How did you get introduced to wakeskating?

chedda · Faceplant Joined: 27 Jun 2010 Posts: 24 City: B-town

How did everybody find out about wakeskating? I was watching a wakeboarding video my friend had and they had a few wakeskaters on there, no idea what the video was.. I do remember that they built an up rail to a pool on top of a u-haul truck to another down rail.. it was sick.

So post up on here how you were introduced to/found out about wakeskating!

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

i loved wakeboarding... then when i graduated college and couldn't afford an inboard, i bought dirty fat sacks and have been wakeskating since... best purchase ever Smash

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

chedda, free 4 all..

GVW introduced me..

chedda · Faceplant Joined: 27 Jun 2010 Posts: 24 City: B-town

ZackFL(BRE), thanks dude! sick video IMO

fastgreens, your boat looks like mine dude! hahaha

Steven M · Posted: Jul 11, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject:

first thing was an ad for the old hyperlite platinum series skates, just a picture of the graphics.. no clue what it was.. then met grubb/watched his stuff when he did a demo out here back in the day. after seeing him do some flats shuvs, then a big ts shuv indy and something off the kicker i wanted a wakeskate right then.

graduated 8th grade and my mom got me a signed board he used to ride and can be seen in snap. was also sent a scape 112 and been skating ever since.

mojo · Posted: Jul 11, 2010 1:25 pm Post subject:

some older friends tossed us a flight 69 w/ astrodeck on it. it wasn't until years later that i hurt my shoulder wakeboarding and started skating a cassette flat i won of wakeboardamerica.com and it has been a part of me ever since.

knox · Kickflip Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 4693 City: Gainesville

Jeff Knox and Kyle McCutcheon stayed at my house for a week for a camp at odub when I was 9. Kyle brought a wakeskate, and I didn't like it, haha. I liked the feeling of not being attached, but I think that board was too big. I took a trick ski and pulled off the bindings, that thing was perfect.

spanyord · Faceplant Joined: 30 Nov 2009 Posts: 35 City: palmetto

wakeboarded for a while with a friend of my parents who was a national champ once or twice back before they even made tower boats and he had a few skates but i never got to try it. eventually, since i live in the same town that nick taylor, stuart shinn, andrew fortenberry i saw them skating all the time and then my friend bought a byerly legacy so we could try and been ridin' ever since.

Evan71 · Posted: Jul 11, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject:

my friend one day brought a lf impulse 41 to the lake (the one with the baby) and i rode it and landed a shuv and was hooked frowm there on, bought a lf armada and just started progressing.

SEAMAN · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 388 City: Atlanta

First mayday, mostly boardumb, but it was really this!

eviltweak · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 839 City: Nor Cal

I was in a local food chain (Islands Burgers) and they were showing an all wakeskate video i thought it was sick so my dad got me a scape 112 and i was hooked

Lollar · 360 flip Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 8253

I was in Iraq and UIDZERO sent me video of them skating in their backyard after the 2004 hurricanes behind an old big body.

Raven · Posted: Jul 11, 2010 8:37 pm Post subject:

nobody introduced me to wakeskating.......i sorta discovered it for myself, tis why our bond is so special Cool

furious respect to thomas horrell...the man...the myth..........the legend.

The Bug · Frontside 180 Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 434 City: Redding

Sometime in 02 or 03 I saw that ad in WBM where Byerly does an ollie over the rocks probably at Havasu. I said "Oh hell yeah!", and that was it.

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

First saw Drew McGuckin in "Monkey on a String" and then Thomas Horrell in "Wide Awake" and I was hooked.

I had my sister pick me up one of these in Phoenix -

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

SEAMAN, that photo is awesome!!! If you have more like that we should talk and try to do something with them!

wakeskate77 · Frontside 180 Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 335 City: HELL

wakeskate77 · Frontside 180 Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 335 City: HELL

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zip · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 752 City: Sydney

I met James Balzer through a friend and he stayed with me for a week when he was in Australia a few years back. I've skateboarded all my life, not from a wakeboarding, waterskiing or snowboard background, so when i saw him stomp a back big on water i was like "get out of town boy" that was it.........and hav never looked back Cool

SEAMAN · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 388 City: Atlanta

Electricsnow,
I have too many pics and videos, you have no idea.

wakeskate77,
Sorry hoss, I took that one. You are driving though. We ended up not heading up that way, I've got an interview today. I want my second "wakeskate" back. Come down!

here's another great old photo. Electricsnow, thats the 4trac, and the 3d screwed to the dock is the best story.