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Anyone been out wakeboarding this year?

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hank_hill
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i've been out for about 3 sets, bumming rides. getting our boat out of storage tommorrow and stoked factor is off the charts.
May 25 2010 1:54PM
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rather.be.skiing
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went out last week... now i realize my current setup isnt good enough for my riding level. fuuuuck im broke
May 26 2010 8:24PM
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MichSteeze
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going this weekend. so pumped!
May 26 2010 8:27PM
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Mr.SoloDolo
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Brought the mastercraft out. its riding well.
May 26 2010 8:32PM
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[-mvee-]
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shoulda went with me last weekend hater!

love it. not the best but getting better. this weekend: heelside backrolls. never tried but my friend does them so why not give them a try
May 26 2010 9:41PM
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Lkary
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Ya dude, i was out at tie lake near Fernie BC on the long weekend. It was so sick, warm, sunny.
May 26 2010 9:46PM
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JuliusJ
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went out right after last day of bachelor's season, may 15
May 26 2010 9:47PM
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Brenone
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taking the jet skis out in the bay/ocean this weekend. will def be getting some wake boarding in.
May 26 2010 9:47PM
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NW_Rider
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Is this going to be your first invert? If you have trouble, try a tantrum. Pretty easy to learn, a lot of people go wrong by squaring up and throwing it too early, so just try to wait what seems like an unreasonably long amount of time before throwing it and then all you really have to worry about is spotting the landing. Learning this trick also opens up a whole slew of new tricks.
May 26 2010 9:49PM
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Mtougas
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Same bro, i just put mine in the water this week. I just wakesurf a shitload mainly though.

May 26 2010 9:51PM
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hank_hill
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heelside backroll is alot easier to learn imo. the concept of a tantrum can be hard to get the hang of because you should edge hard into the wake, then flatten out, then throw the invert. with rolls you just throw your head to the tail of the board.

but thats just my thought.
May 26 2010 9:52PM
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NW_Rider
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I can see the logic in that, I tried them first and was having trouble (kept adding like 90 degrees of rotation to it and got sick of smashing my face into the water) so then I tried tantrums and got those and then for some reason when I went to learn backrolls after that they just worked.

^holy terrible sentence, decipher at own risk.

Also, once you get HS Fronts, ultra fun time has arrived. You can take em sooo deep. I'm still too big of a poose poose to try raleys though. Hoochie glides look so sick.

And while I'm rambling, wakeboarding has the weirdest names for tricks ever:

Tantrum
Whirly Bird
Big Worm
Big Perm (One of my best friends just landed the first one ever on video last week! /claim)
Pete Rose
Scarecrow
Speedball
Hoochie Glide
Osmosis 3,5,7, etc
Ole 3,5,7 etc
Bat wing
to name a few...
May 26 2010 10:01PM
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hank_hill
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you ride competitively at all?

my big thing im working on its a wake 2 wake double tantrum
May 26 2010 10:33PM
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NW_Rider
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Holy shit! Wake2wake or off a double-up?

I used to compete here and there in INT events back between like 03-05, then my friend I did it with got really good and went pro and moved to Florida, so now I just bum around him at comps/parties and when he comes back to Seattle for summers and score rides behind his boat. It was def. fun back in the day competing, I just don't ride enough anymore though.

Thats fuckin ridic if you stomp a double tanny though.
May 26 2010 10:44PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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going for it on saturday on lake champlain. gonna be cold as cold can be.
May 26 2010 10:50PM
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[-mvee-]
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ok. and yeah i agree backroll sounds easier and is said to be the first invert you should try. i might also go for a regular toeside front roll. at least attempt to land them.
May 26 2010 10:56PM
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Dylan_
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been out 15+ times already
May 26 2010 11:02PM
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Style+eeze
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SOON! so stoked my friend just got a tower on his boat.

