What Should I Buy???

Get2TheRiver · Posted: Jun 02, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject: What Should I Buy???

Never wakeskated. What should I buy? How much should I expect to spend. Will use behind X-Star. Thanks for any feedback!!!

chaz28o · Posted: Jun 02, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

You can't use wakeskates behind a X-Star...

Sell the boat Shocked

SMCboarder · Outlaw Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 111 City: Copperopolis

Get2TheRiver

There are a couple of factors that are going to affect your decision on what skate to buy such as price range, riding level, and knowing what you want out of the board.

Since you've never skated before, the dilemma you're prolly going through is whether or not to buy a basic entry level skate such as a Hyperlite Scape or a Cassette Flat deck, or maybe a LF faction board. If you wakeboard a lot and see yourself being on the water a lot, I would reccomend getting an intermediate board, because if you get hooked on the sport, youll be bummed that you spent money a board that you wont be able to full progress on. So I would list these as your main options. I would go with foam on whatever you get for now just for safety reasons although eventually you might want to skip to grip tape for maximum grip.

Basic Entry Board
-LF Faction with Foam - $89.99
-Hyperlite Scape- $99.99
-Cassette A-sym Flat- $99.99

Intermediate/Advanced Boards
-Cassette 4 Trac with Foam-$224.99
-LF Control Foam- $209.99
-HL Phriction- $149.99

More Advanced Boards (For Later)
-Integrity Lemons/Team Deck (with fins)- $300.00/$265.00
-Cassette Bi Level- $279.99
-HL Bylery/Catalyst- $239.99/$199.99
-LF Armada- $239.99

These are the average price youll see for these boards, you might see higher or lower depending on where you buy, hopefully your local boardshop has some of them or you can buy from boardstop.com , wakeside.com, buywake.com or integrity-wake.com (if integrity board)

Hopefully that helps a little bit, I'd reccomend using a friends board to get the feel of skating, then demo a board or two and see if theres something you like, if you're just planing on fooling around you can just purchase one of the cheaper models

HoustonJ · Soul Rider Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 264 City: Houston

get2theriver just buy a hyperlite skate to add to your hyperlite set up and x star.

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

yah i have a scape and i jsut started, the foam s really nice, enough grip for now. and i mean its good enough i will probably be able to start learning ps 3's befor ei will buy a diff HL board.

Get2TheRiver · Posted: Jun 03, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

Thanks for the info SMC. Chaz has me worried though -- can I use the wakeskate behind the X-Star??? I am just looking for something to screw around with between wakeboarding sessions...

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

yah u can use a wakeskate be hind anything, you jsut won't be jumping the wake very much heh...but yah its fine behind anyboat...i mean look at the pors they are going behind like super air notiques.

Nick Taylor · Posted: Jun 03, 2005 8:19 am Post subject:

Get2TheRiver, SMC's list is good except for choices #1, #2, #5, #6, #9, #10.

Support rider owned...

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

SMCboarder · Outlaw Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 111 City: Copperopolis

Ha Nick, we all wish we could ride integ like you, but money doesn't grow on trees for us non-sponsored riders....

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

too true, i mean i am riding a scape for crying out loud! haha Laughing

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 04, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject:

I'm not sponsored. I SAVED up the money for all 3 of my decks

SMCboarder · Outlaw Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 111 City: Copperopolis

Um.....congratulations Rolling Eyes

? I'll go get some cookies for you...I think we all understand the concept of SAVING, but 300 dollar is a hefty sum no matter what way you look at it.

Nick Taylor · Posted: Jun 05, 2005 9:04 am Post subject:

SMCboarder, Depends on what's important to you... Do you want to buy a new wakeskate for $100-$200 every 8-10 months when it cracks/breaks/delams? $300 every few years is a lot cheaper than $600 every few years. How much did you pay for your wakeboard setup?

Wakeskates are not top priority for wakeboard/waterski companies and will not be the best product. I have ridden most of these skates and will be the first to tell you that the ones made by hyperlite are terrible. Period. You can't fake concave with a foam cushion.

Nice post in the beginning BTW...

Nick Taylor · Posted: Jun 05, 2005 9:22 am Post subject:

Get2TheRiver

There are a couple of factors that are going to affect your decision on what skate to buy such as price range, riding level, durability, and knowing what you want out of the board. Another big deciding factor is where you want your money to go. It may not seem important to you now, but if you really want wakeskating to go in the right direction, we need to put the riders in power. You can help push the sport in the right direction by supporting rider owned companies.

Since you've never skated before, the dilemma you're prolly going through is whether or not to buy a basic entry level skate such as a Kampus K39 or a Cassette Flat deck. If you wakeboard a lot and see yourself being on the water a lot, you might go with an intermediate skate that you will be more able to fully progress on. So I would list these as your main options. I would go with grip tape for maximum grip and the feeling of being more on the skate, as opposed to foam which has worse grip and you feel like you are like a centimeter above the skate and you lose some board control that way.

