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Wakeboard question

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kbrando
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i thought it would be really cool to make a wakeboard rail, does anyone know how to make one that will be sturdy and wond flip over??
Jun 8 2006 3:28PM
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meggles
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yes i am wondering the same.. we're trying to build one too but we have no idea how
Jun 8 2006 3:28PM
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johanblaze
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i'll bet if you put the rail in 500 tons of cement before you drop it in it will work.
Jun 8 2006 3:33PM
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meggles
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wow good thinking!!!
heh
Jun 8 2006 3:35PM
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johanblaze
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lyKE oMG!!1111~!!!lolZ!
Jun 8 2006 3:36PM
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iskilibertys
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Ive been thinking about this too. All i could think of is to anchor it directly into the bottom of the lake or wherever you're doing it with metal poles, but i also thought that gets really hard, especially in water deeper than 10 feet, hahaha.

What im thinking now is that if you make the rail part, attach it to something that floats that runs the lengh of it, and to that attach poles or soemthing thats weighted at the bottom so as to give it an ultra low center of gravity (one below water level), then use a rope or something to anchor it into position.

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I dont know if you can see it in that, but the (') is the water level, (=) is the rail, and is a weight at the bottom of a pole(|).

Just an idea, i have no idea if it would actually work, but in theory it would
Jun 8 2006 3:37PM
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Alexander_Keith
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yeha i have a friend whos building a rail or 'slider' in wakeboard terms, you just need it to be heavy and have a wide, boyant base, i suggest a low rail with a wide bottom that uses those blue plastic containers as floaters
Jun 8 2006 3:37PM
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meggles
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haha
yup you're a genious.
Jun 8 2006 3:37PM
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iskilibertys
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fuck, that picture didnt work at all...i give up
Jun 8 2006 3:38PM
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meggles
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yea we were trying to think of a way to make one that you could adjust the length of...but i dont think that'd work. but yea anchoring it would be a problem.. were not sure what were gonna do yet to do it.

unless we use 500 tons of cement, of course.
Jun 8 2006 3:39PM
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iskilibertys
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Ill try one more time

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rail =
poles |
weight at the mottom of poles O
watter'

If that one doesnt work, then im going emo
Jun 8 2006 3:41PM
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iskilibertys
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fuck, thats it...im going to go cut myself now
Jun 8 2006 3:43PM
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meggles
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haha i think i see what you're saying
but the weights have to weigh a LOT and the base has to be really wide i guess..
and another question... ive never hit a rail oh a wakeboard before.. do you set it like right on top of the water or is it raised up or what... and do you jump on to it or just slide right on to it?
and do you do the same things as you would if you were hitting a rail on skis?
Jun 8 2006 3:47PM
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RKF
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if you cant figure it out on your own then you wont be able to from someone explaining it to you. im making a lot of sliders this summer to sell off.
Jun 8 2006 3:48PM
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iskilibertys
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ive never tried a rail either, but in watching it on tv, its raised off the water about a foot or so, and you ollie to get on it. ollieing on a wakeboard is pretty easy, if you just pump you weight down a little, the watter will pop you back up.
Jun 8 2006 3:51PM
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meggles
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AWWW crap i just remembered..... haha i cant even wakeboard this summer. at all. i had surgery on my knee and doc says noooo to wakeboarding. until next year. dang.

but i did get my boating license so i can still drive the boat for everyone.. but dang i cant believe i forgot about that.

anyway... yea ive found myself to be really unstable on my landings (i suck pretty bad.. i just started last summer) like my board wobbles and stuff when i land
Jun 8 2006 3:54PM
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kbrando
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i just watched a wakeboard vid and it looks like the supports have to be driven into the ground and it doesnt float it is just attached to the bottom
Jun 8 2006 4:50PM
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steevner
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it has to be sunk into the ground underwater. or u can just build a rail across an already made wooden raft
Jun 8 2006 4:52PM
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jibsworth
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Thats exactly how you do it!


also you need to anchor it to something so it doesn't move arround on you.
Jun 8 2006 4:58PM
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meggles
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i have another question... say i made a box of sorts for wakeboarding. my board has like..built in fins on either side.. would that effect how i should hit it? or.. can i go straight onto it like a snowboarder does sometimes (im really bad with naming grinds... 50/50 maybe??)

[img]http://www.wakeworld.com/wwimages/boardguide/boards/2285.jpg[img]

thats my wakeboard.. if i went on straight would the fins screw me up? or.. would i screw up the fins?
Jun 8 2006 5:22PM
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meggles
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Click for larger image

oops
Jun 8 2006 5:23PM
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iskilibertys
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id do a board slide of sorts, but it doesnt sound like you need to be worrying about this now, since you cant really wakebaord for a while
Jun 9 2006 5:05PM
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Paul-o-Rama
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http://www.wakeboarder.com
Jun 9 2006 5:26PM
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Paul-o-Rama
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then go to forums and then to slider talk
Jun 9 2006 5:28PM
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doitbig
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not hard at all...build a boyant base with those blue barrels they use for swim platforms. we just tie a few anchors to each end and put it whereever we want in the lake. build any kinda of rail you want out of pvc and put it on the platform. you kids suck are figuring things out.
Jun 9 2006 6:51PM
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Paul-o-Rama
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take off fins to slide
Jun 9 2006 7:11PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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aight man take the dock u ski off and build a extnsion off it and put a rail on it we did that and we did one in the shollow watere
Jun 9 2006 8:19PM
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