Wakeskating and Skateboarding

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Sep 16, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject: Wakeskating and Skateboarding

How many people on here skateboard as well as wakeskate, and try to take skate tricks onto the water Question

cassette51 · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 334 City: Plano

it helps to skateboard so you can wakeskate

wcwakeskater · Posted: Sep 16, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject:

I suck at skateboarding.

greg van wagnen · Posted: Sep 16, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject:

ya bro i cant do nething but ollie on a skateboard, it has more 2 do with wakeboarding background in my mind

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Sep 16, 2003 11:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I understand they both come into play, b/c knowing how to land a 3 or 5 on a wakeboard will help you tryin it on a wakeskate. I'm just sayin that for skate tricks, such as shuv it and kickflips, who does or would u consider practicin them on a sk8board - thats all.

greg van wagnen · Posted: Sep 16, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject:

i can do shovits n kickflips, never landed em on a skateboard though, n i cant do a 3 or a 5 on a wakeskate but i can on a wakeboard, i think it has a lot to do with understanding how the water works with a board aposed 2 how a skateboard works on land, all three are very similar but yet very different, i think that some1 thats killin it on a skateboard and a wakeboard is going to pick a wakeskate up and just go kill everyone

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Sep 16, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject:

true...but the physics of the 3 r all different and on a wakeskate - as you have to keep the board up wind to spin a 180 or 3...but your example of killin it on a skateboard and wakeskate would be Danny Hampson Smile

greg van wagnen · Posted: Sep 16, 2003 11:50 pm Post subject:

is he the 1 w/ the pontune boat, if so he does kill it, how long has he been riding?

cassette51 · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 334 City: Plano

daniel lovett has a pontoon boat and he RIPS

greg van wagnen · Posted: Sep 17, 2003 11:09 am Post subject:

o i no who danny hampson is but i havent seen him ride other then the detroit tour stop so i dont really no much about him

cassette51 · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 334 City: Plano

yea. ive only seen him in SNAP. he rips in his 15 second clip then anyone in that video combined

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

I have a huge skateboarding backround and that helps with wakeskating and i do both i mostly wakeskate but now in the VERY cold winder im going to skateboard alot more!

skatingguy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 156 City: Birmingham

I've been skateboarding for years, and I can kickflip consistently and everything, but I just got into wakeskating a few weekends ago. I was just wondering, should the skateboarding give me an advantage or something?

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Sep 17, 2003 10:53 pm Post subject:

It prob will, but kickflips are something that I think everyone is trying to figure out. The only known way to do them on a wakeskate like a skateboard is Hampson style.

kyleG · Faceplant Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 18

first off if u wakeboard u understand how to load the line and jump the wake. i have only wakeboarded a lil but have skateboarded like my whole life and i can do shuvits and lip tricks and go w2w sometimes. but also ur weight distrbution is a lil diffrent on a skate casuse u can put ur foot on the very back ulike a wakeboard, and u always have ur foot on the back when skateboarding. Undersatnding the mechanics of a skateboard and a wakeboard could help u (a lot) and i think that is why cassette is perferd by most bc if u loook at the pole u see that most of us skateboard and are looking for that feel of a skateboard.
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wcwakeskater · Posted: Sep 18, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:

Good job, Kyle Crazy Eyes

hypo · Pop Shuvit Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 140

<<--does not skateboard. wakeskate only. but i find myself watching, appreciating skating more on fuel.tv now.

greg van wagnen · Posted: Sep 23, 2003 11:42 am Post subject:

ya i totaly watch way more skateing then before i wakeskated, it seems to help to get ideas of things that are posiable on a wakeskate

cassette51 · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 334 City: Plano

when you skateboard it helps you to get the feel of the tricks so when you go on the water you can get that shuvit around or whatever.