What Got You Started??

kyle · Posted: Jan 21, 2004 12:29 am Post subject:

my knees started too suck a lot about 3 months ago and then i saw gvw tear it up a lot after just riding for not that long so i decided to get into it, and its addicting, but mainly i just want to walk when im 30 without knee replacements

tribal · Posted: Jan 21, 2004 5:09 am Post subject:

Skateboarded for years and always loved it but my body started to break as I got older.Love surfing started the whole towing behind the boat thing with a surfboard but not wakesurfing style more wake like at 18-20mph 50ft or so of line used to attempt to jump the wake ,carve, etc.From there wakeboarded for a few years then saw a wakeskate 2 yrs ago and knew that was for me.I love the combination loose free surf feel and skateboard feel.I can once again go big on a skate and it doesn't hurt like concrete.It's also a lot easier on my old abused knees than wakeboarding.

sim · Pop Shuvit Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 219 City: Thorpe

first started when the owners of the cable parc were going to throw away a hire board that had the ends cracked open. We cut the ends off, and poured fiberglass over it to seal from water, and surfwax on the top. That was it, we were doing lipslides and ollie 180's all on the cable. After a year of pissing around, didn't do it much the following season, wanted to get good my board. Then kickers and rails emerged in 1999. It was here we had the idea of wearing shoes so it didn't hurt, and grip tape followed, all so we could try this six ft kicker!!
Then I tore the ligaments in my right ankle three years ago, so couldn't put on bindings. Wakeskate ever since. I got my first 'real' wakeskate a couple of weeks ago, 4-track for ?100 new. still to expensive for a lump of wood and grip tape.
One other thing, 'commercial wakeskating' first graced the shors of england in 2001, with grubb doing an acid drop from the roof at o'dub and murray doing a shuv-it in 'Hype', and we were all like, oh sh*t, they're doing what we're doing.
Now I can't believe the hype, there were four people wakeskating in the UK a year ago. Now there's about 150/200 people who own wakeskates, but only about ten wakeskaters. that's progression for you?!?
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Glass weed pipe

Rob · Posted: Jan 21, 2004 9:19 am Post subject:

Had the opportunity to try LF's Sponge when it came out and I was hooked. I quit wakeboarding when I first saw Thomas Horrell in "Decline Of The Waterski Monopoly". Has wakeskated ever since..... (and hopefully many years to come...)

Fredrick_Eisenhauer · Posted: Jan 21, 2004 9:46 am Post subject:

Wakeboarded. Took the bindings off. Didn't any tricks but I loved it none the less. Made A skate. Skated it.

simonDUB · Posted: Jan 21, 2004 12:10 pm Post subject:

I was a wakeboarder for the last 8 years and tried wakeskating once in my third year i think with wax on an old waketech 69 after seing Byerly ride in MAYDAY. I loved it but was to concern with wakeboarding. Four years ago i made one with my riding partner and we rode it for a season, thats when we fell in love with wakeskating. We gave that one to a friend and build another which i broke after 2 weeks. Then i bought a Cassette 3D and haven't touch my wakeboard since.

xboard32x · Posted: Jan 21, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

I started the year I saw MAYDAY. I didnt even take my bindings off. Just left them on cuz I couldnt do anything on it anyway. Then my bro took his off and put the bath mat on his board also. I thought it was just a fad and would be done for. Then the sponge came out. We never put the traction pads on; then finaly it hit us and we went to the local skate shop and put some grip take on our sponge. Then cassette came out and we bought like three of those and now I have moved on to hyperlite and we are all finally pushing the sport that I was calling a fad five years ago.

wcwakeskater · Posted: Jan 21, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

i had never wakeboarded and could only ride around on a skateboard and then my friend decided to get a wakeskate, but he never got it. i ended up getting one and now a few of my other friends are getting them too.

TL · Faceplant Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 33 City: Christchurch

In about '92' on way to skifield my brother and I found an old Sims swallow-tail snowboard (~135cm)on the side of the road. That summer we put a water ski fin on the back and screwed some wooden rails onto the underside along the edges. At first we had two rubber straps screwed to the top for "bindings" but took them off after about five minutes, used surfing wax for a bit of grip. We used to get towed around on an old surfboard aswell (this was before we'd even heard of wakeboarding let alone wakeskating). Still got the swallow-tail in a shed somewhere, may get it out...