diferent wakeboards? what they mean?

craig3x · Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 12 City: Folsom

I've been wakeboarding for about 5 years, but have always ridden whatever equipment is available to me at the time. I consider myself novice, but have landed a handful of frontflips, and one 360. (cant ride goofy for crap though). Anyway, I want to finally buy a good wakeboard for my skill level.
Now for the questions;
what makes a board better than others? what is the benefit of using the middle skags/ fins?

craig3x · Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 12 City: Folsom

forgot to ask, how important are bindings in the equation?

dbismyname · Posted: Sep 12, 2010 6:54 pm Post subject:

Search button is up top, search board help and you'll have days of info. Once you do that you'll have a lot more specific questions. Welcome to the board

DRAGON88

Craig-R · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 1676

you waited two minutes for a response?

some boards have no center fins but one fin on each side.. and some have a center fin AND a fin on each side.. just depends on the board but like dragon said, you get more stability from a center fin but you can learn proper edging without the center fin

craig3x · Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 12 City: Folsom

craig3x · Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 12 City: Folsom

does edging refer to cutting into the wake for a jump?

da Liks · Addict Joined: 22 Aug 2010 Posts: 594

yes it does.

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

do you know of any boards that you have ridden? next time you go out and figure out what board you like, and what do you normally ride boat cable winchh?

JeffreyCH · Posted: Sep 13, 2010 6:06 am Post subject:

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craig3x · Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 12 City: Folsom

good advice. Thanks!

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

IMO just about any ronix board will be great

DRAGON88 · Posted: Sep 13, 2010 6:12 pm Post subject:

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

just my opinion , (all except chads boards, i dont like the covin and viva to much) not sayin other brands dont make good boards to though..

DRAGON88 · Posted: Sep 13, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject:

Ok, it's just not very helpful or accurate advice.

dbismyname · Posted: Sep 14, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject:

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

well, if you want a actual board options type a deal, it would be nice to know for 1 do you ride boat or cable, do you ride behind a i/o or inboard, and how much wheight/ what boat, what kinda tricks are you looking to do,

craig3x · Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 12 City: Folsom

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

i could only find info on a 07 oasis, but its probably stayed relatively the same, its a pretty mellow three stage, so on the ronix side of boards youd want to go with a one or ibex probably, the reson you would want to get one of these is that since its a little more agressive rocker line, it will give you a bit more height, but your gonna have to cut a bit harder, i dont know about other brands so other people would have to fill you in there, what kinda bindings do you have? becasue your gonna want to get better bindings before you get a better board

craig3x · Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 12 City: Folsom

can you explain what "stage" means 3 stage? 2 stage?? or point me to a forum that explains it all? Thanks. sorry, Im a noob

GnarShredd · Posted: Sep 15, 2010 9:48 am Post subject:

There are two types of rocker lines with wakeboards; Continuous or 3-Stage.

Continuous Rocker boards mean that the rocker of the board is one smooth curve from tip to tail.

3-Stage Rocker boards have a flat spot in the middle, and a curved nose/tail (think of it like how a skateboard looks from the side).

These rocker lines carry different characteristics as far as the ride goes. Continuous rockers generally offer a much faster and aggressive ride but not quite as much upwards pop off of the wake (you'll tend to take things past the other wake and land in the flats if you take a good cut at the wake). 3-Stage boards are a bit slower of a ride, but give you a little more of a boot upwards off of the wake thanks to the flat-spot in the middle (as opposed to the continuous, where you won't get as high but you'll go farther in to the flats).

The best thing is to try a couple of boards of each type and see what you like.

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

GnarShredd, you left one out, kinda just the hy brid, which is a mix of both a three stage/ continuos

DRAGON88 · Posted: Sep 15, 2010 4:05 pm Post subject:

hawkster0001, not really. If it has a flat spot then it is 3 stage, if not then it is continuous.

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

yeah i gues there just a continuos wit a fancy name, but they are a tad different the continuos

Craig-R · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 1676

hawkster0001, you are like the blind leading the blind

GnarShredd · Posted: Sep 16, 2010 7:43 am Post subject:

hawkster0001, Good point, I missed that one. I was just trying to cover the basics but you do see 'blended 3-stage', 'hybrid' or something similar pretty often, so it's good to make the distinction.

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

yah i think they should be there own "type" some people dont though, but my resonign is that with a continuos its noramally a board that has a very smoot contour to it , unlike 3 stage which is basicaly a flat bottom an to tips going up, while a hybrid/blended is basically a very very shalow continuos that has had the tips ben up very abruptly like a 3 stage, but without the actual flat spot, the hybrid boards that ive ridden are a ronix mana, bill, and the hyperlite state (which they call a 3 stage, but it doesn not have the flat spot the ronix one or ibex has.if anyone was wondering about the hybrid/blended boards, there basically what you would assume from there name, the a mix of the two main types, brought toghether to try and have the fast ride of a continuos and the striaght up pop of a three stage.

heres a list of ronix hybrid
ronix: mana(08-09), vault/krush, faith hope love, arcade (09), frontier(07?) coy(07?),

GnarShredd · Posted: Sep 16, 2010 1:14 pm Post subject:

hawkster0001, I don't mean it to be it's own 'type', just a term that people should recognize because board manufacturers use it often in product descriptions. A "hybrid" to me is just a 3-stage, it doesn't have to be perfectly flat in the middle, just have three distinct sections in the rocker line.

AaronATX · Outlaw Joined: 17 Jun 2010 Posts: 136 City: Austin

yeah, subtle or aggressive, a 3 stage is a 3 stage.

hawkster0001 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 441 City: GR

GnarShredd, hmm, make sense, but then again i was just saying what was my opinion

LakeIolaLuke · Posted: Sep 17, 2010 6:53 pm Post subject:

There definitely are hybrid rockers out there, a board doesn't have to fall under the umbrellas of continuous or three stage. The Witness and 2011 Ronix district are great examples. They both have a continuous profile at the rails, with a three stage rockerline through the belly of the board. This gives a smoother, cleaner release on harder cuts where the board stays on edge all the way through the wake, but if you slow your cut down and spring more off the wake, you'll get a more abrupt kick leaving the wake.

GnarShredd · Posted: Sep 18, 2010 5:13 am Post subject: