What made you.....

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

to start Wakeskating on a serious level to just love it every day of you life like me Very Happy

I just want to hear ppl's stories and what they have to say because some are pretty damn cool Cool

Me, well Ive been on a wakeboard since 95' so i was already tired of doin my same old tricks over and over. I never really got into flips and spins because every time i tired one i had a concussion. My friends had a wakeskate, i think a old Mellisa 41 with foam top, and i just started riding around bare foot. Then I went to the WWC back in 04 summer and rode with Reed Hansen when he was just learning bs bigs... I came into the camp as a strapper, left a skater for life. Cool

As soon as i got home i bought my first wakeskate, a 03 LF 43 Concave

Maria · _________________ 01/20/2009. Niko-chan!

I started wakeboarding maybe 4 years ago since my bf was riding and some friends as well. (Been snowboarding since forever) He went to TWC, rode with señor Reed and came back with a wakeskate. I tried it and was stoked, I think I was smiling and laughing constantly during my first run.

When I went to TWC the following autumn I switched completely to skating and haven't been strapping ever since...

i<3wksk8 · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 262

that shiit looked tight

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

i<3wksk8,

Poo · Guest

I remember back when I was riding a scape, it was my second season, I could do wakejumps and shuvs and some 180s and stuff, I promised myself that summer that I would enter wakestock if I landed a wakejump and a shuv, then i did, i got them consistent, built a tower on my boat, then i read on the registration page on the site that it was pro qualifying and ppl were gunna be doing like stuff i wasnt even thinking about doing all summer, so then I promised myself that I would get good enough to enter and this year I am in. I still dont have a lot of those tricks but I might have a chance in my heat, who knows.

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

VinceWhiteman, Congrats man, i hope to see you there Cool

BB · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1706

Wakeboarded for a few years, learned the basics of waketowake tantrum blah blah, then my friend and i split the cost of a wakeskate just to try it...i never went back to wakeboarding...he went the other route b\c he sucked on the wakeskate and i picked it up pretty quick>>but my wakeboard just sits in my closet and collects dust, the only time i bring it out is when someone wants to use it, haha

LAXitives288 · Posted: Aug 07, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject:

I've pretty much been doing water sports my whole life. Surfing/scurfing, tubing, spear fishing/free diving. Then I got into skateboarding, got out of that, somewhat, then I met some people who were good at wakeskating and ive pretty much been hooked for a couple months now.

surfpunk · Ollie Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 87

ive been on the lake since i was just a baby, sleeping underneath the bow of the boat, back when single skiis were the shizzle (have some killer photos of my dad dragging shoulder on a single ski with his 80s mustache and sweet mullet) and skurfers were just getting on the water. sold the boat when i was about 10 years old and got really into surfing. then bought a wakeboard boat when i was about 15, got really into wakeboarding for about 5 years, then this season started and decided to try out wakeskating. now thats pretty much all i do. ill strap up every once in a while for the hell of it, but usually only when im already tired and the waters shiznackle.

lake weir ocala FL · Backside 180 Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 1241 City: Ocala

i liked to skimboard...and then i started skimboarding behind my jetski and decided i should get a wakeskate...that was last summer...i got my k39. in one year ive progressed so much...from not being able to shuvit to back bigs in one year is a really good achievement in my book. plus ive given it my all so im proud of myself Very Happy

mergeleft3 · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 673 City: Orlando

I was wakeboarding for about 2 years but it was hard because I did not have a boat and I did not have the money to buy one. So one day for the hell of it I went to performance and rented a skate. I had so much fun that I went back and bought a skate and I have never looked back. After about 6 months of only getting to ride about 1 day a week maybe less I went out and bought a Waverunner and that was it. All over from there, no more straping.

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

i refuse to take wakeskating seriously.

deltarider · Guest

i started wakeskating because someone was holding a shank to my wrist, they might have been emotional

ripava82 · Guest

deltarider500, Shocked

ZoSo · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 900 City: Winnipeg

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Aug 08, 2006 1:32 am Post subject:

i have been doing water sports since i was a baby...always been around the boat, started with kneeboardingm, then 2 foot skiing, then tubing, after tubing we got my first wakeboard about 7 or 8 years ago, i wakeboarded and got backrolls and a 360, but then i found wakeskating last year...i got a scape, and i coudl go wake to wake and shuv-it every once in a while but tha was jsut for fun, this year my buddy wanted to compete, so me wabnting to keepo up with his progression decided to compete too so i ahve taken wakeskating to a competitive level

spadedout41 · Frontside 180 Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 441

my parents were really into water skiing as i grew up and then my dad got a brand new four wins sundowner back in 93 and i finally learned how to get up on a wakeboard and started learning wake to wake stuff , last summer found the coolest guy on my lake with a 05 supra launch and started landing 3's and a couple different flips too make a long story short i fuked my foot up ( comming half way out of my binding and tearing some shizzle in my foot ) .... bought a wakeskate just to hold me over so i could stay out on a boardand realized im diggin this shizzle and my dad is buying 2 new 3 seaters so the end of this season and next should be a good start !!!