That 1st pull of the season

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

I finally got behind a boat for the first time this year courtesy of oshensurfer's kindness. How excited do you get when you get to dust off the cobwebs and get wet? I was pumped to go, but afterwards, even sunburned and sore as a mofo, I am 10x as excited! I swear, behind behind the boat on a beautiful day w/ good people is about as good as life can get for me. Just confirmed the love I have for this sport / lifestyle.

Thanks Scott! We'll do a kiddie version soon. Get better soon D$, we need you to heal so your girl can tan and bring hotties!

Bambamski · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 6:28 am Post subject:

nice

I've been out about 4-5 times now. Saturday was one of the best days! 85-90 and zero wind. One of those 100 thousand dollar days!!

Makes it all worth while

kavlock99 · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 6:30 am Post subject:

I get my first pull this week. I can't tell ya how pumped I am. My bro just got his boat. We took it out for a late drive. WOW. thats all I can say. We are heading to Alabama to a private lake that was a quary.

This lifestyle is rad.

E.J. · Ladies Man Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7597 City: Mogadishu

Good stuff. What happened to DPierce?

Have been out, but this weekend was the first time I actually ventured into the water.... Here is a pic of I took as I was leaving. Everyone was up at the grill having a burger while I cleaned and covered...... GOD I love Summer....

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

Derek, being his usual "throw caution to the wind" type of guy he is, started throwing raleys on his first run of the season.... His first one was sweet - easily could have landed switch if he was so inclined. His second one he may have left a bit early or something because he had zero height and couldn't get his feet back under him at all to land. Ate it at about 45 degrees to the water fully laid out. Easily one of the nastiest crashes I have seen in person - it hurt just watching it! He tore all his sternum muslces/tendons a year or two ago and aggravated the old injury.

E.J. · Ladies Man Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7597 City: Mogadishu

That hurt to read............*OUCH*

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Hey, go big or go home right D$???

Laughing

Then mother nature reminds you that you are not 19 any longer. Laughing

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

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

jt09, watch out man, you may pull a stomach muscle laughing at him!

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

I think I hurt oshensurfer's arm when D$ crashed. I get excited.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

jt09, as long as you didn't spill his beer he has nothing to complain about. Idea

Dpierce37 · Ladies Man Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 7659 City: Austin

damn I wish I was 20 again...I keep forgetting, my mind might be young, but my body is getting older! HAHA Yea great time's yesterday, I was actually able to get my TS180 back, then a raley, was thinking of trying the tantrum, but figured I would give the ol' raley one more try.....ugghhhh

Yea thanks scott, the water was much better int he a.m. then the p.m. Boy I did NOT want to wake up this morning. Abby came back to our place and we proceeded to finish off all the wine/beer all the while watching that huge lightning storm till late int he night! A few pain killers and a 6 pack of silver bullet sure helped...but not this morning!

Don't worry, I'll still be out there, and I will bring more ladies next time! Mr. Green

Rhawn · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 8:08 am Post subject:

Sound like a good time, and I couldn't agree more about the lifestyle / sport.

oshensurfer · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 8:17 am Post subject:

jt09, I told you you bruised my arm. AND you did!!! HAHAHA. I slowly got my sore as hell ass out of the shower this morning and looked at my arm and sure enough. Laughing

Made me relive that crash again. Shocked

OUCH! Hope D is ok. I thought we were going to have to dive in and rescue him!

D$ will need to come out and bring hotties even if he's not riding, though. Mr. Green

Oh my, I say with a sigh. We need to be better about photo documentation of our outings. Laughing

Glad you guys could make it out. It was a blast. We'll do it again soon.

oshensurfer · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 8:19 am Post subject:

Dpierce37, Sounds like you are doing good. That was easily one of the best crashes I've seen in person. I turned around just in time to witness it too.

Oh and that storm was CRAZY last night. Blew a tree flat over at my house and my neighbors fence was literally pulverized by the straight line winds!~ Shocked

Welcome back to TX! Laughing

Dpierce37 · Ladies Man Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 7659 City: Austin

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

I see D$ is still throwing down the patented "Lawn Dart".

Good stuff. Laughing

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

K-dub, not a lawn dart...that requires air and a more vertical entry, head first. This one was almost like landing a raley in the same position as it is supposed to be at the apex. Homey got his cage rattled pretty good along w/ the chest injury. I would bet that he was no more than 5-6' off the water at the highest point.

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

5-6'????

That's f'n HUUUUGE! Shocked

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

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

To be fair, his first raley was pretty damn sweet.

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

To be even more fair, I give dude mad props for even trying that trick.

I gave up on that one after a concussion a few years ago, and never had the desire to even think about trying it again since.
That trick scares me.

still though.....5-6' is f'n HUUUUGE! Laughing

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

Dpierce37, Niiiiice. Watched a friend try a toeside 5 and catch the lip of the wake right at knee height, this threw the rest of his body slapping into the water. Knocked the wind clean out of him. We were ready to bail as well. He came out of the water and his chest was bright red. Ouch.

jt09, glad to hear your back on the water.

oshensurfer, I can provide entertainment for pulls if I come out. Mr. Green

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

I can't speak for oshensurfer, but if you come to Austin w/o 1) your chickenhat and 2) your chick, I'm thinkin you get NOTHING and like it! Mr. Green

E.J. · Ladies Man Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7597 City: Mogadishu

oshensurfer · Posted: Jun 05, 2007 9:09 am Post subject:

JRW160 · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 367 City: Huntsville

Ohioboarder · Addict Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 520 City: Over there

We got out for the first time on Mem day weekend. On Fri. we hit the water late afternoon before the throng arrived and had good water. I was pretty pleased with myself and was really happy with the new spectra lines (first run with them). Then came Monday went out and the water was chopped all to hell and it seemed that all I did was fight to stay up. I made three runs (falls) and called it a day. Hopefully we will get out again on Sunday and have some decent water so I can prove to myself that it was the water and I was just tired from the weekend.

Dave Twisted Evil

RufioSwashbuckle · Posted: Jun 06, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject:

A UT fan in BAMA? Sweet...

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 06, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

I have yet to take a pull this year Crying or Very sad

ksorelle · Newbie Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 9 City: Lubbock

Going back to the original post, I will say that the first pull of the summer is one of the greatest things I do every year. Every spring all I do all day is day dream about the very first pull of the summer.

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

goofyboy · Posted: Jun 07, 2007 10:03 am Post subject:

We had our first tournament of the season to kick the year off. I had a blast and threw down my best intermediate run I have ever done... only to get whipped by one of our local up and comers - an 11 year old. It was a blast and we had a great turn out. Its awsome to see these kids out there killing it.

8824 · Posted: Jun 07, 2007 11:42 am Post subject:

oshensurfer, thanks for the invite!

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

Where's he supposed to send the invite? You are homeless!