up blood. Not from a cut in his mouth or anything just straight spitting up blood. I told him he should probably go to the hospital and get checked out and hes like "Naw dude, I'm cool. I don't have health insurance anyways." I made sure to call him the next day and make sure he wasn't dead.

lostsparrow · Posted: Mar 30, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject:

it's stories like these that convinced my friend to never wakeboard again.

Well, the stories and those pics that show up every so often of the guy's leg bone sticking out of his skin in the murray (?) bindings.

He got super freaked out after seeing those pics, then next trip out i dislocated my knee on a tantrum, a trick i had just learned like a week before. He witnessed the whole thing and vowed never to ride again. Razz

Improvise · Criminal Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 66 City: Columbia

The first time I tried a raley, really wish I the sense not to do that with the rope tied to the back of the boat. Since that happened my EMT friends still wont try to go big. Oh well there loss.[/quote]

colefooter · Posted: Mar 31, 2007 7:39 am Post subject:

Erik Jernberg, how did you manage to get the bindings off without ripping up your leg more?? Cut them off?

devon · Posted: Mar 31, 2007 8:46 am Post subject:

i dont really have that bad of an experience but i did have a weird one, there was something floating in the lake when i was boarding and i got close to see what it was, it turned out to be a dead deer, it didnt look like on because it was white and really fat
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ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

rukuswake · Outlaw Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 105 City: Lafayette

my scariest wakeboard moment was when i was on my friends bored and hes bindings felt really loose and when i jumped mid air i felt the bindings come off the bored when i landed the bored fliped up and hit me in the face right below the nose...luckily i didnt loose any teeth or break my nose but had a nasty cut. not the scarriest thing but scared the CRAP out of me.
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nickl011 · Posted: Mar 31, 2007 9:15 am Post subject:

I was edging on my toeside edge, my binding screw had worked loose on my front foot on the inside. twisted my knee an F'd up way and heard a pop. It hert alot but the pop was my ankle craking, like when you crack your knuckles. Never really did find out what was wrong.

Tyler T · Posted: Mar 31, 2007 9:52 am Post subject:

Dislocated my shoulder after crashing on a d-up. Couldn't get it back into the socket, so I couldn't swim or anything. That was pretty scary.

BioliteRy · Outlaw Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 206 City: O-town

I was riding behind my buddies x-1. Just got up, taking it easy just going to throw a big air, so i carve... i pop... handle breaks, Now kids if you've ever been floating parallel with the water and floating on your back and you have time to think about how bad this is going to hurt, you're high in the air... knocked the wind right out of me. i just floated for awhile after that.. it was one of those "OHHHHH" from the boat.

and that one drunken time i blew my ear drum.

thats about it.

boarder_boy · Outlaw Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 210 City: Morgan hill

It wasn't my experience,but my dad was water skiing last season and we started going over some other wakes and he fell hard. I heard his scream and turned around and got back and he was in pain. He broke a vertebrae and he could barely get out of the water. Then we had to go to the launch ramp, he had to drive all the way home, and finally when he got to the hospital he blacked out from the pain in the waiting room.

JeffR · Addict Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 608 City: Victoria, BC

alafiaboarder · Posted: Apr 01, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

haha, alright so i was following murray cuz we were having this little glide session off big white at owc yesterday and we were going around the right of nessy and haulin ass barely ollieing onto it... well i was cuttin and my line yanked me upright with too much speed and i thought my shins were gonna snap in half on the side of the kicker but i managed to pull off an ollie and ride half up the side, rode away laughin cuz i thought i was dead... but yea so thats pretty much where im at other than my raley where the boot came off... (got a pic of that too)

JeffR · Addict Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 608 City: Victoria, BC

alafiaboarder, we wanna see that pic

LakeIolaLuke · Posted: Apr 01, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

I landed a t-up perfectly flat on my board, which sent shockwaves through every joint in my back leg. None of my joints would bend, I thought I'd crushed them all. My knee and ankle swelled up and my hip was stif for a few days, x-rays showed nothing out of the ordinary, so I guess I just banged em all up pretty good. everythings fine now

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

I was screwing around and almost ended up as a hood ornament on a new Malibu.

Riding skiers cove on Lewisville and had just finished a clean run coming out. The driver pulled a pretty tight turn and I was on the outside, so I just dug in my edge and did the slingshot pull. Unfortunately, we weren't paying attention and this new owner who had been too close to everyone else all day and kept stopping in weird spots as well, had decided to do so again. As I came around I could tell it was going to be close, but had no idea how to do anything but keep holding on and hope I missed. If I had let go, I don't know that I would have made it around him. As it was, I passed close enough to touch his boat as I went by (I didn't). Pucker factor was pretty high.

JV · Posted: Apr 02, 2007 8:32 am Post subject:

wake_board_skate_surf, awesome, I said something quote-worthy. However, if you're going to use that, do me a favor and make me look smarter than I am by pretending I spelled "reminded" correctly when I wrote that. Laughing

kil021 · Newbie Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 19 City: Acworth

came up short on a tantrum, casing the top of the wake. as i did the board came off and popped straight up at my leg cutting my shin upwards to wear you could see the bone. ended up gettin 12 big ass stitches.

kdip · Posted: Apr 02, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

After landing seeing a small log 5 feet in front of me, luckly I hopped over it.

WhoUBe · Outlaw Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 130 City: Spokane

the time i saw really fat chicks tanning out in the middle of lake.

bmartin · Addict Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 794

Arm through handle on a wrapped BS 180 about 4 years ago. Some pretty major bruising but thankfully a full recovery. Have never tried anything wrapped since.

irish_rider · Soul Rider Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 257 City: Dublin

was learning backrolls off a barefoot boat. Completely under rotated one, landed on my back and my knee hit my face. i didn't think it was too bad cause there wasn't a lot of pain until i came back up to the surface and was just floating in blood. Plus my dad yelling and panicking in the boat didn't help. I had bitten a hole right through my lower lip thanks to my knee hitting it. Wasn't that bad just looked gross and tasted the same.

Also I had 2 weeks of state examinations the very next day.

JeffR · Addict Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 608 City: Victoria, BC

Haha JV, i didnt even notice you spelled it wrong, but consider it corrected

LakeDeltaMalibu · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 8 City: Rome

i haven't had any scary moments but plenty of weird ones. i tend to hit things. around 9 one night i cut out hard and never saw the little fishing boat till i was in it. i felt bad for the poor fisherman who fell asleep and woke up to me in his boat but he found it funny. it made for a cool scar on my knee and now the fisherman stay as far away as possible.