I started wakeskating because...

Slyder · Posted: May 31, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: I started wakeskating because...

I was at The Wakeboard Camp. It was summer and I had never met anyone who enjoyed wakeboarding as much as I did (my hometown is lame). Spending a whole week with people with the same passion was going to be awesome.
One of the days we were there and taking our lunch break between sets, Aaron Reed and Patrick Hagan pulled together some junk that was lying around and built a little incline rail out of an old metal door and a crate and also had an overturned johnboat to slide. They put these in a little pool that was seperated from the lake by a lower than usual water level and ollied into it down the shore a ways, rode down the pool, hit the incline rail, then ollied onto the boat and slid back over the sand bar into the lake again. I just got to sit out there and watch with my jaw dropped, this was the first time I had seen wakeskating. I was just amazed by how much fun they were having with it and how quickly this setup came together.
Crativity and fun, this is why I started wakeskating. Thanks goes out to Aaron and Patrick for sparking my interest. Even though I didn't ride a wakeskate for another year, or own a skate for another year or so after my first ride, it's what got me started. They were both just really cool people to talk to (Aaron is also one of the most hilarious people I've ever met) and they showed me what was possible when you were having fun doing what you love.

That is why I started wakeskating.

VonBoggin · Backside 180 Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1666 City: Austin

Love The Story

For me: To put it simply-Wake-bored-ing

Wakeskating = <3 = LIFE LOVE PASSION Very Happy

Slyder · Posted: May 31, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject:

What started everyone else?

stompin9s · Posted: May 31, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject:

ya charlie this is the kind of positive stuff that needs to be posted on the site.

i started wakeskatin bc i saw thomas ridin wakeskates in wbm (circa 01). So i put my old vans on and went out the same day and rode my skimboard behind the ski Cool

dirtyohioriver22 · Backside 180 Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 1705 City: cincy

because i got tired of wakeboarding yeah pretty shiznackle story but still i was sold the moment i rode that skate

kyle41 · Posted: May 31, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject:

The first time i ever rode a wakeskate i felt as if i was home nuzzled under my mothers boosom. Its been like that ever since.

dirtyohioriver22 · Backside 180 Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 1705 City: cincy

what uve been under ur moms boosom

canalskater · Guest

i talked a friend into buying a wakeskate for his b day(a little messed up i know) because i had no money and i wanted to try it. i fell in love with it and it sort of became mine because he didn't even like using it. i rode it til it died and bought my own. and havent stopped since. but landing my first 3 shuv pretty much convinced me to wakeskate full time instead of wakeboard though.

homez · Posted: May 31, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject:

i got into wakeskating because i was in class and my friend who sits next to me was watching some videos on here and i got one and now i love it Birthday

BillyOLDS · Posted: May 31, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject:

i started cause i got a ski, and kirby lived right by me and he he had a skate, he called me one day and we went out and then after searching all over tampa bay we found the all mighty spot and it was all ours and we rode alot and i hated skating in the summers cause it was so hott and wakeskating was so refreshing lol
i seriously love everything about the sport too, all the companies emerging and trying to keep our sport alive and make it into one the greats!

now slyder i am going to go have a drink lol and im not posting anymore lol

holmespika · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 381

I started skating because, like a lot of others it just appealed to me more than wakeboarding and opened up so many more options for progression when you don't have a boat that puts off a lot of wake. I had seen people doing it in videos and magazines and such and wanted to try it. I had been wanting to get a skate for about a year, and finally did for my bday. The first time I rode I was hooked and everytime I ride it is automatically a good day, even just cruzin around. Very Happy

tahoe · Posted: May 31, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

i havent rode for too long.
i just picked it up i guess.
i <3 wakeskating

Bad Luck · Posted: May 31, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject:

aaron reed and danny hampson. they are why i started wakeskating. hands down.

Jesse · Posted: Jun 01, 2006 1:10 am Post subject:

it looked like it was better than watchin TV.

Dered · Frontside 180 Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 439 City: Calgary

To me wakeskating is the most personal form of self expression... and the second I rode a wakeskate I was hooked. Thanks Thomas for starting Cassette... Cassette was the first and only wakeskate I have ever ridden... mostly because no one I know wakeskates... so I have had no opportunity to try something different… either way I defiantly have cassette pride Very Happy

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Jun 01, 2006 1:17 am Post subject:

i started b/c ridehatzic got one for his B-day and i rode it once and fell in love with it, i still love it partially b/c its still not verywell known, and peopel are always like "how do you stay on the board while it's moving? Neutral

and i'm like Laughing

Dered · Frontside 180 Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 439 City: Calgary

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Jun 01, 2006 1:21 am Post subject:

yah i always just say "you jsut stand on it...how do you stay on a skateboard while its moving?"

mergeleft3 · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 673 City: Orlando

Well about a year ago I went to performance to rent some bindings because I was in the market for some new ones and while I was there I decided to rent a skate and check it out. I had never tried to skate before I had only seen it in videos. So my first day I went out I just had way more fun than I did wakeboarding and to me that was what it was all about. I went back to performance that day returned the binding and said no thank you and bought the skate instead. And I have never looked back.

c dub · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 1171 City: Austin

I got bored of wakeboarding as I started watcing Grubby in my vids..