Basic Entry Board
-Kampus K39 - $80.00
-Cassette A-sym Flat- $99.99
-Check Ebay for any flat decks not made by wakeboard companies-$20-$80

Intermediate/Advanced Boards
-Cassette 4 Trac with Foam-$224.99
-Kampus Wahlman - $198.00
-Integrity Team- $265.00

More Advanced Boards
-Integrity Lemons (with fins)- $300.00
-Cassette Bi Level- $279.99

These are the average price youll see for these boards, you might see higher or lower depending on where you buy, hopefully your local boardshop has some of them or you can buy from boardstop.com , wakeside.com, buywake.com or integrity-wake.com (if integrity board)

Hopefully that helps a little bit, I'd reccomend using a friends board to get the feel of skating, then demo a board or two and see if theres something you like, if you're just planing on fooling around you can just purchase one of the cheaper models

SMCboarder · Outlaw Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 111 City: Copperopolis

LOL....nice post Nick, I wasn't trying to say HL and LF are the way to go, I just tried to give the kid all his the options, I agree that rider owned is the way to go for all the reasons you named .

As for my setup, I paid around 600 for the setup, and I see your point of buying a high quality product that'll last many years.

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

I am gonna buy a board this weekend, i saw what you guys recommended, what do u think of Kampus and Satellyte, im lookin for an intermediate board, ive ridden my freinds boards a few times and i dont suck that much, but i was just owndering what u thought of those brands... thanks

Get2TheRiver · Posted: Jun 06, 2005 10:12 am Post subject:

Thanks for the help guys -- I ordered a Kampus K41 direct from them last night. I'm looking forward to trying it at Lake Powell 6/25!!!

Steve

Nick Taylor · Posted: Jun 06, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject:

Get2TheRiver, Nice Very Happy

SMCboarder, Yea, I had an inspiration for that one Laughing

Krown77, The Integrity Team deck is a really good skate to take your riding to the next level. I wish I would've filmed how far this skate has taken me lately. I got a few new clips that I'm gonna put up here soon...

Shuvit720 · Newbie Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 39 City: Dirty South

Liquid Force Impulse 41 in, $150

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

my friends just bought an impulse 41 he rode it 2 times and its cracking and delamming, i got a sattelyte , kinda heavy but great and durable

LFADAM · Posted: Jun 15, 2005 6:53 am Post subject:

Nick Taylor, whoa whoa whoa!

Are you saying LF is not rider owned? Who is Tony Finn or how about Jimmy Redmon?

Nick Taylor · Posted: Jun 15, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject:

Tony Finn is a waterskiier and Jimmy Redmond is an incredible wakeboard shaper. I'm gonna go ahead and say that wakeskates are not their top priority. LF is definitely more legit than hyperlite though... but still, I could never be tricked into giving a dollar to Kent Sports again.

Enzoborder230 · Posted: Jun 16, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject:

ah man, you should've boughten the hyperlite phriction, its parks wakeksate, w/e
but yah, you can't and are not allowed to wakeksate behind an x star lol
no jk, but that kampus will be fine, it will also allow you to progress

LFADAM · Posted: Jun 16, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject:

Sorry to hijack the thread but I have one more argument, Tony Finn was one of the founding fathers of wakeboarding!!! Former surfer who invented the skurfer. Thats like calling George Washington a british politician.

Ctipping · Posted: Jun 16, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:

LFADAM, thank you for the argument I was about to make, but without the profanities!

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

i still cant get over what happened between them and Cassette...

armada- derivative of compression molded butter board
control- derivative of cassette concave

where is the forward thinking here? and i wouldnt say that LF is any more "rider owned" than hype. paul obrien wakeboards, too.

edit: that being said, i still took out a LF control 41" to demo.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 16, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject:

ah but paul obrien does not own hypertite.
nor does tony finn own lf

Stir,Stir

Nick Taylor · Posted: Jun 16, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Damn Kent Sports...

Lake Santa Fe Rida · Newbie Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 9

i ride the HL catalyst 112 behind my seadoo wake edition and i love it...it flips and spins so easy first ride out i did a shuvit and 180 ollie and second ride out i learned the 360 surface slide and can do many in a row...so just to say i like the wakeskate alot...

doin swamp runs now...starting out in a hidden lake on my big lake and riding through the swamp pass and out into the big lake again =D

Nick Taylor · Posted: Jun 20, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

Lake Santa Fe Rida, Have you ever ridden a wakeskate?

Lake Santa Fe Rida · Newbie Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 9

yes like only for 4 days haha

AlexXx · Criminal Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 80

i think u should get a ROC flat wood board. Cassette... Kampus.... of if u want a board that will last you alife time, go for the team integ. I just got it, and i and i absolutly love it.

SnowRide · Newbie Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

What do you guys think of the Hyperlite Kharma? Anyone riding one? Looks rad.. Any reviews?

Thanks!
~Cliff

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

as far as the Kharma. . dont. . .trust me I have on eits blah I switched to a Kampus swing 39 and litterally was better as soon as my feet touched it, not b/c the kampus is soooooo great, but b/c the Kharma is poorly designed, Brandon thomas whos rides it has to mod the fizzuck out of it