so how long did you, if ever, and do you still..

kyle41 · Posted: Oct 01, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject:

Bonis69, I guess we have different priorities. I want to practice doing fashion airs and transfer them over to the wakeskate. Progression! Cool

Disaster_UNSW · Faceplant Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 14 City: Sydney

I started wakeboarding in about 03, and started wakeskating not long after. I'm the least co-ordinated person you will ever meet, so i'm not much good at either. I still wakeboard when i'm feeling lazy, but i skate finless and with rounded rails, and wakeboard with 3 fins on each end and the centre fin's pretty fat, so the style doesn't really translate between.

I like wakeboarding, but my knees tend to complain about it alot the next day.

sparrow.2 · Posted: Oct 02, 2007 6:28 am Post subject:

I started out wakeboarding in 2003, kind of liked it and stayed with it until I bust my ankle snowboarding and didn't really fancy sticking my foot into bindings again. A friend of mine gave me his wakeskate and I had the time of my life, finding everything that I had been missing with wakeboarding. The freedom and general different board-feel of a wakeskate is so much more satisfying than wakeboarding.

Tried wakeboarding this season and whacked the board through my helmet when I cought an edge and definitely won't be getting back on a wakeboard any time soon.

On top of that I don't like the way things are going in competitive wakeboarding here in Europe. It is turning into figure skating with everyone doing the same tricks and runs becoming so predictable and style just going under to sheer technical difficulty.

Wow, definitely more words than I wanted to write but I guess I feel more strongly about wakeskating than I thought Very Happy

Wakeskaters are generally the nicer people too Cool

Disaster_UNSW · Faceplant Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 14 City: Sydney

masi · Posted: Oct 02, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

Disaster_UNSW, i have generally never met a rude wakeskater.

i still do wkaeboard to this day and i still really enjoy it. depending where i am, i will ride both wakeskate and wakeboard. I like abilty to flip on a wakeboard, but i love the technicality of wakeskating. lately i have mainly been wakeskating.

but wakeskating is such a unique sport even though that it is linked to wakeboarding in a sense. but at the same time, people shouldn't rag on wakeboarding. almost every wakeskater has roots involving straps.

but they both are extremley satisfying when you clinch a new trick. you will never forget your first shuv it or kickflip. but at the same time you will never forget that first 720 or raley (make it rain Smash

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i dont think i could let go of wakeboarding/ wakeskating, they are both passions of mine.

lastly, hate = ignorance

and those are my 2 cents

W · Posted: Oct 02, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

I rode wakeboards from 1995 - 2003.

Back in '03 a friend showed me the Kampus site. I bought a deck at the beginning of that summer and first got up on a skate behind a party barge just to see if it worked.

I have not even thought of riding a wakeboard since.

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

Learned to get up on a wakeskate last summer, bought one the next day, came on this site and read every thread, every night, posted a million times, and haven't tried anything else since..

t-rex · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2007 City: Denver

wakeboarded casually back in highschool. was never any good. heard about skating in '04 tried it. then didn't get a chance to ride again till '06 now all i do is skate Birthday

coricluster · Backside 180 Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 1826 City: berlin

neverrrrr

brassmonkey · Posted: Oct 02, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

committed · Faceplant Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 13 City: Edmonton

never ever

Chad H · Posted: Oct 02, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject:

Well i just got a skate this year, and try to keep time on both equal, i have only been out on the skate like 2 times. I went wakeboarding way more, mainly cause i didn't have the skate till august.

I can't see myself skating more than i wakeboard really, i still intend to go up for big air on the wakeboard, and just chill on the skate.

hozr · Faceplant Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 11 City: *916*

Never got big into wakeboarding, my knees couldn't take the falls and get yanked around. Last torn ligament was the end of that sh*t...

NikSk8 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 157 City: Tuscaloosa

I've wakeboarder for about 2 years now and I tried wakeskating at the end of last year. This year pretty much all I've done is skate, but I still put back on the straps every now and then.

BB · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1706

David_Roehm · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 911 City: Austin

i wakeboard when there are ladies present. They like to see the flips and what not. But when i'm with the bros its all about the skate. I enjoy doing both.

Classy · Posted: Oct 03, 2007 9:22 am Post subject:

Man. I strapped fom 6th grade til freshman in college. I skated a few times over those years. like 5 or 6 times total. Most of which all during the same week. This year, i've fallen in loved. strapped 3 times in the spring, and been strapless water dancing ever since!

ImSoWakested · Backside 180 Joined: 26 May 2007 Posts: 628 City: Madison

wakeboarding since a long time ago, wanted to get a wakeskate about years ago, but parents wouldnt buy one cause they thought i would never use it, then last summer i bought my own, and its what i do 75% of the time now. every now and then i throw on the straps cause i cant letw my buddy get better than me at it

El Diablo · Posted: Oct 03, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

Andrew Masi, that about sums up my philosiphy!
good job.
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