Rolling your knees forward?

edrex · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 1020 City: NorCal

I just got The Book for wakeskating, and Aaron Reed talks alot about rolling your knees forward to get lower to the board. Can someone please explain this to me? He says it alot in the DVD but doesn't really show how it works. I'm totally new to wakeskating, so dumb it down as much as you'd like.
Cheers,
ed.

stompin9s · Posted: Apr 25, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

like so u stay over ur board for huge river gap 18ft death ollies.

nopulseimpulse · Posted: Apr 25, 2007 10:12 am Post subject:

stompin9s, hahahaha

JB_CANSKATE · Posted: Apr 25, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject:

he means that when you crouch to pop a trick instead of your ass going out to the back, and your knees underneath you, crouch so that your ass is centred over your feet and your knees are in front on you. If you learn to do tricks like this it will eventually help alot in learning new tricks and being constistant.

Hopefully i worded that right.

edrex · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 1020 City: NorCal

JB_CANSKATE, That made some sense. I wasn't sure at first if "forward" referred to the direction you are traveling (so forward twards the boat) or forward relative to the way your body is facing (so out in front of you). Sounds like its knees in front of you. Thanks for clearing it up.