wakeboard winching

skateboard · Ollie Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 58

it just looks stupid when wakers try to hit winch spots they dont have any style on the wake so they look even more stupid on the winch. it looks like they just try so hard to be legit. but look guys your not snowboarding.

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

one might also say to wakeskaters "look guys, you're not wakeskating."

Wakeboard winching doesn't make me like wakeboarding any more than I do (which isn't that much anyway), and I agree that some of the shred town winch stuff (an easy example) is retarded (like hitting a little kicker behind a winch). But it is a similar concept to urban snowboarding, and it's similar to the goals of wakeskating and winching, which is hitting otherwise unhittable spots, getting new back drops, riding more affordably, etc etc. I agree that it's boring to see a wakeboarder hit a spot that's already been dominated by a wakeskate...or not even boring, but just a total waste. but I don't feel as quick to cut it short. It's all about the rider and how they're going to use it. Hopefully more people with a vision will get on it and not hit kickers and passe shizzle behind a winch.

I feel like that was a massive mixed message.

disco hippo · Posted: Jun 08, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject:

I think it looks pritty simple for them exsept for the big gaps but who cares you have more bros winching with you and having fun

skateboard · Ollie Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 58

i do give credit to well some of the wakeboarder that truly love winching. well like only 5 dif wakeboarders that is. but not the guys that are just trying to do it bc wakeskaters are getting shots all over the mags. its like they are just conforming to something they shouldnt be conforming to. just to stay in the mags!

ks330758 · Ollie Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 City: Dallas

wakemitch,

JIM-BRANTON · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 574

jc · Posted: Jun 08, 2010 10:48 pm Post subject:

I enjoyed this video http://www.vimeo.com/10165651

I have hit this gap and the concrete ledge they are hitting is pretty high and the landing is very sketchy.

I would rather watch wakeskating all day long but I still think it was cool

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

Gabe Lucas winching is awesome but wakeskating winching Smash

triggamike · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 1392 City: 225

you negative nancy's you gotta puff puff pass, its bad manors to hog all the fun, let them shred on it, i'm sure they get just as stoked as we do, hell they might even find some new spots for us Cool

yookyle · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1002 City: Reno

anyone shredding on a board should get props and alot of those wakeboard winchers have some serious steez(shredtown mainly) maybe because i snowboard and can appreciate that all because your strapped in doesnt mean its easy. i think the reason you keep seeing the same tricks is because most winch spots are just gaps. this is exactely like snowboarders hating on wakesports because you have a handle that leads you, its stupid to hate on other boardsports.

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

tad, yes.. way to read between the lines.... i love rollerskating!!!!omg!!!!

-LoGiK- · Kickflip Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 2747 City: Orlando

ZackFL(BRE), I got the same hint from your post......but anywho, wakeboarding is not pushing the limits , and its definitely not the shredtown guys who are the best out there just the most published... ( I dont know how, when I know millions of other people who have done 10x gnarly shizzle on a wakeboard and mags dont want to run it ) .....they try doing a fire cracker on a wakeboard lmfao get the eff out of here.

and most of the big gaps they hit they go straight to their back or hand drag...

I mean who cares if skiiers and tubers and kneeboarders start hitting gaps right??? As long as they are having fun too?

Someone look up NICK V's double gap jump that's pushing the limits with wakeboarding....(edit) http://www.vimeo.com/6760064

http://www.vimeo.com/3782970 ( Vinny Knapp killing Alabama way before "Shredtown" )

labellethrasher · Posted: Jun 09, 2010 7:56 am Post subject:

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

labellethrasher, just watch aquafrolics or fun boots!, plenty of winching shenanigans to go around.

Everyone is entitled their own opinion, I'm not going to be a little fake-stoker and act like I support every board sport just because I want people to like me. I've never fallen into the whole "as long as you are having fun" cop-out, because a majority of people just drop that line to get out of a solid debate.

It's like comparing boxing to UFC. Nobody watches boxing anymore, because UFC is way more progressive and entertaining. It's not just punching, there's so many different options.. Why watch people hit each other with huge gloves and slow dance in the ring when you can watch dudes annihilate each other with elbows and flying knees to the face? Or a classy rear naked choke hold? Ok now put two boxers in the octagon with those goofy shorts and pillows on their fists and see how retarded it looks. You've got Shrimp Town.

Wakeboarding behind a winch makes no sense and looks retarded when compared to wakeskating. It's the total opposite of progression. At least Vinny Knapp steps his game up and hops on the skate when he knows the spot is too weak for a wakeboard.

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

To me a lot of it is all about style. Yeah, so you can do a tweaked grab behind a boat on a wakeboard about as easily as down a medium-sized gap, but imagine the photo you'd get jumping off of a waterfall or between a narrow gap in a few trees.

It just opens up creative options for both of the sports, it all depends how you use it.