When was wakeskating invented?

Sandbox · Ollie Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 90 City: Kalamazoo

I have a question that i should know the answer too.

When was wakeskating invented (year, month, day) and by whom?

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

every day. by everyone.

When was skateboarding invented? And by whom? When something begins as a crossover from or between different other things. It's hard to say when it began.

Wakeskating is being invented right now.

to become more familiar with the roots, though, go through some of this site's old articles and interviews.

PoopSkater · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

wakeskating was never been invented it has always been here

that sounds cool to say

im sure someone was first tho

triggamike · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 1392 City: 225

thursday.

Sandbox · Ollie Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 90 City: Kalamazoo

Slapdown, PoopSkater, triggamike, = genius! Birthday

yookyle · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1002 City: Reno

when i got on a board for the first time............................ Cool

OTT Productions · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

Sandbox, Who ever wore shoes first and used Griptape.... Everything before that was waterboarding hahaha

88SUPRA · Frontside 180 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 270 City: Florida

We used to stand up on knee boards. Your question should ask, who made the first wakeskate?

mufinman98 · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 6:55 pm Post subject:

Castaic Lake in cali baby!
atleast thats what i read on the hisotry and then was excited cuz that was the lake i grew up on.
ironicly though i had never heard of it til i moved to florida

EJazzle · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

i stood up on a knee board in 94. is that wakeskating? does griptape make a wakeskate a wakeskate? hyperlite doesnt think so.

OTT Productions · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject:

I stood up on a knee board and edged out the wake in 82, Yellow Hydroslide. Wish I still had it.

EJazzle, ya, but how many skateboards have foam on them.... I think the Question should be when did we start calling it wakeskating....

EJazzle · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject:

this isnt skateboarding.

in about 97-98ish me and my buddy cut down his wakeboard and put grip tape on it. is that a wakeskate? we also put wax on another cut down wakeboard with no bindings. is that a wakeskate?

if i ripped the grip of my woodworks, and put either wax or a certain yellow foam material would it be a wakeskate?

i think zack is right, when did it officially become wakeskating.

Evan71 · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject:

mufinman98, im like an hour away from castaic yet have never even ridden there

OTT Productions · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject:

EJazzle, My first wakeskate I made out of an old flight 69 with foam snowboard stomp pads. But I got the idea after I saw Mayday. I didn't start wearing shoes until after 97-98. I can't remember when Mayday came out. Maybe 92-94. This Question could be like the Tootsie Pop question. "How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" LOL

Do you still have those old boards? I wish I still had mine. Sad

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

OTT Productions · Posted: Oct 27, 2009 11:14 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, Ya I was being funny in my mind..... I was a die hard barefoot wakeskater on foam... Smile

you caught me Laughing

In 97 I use get coached (wakeboarding) by this guy Wade Grant and he was towing Jason around then. I don't think he had a boat even. But he would talk about how he would fall all the time and he just didn't understand why anyone would do that. LOL Maybe now he knows why someone would. Fresh Water Traction was started by Jason too. He surely was one the first people to wakeskate. He had so much drive and ideas to ride and try something new and all he had was a board and an Idea. I remember seeing a pic of him in WBM long ago him hitting a crazy barrel rail and I think 50-50 it.

Hope you get your approval.

mufinman98 · Posted: Oct 28, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject:

Evan71, i grew up on it and wakeboarded there once but never even heard of wakeskating.
i read that article one day on the hisotry though and it said Jason? im guessing is the guy that used his fresh water traction pads for the first time on castaic lake. so i was just reppin haha

Sandbox · Ollie Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 90 City: Kalamazoo

88SUPRA, i think that was byerly right?

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

I would never say it was byerly because there were a few wakeboarders (and jason, because he wasn't a wakeboarder) that were converting wakeboards to wakeskates or wakeskate-like boards. And in my mind it's probably like wakeboarding; I'm sure there were random people all over the place riding surfboards (or what have you) bindingless behind boats and thinking nothing of it. But there are very few people who ever really commit to promoting something when it doesn't exist.

Anyway, I have an amazing article from an old action now magazine that has some surfers riding behind boats. It's from 1982 and it's the closest thing I've seen to our "wakeskating" because they're popping re-entry ollies and hand shaping smaller boards. but that doesn't make the boat surfing from the60s and earlier any less valid. Watch the parks documentary and see what some of the people at cypres gardens were doing...it's bad ass. Cool

mufinman98 · Posted: Oct 29, 2009 3:15 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, yea a bunch of my dads friends who are 40+ all say how that were riding surfboards behind boats back in the 70s and 80s but they didnt really hav a name for it or anything