wakeskating saves lives.

[righteous]

wakeskating.com's brought alot of people from different parts of the country together for a day of sheninigans and riding, and i wanted to ask, who have you met from this site and gottan the chance to ride with? and howed it go? post about people you've rode with, are going to ride with soon , or just became freind with threw the site.

ill start it off by saying a good freind of mine ," Oury " or SkateForce, and im StOAKed to ride with him this summer in Odub, were plannin on gettin a dorm room together since where going to the same college.

ive also met Nicky T, and he helped me out alott when he brought the nike team down with him, and i had a gnarr time showin them around the keys for some filming and some Epicc riding.

[wakemitch]

basically everyone i ride with ive met off this site. before this site my cousin and i were the only wakeskaters i knew of
ripava82
chris barcellos
wakesk8r9610
chris41
russian
scott a
chrisd
steven m
tahoe
candyman
edrex
ride5

[addison]

i have met alot of ppl off of this site but gotten the chance to ride with few i rode with iamjesse and tahoe at the project for a week and they are some of the nicest and funniest dudes i have ever met i have also rode with evan park a hand full of times and he is super positive about wakeskating and is just straight up the nicest guy and makes me want to go out and ride i hope to ride with more ppl of this site that are super stoaked about wakeskating and life in general really soon

[kyle41]

The few i can think of right now are


Lake Tarpon(tad) Have ridden with him numerous times in the past months. Always have a good time out riding and hes always progressing and down to ride.
Excellent photographer and editor/filmer.


Canal Skater(TJ) rides in one of the funnest places ive ever experienced. Emerald blue canal with iguanas chilling on the banks watching you throw down. No idle speed zones, numerous floating docks to hit and tjs got a great sense of humor.

Che Blanc (never gave me his real name) He went on a road trip with me and my friend up to my cousins pool gap in jax. He thinks he has a little brother and speaks in a native island toungue but hes not fooling anyone. Always something interesting goin on in that kids head.

Lake Weir Ocala (jordan) rescued me from a family reunion camping trip on a dried up lake. He lives in wakeskate heaven. Real fun to hang out with, sweet skills, big lake, numerous rails and an ass biting homeless dog named casey.


Raven( Jeff the Chef) Road with him at my cousins house in Jax. Great duck chaser and excellent inside out manuever technician. Raven left me with a can of phillips nuts and on the remainder of the road trip I thought of him with each bite of those delicious phillips nuts that i took.


Wakeskating is such a great sport and im glad to have ridden with all of these amazing people. Its awesome that whoever i go ride with I feel comfortable knowing that they are gonna be some of the greatest people on this earth even though ive never met them or even know there real names. Wakeskating breeds excellence

[RUSSIAN]

kyle41, are you for real? you dont know who che blanc is???

I've met a few form this site and a lot from wakeboarder.com. Not sure who or what site anymore

[waker445]

who's che blanc?

[tad]

I think I've probably ridden with more people that aren't on the forums but shout out to Kyle(Kyle41) and his crew.. JeffKnox, too... The guys with Released Winches.. I've met a few guys out in orlando that are cool as hell.. all my Lake Georgia Boys. I def look forward to ride with more of you guys in the future, its always awesome to find people that love riding as much as I do.

[Gnarly Dancer 42]

waker445, who isnt he

[kyle41]

RUSSIAN, serious as ever. Word on the street though is hes making his name in proffessional manatee jumping and going by the name Nick Taylor.

