X Games Wakeskate

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea

My favorite was freestyle bungee jumping.

Engen87 · Posted: Aug 07, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

From what I heard wakeskating will be in the x games next year. even though it will be the smallest of all the other events we still deserve some part in it. Its going to be comps like the hippodrome that is going to get wakeskating more credit in the extreme sports industry. Its going to have a 6 page spred in alliance and fuel tv is going to have a show on it. This year was big but next year will be even bigger. Big thanks to collin write, and silas thurman for putting so much time in to it. It wasent relly a compitition it was more of just a bunch of riders pushing eachother.

PIRATE · Guest

Engen87, your such a ambassodor for the sport of wakeskating Laughing

Anyway when i look at the x-gay-mes i think dang what does are sport not need, and then i see it Sal Massecela and a bunch of other homo's talking about a sport they know nothing about in hopes of selling it on younger kids to line there pockets, and the pockets of other major corporations,

If any of you are "ROC" kids and you think that wakeskating should be in the x-games then you are a hypocrit and you should go jump off a building

PIRATE · Guest

electricsnow, ohh and never forget "sky surfing" hahahaha omg that was gay, i cant believe they have surfing int here now. that sucks. Evil or Very Mad

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

oh god, I forgot all about sky surfing! that's so funny...when I was young, I totally ate up the x-games and pretty much made myself watch the whole damn thing...adventure racing and all. One time, I was on a week long vacation at the cabin and I had my sister tape every day of the x-games...

And on a side note, sal actually knows what he's talking about. I don't know everything about him, but he was an intern at one of the transworld magazines (skate or snow) and he used to travel around with tony hawk on his little skate tour. blah blah blah, I think just about everyone is going to sound stupid when you're catering to a mainstream audience...you have to break everything down and basically make everything sound exciting.

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

i was just gonna say the sky surfing thing...worst sport ever...

and, sadly, i too used to tape the xgames.....

what is this hippo thing?

RUSSIAN · Posted: Aug 07, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject:

the last thing wakeskating needs is to be raped by the x-games retards.

Do you guys really want to see our beloved "sport" turned into a marketing machine, only to be spit up and shizzle on 3 years later, meanwhile the only people that really made any money from it are the corpos who don't even know what a wakeskate is?
If you really want to know where wakeskating stands, go post on the general wake forum of wakeworld. tell them that Nick landed a 3-flip and see what kind of response you get.....

these threads kill me.

KirbyJosh · Posted: Aug 07, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

sorry to get off topic but electricsnow what is this hippodrome you've mentioned?

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

it was collin wright's all wakeskate event that took place at koppert lake (I believe it was koppert--I know it wasn't radar-hahahaha). I believe he and silas set it all up, and it's going to be an annual event. It's different...like the toe jam basically has all of wakeskating's disciplines--rail-slash-pwc, boat, and then your winch. I know collin's event was pulled with a boat, and you seriously had to be on it when it came to your wake to wake stuff...next year, you'll have to be on it even more so...

Anyway, it's cool that collin is getting involved on a grand scale like that...just like the riders designing events that will reflect on the art in a positive and influential way. I don't know...the x games is a big deal in any "extreme sport", but each one has their own competition that is more prestigious within their community, like the US open in snowboarding, and there are a number of important comps in skating, like the tampa events and the slam city jam...

I've been thinking about this, and is it really our job to keep wakeskating a secret? Like, people have invested a lot of time and love to make wakeskating something legitimate and something feasible...growth is a natural progression of any special activity like this. If wakeskating ends up in the x-games, the most important part is to have the right people there representing the art, and it's also important that there's a legitimate format so people can at least "kind of" understand why wakeskating is completely worthy.

I remember years ago, gregg necrason was all pissy because in 1997, the riders in the finals weren't the real "representatives" of wakeboarding (finalists: hunter brown, parks bonifay, jeremy kovak, and darin shapiro)(he did give "props" to darin). Anyway, wakeskating is a bit different and I don't think it's in any sort of a "low point" (like the whole skiboarder/raley fest type thing in the late 90's) and there are a lot of good riders that are worthy to represent wakeskating.

You know, I seriously wanted to write an article on this but I figured it'd be thought of as "holier than thou" by many of you. Seriously, we're all a part of a really great secret now...but is it anybody's job to keep it small, or to stiffle the growth of wakeskating? Healthy growth and positive growth is always the key, but I'd suspect it's not always possible to maintain that control. Anyway, that's why it's cool that so many riders have found a new home in the industry with wakeskating, and they're getting involved and putting their positive spin on the whole thing. And I hope a few OG's listen to their hearts and get back into this thing.

Wakeskating is loved...

Oh, sorry to put this here, but I actually think it's pretty cool that surfing is an event at the x games, because just about every board sport has a little piece of surfing in it. It's the OG of board sports. And if I had the money, I'd be a california girl...

freerider4 · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2462

electricsnow I have always wanted to say that just never knew how

senorbueno · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 1593

electricsnow, wasn't there also like skyboarding or whatever it was called where they would go skydiving with a snowboard attached to their feet?

