What Got You Started??

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

How did you get into wakeskating? Did you cross over from wakeboarding or skateboarding? Did you see it online, in a mag or on TV and thought it would be fun? Did you cross over from extreme walking? Tell your story...

I started about the same time I started wakeboarding. I first started by taking my bindings off of my wakeboard at the end of the day and riding around without my bindings. Then one day, my buddy and I thought we could make our own skate out of an old wakeboard (LF mini squirt) and a bath tub matt (the kind with the suction cups on the bottom). We cut the matt perfect for "foot pads" and hit the water. It was a blast, but by the end of the day, our foot pads were completely ripped off.

Soon after, the Cassette came out and I purchased one as soon as I could. I have been riding one ever since.

nick · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

we used to take a premier 135 without bindings and ride with surf wax for grip. then a lot of my friends started wakeskating and i bought a scape 116 at 2003 worlds. i bought the gate in early november and i ride them both about the same.

wakeriderof87 · Frontside 180 Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 495 City: cen fla

i wakeboarded for about a year and a half then my friend wanted to try wakeskating, i didn't think it looked like that much fun but i agreed to split the cost of the rental at owc, well i ended up loving it adn went out a few weeks later and bought a board.

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

I used to skateboard for a couple years then my parents decided to get a boat so i remembered wakeboarding (i knew what it was because some of my friends did it) then i was not so into skateboarding. I wakeboarded for about 2 months and i saw some kids wakeskating at OWC and it reminded me of skateboarding so i tried it then i loved it after in aug i bought a scape 107 and a month later i bought the gate i gave up the wakeboard ever since.

Kim · Ollie Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 68 City: Orlando

I crossed over from wakeboarding. I just thought it looked like fun. I'd skate when I got frustrated or tired with wakeboarding, but I think this season I'll probably be skating more than wakeboarding. Very Happy

Mumble · Faceplant Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 27

I wakeboarded for about 7 years, and skateboarded off and on during that time. A couple of years ago I bought the Liquid Force team video "Wide Awake" and saw Thomas Horrel's part in it and really got interested in wakeskating. My first board was an Obrien Evil Twin with no bindings, then I bought an Obrien wakeskate (I forget what it was called, the one with the cut-out tips) and broke it on a wake to wake. I returned that board for a CWB Lucky that delaminated after sliding a dock with nails sticking out of it. Now I ride a Hyperlite Byerly 107, which has been good but I want to check out some Cassette's this year.

I barely ever wakeboard anymore.

freerider4 · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2462

Like 4 or 5 years ago i saw wakeskating in wakeboading mag when they used to skate on old wakeboard so i put some wax on my wakeskate and finally this year i got serious when i got my first real wakeskate.

wakesk8r9610 · Backside 180 Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 1267

i started wakeboarding 7 years ago and skated 4 years ago and ide take my bros old skurfer and take the bindings off and ride around and then i got a scape 116 and then a hype byerly and now a cassette.

Tosh · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject:

After wakeboarding for a couple years, I saw Grubb in Running with Scissors and as of that moment, I dedicated myself to wakeskating. First it was an old wakeboard with shoes, now I ride an 03 Catalyst 116. Wakeskating is an amazing sport...unlike any other.

David Legler · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:

I wakeboarded for a few summers, and then I think i just saw some pictures of it in wakebordingmag. and so i just went out and bought a cassette. on my 2 1/2 car ride to our lake house, i just kept reading the trick tips section in wakeboardingmag on how to do w2w's and ts w2w shuv-its. I was so sure i would be able to land it my first weekend out. little did i know how much harder it was than i thought. but never the less it has been the most addicting and best thing i have ever done. and probably ever will.

Paul · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject:

1 - Used to waterski for a couple of years
2 - Saw a girl wakeboarding
3 - Felt in love with her
4 - Wakeboarded for two summers
5 - Realized I sucked
6 - Met by chance a dude riding a Cassette
7 - Immediately loved the no-bindings 'freedom feeling' (can't find the words...)
8 - Bought a Cassette in 2003 Laughing

biggie_j · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

wakeboarded for about 2 years. then a friend bought a skate, so i tried it and loved it.

wakeriderof87 · Frontside 180 Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 495 City: cen fla

so u started wakeboarding cuz of a chick.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject:

I've skateboarded all my life and when I first got back into wakeboarding I saw a pic of shaun murry riding a wakeboard bindingless with skate shoes on, I tried it and really liked it. I did that for a year or so and then got a cassette when they came out. That was in 99 I think.
As a kid I used to stand on my hydroslide and try to ride it, but it was very hard to stay on Laughing

so really I've been wakeskating sinse the late 80's Laughing

Parky · Guest

Paul, i like the way u did this

1. Best friend wakeboard
2. Wakeboarded for a year
3. Saw skating
4. Zodiac got boring on board so bought scape skate
5. I sucked I didn't do much of it.
6. At the end of season really got into it
7. Now love it.

greg van wagnen · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 10:02 pm Post subject:

i wakeboarded for 10 years and was riding the JR Mens stuff and i was just getting real frustrated with wakeboarding comps and one day i was working on getting some new trick and just couldnt do it and i was like f*ck this give the the wakeskate. and i rode that all day and was like hey this is fun. so i havent been on a wakeboard but maybe 5 times since june.

Subvert · Ollie Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 77 City: Atlanta

I wakeboarded for 2 years and then I decided to buy a skate because it looked fun (got a Horrell concave). I rode it once and feel in love with it. At the end of this past season, I think I'm still one of the only people who rides just a skate.

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

Subvert · Ollie Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 77 City: Atlanta

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jan 20, 2004 11:29 pm Post subject:

Dave Barousse, I remember wishing I had one of the kneeboards with retractible fins so I could get better traction Laughing

man I was ahead of my time Twisted Evil