im new..need help

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

ok, im new, i haven't actually started yet but i want to very badly and i was just wondering, how do you get up? do you have to pull yourself up like you do wakeboarding? or do you have to like caveman off of something?

SleuCrew · Posted: Apr 03, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject:

http://www.wakeskating.com/tricks/getup.php

Check it out the Trick Tips section on the home page, this should help you better understand getting up as well as learning your first few tricks and even some advanced ones.

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

ok thanks, is wakeskating alot like skateboarding?

SleuCrew · Posted: Apr 03, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject:

Some of the techniques are the same, and we share alot of the same tricks... but i really prefer to look at it as its own thing.

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

ok, like i skate quite a bit, will i be able to catch on pretty quick?

hammer49 · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 646 City: longwood

yes. only if your interested in going 18mph faster and holding something in your hand

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

is it harder than skateboarding? i mean i can heelflip a skateboard, why does everyone have so much trouble with heelflips on a wakeskate?

hammer49 · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 646 City: longwood

its a bigger board and you dont drag your foot up the board when olling so the flick is more difficult

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

oh, ok i gotcha, thanks

BillyOLDS · Posted: Apr 03, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject:

if you skate ull have a bigg advantage but it wont mean that youll get up and start poping big ollies or anything of the sort, i started about a year and a half ago and it took about 6months for me to have a a small amount of descent tricks. you'll want to learn how to snap ollies and pop 180's and then start trying shuv-its but make sure you pop those too. then look into using the wake like a rail and doing boardslides and lip slides.

LakeErie · Pop Shuvit Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 224 City: sandtown

I think guys that come from a wakeboarding background are more advanced than skateboarders. I know a bunch of guys who can barely stand on a skateboard, but they can kickflip a wakeskate. I think the feeling of wakeboarding is more useful than being able to skateboard.

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

well, i wakeboard too, and will wakeskate mess up my skateboarding?

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

sweet

Morphine · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 1207 City: 706omg

small town skater, if you wakeskate enough and get that uber wakeskate-ollie-stomp, you might break a couple more skateboards faster, that's about it. Laughing

small town skater · Faceplant Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 City: McMinnville

lol, ill just have to perfect my skating ollies where i land on the trucks everytime, which i pretty much do now

TannerC · Backside 180 Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 1694 City: Nanaimo

Yah if you skate and wakeoard you should be able to get the hang of waksskateing farley easy..like i did.

Nekkie · Posted: Apr 04, 2005 10:44 am Post subject:

I think wakeboarders have an easier time riding around but when it starts getting technical a skateboarder background will help so much more...

wakeboard is just the feel on the water and edging lol

ollies and pop is it's own thing, it's not the same as a skate ollie...