Lake Washington, here we come
May 26 2010 11:03PM
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kstanz
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Should be going out pretty soon... still a bit too cold though.
May 26 2010 11:06PM
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J-Evs
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cant wait to splash the boat this season
got'er out of winterization last weekend and hopefully should be hitting the water in a week or two
thinking about getting a wakeskate too, any recommendations?
May 26 2010 11:13PM
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hank_hill
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wake2wake ive got the rotation a few times, but flipping that fast makes for a rough landing and i cant hold it together at the end
May 26 2010 11:14PM
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fountain.
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going out on friday for the first time this year! soo pumped.
May 26 2010 11:23PM
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Style+eeze
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wakeskating is the shit!

my friends and i don't have a super nice one, but it's fun to just cruise on it and try doing pop shuv-its and stuff. definitely worth it in my opinion.
May 27 2010 12:44AM
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Static
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going out for the first time this season tomorrow! saw this thread and got stoked.
May 27 2010 12:52AM
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andrew.ski
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I went out last week on my 1989 Malibu Skier. Damn that thing is bitching. Screw X-Stars. Air Natiques, and Wakesetters. My little skier kicks ass..

That is until the carb gets gummed up 7 miles out in the slough, your engine wont start because of this, and you repeatedly try to start the engine because the wind is making the levee come ever closer, and eventually you realize that you have turned over your engine enough times (coupled with the fact that your battery connectors sucked balls in 1989) that one of the posts on the battery has melted clean off.

Then you proceed to wait for help since your cell is out of service, but its a tuesday night, kinda windy and about 65 degrees in the air and in the water and i gotta stand in the water to hold the boat off the rocks.. yeah i got home about 11:30 that night cause i didnt get a tow until the sheriff happened to stroll by around 945. I <3 pigs for once.

Anyways that was my first day out this season.. sorry for the long windedness.



May 27 2010 12:59AM
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andrew.ski
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ooh i forgot to add, this isnt my boat but heres what it is:


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In these colors:

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:)
May 27 2010 1:02AM
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Static
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cool body lines. That sucks you were dead in the water, happened to me a couple seasons ago, several assholes went right by and wouldn't stop to offer a tow or anything.
May 27 2010 1:12AM
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andrew.ski
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yeah. freaking pricks. I learned later on that its actually a felony to pass someone in distress up.. but i dont think they ever enforce it.

Id be pissed if i got a felony for passing someone up, but then again i dont pass people up.. haha
May 27 2010 1:16AM
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andrew.ski
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or at least i wont from now on.. gotta keep the karma circle going.
May 27 2010 1:16AM
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.AR6rider.
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I'll be going out this weekend for the first time this year.

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This isn't my actual boat, but it's the same exact boat that I have (2002 yellow X-Star).

May 27 2010 1:22AM
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andrew.ski
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^^ sick boat



but check out this new boat company, the boats look almost exactly like the old 80's Natique 2001's, but they are decked out and made for wakeboarding with a doppppeeeee wrap on it (imho) and only like 29k new


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http://standardboats.com/default.aspx
May 27 2010 1:38AM
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flexpattern
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Been out riding cable a couple of times this year... going again next week sooooo stoked!!!
May 27 2010 6:39AM
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cab509
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Reping the Ohio State Waterski Team, we put the boat in the water on April 1st and I've been out maybe 5-6 times so far. I'm more of a skier than a wakebaorder though.  We also just got back from a nice long 4 day weekend houseboat trip down to Norris Lake which was awesome.
May 27 2010 8:16AM
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TheDude
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too bad washington hasent realized were alomst out of school yet, therefore there is still NO warm weather yet.
May 27 2010 9:17AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Ugh. I've usually got 30+ days under my belt by this time of the year, but I haven't even been out once yet. And we start our shows in like a week. Thank god it's like riding a bike...
May 27 2010 9:19AM
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J-Evs
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not mine but this is the exact but but its all white instead of yellow

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May 27 2010 11:51AM
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MichSteeze
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you shouldve called me bro... i mean come on we live like 2 minutes away...
May 27 2010 8:43PM
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timmi
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been goin out for like a month
May 27 2010 8:44PM
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MichSteeze
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damn. ha thats sweet though. hopefully the water isn't too chilly in michigan last year wore a wetsuit until the 4th of july. haha
May 27 2010 8:48PM
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wildbillchill
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im goinout this weekend even tho the weathers gonna be shitty
May 27 2010 9:02PM
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timmi
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It was cold... very cold.
May 27 2010 11:31PM
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pomme-de-terre
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i rode yesterday. living on a lake is dope. bitches always wanna come hang out in the summer.
May 27 2010 11:40PM
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