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mitchell6
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City: tallapoosa
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 Posted: Aug 07, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject: Help on staying up |
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Ok i'm an mid 30's guy that has been salum water skiing for 18 years but now i've decided to try to wakeboard got the board cheap one from what i can see on here, but it's a board. I can get up with no problem didn't take but 5 trys but the staying up is begining to take it's toll on my body, seems that everytime the boat makes a turn to go back in the other direction i bust it. don't know what i'm doing wrong and ain't got no digital video of it yet. any help is greatly apprecated. sorry about my spelling
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SlowRyder
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City: Charlotte
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| Can you give some more details? where are you riding when the boat turns? Is the driver keeping the speed consistent? Is the boat pulling you out the front? stuff like that.... |
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timmyDecker
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City: Manhattan...KS
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| Posted: Aug 08, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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I'm assuming you are getting whipped around to the outside of the turn?
If that's the case, just edge to the inside of the turn. Depending on how fast the boat is going, don't edge too far inside or you will lose too much speed and sink...but that's easy enough to tell when you are doing it.
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Oasis137
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if its a matter of balance then let go with your backhand and that should keep you strait and balanced.
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mitchell6
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City: tallapoosa
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| Posted: Aug 09, 2006 11:34 am Post subject: |
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it's not the speed of the boat i've got a good driver he can hold it pretty much right where you tell him to, im going by what i've read on here and that is around 19 mph. i'm in the wake and it just seems to throw me out and i bust it everytime don't seem to matter if i'm holding on with one hand or two.
thanks for the responce
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WakeFrog1970
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City: Richmond
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is the board flat when you get thrown outside the wake?..and then slides out from under you?....try to hold an edge and the board shouldn't slide out...
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nick@night
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City: Greensboro, NC
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| are you using fins on your board? |
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