How may tries did it take you to get up for the first time?

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

How may tries did it take you to get up for the first time?

And I do not mean planing for a split second and then face planting. But rather getting in some kind of a ride.

Blindside_137 · Posted: Aug 23, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:

i got up, really slippery and practiced my edging for a few minutes and fell on my arse

DWray · Newbie Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 9 City: New Braunfels

I tried unsuccessfully when I was like 12 to get up three times in a row. I didn't try it again until i was about 16, and then I got up on my first try.

So, 4 total, even though there was a ~4 year time lapse in between me failing and succeeding.

Razz

x vegan x · Addict Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 857 City: Minneapolis

A $*** load. I taught myself. I had no idea what I was doing or what the driver should be doing. Luckily I have some very patient parents!

wakerider07 · Posted: Aug 24, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject:

i got up first try and rode 2 passes befor getting rocked by a roller

NHWakeRider · Criminal Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 93

6-10, dont remba exactly, i was going in and out of the wake tho

LFADAM · Posted: Aug 24, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

Second. Unfortunately I dont remember it cuz I was in 2nd grade but it seemed so easy. I dont understand how people take so long to get it! Laughing

surfersarah · Posted: Aug 24, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:

i had a lesson and they got me up second time Very Happy

KooJo_MoFo · Newbie Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 19 City: Blythe

I was 5 years old... my dad taught me how to get up on the shore by pulling the rope by hand... and then it took 4 times behind the boat... he says. I had to ask him because I don't remember.

-Emron

nickdakoolkat · Posted: Aug 24, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject:

It took me a lot of times because I had no idea what to do and neither did anyone I knew.....but then we had somebody come with us who wakeboarded before and he showed me and after about 7 tries I got it......I think i must be a slow learner or something because nobody else I know took as long as me.......but now I'm way better than all my friends because I ride way more, it just goes to show that everything takes practice

jordon6001 · Newbie Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 9

I sort of just popped up the first time, although I fell like 8 seconds later.

wakeman61972 · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 120

i nailed it my first try but fell after i hit a wave from another boat

Bernstein · Criminal Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 87 City: Birmingham

well i got up my first time of course cause im just a stone cold badass... i was teaching someone last weekend and they got up and tried to balance their weight evenly between feet and control the board with their knees.... and then he does a 1/2 second butterslide in dead center of the wake and SMACKS face first... like hard dude you could hear it loud

seadooman89 · Criminal Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 59 City: niagara falls

wakeskier · Addict Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 593 City: Leominster, MA

Got up first try... felt a bit off balance, but managed to land a wake to wake jump too... tried a toeside 180 but face planted pretty good

I think it helped a lot being able to go out on a wakeboat w/people who knew what they were doing

Stephen Smith · Newbie Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 3 City: Shwa

I got up on my first try but was shaky...i then tried jumping and fell flat on my face

Leggester · Posted: Aug 30, 2005 9:53 am Post subject:

I started with a skurfer set up for the wrong foot, so it took about 6 tries.

re re · Addict Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 723

35% of you are liars. Well, probably 25-30%.

jpk · Outlaw Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 215 City: Redmond

It took me so many tries there isn't even an option on the poll for me. I think I tried getting up on four different occaissions (each with multiple attempts), before I finally got up.

WhoUBe · Outlaw Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 130 City: Spokane

It took me three tries on a flight 69 by Waketech.

Dees · Posted: Aug 31, 2005 7:47 am Post subject:

Got up on my first try. Snowboarding back ground helped.

Dfa · Newbie Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 10 City: Truro

Took me 3 tries. I was 14 and was and still am the only wakeboarder on my lake, and I had only seen wakeboarding once on tv so I had an idea what should happen. Fell on the second set of boat waves.

russell21 · Newbie Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 40

anyone that says they got up on there first try i dont believe sorry Sad

wakerider268 · Outlaw Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 123

I got up 1st try then fell and then after that i just kept letting go of the rope then I finally got it. I tried jumping toe side(i didnt really know wat that meant at the time)not knowing that you should jump heelside when just staring out,but as I remember I got pretty good air and then fell lol!!

J_DOGG · Posted: Aug 31, 2005 8:59 am Post subject:

I was 23 years old the first time I ever saw anyone even wakeboard... Got up my second try same session and rode around the lake like a Wally for 10 minutes or so with a smile from ear to ear.

I've been a wake junkie to this day.....

I'm officially better than the guys that showed me the light way back in tha day. Just being able to say that puts a smile on my face, cuz they can ride. Some of them don't like that too much and a few others from the original crew just don't ride anymore.

I remember the first time I rode with them after a year or so of riding on my own up at camp. I waited my turn on the food chain (new guy = bottom) and got all kinds of words of encouragement. "Ok, go right at it, don't worry the wake ain't that big, remember X, remember Y".... Me. "yup, I'm good." I proceeded to bust out a great run, HS and TS 360's and my new HS backroll, the only tricks I knew at the time. The look on some of those guys faces when I got back in the boat was priceless... I got nothing but "good run". It was at that point I realized I had just moved up on the food chain and sure enough I ride with two of those guys to this date on a daily basis and the others just faded away

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

Probably around 20 tries, with no experience or guidance, behind a waverunner.

I'm not ashamed to say so.

Kewlboarder27r · Soul Rider Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 497 City: Mound

i got it my firt try but the big story is my sister that did not want to do it got up here 1st try shes 9 and has never skied or snowboarded before so i was pretty proud last night Very Happy

tdfox · Newbie Joined: 26 Aug 2005 Posts: 8

Bowen · Posted: Aug 31, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject:

I got up the first try and rode around for like 5 minutes. I fell going into the wake TS. Of course it probably helped that I grew up on the water (every weekend was spent at my families lakehouse) but I had never been on a board before. Now I can't remember the last time I was on ski's.

russell21, then you must really suck, and you're probably still trying to get up. Some people just don't get the whole fact that you don't have to fight it and it is a very natural motion to get out of the water.

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

Mermaid · Addict Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 844

Am I the only one who watched a wb video before attempting to get up? It's so easy when you get the right information, I got up on the first try. My husband got up on the sixth, hahahaha....