Wake Skating Over Sea

jvcx3 · Faceplant Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

Hey, i just got a quick question.

Has anyone tried wakeskating on sea before?

is it eve possible?

Slyder · Posted: Mar 26, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

I'm answering this question on the grounds that maybe you shut your brain off when you asked it.

All you need is water and something to tow. A lot of wakeskating's appeal comes from the endess possibilities of spots to ride.

Or carpet

deltarider · Guest

wakeboarders say that landings are much harder in salt water.....it is just different i guess

wakemitch · Posted: Mar 26, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

the water is denser(sp?) i believe

Raven · Posted: Mar 26, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject:

Riding on the sea is great, you'll need a very calm day; but hitting swell being towed is ludicrous. You can launch, you can let go and ride the wave; it's great if you can catch it on the right day,"early".

Salt water is denser therefore harder than fresh water. It really throws you for a loop when you switch. It seems to me you have to pop your tricks a lot harder in fresh water because you have less resistance. In saltwater I seem to get more pop when I go for a big trick, hence more resistance.

Schimkat · Posted: Mar 26, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject:

I've only ridden freshwater maybe 5 or 6 times.

Go saltwater. Cool

shane · Frontside 180 Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 493 City: Lost

Raven, you can really notice it that substantially? I ride fresh half the time and salt half the time and all I notice in salt is when you fall it tastes worse and I feel more vulnerable.

parky · Kickflip Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 3193

I learned and still ride on the "sea"

mario c. · Guest

the sea = gnarly shitt Shocked

VonBoggin · Backside 180 Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1666 City: Austin

ive never ridden salt water Neutral

wakeskate242 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 232 City: OC

i always thought it hurt less when i fell in salt water...

Iamjesse · Posted: Mar 27, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject:

Where i used to ride in houston it was all connected to the bay and the gulf. Closer to the bay was really salty, but farther back where we usually ride was brackish. But i think salt water def. holds a harder edge and is more grippin and not quit as fast. Cause once i got up to austin and freshwater, my style got really sketchy and i had a harder time stickin tricks. idk.. just really weird. But i could def. tell a diff. riding in salty/brackish water compared to fresh.

BillyOLDS · Posted: Mar 27, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject:

salt wateer is better then fresh imo, im way more consistant on it

RedXIII · Posted: Mar 27, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

i got stung by a jelly fish when i was 8 so now i hate the sea

lol

xstfu ill pwn youx · Backside 180 Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 837 City: 954.

i hate riding salt water.

cassette315 · Posted: Mar 27, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject:

same here.

but riding in the "sea" made me a better skater in ruff water

when its glass i cant do shizzle but when theres white caps
i can pop endless tricks, now my riding season is hurricane season

Raven · Posted: Mar 27, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject:

There is more surface tension in salt water so when you ollie there is more resistance making it easier and quicker. Saltwater is heavier and just seems more stable to ride in.

I've ridden both, and although everyone and I agree says saltwater is easier to throw down in. I'll take fresh water every day of the week, it's fresh clean feeling takes the cake.

deepcove · Posted: Mar 28, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject:

I ride primarily in salt, been stung by jelly fish and experienced the ever so nasty salt water enema. About 75% of the time I see seals, they usually poke their head out of the water about 50 yds away. One of the coolest things i saw was an early morning ride while carving away from the boat I look over my left shoulder and see a seal bobbing in the water with his breakfast....it was about a 15 lbs salmon hanging from his mouth...very cool...

Also you get a lot of obstacles to ollie over.....crab trap buoys, logs and other shrapnel that has broken away from docks.

The biggest difference i find compared to fresh water is a simple surface spin feels grippier in fresh which i attribute to my skate riding lower in the less boyant fresh water.

Iamjesse · Posted: Mar 29, 2006 7:27 am Post subject:

And.... wich i have noticed since i moved from salt to fresh in the winter season... Fresh water is alot colder then salt.... but some of that might have to do that half the lakes in austin are damed off...

nick · Posted: Mar 29, 2006 8:11 am Post subject:

Salt water > fresh water.

Yo patino el agua del Gulfe de Mexico mas bueno qué los lagos de Orlando.