New wakeskating machine

CheeseSkate · Frontside 180 Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 344

check this out lads!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16p6c_wakebox-in-allemagne

OverEasy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 167 City: Richardson

what happens when you fall?

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

OverEasy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 167 City: Richardson

I guess that explains why I can land shuv-it's all day on an indo board, but still eat shizzle when I try it on the water Embarassed

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

Yeah that looks crazy but also painful if you fall? maybe im wrong.

RedXIII · Posted: Feb 13, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

ya you get eaten when you fall i bet

canalskater · Guest

when u fall ur board goes into a net in the back if u dont catch it urself. u can stand if u crash though and just get back on ur board. it still looks really fun and i'd like to try it someday. its like a flowrider for wakeskating.

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

I want one so bad. Laughing

Jeff_Knox · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 712 City: J-ville

im actually building a ghetto version here in jax... im still working on designing the best shape and size but my first calculations come out to be about 5500-6000 gpm.... thats a shitload of water to pump but i think i can get it to work utilizing the shape of the box, multiple nozzels... and slightly slanting it downward to let gravity give me an edge

canalskater · Guest

they sell them. something like $200,000.

Jeff_Knox · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 712 City: J-ville

What else, or you could build one.... and the only thing that really costs anything would be pumps... 1 k max

LKNboarder7982 · Posted: Feb 13, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject:

i had that idea except using the back end of a boat and like having a curved back end of the box from top to bottom like "c" and so the water would be pushed back to the boat to suck it back up and be a continuous thing but the whole thing would actually have a wake and shizzle, ive been dreaming about it forever Sad

having a big indoor complex with like 4 or 5 of the things i want to make that all the boats have towers or whatever. i could use boat engine/propeller combo thing to create a boat wake or a jetski engine/propeller combo thing to create a jetski wake. i would like have a variety and everything be just as if you were really out on a lake but to have something 80ft long you would need to figure out how to get all the water from where its being sucked up and pushing out the wake back to the intake grate or w/e in a continuous motion that is user friendly.... idk but theres alot of variables that you would have to deal with like if you fall how do you stop it, unless you have someone controlling everything for you but id rather have it as a rider worked machine, and how to keep your board from gettting knocked aaround, or you getting knocked around, starting and stopping, keeping the water in motion, keeping it clean water, etc etc yes alot of variables and alot of money involved. but that would be a sweet indoor complex for winter skating, then expand to have like 10 complexs all over the nation Very Happy

yes it is a dream, but oh well, it was worth talking about. ha

Jeff_Knox · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 712 City: J-ville

LKNboarder7982, haha man i have read that twice but cant picture what your dreaming... i guess i dont have the vision

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

^ same here, but if it works for you thats cool.

Rhino · Frontside 180 Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 460 City: ATX

Pretty cool but a novelty.

ryry · Pop Shuvit Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 164 City: Australia

yeah that would be pretty cool to have chillin at your house though. if ur really itchin for a skate and got no one at the time to skate with, just jump on that. be loads of fun.

nopulseimpulse · Posted: Feb 13, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject:

Too much $$$$ for me

i'll stick with the boat

Good idea though

Jeff_Knox · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 712 City: J-ville

if you can get ahold of some pumps it really wouldnt be that hard...

Raven · Posted: Feb 13, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject:

TheLeprechaun, Go4it! Razz

I like the way you're thinkin'.

jordan · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 649 City: Spectre

yeah man, gas water pumps, you can do it!

O-->_________ ...|
^^^^^^^^^^^^|
----------------------

Here is a very legit diagram, O = the pump, the | is a dealy that stops the water and forces it back into the lower pool and the pump just keeps taking the water from the lower pool. clearly ^^^^^= water and --> is where the water is pumping.