[edit] woops didn't read the second page...

liquid · Posted: Aug 07, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, wow e-snow i envy you in a literall way, iv always wanted to pretty much say that but never could get it out and ever make people listen to me because they think im some kind of 14 year old newb, at least someone with some knowledge let it out to the best website out there

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

don't worry liquid, people think i'm an internet jerk with a stick up my ass. Some listen, some don't--you can't please everyone. So say what you can liquid, because it may be good.

liquid · Posted: Aug 07, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, haha yeah ill start.....u rock in my opinion

mikeskatesonwater · Guest

I think a pool gap and a pwc rail contest would be a huge hit at the X of Games....
I'm sorry but wakeboarding isn't that fun to watch... even with rails and kickers...
but wakeskating.....wakeskating is unique and everyone always asks " how do you stay on the board with no bindings?" people dont know what to make of it when they see it.... every kid who likes skateboarding will like wakeskating if it is presented well... it can't be underground forever.... plus who cares if it does get big.. so what, you might have to learn some more tricks, and stay on the up and up... Wakeskating in the Xgames all the way....

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Aug 08, 2005 12:03 am Post subject:

Put it in the Xgames i say, if we want our sport to progress then we need more people riding. I would say a nice little pool gap and some strights so people can throw some flip tricks in there would be rad, the only thing some times its hard to see exactly when the boarder is doing, so the stands would have to be riased....but thats not a problem. but i'm "2 thumbs up" for wakeskating in the xgames.

Jonesie · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 811

chickity china the chinese chicken ESPN, isn't it supposed to be a "sports" channel? then why are they showing Poker? For the god damn money!

wakeskating can progress and grow with out the X-Games and all the corporate bulljive that comes with it

Nekkie · Posted: Aug 08, 2005 12:10 am Post subject:

/agree

why the hell do we need X games for? So that more brats with shiznackle attitude and posers start wakeskating, like they started skateboarding?? lol

East_Coast_Riders · Faceplant Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 19 City: Ohope

I reckon wakeskating would be dope if introduced and portrayed the right way in the x games. it would be an awesome oopurtunity to showcase the uniqueness of the sport we partcipate in to the world. I cant see wakeskating becoming like skating with all the posers and corporate crap right off the bat as it is anyway already the sport seems in my eyes to legit all ready to let that happen to the sport we love, look at you guys and most people on this site who support rider owned companies and run events thats where our sport is different and in my eyes i think it will stay that way.

If it was introduced it definatly wouldnt be in the right way either we wont see any of the riding on tv i mean look at wakeboarding now barely any airtime at all (or atleast thats all i saw over my ways) which sucked cause i must admit i strap a bit still. or they would bring it up like an off shoot of wakeboarding where the big companies could make some money as many rider owned wakeskate companies dont make wakeboards (as far as i know) and that would do wakeskating less of a favor as corporates and posers would then be trying to get there piece of the action.

it all depends on how it would be introduced to a mass audience and run that would see the positive growth or demise of the sport that has been created.

Plus inline should be just an exhibition event as the last i saw of it the yasutoko bros were that far ahead of the comp it was pointless them even dropping in for a run.

jboss · Kickflip Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 3210 City: Chalmette

i like wakeskating the way it is. i hated when i skated and they had a bunch of criddlers comin up to me and be like, "how long you been skatin, watch this trick, you think i can be sponsored, DERRRRRRRRR". skating has too many people doin it because its popular and to get sponsored one day. with wakeskating its the exact opposite, its nowhere near popular. walk up to a random person and ask, " you know what a wakeskate is?" 99% of the time they wont know what your talkin about, but if you ask, "you know what a wakeboard is?" theyve probably at least heard of it. i get a little bit of pleasure when people see my skate and are like, "what is that thing?" and then explain it to them.

i like doin somethin that is for the most part unknown. wakeskatin doesnt have anybody doin it because it popular becuase it isnt and thats part of what keeps me doin it. i (kinda) quit skatin because of how stupid it was gettin.

also, when i land a new trick on my skate, it seems more satisfying thatn any trick i did on my skateboard. just doin ollies and shuvits are fun to me. i usually learn a trick on my skateboard and then never do it again because it wasnt fun to do, i jsut did it to learn somethin new.

i dont think wakeskating at the xgames would make it too popular, since not everyone has a boat, lives near water, etc. so its relatively safe. still i think the big corporations would try to whore it out like they did for wakeboarding. tech deck wakeboards? wal-mart-quality wakeboards made by big companies for a quick buck? am i the only one whos disgusted by this. just picture it, "44" ronald mcdonald pro model flat deck". HOW HUMILIATING WOULD THAT BE!?!? so no i think wakeskating at x is a bad idea. we have the toe jam, pwt, and triple crown (i think), so we dont need the xgames.

P.S. sorry for the esnow-length post, i didnt think it would drag on this long.