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G-squadriderz · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: Started

How did everybody get into wakeskating and what were your biggest influences.

gate-rider · Backside 180 Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 550

i got srtarted wakeskating because i was wakeboarding for a while and then one of my friends got a skate and i wanted one too casue when i rode it i thought it was cool, so then i got and i really liked it cause then like nobody wakeskated at over at rixen often so i liked being one of like 2 people wakeskating and right after i learned a shuv-it i started learning a bunch of new tricks cause it seemed more fun after that. and also im a much better wakeskater than wakeboarder on a wakeboard i can throw a few inverts and spins but when im wakeskating it seems like i have more fun not being attached to the board. My biggest influences are pro riders and also my friends cause there like hey try this so im like ok and we all push eachother to learn new things

BillyOLDS · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 12:33 am Post subject:

josh kirby got me into it and my biggest influences are pro's like clint tomkins, aron reed, thomas and danny hampson

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

Linear Perspective... Literally after watching that movie I went and started getting the stuff together to build myself a wakeskate. So awesome. I still watch it from time to time.

$ L B R $ · Pop Shuvit Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 127 City: PDX

I saw an ad in wakeboard mag of thomas doin somethin crazy and after that i was like i want to do that, so i bought a skate and it felt so much more natural than wakeboarding it felt more free and creative, ive wakeboarded like 3 times ever since

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

byerlys old school 3 shuv got me started, my first board was an Iconn, choppe down with a grip job, and my first commercial board was a cassette flat which I rode for a long time, and finally replaced with a 40 concave later, which I rode until my gate came along

seven11dmd · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 1:35 am Post subject:

my dad bought a sea doo wakeboard edition and my sisters bf was like hey try this, and I couldnt do it at all, but It seemed fun. And I finally got up like after 2 days, and then I was hooked and got my own board and stuff.

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

I saw someone riding a wakeboard with surf wax on it so my cousin and I waxed my wakeboard up and off we went

stu · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

i started out wakeboarding it had a really big influence on me. also just all my friends pushing me to try new tricks and stuff. we all started out wakeboarding then slowly all my friends started wakeskating alot and i tried it a couple times and was hooked... Very Happy

PIRATE · Guest

Well i always used to wakeboard but then i got locked up, when i got out it was winter time and it was to cold to wear bindings (cause they hurt your feet) so i just skated. i always liked skating more i just didn't have anyone to skate with but then we got a jetski and well the rest is history. my influences are anyone that wakeskates that i think has good style frome the weekend warrior that does smooth stylie butter slides to ryans hardflips.

haggard7 · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 254

wakeboarding at my school is for the "heeeey brahh, that was gnnar" cool kids, so i started wakeskating to do something different and i love it now.

Zack · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 679 City: lhp

i broke my ankle and i couldent get into bindings... thanks god

stompin9s · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 10:39 am Post subject:

i was real into skimboarding about 3 years ago so one time we took them out behind the sea doo...once i stuck my first shuv on the skimboard i was hooked and bought a real skate.

nichSloan · Pop Shuvit Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 245 City: Orlando

I wakeboarded for bout four or five years. Got three concussions and three knee surgeries. I blew out my left knee in the Keys and my right one a year later at rixen. Doc said to stop, so I cut the ends off my old LF search and gripped it. That was my first skate.

crazy_Syber · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject:

My biggest influence was Nekkie

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

Well i started wakeboarding about a year and a half ago, this past summer, id go out liek everyday, some days we would get board a use a skim board, i thought that was so awsome, landed some shuvs and stuff good times.. Then one day we borrowed this old Flat cassette from this kid, landed a shuv on it.. i was hooked, then later that months my friend brian (Mr. Top Hat) took me on his ski and we wakeskated since that time i havnt strapped once.. and dont plan on it Smile

MY biggest influecnes are Brian for getting me into it and always pushing me when we ride, and ryan lemons and nick taylor.... byerly and and reed... just being out on the river influecnes me.. and also i owe alot to Skateboarding, i dont think id be as good as i am if i hadnt been such an agressively obbsesive skateboarder.

andy ross · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject:

heres my story.... it was a calm june day i was wakeboarding, in fact i was working on my toeside w2w's so one attempt i came down and was all squatted over and hit my face right on my knee... tragic story i know, so after that i started skating more, and i never went back and i dont miss it at all.... me <3 wakeskating

RUSSIAN · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

Saw an ad of murry doing a backside 180 on his wakeboard without bindings, he was wearing shoes(sometime in 99). I tried it the next time out and loved it. I bought a cassette flat the next season and would ride it atleast once whenever I went out. I slowly started riding it more and more. I haven't wakeboarded in well over a year. Erich Schmaltz is my hero Laughing

colorless · Frontside 180 Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 332

I wanted to be on the water during the summer, and didn't want to buy a wakeboard...so I bought a skate. Since then I've been going strong.