Up on the first try!

tedamenta · Outlaw Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 104 City: Breckenridge

I just got The Book, Higher Education, Waketrix, and Detention instructional videos.

Two weekends ago I had two friends with no previous board sport experience watch the “getting up” chapter of each video twice. They both got up and started making turns inside the wake on their very first attempt.

BelmontWake · Soul Rider Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 278

How do you like the book? For $80, is it worth it?

fuk_all_this@hotmail.com · Criminal Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 56

not bad wish i had seen it b4 i facplanted it like 10 times then got up lol Colorful

tedamenta · Outlaw Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 104 City: Breckenridge

picklesinaspoon · Newbie Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 6 City: roswell

i didnt know squat about wakeboarding when we went out....i kinda guessed on how to get up but i got up on my first try

Vampyre · Addict Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 622 City: Ooltewah, TN

yeah, I taught myself how to get up, after drinking half the lake, and ripping my arms out! AFter watclhing the videos above, I have all of them... I have taught 2 friends, and my wife (the most uncoordinated person you will meet*) how to get up on like their 2nd to 4th try, no problems.

*SHE admits she is the most uncoordinated person you will meet, not my choice of words Laughing

Blindside_137 · Posted: Sep 27, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject:

well i went snowboarding a year and a few months before i bought a wake board. got up the first try but man did it seem soooooo slippery, i stayed up for a good 5 minutes atleast before i was aching lol

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

edit, never mind... I just read the rest of the topic and realized that my post had nothing to do with anything.
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WhoUBe · Outlaw Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 130 City: Spokane

Nice job. My friends took 20+ tries each to get up. Kinda wish I had an instrustional dvd of some sort. is it worth it?

rowdy189 · Newbie Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 21 City: Dorrance

I've never seen an instructional video or read an instructional book but managed to teach myself. Then I taught my friend who got it about as quick as I did. Then we taught both our girlfriends. Which was quite comical. One even faceplanting so hard she busted a tooth and had to get it capped. But the thing that really puzzled me was teaching my dad. He has been slalom skiing for about 35 yrs. He just couldn't get the hang of it. Then he tried starting laying way sideways almost face down and holding the rope in tight to his upper chest. Somehow it worked it was the weirdest and funniest way I've ever seen anyone get up.