[-=AlexXx=-]

ive met so many people threw this site and made some really really good life long friends. Mr. Top hat got me into wakeskating and onto wakeskating.com, then we got scottyb on here, and we all ride together, i got che blanc, he came and rode with us a bunch of times, and we all went to protour together back.... stayed in scotts sis's appartment in o-town, and we got to ride with vance (i miss him), killer guy so nice and gernerous he would pull you all day long and let u tramp skate for days. Any way, che blanc is to busy now to hang out with us... so havnt seen him since scottyb's 18th b-day. At pro tour that year, we got to hang with soy escaula and Tyler and got to breifly meet PIRATE even though he didnt know who we were. I think we met Yuri he was cool. After that trip, meeting so many new awsome people i was stoked on it, meeting wakeskaters was the best everyone of them u can find some stuff in commen and have a blast. That summer, Top Hat got Frye from singpore to come down and ride with us. che blanc came 2 accutaly.... lemme tell you that was one EPIC freakin time. Top Hat's mom fell in love with him, so on and so forth. Eventally i found canalskater on the forums and saw his really crazy videos, so i started talking to him and scottyb and i went down to miami we got there and canal had just hurt his knee, no problem cuz his buddy jason pulled us every day. We have gone to canals more times then i can count now. Then this past summer Frye came again from cali. We all got to be awsome friends and now canal (TJ) and Frye are moving in together in otown. On another trip to o-town i got to meet another god of wakeskating.com/wakeskating period... Mr. Chad Headhunter Thompson, or aka Headhunter, this dude was sick when i first met him but he still took me riding on lake georgia on a bad ass ski natique. It was awsome. I got to see byerly trying v flips and blood doing some nasty junk. Then this winter i was fortunate enough to convince the Raven to come on down to ride with us. We had some of the most chill/epic sesh's around. Raven is one of the most talented underground riders imaginable, he can throw stuff people havent even attempted yet.. Going to the cable park down in Delray Beach Florida ive met some groovy dudes one of the baddest of them all mr. gaterider you think that board sucks?? wait till u see him ride it. ive never seen a wakeskater do such techy stuff, first day i met him, bam 3 shuv indy off the kicker!! damnn and that was 2 years ago. And i went last month, and hes still on a gate Also i need to shout out to Zackk Lipton aka xxxSTFU ILL PWN YOUxxx this kid is the man, this kid took me out for his birthday on a beautfiul ski natique on a stellar lake with his gnarly crew, it was a fun ass day. Recently we went back to Orlando and of course called up my main man Headhunter and we rode with him a few days, and got to ride with Kirby also, he killed it, Toe side kickflip?! who does that?? , haha thanks for pulling us chad/kirby, cant wait to ride with ya again soon. The latest person ive met i think has been Kevin Calvez, i met him though another great guy, with the oldest and SICKEST jet ski every, still runnin on this earth... (is it running ne more?) skate vans. I rode with them oh ya and with Jen hetler not to long ago. We all piled into scottyb's boat and rode untill sundown. It was so awsome getting a bunch of wakeskaters together. Since then ive rode with Kevin a bunch of times, and he gets soooo much better every time i see him. Every time hes got a new hammer to show off. crazy frenchy. Well i just told my whole wakeskating.com storey haha, im sure i missed some people and i really appologize for it if i did. I love you all, and i love the reaction of other people, Other non- wakeskater:"Hey, whos that kid staying at your house" Me: "ohh thats just some kid i met online" other kid: hahha, the best was, Me: "hey mom im having a 32 year old chef from maryland come ride with me, he drove all the way down here... " My mom: "ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME?" i love it. I hope i get to ride with more people in the future

[nickl011]

-=AlexXx=-, you've met a lot of people.

[coricluster]

i met LIQUIDSTUNTS here and rode with him this past weekend and had a blast.

RAVEN lives in my hometown if that counts lol.

[Chrishau]

This site has been so good too me. All the people on here kick ass!!

[urinal mint]

met skateforce at TSR a few weeks back.


"can i see your bracelet sir"

[righteous]

i remeber the first day on my 16th birthday years ago, the very first person ive ever met was Tj "canalskater" , he drove down to the keys to chill with me, but i hadent gottan a new wakeskate and his integ was to sketch for me, so i drove by waverunner with him to hampson's house and we picked up a brand new cassette from him, tj killed it that day with his 50-50 up the A frame and all the other crazy shizzle he did.

