Over 40 roll call

dalderman · Soul Rider Joined: 08 Aug 2008 Posts: 356 City: Carlsbad

Looking to see how many WBers are over 40 and still ride on a regular basis. What's your age and how long have you been riding?

I'm 43 and been riding for about three years. Expecting my first baby in about a month so I'll be spending less time on the water. Hoping I'll still be riding into my 50's.

buckthis · Posted: Jun 09, 2011 2:55 pm Post subject:

Don't think partyb is going to come on hear and say he is over 40
Just take their age and add eight years
http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=7221&highlight=age

jmlloyd · Criminal Joined: 20 May 2010 Posts: 61

getting close..... 37 - been riding 3 years

FlyZone CR · Posted: Jun 10, 2011 6:52 am Post subject:

Not quite yet. Also 37, been riding for 15 years. Just started adding some new tricks again after an 8 or 9 year hiatus. Still loving it!

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

I'm close as well...39 this year.

fish6942 · Addict Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 603

46 and I probably get out about 20 times a year now. Mostly wakeboarding but some of that time is on a ski (super butter mornings) AND I'll still break out the kneeboard Embarassed

a few times a summer just to show the kids how it used to be done.

pet575 · Posted: Jun 10, 2011 1:40 pm Post subject:

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

dragonlady is 37!!!!!

Wheeler · Criminal Joined: 04 Sep 2010 Posts: 74 City: Decatur, AL

51, just started a couple of years ago. Got my 10 and 12 year old daughters started also (wakeskates here).

Ralph · Posted: Jun 11, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject:

Dang, hope in that good a shape @ 51

fropappy · Soul Rider Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 434 City: Benton, AR

42 here.
Landed 4 of 5 rolls today!
Been boarding since '96.
I'm a slow learner. Embarassed

Tried surfing a couple years ago and didn't quite feel it.
Picked up a V-drive last year and an Inland Surfer this year.
Tried it with the factory ballast plus a couple more sacks.

NOW I get it.

Cool

TheHebrewHammer · Addict Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 526

Damn, y'all are old! I always complain/use the excuse that I didn't find wakeboarding early enough in life and that it's too late for me to be any good at it. This thread makes me realize I may have an awful lot of riding to look forward to. Y'all are an inspiration!

Wheeler · Criminal Joined: 04 Sep 2010 Posts: 74 City: Decatur, AL

I know, I have one foot in the grave - I qualify for AARP.

cubbies017 · Posted: Jun 15, 2011 3:59 am Post subject:

My uncle is 45 and goes 2 to 3 times a week depending on the weather.

fropappy · Soul Rider Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 434 City: Benton, AR

Yay for us old geezers!
Cool

Plave · Newbie Joined: 26 Mar 2010 Posts: 34

Ahhh, a thread I can feel young in.

35 in a couple of weeks. Very Happy

Jet · Posted: Jun 16, 2011 11:59 am Post subject:

48 been riding since the skurfer came out and pulled me away from surfinglaugh.. I in-line 20-30 miles a week to stay in shape just for boarding. I Ride 2-3 times a week, have a smoking hot wife that boards with me..just still living the dream man. Jet

this really old alaska man told me once " I have more time on the crapper than you are old" still makes me laugh.

Jet · Posted: Jun 17, 2011 10:38 am Post subject:

My batteries are good!

FlatH20 · Outlaw Joined: 12 Oct 2009 Posts: 167

42 - be 43 in a couple weeks - been riding the wakeboard for about 4 years - last two of which have been a bit more serious - I'm a slalom convert - I'll take the ski one or two times a year - but board 3-4 times a week and we'll go year round if the ice isn't too bad...

sawyer1206 · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 9 City: Angleton

37 not quite fourty and I just started wakeboarding with my 13 year old son. Kneeboarded and skied in my teens and it turns out I still have some kneeboard skills. Looking foward to many summers on the water with the family enjoing this awesome sport!!

rothoveb · Newbie Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 6

46 and I also started out on the skurfer. I've been riding for 14 years and have the knees and surgeries to prove it.

I still give the kids a run for their money though..

Bambamski · Posted: Jun 21, 2011 6:50 pm Post subject:

42 here knees are starting to give me some grief... still going till I can't go any longer!

ray4man · Newbie Joined: 23 Jun 2009 Posts: 45 City: Joplin

44 but starting to feel it too. Been wakeboarding for about 4 years now and I too, am a slow learner. The great news is I've about landed my first invert twice over the last two weekends. My first try Sunday was soooo close. Even my daughter thought I had it. Just not getting enough pop yet.

rothoveb · Newbie Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 6

I've definitely slowed down (gotten smarter?) and don't take the chances that I use too but here is one of the main reasons I still love wakeboarding just as much after all these years...by the way, he was 3 in this picture and now that he is all grownup at the age of 4 he says that he is wakeboarding all by himself. My niece is coming with he and his brother this weekend so it should be exciting.

moto96s · Newbie Joined: 21 Oct 2010 Posts: 13

I am 55 and only started wakeboarding 4 years ago. Raced motocross for about 20 years and had to find some thrills with a slightly softer landing in the event of a mishap. Tried waterskiing first as I did some as a kid, but was not really what I was after. Then some friends turned me on to wake boarding and I have been seriously hooked ever since. I get out at least twice a week up here in the very north tip of the Chesapeake bay (Maryland). I am always looking for others to go out with. I just bought a 96 Centurion V Drive couple of weeks ago that I am working the bugs out of, but it looks like it will be a nice boat. Anyone in the area who wants to go out PM me and we will try and hook up. My buddy and I (he is 54) are always trying to find another person to make it legal.
Moto96s Laughing

gswake · Posted: Jun 23, 2011 1:46 pm Post subject:

Won't be 40 'til Jan, but still riding as much as I can. Only summer weekends though (and only once so far this year. Sad

)

It's been, um, at least ten years.

My father-in-law is 65 and decided this year to try wakeboarding because it's getting too hard for him to get up on his slalom. He's only been once, but seemed positive about it (bought himself a board.)