Help a noob out!

jdjgreenhair · Criminal Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 98

hey i just got this wakeskate:http://www.the-house.com/wklf40bcwzzbutter.html and I need some hlep on what do to do get up and start learinin stuff. Thanks

Schimkat · Outlaw Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 136 City: Dunedin

dont forget this site can help out with tip tricks and everything
http://www.wakeskating.com/tricks/trick_tips.php

wakeskating is really fun im sure youll like it

holdsworth · Posted: May 20, 2005 10:42 am Post subject:

i need to learn to skate better so i am not only doing tricks wakeboarding. my dad thinks it is a waste of gas but he is the one that sold the waverunner!!! Laughing

Junkee · Posted: May 20, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

ohio_wake_2008, a waste of gas? you can fall just as often on a wakeboard as you can on a wakeskate. Gas should not even be in the equation.

have your dad try it. he'll get hooked like everyone else. and then he shouldnt complain about the gas.

jdjgreenhair, there are many ways to get up. all are covered as BN537 listed at wakeskating.com. i prefer the deep water start. but there other ways. its all a matter of comfort.

Other than that once you get up. just ride, get a feel for your new board, and when youre ready to try it. try to ollie, flat spin, etc.

good luck.

holdsworth · Posted: May 21, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject:

Junkee, well, to start off, my dad knows i suck at wakeskating and that i just stand back there acting cool, but he wants me to learn to do it before i waste time/gas on doing nothing. and 2, my dad is too "large" to wakeskate. Laughing

he is about 6'2" and 230-240 lbs or so. last time he tried wakeboarding, luckily this was on the old boat, he was getting up and the rope flew out of his hands, came up and hit the boat in the back end. it put a hold in the fiberglass, but it was by the back seat...no biggie.

Nick Taylor · Posted: May 22, 2005 8:46 am Post subject:

Like hell he's too big... I've gotten people bigger than that up on a wakeskate. How big is your skate?

Cary K. · Outlaw Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 225 City: Wilson, NC

Too big to wakeskate is BS. I'm 6'3", 225, 33 yrs old, and all I do is skate.

noneya · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 796 City: Roxboro, NC

ohio-

Thats why you need a no-stretch rope

Krown77 · Outlaw Joined: 07 May 2005 Posts: 112 City: Haliburton

i find it kinda of hard to beleive it put a hole through ur fiberglass, musta been some old haggard boat yeah good call with the no stretch...

lake weir rider fl · Newbie Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 39 City: Ocala

same thing happened to my friends uncle except when the rope snapped it hit my friends cousin in the back haha

TXJBB · Newbie Joined: 20 Aug 2003 Posts: 23 City: Fort Worth

i'm 6'4" and about 240 and i skate, your dad isn't too big. It takes a little bit longer and a little more effort for big guys to get up for the first time though, he just gave up to easily. tell your dad to nut up and get out there. if he has any desire to do it at all he'll get up eventually.

HatzicMotive140 · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 261 City: abbotsford

i am 5'11' 220 and i get up no problem on my 112cm