quittin wakeboarding to wakeskate

nick · Posted: Aug 15, 2004 7:57 pm Post subject:

thats hilarious... BTW "havik04" is the wakeboarding elitist who claims to hate wakeskating Confused

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

che blanc, you need to find some new friends. Laughing

Wakeskating is sick...

hopefully your friend is just teasin you like all good friends do.

It's just like every other sport. When we surf, we make fun of boogie boarders. When we snowboard, we make fun of skiiers. When we skateboard, we make fun of roller bladers. When we mountain bike, we make fun of road bike people who wear spandex.

I still wakeboard and wakesurf. I like to do them all. I just started wakesurfing, wakeboarding, and wakeskating really just this year... so i'm still having a ton of fun learning all this stuff.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

whats weird is that i used to only wakeboard. then my bro got a catalyst. then we would take a run on the catalyst at the end of the day when we were tired of wakeboarding. when i rode Russian's cassette concave awhile back for the first time i decided right then and there that i wanted to wakeskate more. so from that day i pretty much only skated. i would take a run on my board here and there, but i never had as much fun with it as i did skating. so today on the delta i take a run on my board for shts and giggles and end up having a really good ride. i took a nice long set, and the water got crappy enough for me to want to stick with the board more than struggle keeping the skate under me.

although when i was houseboatin the weekend of the reno pwt, i went out on a sante w/ an assload of weight. i could either bring a board or a skate, and i chose the skate. boy did i kick my ass trying w2w haha. it was fun though. both for me AND the everyone on the boat watching me die.

tribal · Posted: Aug 16, 2004 10:02 am Post subject:

That's why you need your own boat.On my boat we harrass wakeboarders.I use to be the only one for miles around who skated but I've converted quite a few now...
We still go for a couple wakeboard pulls a day but it's like 90% skating 10% wakeboarding.

nick · Posted: Aug 16, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject:

i have a jet ski but i still like to ride the wakesetter... sounds greedy but he calls me up seein if i want to ride and i go

Parky · Guest

che,

dont worrie about those kids, dont ride with them then... if your not having fun wakeboarding then dont do it.... I havn't free rode wakeboard im like a month, ive only rode in the comps... next year im probably mostly just going to wakekskate

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Aug 16, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject:

Just call 'em "Strappers" and ride.

It doesnt really matter what you're riding, as long as you enjoy what your doing. Thats what its all about anyway, having fun.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Aug 16, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject:

I haven't wakeboarded in almost a year. What's really cool is that 90% of the time we only have wakeskates on the boat now, most of my friends would rather skate most of the time. I don't even bring the "boat" board anymore

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

I broke my knee cap last year so that was the end of my wakeboarding. The only time I breakout a wakeboard is to hit a slidder that I can not get dialed in on a skate.

skatethewake247 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 172 City: nova

dude, just dont worry bout it if they make fun of u and stuffjus forget about it. but i wouldnt drop boardin completely. i wakeskate alot more than i wakeboard but i still have a good time wakeboardin just because its a whole different level of thricks. i just have fun gettin upside down and ridin away. its just a cool feeling. wat im sayin is dont dropboardin completly jus cuz ur freinds r bein gay.

HighRida · Posted: Aug 16, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

I have been wakeboarding for a couple years and spent alot of time and money on it. But, I seem to have more fun wakeskating and I am progressing alot faster on the skate than I did the board. I'm not sure how my dad will take it when I stop bringing my board out. I'm caught in the wake of two great sports, and well I don't think I will be boarding much longer.

nick · Posted: Aug 17, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject:

i never said i was droppin boardin cuz my friend was bein gay i just dont like it anymore... like i loved the feeling of bein able to do flips and spins and stuff and ridin away but then it just didnt make me feel good and i couldnt get stoked on it and then i land a 360 shuvit and im all excited again. i just love to skate.

HighRida, i dont know how my dads gonna take it either when we go to o-dub and i leave my wakeboard and just bring the k39. i dunno

erikn · Posted: Aug 18, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

ok, thats bad... in sweden we are like 5 persons that wakeskate... that sucks!

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

nick, did you pick bindngs or the k39?

jboss · Kickflip Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 3210 City: Chalmette

miller, holy shizzle this thread is legendary lmao

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

jboss, I was looking for something totally unrelated and this popped up.
I had to bump it

SCBrips · Posted: May 05, 2015 11:43 pm Post subject:

I had no idea that Nick used to wakeboard. This reminds me of an issue of Wakeboarding Magazine many years back. Danny Hampson's mom sent in a letter and some pics of him jumping homemade ramps on a wakeboard. I didn't think anything of it; then a few years later he's dropping bombs in Sfumato.

Seems like a lifetime ago when "che blanc" was posting pics of kickflipping a K39. Bizarre. Easily one of my favorite riders of all time. Anyone know if he'll be at Cablestock this weekend? Never seen Nick ride in person.

nick · Posted: May 08, 2015 9:11 pm Post subject:

Why do these threads popping up every week just to make me cringe at my 14-year-old self? Crying or Very sad

(Spoiler alert: I stopped wakeboarding that year, after dabbling with it & skurfing for a couple of middle school summers)

I'm gonna let everyone get their laughs in at my atrocious grammar & my adolescent frustrations with Stu Shinn for not embracing wakeskating as fast as I did, but then I'm going to send it back down into the archives were it belongs.

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SCBrips, I won't be making it to Cablestock this time around, but hopefully I can make it over that way sometime this year. It'd be sick to ride with a ws.com legend like yourself Afro

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canalskater · Taco Bell Fa'Lyfe Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 648

Anybody else notice the separation of the sports these days? I feel like this type of thing never happens anymore. Maybe its because I live in FL but it seems like wakers stick with wakers and skater chill with skaters. Besides the cable, I almost never see the two riding behind the same vessel or collaborating in anyway. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the progression of both sports in very different directions, specifically winching, team videos, wesubsist, WSM, and the wakeskate tour. Not to mention that most wakeskaters don't want to ride behind a sacked out G23, and theres not much a wakeboarder can do with a simple flat bar or incline rail less than 60ft long. All that aside, I like to believe that we all made a conscious decision to separate ourselves from wakeboarding, because when it comes down to it the only thing we really have in common anymore is we all need a tug, on some butter.

I'm not trying to be negative towards wakeboarding here either, but I share 14 year old Nick's sentiment of "wakeboarding is tite but i just don't get off on it." Shredtown"s Jamboree looked cool though.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

That is the funniest quote ever. In fact, it's tite. (my favorite part)

The one thing I'll say is I love watching wakeskating videos with dudes ollieing on the highest boxes and rails that wakeboarders will hop on to, or maybe even ride on. I don't know how to better articulate that thought...I just think wakeskating looks way better, and dudes are doing it right.

I think the decision was pretty conscious...my hating comes from the fact that the wakers who probably "wakeskated" probably now wake surf instead because it's easier. It's presumptious, I know.