what is wakeskating

mcwake420 · Ollie Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 66 City: Salt Lake

I am a new member on here, but i do enjoy reading all the posts that everybody puts up, and also when someone asks for help the amount of feedback that everyone gives. So I have a request. I am an avid wakeskater, and I also write an action sports column for a local general interest magazine. Basically what I do is I write about action sports and tie it in to our local culture. My dilemma is there is not a large wakeskating scene out here. Which is the reason why they took my idea of writing an article called “What is Wakeskating?” So if you could post some thoughts of how you would describe wakeskating to someone who has never heard of it that would be great. I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag but I have been working on lining up some pro interviews for this article as well. When it is published I will post a link to it on this site for all those interested. Please do not post unless you are willing to be quoted in an article. Thanks so much.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

A wakeskate isn't Wood or Griptape or a Towing device, Thats what wakeskates are made of. What wakeskating is................................... IS FREEDOM.

(yeah I stole that from Jack sparrow so what !!!!)

nopulseimpulse · Posted: Mar 15, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject:

mcwake420 · Ollie Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 66 City: Salt Lake

Pirate with your permission I would like to use a modified version of your quote for my article. Is that cool?

bjr · Posted: Mar 15, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject:

"skateboarding on water....the best thing since hot wings."

-Brian Richter

NotSoBueno · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 1806 City: SoCal

What PIRATE said for sure. FREEDOM is a great way to describe it.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

mcwake420, yeah as long as you put Brandon LIvermore and Sattelyte Wakeskates will ROCK your Socks oFF.... hahahahaha J/k

Yeah you can use that man no worries.....

mcwake420 · Ollie Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 66 City: Salt Lake

i was actually planning on giving shout outs to some of the smaller companies such as sattelyte, omen, integrity and others. But in order to quote you I would need your first and last name, and where you are from, if you don't want to disclose it in a fourm just pm me with it

mcwake420 · Ollie Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 66 City: Salt Lake

my goal with this article is portray wakeskating in the best way possible for most people's first encounter to it

NotSoBueno · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 1806 City: SoCal

mcwake420, I can send you some stunning pictures ofPIRATE to go into your article if you so desire.

mcwake420 · Ollie Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 66 City: Salt Lake

pics are good, liquid force sent me a few of reed but more is better

stompin9s · Posted: Mar 15, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject:

"water-skateboarding."

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

to me, wakeskating is a form of self expression just as music or art is. there are no rules to wakeskating, there are no boundaries, you just go out on the water and ride as you please. there is also very little money involved in wakeskating, which goes to show that the people involved in the sport are in it for the right reasons. wakeskaters are also the most genuine and hospitable people you will ever meet.

conwest · Posted: Mar 15, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject:

wakeskating is life

Brett Williams · Faceplant Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 13 City: Peterborough

wakeskating is just a fun sport to do while hangin out with your best buds on those lazy summer days Very Happy

kyle41 · Posted: Mar 15, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject:

Wakeskating shapes my life. When i think of wakeskating i dont just think of riding on the board itself but I think of all the things that come with it. Meeting new people, building rails, traveling, building winches, discovering new gaps,lakes,rivers. Wakeskating has given me so many memorable experiences that I will never forget and for that i am grateful every day i shread the water.

TWG · Kickflip Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 3258

wakeskating is bliss

Ctipping · Posted: Mar 15, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject:

TITTIES!

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

Jesse · Posted: Mar 15, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject:

I just had to explain it to everyone I talked to at the ER. I just said "Skateboarding on the water".