feebles/smiths

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

will they ever look good on a wakeskate?

I would love to see a front feeble that is tweaked out like a skateboard, but I'm not sure if lock in fins really will let it happen without some kind of axle...

Zero. · Posted: Apr 21, 2014 12:15 am Post subject:

I feel no, but I used to think the same about blunts, thought they would always look like old ugly over the rail tail slides...and just look at remote Philippines vid and what Clem is throwin out... Awesome.

So we'll see....but right now I say no lol plus they're a little different than blunts too....for feebles/smiths, the wheels make it look locked...on a wakeskate we're just gonna see an angled board :/

Someone prove me wrong!

Frye · Guest Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 3335

Zero., do you ever skate Lakeside?

-LoGiK- · Kickflip Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 2747 City: Orlando

http://vimeo.com/7028732 at 1:28 i attempt a frontsmith , no lock in bar just nubs but still think they have a long way to come

I've seen quite a few people throw some back and frontside smiths before , and I think tyler throws a front feebs somewhere in standard def

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 21, 2014 4:29 pm Post subject:

What happened to those "irons" that some1 was welding, with those things some1 could def pull a feeble.

senza wake · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2011 Posts: 597 City: SLC

Ben was making those I believe.

Fortenberry does a nice fs smith in Ride Among Us I think... I'll re-watch his part to see

mank the tank · Posted: Apr 22, 2014 1:58 pm Post subject:

Fortenberry has a mean smith.

senza wake · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2011 Posts: 597 City: SLC

^that be the one^
I don't think you need an axle. It's more about the wheel/fin and being able to hang the skate from it so you can dip that nose. As all things have, this will only look better and better the more people do them

wakemitch · Posted: Apr 22, 2014 7:28 pm Post subject:

Matt Hooker had some cool looking crooks.

I'm all for crooks, smiths, and feebles in wakeskating. But I think skinny rails are needed.

mank the tank · Posted: Apr 23, 2014 12:21 pm Post subject:

A backside Feeble from Nick a while back. I really liked this angle of it.

Frye · Guest Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 3335

deepcove · Posted: Apr 24, 2014 12:37 am Post subject:

senza wake · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2011 Posts: 597 City: SLC

Im sure it has to do with liability, and lets face it, its a ton easier to get hurt on a standard rail than it is on a wide box.

i feel like i would love to see a smith on a ledge just as much as on a rail. why do you think it has to be on a skinny rail?

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 24, 2014 4:52 pm Post subject:

senza wake, i think he was just saying it would be sweet on a skinny rail because you could latch on with the fin and might produce more of an actual "locked in" slide.

dscsk8er55 · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 1030 City: Orlando

This is why you don't see skinny rails. Logan got his leg stuck on one side of the rail and body went to the other side. I have a picture at home with is bone protruding from the skin.

mank the tank · Posted: Apr 24, 2014 5:16 pm Post subject:

Ryan was doing them a few years ago on double trex. Definitely doable on a ledge/box.

Its all in the hips yeahhhhhhh, It's all in the hips. *Chubbs Quote*

deepcove · Posted: Apr 24, 2014 8:41 pm Post subject:

I dont think liability would be an issue. Most if not all mountains with advanced parks for snowboarding have skinny rails, usually with plywood or plexiglass in the middle to so you wont get tangled if you botch it. Effectively the same result as a box with sides with a higher level of difficulty.

Frye · Guest Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 3335

Rail Wars!!!

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 25, 2014 5:02 pm Post subject:

mank the tank, tell ryan to kickflip outa that! that would look so freakin bad ass. i remember he was vfliping outa bslides

nick · Posted: Apr 27, 2014 8:07 pm Post subject:

For a long time, I refused to recognize wakeskate smiths & feebles without a bar, because most of the ones I'd seen didn't look right or give the same feel (mostly my own), but now I'm more relaxed on the idea that they can be done right on a wakeskate with a good set of nugs... Fortenberry's smiths are sick, and I always liked that one BS feeble that I got back in '09 that Mitch filmed.

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