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NoPidy · Backside 180 Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 534 City: Glenwood

Nothing gets you stoked about wakeskating more than wakeskating. I finally got my ollie down pretty good because one of my friends FINALLY figured out that he should stop wasting the summer and his new boat and that he should get out on the lake. It is kick ass cuz he wakeboards all day so when i come over all he does is drive and he lets me skate basically the whole time. AND another friend got his own video camera so now we can get footage on the lake. AND I AM THIS CLOSE
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TO LANDING A SHUV BEhind the boat. I almost landed it my first try and i was like "WTF! KICK ASS!". And i tried maby 8 more times and landed on it every time but it kept sliding out. Wakeskating rules!!!!!!! wakeskating is the best thing that happened to me since blow up dolls.
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Slyder · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject:

Good to see people stoked on the sport. Keep tryin the shuv, keep your knees bent but firm when you land.

tampa jimmie · Frontside 180 Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 406 City: tampa

slyder's advice works for blow up dolls also.

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

nice!!!!!!!

i wish i could ride today damnit

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

I rode yesterday for the first time in over a month and I rode best than Ihave ever before.

I stuck some big w2w behind a loaded super air landed a few shuvs and my first bigspin ever. I threw the handle and quit after that so i would not ruin the moment.

Very Happy

urinal mint · Backside 180 Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1991

going riding with a guy today that is kick ass, i'm landing shuvs but keep throwing the board out in front of me after i land them, what gives?

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

u mint... i have that problem some too.... drives me crazy... took all the skin off my shin the other day Surprised

very nice grouch.. had to be a good day there!

now see that is something i can't do... i land something and i'll fu ck around the rest of the day trying to do it again... and not Laughing

sometimes i have to burn my hand on that stove a few times before i figure it out Wink

St.ClaireSkate · Ollie Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 96 City: Corunna

shuvs are weird, like i landed the first one i ever tried so then i was like wow that was easy but then i went like 1 week and a half probably about 30 tries until i landed my second. now that ive been skating for like a month and a half i land 9 outa 10 and the best advice i found on this site for makin em consistent is to actually pop the board underneath you and make sure ur spinning under ur feet not hucking it to the side or something. hope it helps

Nekkie · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject:

fall on your back? u throw the board too much in front when you pop it
fall over the nose? u throw the board too much back when you pop it

yeah, it's that easy lol Wink

Good luck on getting your tricks consistent, that's the beach in skating hehe

I'm glad you can ride more now Nopidy!! that's less fingerwakeskating ^^

and grouch, gratz on the biggie Very Happy

Vance Collins · Guest

I'm going riding in about 20 minutes. I want to work on my ollies and just overall style. I also want to land a re-enrty fs bigspin. We'll see what happens. Laughing

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

vance,

Good luck and may the schwartz be with you.

one-eyed sailor551 · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1111 City: mahopac

no pidy isnt dead Confused

i had the best run of my life yesterday and no one to film it. i finally got a new camera tho so maybe some end of teh year stuff

NoPidy · Backside 180 Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 534 City: Glenwood

I stopped trying shuvs because one of my buddies said my tail was hitting the water after about 45 degrees. So i practiced getting my ollies higher. I think it'll happen next time out. Very Happy

urinal mint · Backside 180 Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1991

found my problem out yesterday. i'm spinning it WAY to hard. got to get used to just barely flicking it.

rode a LF armada 41 yesterday w/ foam. i love how floaty it feels under the water and the fins were great but that's it. nice board though.

Slyder · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject:

NoPidy, Nice job taking a step back. Not enough people do that, they just try the next big thing without a solid background.

NoPidy · Backside 180 Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 534 City: Glenwood

Slyder, thnx. Some of my friends are starting to skateboard and they always try popshuvits before learning how to ollie and it anoys the crap out of me. So i figured i probly shouldn't be a hypocrit.

I am annoyed though that i couldn't land it. At first when i started riding behind the boat i was scared to go fast but the more i rode i learned that the faster you go the more pop you get. I didn't know that water could hurt so bad.

jboss · Kickflip Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 3210 City: Chalmette

NoPidy, the water hurt? how fast were you going?

Slyder · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it can hurt sometimes. You don't necessarily get more pop the faster you go though. Just find a speed that is fast enough that you don't sink when you push the board into the water.

Nekkie · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

concerning speed I think that 20 mph is really a minimum, maybe 19... Under that and you loose a lot of pop...

Wakeskate941 · Posted: Aug 21, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

Hmm I wish I could land shovits... But I did land a front lip 450 shov out the other day =)