how old were you??

hyperlite979 · Newbie Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

How old were you guys when yall started wakeboarding. Also, how long did it take for you to learn flips and spins

devon · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

started at 12 learned spins first year havnt learned flips yet
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LFADAM · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

I was 8...if you consider a spin a 180 then I was 11 I think, maybe 12...first 360 was 14. First invert was 15. I am (was) a slow learner

Blindside_137 · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

this is my 4th year so I guess i started when I was 13. If I had a wakeboat and or went to the lake more often I'd probably have inverts down by now...

holdsworth · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject:

i started when i was 7 (this will be my tenth season). i started spinning i think when i was 11, started doing a flip when i was 10, the rest started to progress when i was 13.

wakeboardcamp · Soul Rider Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 496 City: Halifax

I was only 18 when I started... wish I had started much much younger.

But I've been teaching kids from ages 6 - 17 for the past 2 summers and I got this one little girl 7 years old doing 180's and surface 360's!!! she had absolutely no fear in her.

mwhit · Criminal Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 98

Started when I was thirteen, never really took the sport seriously that summer. Skipped a season when I was fourteen. Fifteen I took it very seriously, and started doing flips and spins that summer. This summer hope to do most or all of the basic inverts and spins. Plus more.

PimpinD2 · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

freshman year in college, so 18, learned my first invert within the first year.

WannabeSS · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

Learned to get up when i was 12 then never rode again. Started two years ago (1 Cool

riding for real, learned 180s behind my jetski. Bought my boat last april 21st and started real tricks, learned 3's in august i think, back roll around october, just landed tantrums about 3 weeks ago.

shaggyboarder · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject:

3rd grade which i think is around 9yrs old, never kept track of all that other stuff

feliepds · Newbie Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 12

well i started Jan 2007 (22 years old) good thing here in brail is always good weather for riding... humm it´s been what 3 months now...
i got the w2w 180 going.. this weekend i am going to do a big effort to get the fs hs 3 ..
hope bu september i am doing inverts.... oh btw i only ride on weekeds cause i am always working my *** off during the week Laughing

colefooter · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 2:48 am Post subject:

First started at age 6, landed my first 360 around age 10, then I learned a small backroll around 14, and now I'm 17 yay.

Metzy · Outlaw Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 177

Started when I was 14, landed a 180 the first time up! I have had trouble witth the 180 ever since though haha. Learned a 360 when i was 16 learned tantrums and r2r when I was 17.

Hollywood · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 5:31 am Post subject:

21 went upside down the first day, rode 'em out the second. Not much better 3 years later.

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

17 had a huge ass board. But that was also 12 years ago. My god I am getting up there.

I finally could afford my own boat and gear 2.5 years ago. A little harder to learn the flips now. Laughing

LakeIolaLuke · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 6:44 am Post subject:

I first rode a wakeboard when I was 9, so ten years ago, But then had a traumatizing experience where a wakeboard punched a hole in my lower lip, and didn't want to ride it after that. I picked it back up when I was 17, behind a 17.5' OB searay, then my Dad bought a wakesetter in Summer 05, and that's when I really started progressing. It took me about 2-3 months to hit my first two inverts (backroll and frontroll) then got heel and toe 3's, then tannys and most recently raleys. I just recently started grabbing my tannys and 3's, and doing OHH's

pet575 · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 6:49 am Post subject:

31 when I started, was doing spins and stuff by the end of the summer. Hopefully hit an invert by the end of this season.

RufioSwashbuckle · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 7:24 am Post subject:

First rode when I was 15, and rode only one time. Took a 3 year hiatus and started riding for real in the spring of my senior year. Got wake to wake I guess my 2nd time out, and Tantrums and spins that year too. This will be my 3rd season of serious riding, but it feels like the first, it never gets old!

parks_rider · Newbie Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 45 City: Bull Shoals

started when i was 16 and started spins in the end of the first summer and had backrolls down by end of second summer.... now working on tantrums and have landed a few FS Slob 360's .... it just takes the commitment and practice... trampoline have helped me out alot as far as everything up to the landing.... trampolines don't simulate landing on edge... when you get that down your good bro.

Atrain · Criminal Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 56 City: muskego

started riding when i was like 12 on a scurf board... stoped riding till i was about 14 and then landed my first invert that summer, went to Gordy Bubolz Wakeboarding camp and the rest is history, 3's 5's and every basic invert. Excpet toeside backroll Embarassed

burntorange77 · Soul Rider Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 321 City: Kingwood

I started two years ago at the ripe age of 26. I don't get to go out much, so I'm still working on the spins and flips.

phantom268 · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 9:00 am Post subject:

Well I FIRST started about when wakeboarding first hit the scene. Barely did it at the time about all I ever managed was a wake jump then I pretty much didn't wakeboard again until we got our own boat in August of 05. I was 28 at the time.

Last season was my first "full" season of riding and I managed to learn all 4 frontside 180s single wake, and by the end of the season was getting some w2w 180s. I was pretty pleased with that. Now I'm 30 years old (coming up on 31 in July) and with some luck I'll manage a 360 or invert this year, we'll have to see. That's my goal anyway.

spyd4r · Addict Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 701

24 ;D

nickl011 · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

10, that year was the first for the 180, next season i accidently did a tantrum

tpj · Outlaw Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 158

12, never took it seriously, now im 14 and am spinning... hopefully ill land my first inverts this year.

edrex · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

I went 3 or 4 times when I was 15. Another 6-8 times when I was 17. Now I'm 27 and got my own boat. So I guess I could say I've been wakeboarding for 12 years, but this year I want to learn to spin! Laughing

kdip · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject:

Started when I was 8 learned spins at 10(180), then spins(360+)at 14, and finally I learned my first invert at 15.

devon · Posted: Mar 29, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject:

i hope to learn my first in vert this summer
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