wakeskating without skateboarding?

EJazzle · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 9:48 am Post subject: wakeskating without skateboarding?

what would wakeskating have been without the existence skateboarding?

hmm......?

88skisupreme · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1342 City: ATX

wakeboarding

EJazzle · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 10:07 am Post subject:

88skisupreme, you dont think surfing could have had any influence?

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

im sure people would eventually start doing "skate" tricks, i bet it would just take longer

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 11:14 am Post subject:

i cant imagine a world without skateboarding.

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

waterboarding

paulmc · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject:

skateboarding owes it exsistance to surfing really. remember side walk surfing!!

So imagine a world without surfing! we'd have none of this Crying or Very sad

spowell · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject:

we'd all be waterskiing
i <3 waterskiing Smash

paulmc · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 1:53 pm Post subject:

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

paulmc, very good point. wakeboarding has roots in "surfing behind boats" (which went by many names, including wakeboarding). The thing is, I have an action now magazine from the early 80s and the way those guys rode was closer to wakeskating as we know it than most would realize. Granted, they weren't doing shuvs, but they were popping re-entry ollies, hand shaping smaller boards, lipslides, etc. It's pretty cool how things evolved, and as far as what I've seen with wakeboarding's history, the early 80s before any skurfers was what I'd been missing.

So wakeskating would definitely exist without skateboarding. It's kind of about influences and who gets their hold on things. Of course wakeskating/wakeskaters have closer adopted the stylistic ideas of skating more than anything else.

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

I was pondering a similar question while on the boat this weekend. The water was rough, and I thought to myself, why am I here? I could be out having fun skateboarding. Which made me question why I, or anyone, wakeskates at all. We're just trying to do skate tricks, so why not just spend the time actually skateboarding?

I never arrived at any conclusions and will continue to wakeskate and skateboard.

BB · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1706

Greg T, b\c skateboarding will never imitate the feeling you get on top of the water...

stompin9s · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject:

surfing is THE number one contributer to all board sports and the style of the ways boards are ridden

overstreet31 · Posted: Aug 03, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject:

Greg T, I sometimes think the same thing, then I realize it is 100 degrees outside and say, I should do this on the water instead. Sure, nothing compares to the concrete jungle but it sure is hot in the said jungle also. Wakeskate in the summer and skate during the cooler months when the water temp doesn't allow.

stompin9s, agreed Exclamation

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

overstreet31, thats really the only good reason I could come up with.

BB, somewhat true, but wakeskating will never have the variety of tricks/terrain or legitimacy of skateboarding.

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

yookyle · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1002 City: Reno

Greg T, we dont skateboard because were scared of eating it on concrete.

spowell · Posted: Aug 04, 2009 5:53 am Post subject:

yookyle, most of us do skateboard i would say, but wakeskating is DIFFERENT. whether it is better or worse is all personal opinion.
i'm sure if we didn't think wakeskating was better than skateboarding we wouldn't do it....

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

the whole reason i got into wakeskating is because it was like skateboarding.

YaBro · Backside 180 Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 624

i like butterfingers so much