[Raven]

coricluster, I rode with him once and he's an a$$hole.












Naw that bro is stoked and gave me loatsa runs. I love meeting people who are stoked on the sport, and he bleeds it. Liquid stunts is stoked and I've talked with him, although we haven't actually met.

Esnow has sent me some amazing magazines and dvd's that aren't accesible for the average joe like myself. Mad props to her.

Cary K, who is as underground as they get, probst hangin with 2pac right now 4 alll I know. That joker is my D O double G I swung through NC only to make a pit stop on my way to FL. Most people stop for a cup of coffee and a bite to eat. I stopped at Cary K's for a 3 hour session behind an X-star for some 3shuvs and a kickflip. That dude is ubercool.

Leprechaun and big-headed Kyle 41 took care of me in JAX for another break where I got to sit down dinner after the evening sesh at the head seat of the family table. That guy is so right on and Kyle is a joker, hand in hand they are like Rocky and Apollo Creed. Any way that was such a good time.

i gotta give it up for my main man Ali triple X cause he puts Vin Deisel out for the birds Alexxx pulled me forevs down in the magroves 2 minutes behind his house old school stylle behind Mr. Boston and I was exstatic. He pops it like it's hot. I met Scotty B, the original Scotty B, not the imposter, and he took me in and fed me lasagna after a huge sesh behind his boat in his hood. Thankyou Scott I gotchya if u ever make it up.

They have all mad me life mo better. You guys, you johnny jokers, I miss you. There are so may other whom I have talked with, but haven't actually met, going back to Mr. JTwakeskater56, I love all you fools. Keep skatin, and go big or move out and just a lil somethin from my nackel snoopy...........get behind that a$$!

[waker445]

who is che blanc?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[VonBoggin]

waker445, coon


<3

[cjbecker]

i have never rode with anybody from this site, besides allhollowsghost but i have been riding with him before i was a member.

[electricsnow]

The main people from the site that I've met are the bros who frequent the paradise in southern wisconsin that's affectionately known as the OC. I met them right about a year ago, actually...I remember it well...it was arranged that we'd meet at the pro tour in MN to witness some PWC wakeskating, but we'd also have a session at nemhabin (sp--it's off the top of my head) at some point in the near future. ultimately, mr L.T. allowed me to be the caretaker of one of wakeskating's most beloved decks, and I'll always be grateful for that. Plus, he's also got one of the sweeter board collections (I suppose as far as personal taste is concerned, if you just can't relate) and it's cool to see someone else who is just as down.

after that, it was all about combating the I.P. (that's internet pressure, fools) behind brett's sea doo wakeskate edition. it was a good day, and since my board was ready to snap in half, he let me take a spin on his treasured 03 4-trac. I look forward to the summer time days where I can hit up those warm clear waters again...hopefully in a few weeks...

I also met headhuntermx4, who I owe a huge thank you to. he was my host during the expo weekend and he was all about making sure I had a good time, seeing as though it was my first trip down to the "mecca" since I got into the whole wakeboariding/wakeskating thing. He also sold me a very special cassette prototype that he found in the clutches of mother nature, and he also passed along a distortion prototype. He also deserves full credit for thinking of wrapping the 04 reed prototype in some cling wrap...I mumified (sp) it in an entire roll of cling wrap before my flight home and it was as sound as a pound. Now the trick is keeping it that way.

And one dude I hope to shred with is the raven. I always say this but his vernacular freaking cracks me up (in the best way) and he seems like the coolest, chillest guy ever. Not to mention the fact that he'll shred the crap out of a cassette, and his stories pretty much blow my mind. I also think it would be cool to meet brett leadley because he's been around since the beginning and he sent me "every penny fed car" and that last bright eyes song from LP on a CD back in like 2002.

I almost forgot, I think the very first people I ever met off of this site were kyle hyams and Mriesgraff. I met them at nationals 05 and they were classy bros, classy bros indeed...