This is when the sport started

revolutionconcepts · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 12:34 am Post subject: This is when the sport started

When did you get involved in wakeskaing?...did you buy a board and start riding or did you discover the sport via this site then start riding? did you start wakeboarding then jump into wakeskating?...etc etc...whats your story and what was your first board

I started with two skies when i was 8 then i started slamon sking then i bought a HO directional board then a kidder twin tip then an evil twin then a juvi....then i got a LF sponge wakeskate....the rest is history

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10752 City: Jefferton

so, would you say that you were "sponge worthy?" Very Happy

revolutionconcepts · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 1:39 am Post subject:

the sponge sucked so bad......i was so pissed i cursed its sticky pads...but i did learn one wake 180's on it. Smile

Nekkie · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 2:03 am Post subject:

friends offered me one of the first scapes, I got hooked fast Afro

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 2:11 am Post subject:

i started on the kneeboard, then went to skiing then tubing, then started to wakeboard, 2 years ago i skated for thwe first time, but last season was my first, first skate i rode was a scape 116.

itch · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 7:14 am Post subject:

Started on two planks then went to one then tried barfooting and dabbled in the eeeewwwyyy world of kneeboarding only to find a H.O. Hyperlite Extreme directional board. The light was shown to me and I purchased my first twin tip wakeboard the Neptune 6 then from there I bought and still have the 64th board Thomas had ever pressed. From there I have dabbled in wakeboarding ,wakeskating and wake surfing.
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electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10752 City: Jefferton

Dammit Brett leadley, where are you? He'd get that seinfeld reference..."sponge worthy"...I'm still laughing to myself...double meaning...

integrity640 · Kickflip Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 2866 City: Ocala

I started strapping then i moved into wakeskating.

I know im gona take some shizle from this next statement but I acually bought my first wakeskate because the graphic was badass and it was a hyperlite(this is when i knew like nothin about the sport) and wakeskating looked pretty sweet.

But then i sold that and bought me an integ this summer and recently purchased a bilevel Very Happy

Oh my first skate was an 04 byerly

Jesse · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 9:47 am Post subject:

I started, cause looked some damn good fun. I didnt come from wakeboarding, Im totall SK8 kid that saw Wakesk8ing and had to try it.

flict. · Pop Shuvit Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 145 City: Orlando

Skiid when i was a little kid. Last summer i met the other dude from flict (ross). He was wakeboarding but had just got a skate. I wakeboarded with him a few times then we quickly ditched the fruit boots. Took me like 3 sessions to get up on the damn thing but once i did it was glorious. I couldnt have been more stoked to do an ollie over these buoys in our lake that stuck up about 2-3 inches. We live and breathe this sh*t now.

samma · Faceplant Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 16 City: Bracebridge

I started wakeboarding like 5 summers ago, then i went to muskoka woods for their wakeboarding program and there we tried skating and surfing too, and basically loved skating so i did that for 5 out of the 7 days instead.. and my first board was my cwb lucky.. cause my cousin is some like head honcho deal or whatever there.. and now its all i do..

freerider4 · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2462

I got an obrien shredder used that for about 4 years and then got a liquid force fly best and after wakeboarding on that for a while I saw an ad for the lf sponge I think it was and people wakeskating on wakeboarding in wakeboarding magazine so I put sex wax on board and tried it out. I would do it like twice a year but didn't get my first wakeskate until 3 years ago.

Brett Leadley · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 10:30 am Post subject:

The LF Sponge was the first skate I ever rode also.. in 2001 the first time I was ever at o dub. I saw a couple kids skating and had to try it, I remember thinking right then about the possibilities of tricks like shuvits and kickflips..
I liked that board so much, when I got back home I cleaned out every
wake shop on the Upper West Side.

SALES REP: Ten?

ME: Twenty sponges should be plenty.

SALES REP: Did you say twenty?

ME: Yeah, twenty-five sponges is just fine.

SALES REP: Right. So, you're set with twenty-five.

ME: Yeah. Just give me the whole case and I'll be on my way.

Greg T · Skeezer Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 2448 City: ohio

Brett Leadley, hahahaha
electricsnow, I got it. That episode was just on the other night.

Skiing always looked boring to me as a kid so I never even tried it. Everyone just assumed I was too scared. So I said chickity china the chinese chicken it and did it and it was boring. Then I got a wakeboard and had fun with that for a few years. Saw wakeskating in magazines and stuff and wanted to give it a try. A marina where we took our boat had a cwb lucky to demo so I did. I thought it was the sketchiest thing ever when I first rode it, but I liked it. I started looking for a skate and then two years later I bought a byerly (2003). I learned stuff on it and liked it. I still have it. It is still my only board. I need a new one.

bjr · Posted: Jun 02, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

I used to wakeboard, then i figured that i ride behind a pwc, not much can be accomplished. That is when i bought my first skate (armada) and it went from there.

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

me ad a friend go inspired by T Ho's old school antics, and we bondo-ed concave on a trick ski and gripped it

lake weir ocala FL · Backside 180 Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 1241 City: Ocala

i started riding a skimboard behind my pwc...then went to wakeboarder.com and chilled in the wakeskating forums and decided to buy a K39...then i found this site and a day hasnt gone buy when i dont think about riding...

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

I used to wakeboard, then I saw what was being done a wakeskate, and the limitless possiblities for individual style, self expression etc... that was somthing I could never have on a wakeboard, so I decided to get a wakeskate, and the second I tryed it I loved it, and I have never looked back.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10752 City: Jefferton

what a relief (and it's a bit late)...

So brett, are you going to do something about those side burns? And how's your bathroom looking? Very Happy

liquid · Posted: Jun 04, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

i love seinfeld. It's the only sitcom i'll watch besides family guy (if you consider it a sitcom).

KRAMER: Are you still on the pill?

ELAINE: Uh, Kramer...

KRAMER: I'll tell ya, I think birth control should be discussed in an open forum.

ELAINE: The sponge, o.k.? The Today sponge.

KRAMER: But wasn't that taken off the market?

ELAINE: Off the market? The sponge? No, no...no way. Everybody loves the sponge.