No question, just a thank you

JeffreyCH · Posted: Aug 13, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: No question, just a thank you

I've been a water skier for 20+ years, and have recently learned to board. I'm hooked, dout I will ever ski again, seems boring after being on a wakeboard. I just wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate this forum, I had a ton of questions, but after reading and searching this place pretty much all of them have been answered. I've got all kinds of new things to try out this weekend, so thanks a bunch to all of you guys that take time to answer all the newbs questions. RIDE ON!!!!!

Wakeboard K-Fed · Posted: Aug 13, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

you shouldn't necessarily ditch skiing. I have alot of respect for skiers cause if you salom ski... man talk about guts and a good work out. But anyways welcome to the forums hope you enjoy the community and take on a love of wakeboarding.

bass69 · Addict Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 529

JeffreyCH, welcome to the boards

TnR6Rida · Posted: Aug 13, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject:

Welcome glad you like it.

JeffreyCH · Posted: Aug 21, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the welcomes, and yeah K-fed I slaom, parallel the boat with big spray and all. I quit skiing for about 3 years after a car wreck that snapped my left shin in half, after that I lost the ability to deep start a slaom ski, so I had to drop one after that. Over the last four years I've been working my way back into it, then I found a wakeboard at a garage sale middle of last season, a connely blade runner....lol...looks like a surf board, it took me forever to get up on the thing, I think I got like 10 rides out of 100's of tries Shocked

over the winter I snagged a bit better board old ass hydroslid matrix, much easier to get up on, not a great board but wtf 68 bucks with bindings and shipping Laughing

I've been checkin out Ronix one series as my next board....oh and here is a question, do the closed toe bindings come off when ya crash? I have open toes right now and they seem to come off after hard hits...I kinda like that so I can eject the board away from me. Anyway, enclosing a pic of me hookin it hard HS you can defiantly see my skier influence on my style....hard to get away from Rolling Eyes

I'm almost parallel to the boat on a crappy board Very Happy

nickl011 · Posted: Aug 22, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

JeffreyCH, Welcome to the boards! To answer your question, no one style/model/brand of bindings is guaranteed to release on a hard fall. Generally, newer bindings (06/07/0 Cool

tend to stay on, from what I have experienced. I have the Ronix Cells, and they are very comfortable for my riding style. I'd stay away from any 07 ronix boot, as they had problems with base plates bending, and liners partially coming out on a hard fall leaving you at risk for injury. Good luck!

JeffreyCH · Posted: Aug 22, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the advice nickl011, I may have found a deal on a HL with no bindings. That means I will have to use my chasers for the rest of the season, but that opens me up to just upgrading my bindings over the winter. I'm used to a back toe plate and using my left foot to lever off a ski and get it away from me, so I kind of like the chasers for that simple reason, they ride loose, I don't even pull the strings tight Shocked

when I ride. It's one thing I learned quick is to get the board away from you in crash. Wink

Any advice on bindings that run around 150(open toe) would be most appreciated