Which is easier

wakerider231 · Posted: Oct 18, 2004 3:34 pm Post subject: Which is easier

I JUST WENT ON MY FRIENDS X-STAR AND LEARNED WAKE 2 WAKE

WHICH IS EASIER HS 180 OR TS 180 Question

Phil · Addict Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 636 City: Chattanooga

TS frontside becsue your landing on your heels.

wakerider231 · Posted: Oct 18, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject:

it is

colefooter · Posted: Oct 18, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

ts if you can clear the wake ts wekk

hs isnt too much worse, if you can just try both a few times

NorthwestRider · Posted: Oct 18, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject:

TS forsure, but a lot of people do HS first cause they don't know TS is easyer. It took me about 6 years to get HS FS 180s down solid. Maybe because I never tried them, but the reason I started landing them is cause i would double grab them and it would make me lean over my toes more. Weird story eh?

colefooter · Posted: Oct 19, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject:

NorthwestRider, 6 years!?

salmon_tacos · Posted: Oct 19, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject:

For some reason, I find it easier to land switch TS than switch HS if I'm going wake-to-wake. If I'm just going 1 wake, it's easier the other way around. Confused

Oh, yeah...unless I triple grab it. Then the BS shifty 180 off the double up is easiest. (NorthwestRider: What are you talking about?) Laughing

wakerider231 · Posted: Oct 19, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

NorthwestRider, yea 6 YEARS CRAP THAT IS A LONG TIME Exclamation

colefooter · Posted: Oct 19, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

talk about progression hah

kid · Outlaw Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 248 City: chico

I learned hs fs first..also because i never tried them ts.. but i think its easier landing toeside switch than heel, maybe im just a freak..and i like to grab it melon.

Bowen · Posted: Oct 19, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject:

I'm gonna guess that Northwest's 6 years isn't as hardcore as one our 'our' single years...not to bash Northwest...but I've been "riding" for about 7 or 8 years...got up the first time...doing jumps...but it wasn't continuous, and it was behind a '77 Sea Ray...w/in the last two years...mainly this summer, I've progressed more than I ever could have imagined...that is because I rode at least 3 or 4 times a week on good water. Its a difference between living it, and having it as a hobby.

salmon_tacos · Posted: Oct 20, 2004 10:14 am Post subject:

agfan12,

Yeah, it sucks not riding regularly. I've been riding 3 or 4 years but I've probably only been out 30-40 times total. I found that when you only wakeboard occasionally, you seem to forget anything you may have learned last time and you almost never try new stuff.

I know someone who has been riding at least 6 years, but only occasionally, and doesn't have a solid 180, so I can see how it is. The double grab helping the HS 180 comment makes no sense at all though.

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

Man I was wrong. I was betting myself that this would be one of those "which is easier a backroll or a tantrum?"

Anyway I think ts 180s are easiest landing switch hs isn't bad. You can just start out really small and work up to big w2w

NorthwestRider · Posted: Oct 20, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject:

colefooter, wakerider231, yup it took me six year to get them down. I could do them switch but not regular. I learned backrolls, tantrums, 360s, even hs roll2reverts before I started getting HS FS 180s down.

agfan12, Naw my last 2 seasons have been pretty hard core. Last year we wakeboarded til about now. Then we got the boat out on the water about March. Wakeboarded all summer long and I think I might be taking my last ride of the season tomorrow.... Sad

. But before all this, season were pretty causal. And I wasn't too in to it. But ya I've been riding 6 years well, 7 next season, and I hated HS FS 180s cause I would always slip out, so this year i was getting back to the basics and this was one of the tricks that I had never really gotten down. Like I had only land it like twice in 6 years of riding. So I started trying double grab HS FS 180s and landed it first try. I guess that was all i needed cause now i can do them with out the double grab and they are easy now that i got the feeling down.

Well there's my wakeboarding history for you....^

NorthwestRider · Posted: Oct 20, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject:

salmon_tacos, It really helped me cause i would always slip out, and to do the double grab you have to grab the second grab like right before your on the water pretty much, so when you do melon to slob double grabs you have to be over the front of your board alot to get that last grab. So you are on your toes when you land and you don't slip out.

salmon_tacos · Posted: Oct 20, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

I could see the slob helping you out but I don't know why it would have to be preceeded by a melan. Don't take this the wrong way but why would you double grab a FS 180 anyway? I could see a double grab with a handle pass, where you're grabbing with different hands but I'd rather see a super-long single grab than see one hand shooting around touching different parts of the board.

wakerider231 · Posted: Oct 20, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject:

what do all you guys been by double grab? in surfing i know you grab with both hands both rails or both sides......how do u do that with the hadle?

colefooter · Posted: Oct 20, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject:

you grab for example stale fish then do the 180 and grab method or something like that

NorthwestRider · Posted: Oct 20, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject:

salmon_tacos, I just thought they looked cool so I wanted to learn them. I didn't care about doing normal grab 180s and when I tried them i would fall cause I grabbed melon. But ya i know what you mean about doing one super long grab. But if you make sure you really grab it good i think they can look super cool.

wakerider231 · Posted: Oct 21, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

colefooter, o thanks

wakeguy2008 · Addict Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 847 City: Ft. Myers

6 yrs is a freakin long time dude lol...ive only been wakeboarding for two Exclamation

colefooter · Posted: Oct 23, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject:

wakeguy2008, your a well rounded boarder too haha

well actually you are now, but before this summer! Laughing