its nice to have someone to learn from...

jcoffey · Backside 180 Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 1339

ive been skating since before the water/weather was warm enough this season (first season skating also) and this whole time ive been riding with people who don't skate, or really have an urge to progress..

anyway i was riding yesterday telling my bro 'damn that would kick ass if i had someone to tell me what im doing wrong on landing my shuvs' and 10 minutes later we ride passed a 08 wakesetter with a couple kids skating behind it, one of them being someone i know but never rode with. i throw a shuv, butcher the landing in front of them..then i yelled at them if they knew what i was doing wrong. one kid says 'you are leaning back to far'...bam! i land 4 shuvs in a row for the first time Very Happy

now i just gotta start riding with them instead of getting swamped on the ski by their wake haha

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

I wish tucson AZ had a scene. All the kids around there with boats just wake surf. Its a freaking epidemic at my lake. I have only ever seen 1 other boat with skates in the racks rather than surfs.

caprice150 · Backside 180 Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 593

i feel your pain, i can't even get my brothers to try and we live on a river Mad

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

jcoffey, Where you at man? I've had Oury helping me out basically since i started, and man it's been great. I owe a lot of thanks to him. It's awesome having someone who's better than you, or at your same level, learning with you and helping you progress. Two people = Twice the stoke Cool

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jul 09, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

I love riding with people better then me or about the same because they either push you our we can push each other. Gets me so pumped to see new tricks go down. Also i do enjoy riding with younger kids who are just starting and landing small things gets me pumped and gives me a sence of satisfaction that i am able to teach them. Giving lessons is fun Smile

buenos · Posted: Jul 09, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

man all i have ever rode with are people that i am better than, i think its slowing me down

LemonWake · Posted: Jul 09, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject:

yeah this kid in my cove has like a 2002 broken hyperlite...
scenetastic fo sho

jcoffey · Backside 180 Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 1339

Slapdown, north texas..there isnt a whole lot of a scene, and if there is its been hard for me to find.

looks like i gotta spread the stoke and build a scene Smash

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

jcoffey, Man if you're ever in the Austin area give me a call and maybe we can ride Cool

512 363-0897

mattttt60 · Backside 180 Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 648 City: 941

buenos, ya same here i got a friend that i taught to wakeskate and hes gotten just as good as me by riding with me all the time and watching how to do things so riding with better ppl deffintitly helps u progress

jcoffey · Backside 180 Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 1339

Slapdown, i have two friends who are moving down there in august to go to tx state so ill be going there for the weekend whenever i can. ive never been to tsr

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

jcoffey, You'll meet a ton of guys that skate at TSR. It's real close to Texas State too.

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

its hard to sore like an eagle when your surrounded by turkeys

kyle41 · Posted: Jul 10, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

Ive been taking a new friend out lately that is progressing quite rapidly. The kids style and aproach to riding are very similiar to hampsons in that he does some tricks goofy and some tricks regular. He says he cant tell a difference in riding either way just prefers to do his wake jump and 180 type tricks regular and his shuv and technical tricks goofy. In his first three times wakeskating he has learned shuvs, boardslide big spin outs, 180s and frontboard shuv outs.

Incentive · Ollie Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 62 City: dallas

Dallas area is going off right now!

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

If you want more people to ride with you should go recruit some skateboarders at your local skate park.

fastgreens · Kickflip Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 3563 City: baytown

Chris Barcellos, me and cheapskate were talking about how we need to go find a prodigy at the skatepark Smash

cheapskate · Guest

fo sho... Im just worried about being a 32 year old single male at a skate park asking kids if they want to go out on a boat. I think it would be pretty weird Razz

uidzero · Kickflip Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 3839 City: Casselberry

lol they'd have an amber alert out on you so fast!

devotid · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 City: saginaw

Ive got this kid i skateboard with like 3 times a week now. he's the greatest skateboarder ive ever ridden with. and ive been skateboarding all over the world for 20 years.

I was just getting him going on the water and then sold our boat. once this kid gets his base down WATCH OUT. Our winch is in the works right now and we'll get him back out ther soon.

I wont let him just go out and huck tricks either. Im trying to be like "hoosiers" and teach him the basics so his style isn't shallow and lame. Hes only 17 and humble as hell. he's gonna pass me by and then im gonna learn from him.

Kevin