how to build/hit a wakeskate pool thats above groung

cwaker4 · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 465 City: Gilroy

im thinking of building an above ground wakeskate pool with a rail in the middle and another pool on the otherside and i have a few questions. does anyone have any plans for this? is this a good idea? how would you start, should i run and then jump and acid drop into the pool or what? i want to do this but im not sure if it will work, any advice would be aprreciated.

Jester · Posted: Dec 22, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject:

This is a terrible idea and would require an absurd amount of money. Good luck with that.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Dec 23, 2004 12:23 am Post subject:

Have you got experience hitting sliders? If not I wouldn't recommend putting in a land gap.

But Jester is right, it would cost alot of money to put in pools, just dig a hole.

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

its not that expensive, you can get most of the stuff in places where they are building houses. we just made like an over sized sand box. take some 2x12s and make a big box and then put in a liner type thing, we used a few tarps and some plastic stuff. the easiest way to start is to have like a little dock/slider thing and thats like anywhere from 4 to 20 foot depending on how fast you want to hit the water going, id go longer personaly. the first pool on ours was like 24 or 30 or something like that and was about right but i would have prefered around 40 or 45 to make it less of a rush. then the landing pool id make deeper if posible and probably wouldnt need to be as long at all, maybe 15 to 20 foot long max. i would say to get some practice on sliders on the water first but deff post some vid, iv always wanted to do a pool to pool slider gap thing.

Kento911 · Addict Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 958 City: Devore

built it hit it, towed with a trailblazer, GVW is right not pricey at all just gotta be resourceful, but land falls hurt like hell at 20 mph just a warning for the uninitiated

cwaker4 · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 465 City: Gilroy

the more i think about doing this, the more it starts too sound like not such a good idea. thats what i was thinking, just big sandbox's with some plastic lining could work, and i dont think it would be too expensive if i get scrap stuff for cheap, it will just take a lot of time and i dont know if the end product will be worth all the work.- thanks for your input

Guest · Posted: Dec 26, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject:

well it will be fun so don't second guess yourself, go steel some wood and do it.