Shallowest water you can winch in?

ugly · Ollie Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 57

What is it? 2inches? 1ft? 3ft?

I wrecked my board pretty bad draggin it on the starts in a rocky area...not pretty. Good thing it wasnt that expensive. Any advise on preventing this? Advise on launching in shallow water?

On a different note...I just found this corporate building w/ an infinity edged pool thats like 4-6 inches deep and super big....looked fun, but doubt its hitable...i donno.

Cyclone268 · Posted: Mar 17, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject:

falling in anything less than knee deep is serious suck

Montgomery · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 976 City: Rogers

ugly · Ollie Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 57

^ya...i got some pretty bad road rash lookin ish from eatin it too close to shore, but was wonderin if I was doing something wrong, or if f'n up the board on a slide start in shallow water is the norm...I'm not a seasoned vet in the skate world.

Cyclone268 · Posted: Mar 17, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject:

if your board is hitting the ground you know the water is too shallow. LOL

gatorskater · Posted: Mar 17, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject:

Shallow enough to leave scratches on my board when i turned. We put a rock in a cooler in about 6 in of water to keep it from moving and jibbed it behind my truck.

ugly · Ollie Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 57

JIM-BRANTON · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 574

yeah falling in shallow water blows! i got pushed off a dock at a wakeskate comp well me josh and blake were messing and i got push off like a 5 foot dock or so idk into like shin deep and it felt evil

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Mar 18, 2009 2:22 am Post subject:

about 6 inches is the minimum IMO but you can go shallower (2inches) if youre on grass and dont mind rug-burn haha

kyle41 · Posted: Mar 18, 2009 3:02 am Post subject:

welll........I winched blactop brodeo. Laughing

In all honesty though that was one of the best times I have ever had at a competition. Thank you Jimmy.

Yeti · Ollie Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 62 City: Moscow

7-8 inches is enough to ride and turn, 1,5 ft is enough to fall. But still you have to fall as flat as possible. Or do your best to run. Otherwise even a 5mm wetsuit doesn't help Sad

Montgomery · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 976 City: Rogers

I usually don't have a problem in shallow water but sometimes I'm bad about sticking my arms out when I fall and I don't care if you wear gloves or not that sh|t hurts

fsflip13 · Faceplant Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 32 City: Nashville

2 inches

T-Hawk · Posted: Mar 26, 2009 1:37 pm Post subject:

Depends what the bottom is.
If it's mud or sand, i'd say around a foot.
If it's gravel or rocks, i's say 2 and a half feet.

winch4fun · Posted: Mar 26, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject:

2.6873091200 feet is the perfect depth

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

winch4fun, Smash

hus #1 · Ollie Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 71 City: UK

my bruised back says dont fall in anything under 6 inches

SwissArmyKnife · Pop Shuvit Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 152 City: PawPaw

grass is my fav. to winch in... falling is like playing football back in the day when you can just dive and slide, plus its really easy to slide from wet grass onto water to start... once we got this random old dude (40's) to winch this flooded soccer field when hes never ridden anything... he loved it.

my basic guidelines
-spillway/drops- as deep as the drop is tall (min 3 ft.)

-grass- 3 to 6 inches (the more plush the grass the shallower you can ride is what i have found)

-gravel/concrete- 2 to 3 feet pending on the gnar-factor of the bottom

DIRK · Posted: Mar 29, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject:

winch4fun, i prefer 2.6873091201 Neutral

gatorskater · Posted: Mar 29, 2009 1:45 pm Post subject:

I'd have to agree that you should probably lay some ground rules for what you are riding in. The other day we rode behind my buddys SUV in a retention ditch near his complex and the water was about 1-1.5 ft deep so I'd hit some shuvs but wouldn't recommend anything to gnar or something that you haven't landed yet Idea