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toughnuts88 · Newbie Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 47 City: middleton

man this is another board ? i have been tring to get my tantrum and raley and backroll down but when i warm up you know with grabs or 180s i start out easy then i get higher and higher

so when i get up high and land in the flats it stuns me and i either have one rough ass landing or i wipe out.

i ride a hyperlite motive 140 it is a beginners board and i have 2 total 1'fins i am getting consitant riding switch i dont know why i am landing so hard

the pros look so smooth

thanks for help

jkeubanks · Outlaw Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 104 City: Dallas

My knees always need to warm up to the hard landings of the flats and jumping but doing w2w jumps won't help this. Honestly, I do some big ollies and some inside outs to warm up my knees for those hard landings before I starting going bigger.

So carve around, then do some ollies, then some inside outs, and then start going w2w and in the flats.

wakedude83 · Posted: May 25, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject:

No offense, but it sounds like you just need to learn to control yourself better on your moves in general. It just takes time. If you do the trick smoothly, you will land smoothly.

LFADAM · Posted: May 25, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject:

I have a question about going into the flats and dont feel like starting a new thread so Ill just put it here. Im an intermediate rider (3s, working on inverts and 5s) but I always go w2w. It seems like no matter how hard I cut I cant get more than 5 feet past the second wake. I can get w2w at any line length I try by cutting harder, but if I cut as hard as w2w on 70 on 60' I still only go w2w. Is it my edge? (holding a hard edge but not progressing) or am I missing my pop a little (its weird to pop when you lean that far back) Im talking about HS btw, I dont do TS into the flats unless im tryin TS frontrolls.

zx12y · Newbie Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 35

LFADAM, I'm no expert (slightly worse than you), but try taking a more straight-legged approach. Your edge should still be prgressibve but just harder.

toughnuts88, just takes practice on the landings.

Craig-R · Guest

toughnuts88, in addition to your mechanics and just gradually getting used to landing in the flats, your board isn't top of the line as far as soft landings go. my friend whos a beginner rides a motive also and its very flat on the bottom which makes the landings harder than say a board with a center spine

Natman · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 873 City: Eddy TOWN

well last season i had my w2w like 5-7 feet in the flats. what seemed to keep pressure off was almost like landing slighty with your tail first like your board at lets say a 45 angle.

wtbamoomba · Addict Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 808 City: raleigh

Thomas P. · Addict Joined: 16 Feb 2003 Posts: 717

keep edging in your direction of travel after landing. this is the key that you didn't know you were missing. trust me, go and try landing a huge tantrum in the flat and edge after you land. not hard, but just hard enough like you were cutting out setting up for a t/s jump.

as far a single vector motion in physics is concerned, lateral motion will have no effect on vertical acceleration (i.e. all things fall at the same rate). However, momentum of travel can disperse some of the energy of the vertical fall (i.e. landing and edging toward the flats continues momentum) thus an impact on the trough w/o edging anywhere will feel much greater than the same magnitude of impact that is carried in the direction of travel.

long story short: wakeboarding=edge, jump, edge. in that order.