Cable Wake Boarding - Fun for kids?

[Tiggsy]

Summer Holiday has fallen through (passport disaster!) so looking for cool days out for the kids - whats wakeboarding like? They are all good swimmers and it looks cool...also something I could do with them?

Is it fun or does it get boring quick (unless you're behind a boat in Miami!)

[vescaegg]

Its brilliant fun. There are two good ones near London (Thorpe Waterski and Princes Club) which are both excellent.

However, how young are the kids? Wakeboarding isnt that hard but i found it pretty difficult to pick up at first. Truth be told im still pretty crap....

Its easier behind a cable as there is no 'wake' getting in the way, although that is sort of the whole point of the sport gone.....

Its reasonably expensive though - circa go-karting time/cost prices I think, havent been for a while.

[Hoofy]

vescaegg said:

Its easier behind a cable as there is no 'wake' getting in the way, although that is sort of the whole point of the sport gone.....

Yeah. It becomes waterboarding... and that's not something anyone would be happy with you doing to your kids.

[Tiggsy]

Something I thought - I'm 6ft6 and about 240lb....will I be able to do it? Is there a point at which you are too big? (i've kite boarded - on land- and am in good shape.....thats not 240lb of lard!)

[Hoofy]

Sure, sure, fatty. Why don't you call the local centre and see what they say?

[Tiggsy]

Wow....harder than I thought!

2 hours on the kneeboard and now ready for bed! (felt bad for fat lady who got yanked off the dock everytime with her board never getting wet!)