what made u wanna wakeskate?

deltarider · Guest

it's skateboarding on water.......come on, who wouldn't want to try this?

daniel · Back Big Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 3669 City: Duncan

one day i bought a wakeskate....and the rest is history! wakeboarded maybe twice since then in 2 years!

Slyder · Posted: Mar 28, 2006 12:42 am Post subject:

I met Aaron Reed at The Wakeboard Camp. The rest is history.

wakemitch · Posted: Mar 28, 2006 1:29 am Post subject:

my cousin tyler told me about wakeskating back in 1999, but i didnt really understand. but then in 2002 i think i got free4all and i was blown away by tim kovacich and brian grubb's parts and i wanted to ride so bad. and then in 2003 tyler came camping with me and brought his skate and i tried it and i was hooked.

holmespika · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 381

i started out wakeboarding, our boat is crap so it got old real fast, so I switched to wakeskating because it seemed like a better fit. I've only strapped like once or twice since.

DRAGON88 · Dragoon Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 1020 City: Portland

"I met Aaron Reed at The Wakeboard Camp. The rest is history."

Same story.

Ers · Faceplant Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 14 City: Grästorp

I ended up doing a stomac splash in a speed of 40 knots with my wakeboard. I had new (pro)bindings wich refused to releas my feet. Humm... The rest is history. Razz

KallaZ · Pop Shuvit Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 City: Australia

saw it on fuel t.v and found some boyz doing it across the river from me and i had one go and i was hoooooooooooooooked!!!!

p.s NICK TAYLOR = THE FUTURE OF WAKESKAITNG

PIRATE · Guest

Brian Grubbs section in All or Nothing......................................... I can still play that in my head anytime I want.

The Bug · Frontside 180 Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 434 City: Redding

Three years ago I saw an ad in Wakeboarder Mag with Byerly doing an ollie over a rock in a lake probably somewhere near where Pirate lives. I realized that riverblading was forever ghey.

Shane Bonifay's 2006 gear just proves it.

Slyder · Posted: Mar 28, 2006 10:23 am Post subject:

DRAGON88, Same week. Good times man, good times.

88skisupreme · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1342 City: ATX

I used to have a Skurfer and I'd ride without the straps sometimes. When I got a real wakeboard I'd still take the bindings off and ride barefoot a little bit. I used to put on sandals to get better traction. My friend and I actuall learned shoveits on a wakebord this way. Finnaly got some FWT when they came out.

Then about 5 years ago I rode the cassette 41" wakeskate which was the first real wakeskate I rode. I'd had a hyperlite before that but it was just a wakeboard with foam on top. I knew wakeskating was for real when I rode that cassette.

Ska_686 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 118 City: Troy

my friend took me out on her boat, and said hey, can you pull me? and i said yea sure. so she jumps in and asks me to throw her the "skate" and i go, what the shizzle is that. then what do you know, i buy one the next day

Poo · Guest

Brian Grubb and Leif Erkilla, (sp) I saw some footage of them on the internet and immidiately knew i wanted to try it.

bigpimpinalberta · Frontside 180 Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 291 City: P-town

probly the fact that i dont have a wakeboarding boat. i shalom ski and our boat is designed to make no wake. its inexpensive. i mean how much does a flat deck cost. a pair of old skater shoes and a winch and ur set. the major thing that helped me was this site. seein all the ams progress and become pro is swet. some of nicks old footage there is also a big canadian wakeskate movement i dont know why but meh. i have never been part of a sport the is still evolving to this degree and that in itself is crazy.

dietwater5 · Posted: Mar 28, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

bigpimpinalberta, "shalom ski" is that jewish or something? lol Smash

kejoz · Posted: Mar 28, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

started wakeboarding-heard from wakeskating,but thought it sucks!
tryed it one time and couldn`t get up-tryed 2 weeks later and put my wakeboard away!
i can`t stand bindings anymore and i love the whipeouts!!!!!!!!!!

ZoSo · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 900 City: Winnipeg

Strapped for awhile...watched Free4All...saw grubby and timmy k kill it...decided to build my own skate for real cheap just to try it out...got addicted...and here I am today...

mario c. · Guest

strapped a little here and there, never took it too seriously. wasn't quite snowboarding. no big boat. seen the liquid force/cassette boombox 45" at the shop, thought i'd try it out. that board was big as hell, did some w2w indys back then. 2 seasons ago seen how people were doin shuv variations, and eventually k-flips. all made sense then. been hooked since. <3

stu · Posted: Mar 28, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject:

wakeboarded for a while then had 2 knee surgeries and started wakeskating alot with nick as rehab and never went back....