I <3 Wakeskating

Ctipping · Posted: Oct 17, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: I <3 Wakeskating

I do. Anyone feel like sharing what got them started?
Last spring break I tore my ACL, LCL and medial meniscus, putting a major damper on wakeboarding (the sport I have been doing for 7 years now) And by the time summer rolled around I could barely ride. Then Beaver hooked me up with a skate, and I literally only rode my wakeboard one more time after that. I can't beleive I didn't start sooner. I'm no good on the grand scale at all but I progressed so much faster on a skate than I ever did with straps...
whatever, I'm bored, share inspiring/sappy/scary stories

deepcove · Posted: Oct 17, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject:

I like wakeskate.

ZoSo · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 900 City: Winnipeg

Got bored with wakeboarding...you can only progress so far with a non-wakeboard boat boat. Watched Free4All...saw Grubby and TimmyK kill it. Made a homemade board over the off season, tried it out the following summer and I was hooked. I'm not exactly good at it...still have trouble with shuvs...but just going out and just slashing and doing lip tricks is just so relaxing and so fun, who cares if you can't do k-flips or big spins.

Trey · Posted: Oct 17, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject:

Ctipping, it sucks that it took a similar injury (ACL/MCL/Medial Meniscus) to see the light and the way, I wish I would have discovered it sooner. I am also progressing faster on a skate than strappin.

steveMcMur · Backside 180 Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 657 City: orlando

ive only wakeboarded like 2wice in my life..i love wakeskating i cant get enough

cjbecker · Posted: Oct 17, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

The bindings sucked and also i sucked at wakeboarding

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

wakeskating is yay

Poo · Guest

I love lamp, and wakeskating

brianl289 · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 310 City: houston

i onyl wakeboarded once at texas ski ranch then i picked up an alliance magazine on my way out, saw wakeskating and thought it was cool. then i searched for a forum, found this one and then i ordered a wakeskate from a member. then i went to texas ski ranch the next weekend and just winged it. i got up my first try and was hooked. im not very good yet i can only ollie, some surface stuff, and i landed a shuv but without the rope but i still have a ton of fun. i still strap on a wakeboard everyonce in a while behind the ski just to slid around or see how fast i can go and hold on, but wakeskating is where its at for me, i love the freedom you have on the board, and i only have a jetski so its a better scenario for me. plus its really cool because now me and a bunch of friends can chill on the lake all day and nothing beats chilling on the lake. i <3 the wakeskating

deltarider · Guest

well, i used to be a strapper, then i saw that my neighbor bought a k-39, i tried it and fell in deep love.......

price.dan · Backside 180 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 1404 City: Regina

my best friend got a wakeskate for his birthday and i was out on the boat with him. he rode and then he asked me if i wanted to go for a rip and since that moment i've been in love.

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

i was just born the shred the gnar of the wake with the skate as easy as that, i beleive big JC put me here for that sole purpose i=skate the wake

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

the things you love always mean more when they're taken away from you.

Nekkie · Posted: Oct 18, 2006 3:55 am Post subject:

simple equation:

wakeboarding<torn ACL<wakeskating = freedom (no, not a.reed, just the feeling Wink

)

Ctipping · Posted: Oct 18, 2006 9:06 am Post subject:

Nekkie, that would actually simple inequality....I think.
electricsnow, except I love wakeskating more now that strapping got taken away....

bjr · Posted: Oct 18, 2006 10:17 am Post subject:

i ride behind a pwc and i could only do so much on that damn wakeboard.

waker445 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 170 City: bradenotn

wakeskatin is amazing

JB_CANSKATE · Posted: Oct 18, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject:

I saw some pics of people wakeskating in Wakeboarding Mag and was really amazed and interested in it. I built my own and from there on i wakeskated 90% of the time.

almostask8r · Faceplant Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 City: baton rouge

I never done any water sports before and my friend asked me to go out on the river and try wake skating. After that i was hooked after only this summer of riding i've done so much and i am progressing so fast i can ollie high, hit rails and throw shuvs out and i finally hit a 3 shuv last saturday. I'm now looking to get my own gear.

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

I was involved in the skate industry somewhat I managed a shop and skated for 7 years as an amateur for 2 years but responsibility and injuries got in the way and I had to take a long hiatus from skating during which time my parents got serious about pushing wakeboarding (secretly I think they were trying to get me away from skateboarding lol b/c I got so beat up all the time) so they upgraded the boat, and I wakeboarded for a while, then a friend and I saw what Tho was doing with some vid and we made a wakeskate out of an old trick ski and I have been hooked ever since, I still strap but very rarely