What got you started on wakeskating?

steezwhiz · Ollie Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 71

I've been wakeboarding for a few years now but since last season I started to get bored of it. After watching the pre pop teaser many times I decided to buy a Scape. I really liked all the buttery stuff I saw in the Pre Pop teaser but when I got my Scape I was disappointed. Not until about halfway thru last season did I take my fins off and started to have a loot of fun with wakeskating. I'm now hooked and can't wait to order a Devotid Movement Surprised

Raven · Posted: Feb 13, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject:

I saw it, and I knew, something in my life was about to change. 1 broken leg, 1 torn MCL, 10 wakeskates, 6pairs of shoes, 100 3shuvs, 50 kickflips, a few dozen varial flips, and thousands of overstretched smiles later i came to realize...................that I was where I was supposed to be.

Jesse · Posted: Feb 13, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject:

My family is big into watersports, we have been getting together on the boats forever, like long before I ever showed up. By the time Wakeboarding (then called Skurfing) really came on strong I was a die-hard skateboarder and was convinced that anything but was uncool, I did it a few times even had some boards, but never was into it like my cousin and uncles. I had been wanting to make a more Skate style board that was shorter and stuff, anyway a Video comes out and my cousin is like "you gotta see this one part, this dude is riding a board like you have been talkin about making". I go over and this dude Thomas is killing it and I was immediately on the internet ordering a Cassette. I go to school and talk to this wakeboarder guy I knew, and he had a sk8, so we skipped the rest of school and rode his Mutiny. I was hooked immediately.

My longest post, EVER Laughing

brianl289 · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 310 City: houston

went to tsr to learn to wakeboard for my first time ever, adn during lessons saw brett(bad luck) wakeskating, that a life changing day right there. seeing him kickflip like it was nothing and shuv with his eyes closed made wme want to do it. i wakeboarded ONCE, then got a wakeskate and started riding, no regrets on that decision.

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

started wakeboarding...like most, then a friend and i got this new thing called a wakeskate, fell in love...goodbye WB~

Rock City Ryda · Posted: Feb 14, 2007 12:08 am Post subject:

i sucked at wakeboarding and had a strong skateboarding background so i decided it was the sport for me

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

was looking through an overtons magazine and saw one of those crappy CWB decks. went on toh internet found this site. bought a hyperlite scape on july 2nd 2005. never rode a wakeboard.

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Feb 14, 2007 12:12 am Post subject:

Mr. Top Hat

dylo · Posted: Feb 14, 2007 2:23 am Post subject:

was a strapper, then my dad explained to me a mate of his' son, had a 'wakeboard with no bindings'.

had to get one, researched a little, came home with a byerly. now im rocking an omen and couldnt be happier. its my escape.

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

I rented one for a weekend and I never have looked back

Skate252 · Posted: Feb 14, 2007 8:16 am Post subject:

i started out wakeboarding....the first skate i saw was while i was just playin around on ebay.. did a little research...wanted another toy so i ordered a scape...had it for a couple of years and just goofed off on it until last year when it hit me that skatin is the sport for me...rode a wakeboard once last year at the first of the season, and now its just collecting dust

carive · Frontside 180 Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 405 City: Manila

im really into skateboarding and i suck at wakeboarding... less injuries as well hehehe!! Laughing

frankycouplepuphs · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 542 City: Decatur

ttufan24 told me that strapping was ghey, and I just had to believe him.
hopped on that failure of a wakeskate known as the "gate" and I think that I have only strapped once or twice since.

waterdancing 4eva

warlock · Backside 180 Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1503 City: AC

a great thread.. should be some interesting stories here
i've told mine before. i grew up on the water and tried everything i could from barefooting, trick ski'in, kneeboarding, and slalom ski'in... i never really got into jumping but went over the small ramps some. one of my oldest friends growing up came back to our lake to visit w/ his family on his 37 bday.. he was a pro slalom skier but brought along this wakeskate?? i was like what the hell is that? i think it was a hl scape..it was black w/ some graphic on it. we all skied and a few people tried that skate.. i did not...cause i was mr slalom ski only... that's all you do.. and that think resembles a wakeboard and they are the antichrists work Laughing

so i was back home and another buddy who owned a outdoor equipt shop was visiting and i told him about this THING someone brought in my boat... he said.. yeah i have one... you should see what they do on them now and gave me asterisk and a few other dvds to watch.... i was absolutely fu king floored and it being winter about killled me cause i wanted to try it soooo bad after seeing what was evolving right before my eyes... i found this site.. and in a short time bought my first skate.. a 05 4 trac. i rode it first time the end of feb that year in a dry suit behind the only thing i could find that was in the water and would crank... a pontoon. i used to have the video of it.. pirate saw it.. funny looking to say the least..it was taped from a video phone Laughing

i hope everyone has a great day... this has been a great start for me.. thanks-sd

CrzyTexan · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 475

i always had been wakeboarding behind friends boats because i never had one. Once i got a boat in 2005 we got 50% off everything in the wakestore so i bought my wakeboard, wakesurf, and then i saw a wakeskate. I got a hyperlite scape and ever since i have only riddin my WB twice Smile

talk about a waste o' money. now im rockin' a oak, omen, and integ Smile

<3

Jordan Sprague · Posted: Feb 14, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

nick t got me started over the summer i wakeboarded a lil bit be4 and skateboarded alot so we just started riding togeaer about everyday

NotSoBueno · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 1806 City: SoCal

What is this wakeskating everyone is talking about?

-=AlexXx=-, congrats on your 5000th post....and a good one it was. Cool

wakeshredder · Posted: Feb 14, 2007 11:27 am Post subject:

I dated this chick (who consequently turned out to be a spoiled rich-beach pyscho) and she was a strapper. I'd never been into watersports at all, but she had an 04 Grubb someone gave her. I asked what the hell it was, and when she told me, I decided to look it up. Glad I did, An Armada, Impulse, Cassette bi-level, Omen Revolt and 07 Union on its' way later, I'll never turn back. I've skatboarded damn near all my life, and I never could ride snowboards, cause I lose all my balance being strapped in. So, wakeskating was a natural choice as the first and only watersport I am into! Hell it's fast becoming the only other sport (besided skateboarding) that even interest me in the slightest. Cool

nopulseimpulse · Posted: Feb 14, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject:

skurfing everyday with my buudy. Then one day he's like lets take out my wakeskate....I was like "wake what", ever since then i've been hooked.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

Byerly's part in All or Nothing...........