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If you've ever boarded, skated, surfed or windsurfed/kitesurfed you'll be up straight away.
If not, you'll get wet. Just remember to try and relax, arms straight, knees bent, and take the corners wide before you get to them so the change in angle isn't too sudden (or drops off) for starting out stay on the outside of the wire and then turn towards the next line when the cable does. (p.s. too wide past the turn and you'll sling-shot).
p.s. Give it a go and remember once you are up and getting a bit cocky to do it near the start (otherwise long walk).
If not, you'll get wet. Just remember to try and relax, arms straight, knees bent, and take the corners wide before you get to them so the change in angle isn't too sudden (or drops off) for starting out stay on the outside of the wire and then turn towards the next line when the cable does. (p.s. too wide past the turn and you'll sling-shot).
p.s. Give it a go and remember once you are up and getting a bit cocky to do it near the start (otherwise long walk).
A lot harder than it looks!!
Be prepared to be embarrassed in front of kids aged 10 who shoot around on the water like they're standing waiting for a bus. As you get about 10ft from the start point and faceplant straight into the water...
Oh the MK one supposedly isn't great. The one at Box End Park near Bedford is better.
Be prepared to be embarrassed in front of kids aged 10 who shoot around on the water like they're standing waiting for a bus. As you get about 10ft from the start point and faceplant straight into the water...
Oh the MK one supposedly isn't great. The one at Box End Park near Bedford is better.
Edited by blank on Monday 4th October 17:59
Brother D said:
If you've ever boarded, skated, surfed or windsurfed/kitesurfed you'll be up straight away.
I waterski, mostly on 2 planks as I'm a big fkr, but can, or should I say used to be able to, drop a ski and mono from there.
I always do deep water starts and pop out without any big deal, even if I haven't been out for a year or more. However, I've tried wakeboarding and I cannot for the life of me get up. Resorted to having a boarding mate alongside me in the water checking my position but even then I couldn't do it. I got dragged underwater all the time.
They do say that it's like standing on a bar of soap if you do manage to get aloft!
C8PPO said:
Brother D said:
If you've ever boarded, skated, surfed or windsurfed/kitesurfed you'll be up straight away.
I waterski, mostly on 2 planks as I'm a big fkr, but can, or should I say used to be able to, drop a ski and mono from there.
I always do deep water starts and pop out without any big deal, even if I haven't been out for a year or more. However, I've tried wakeboarding and I cannot for the life of me get up. Resorted to having a boarding mate alongside me in the water checking my position but even then I couldn't do it. I got dragged underwater all the time.
They do say that it's like standing on a bar of soap if you do manage to get aloft!
I recently started wakeboarding, it took me 2 days to get up properly and make it the whole way round the lake but once your going its an amazing feeling, aslong as you have a good instructor and patience, many times in those two days i lost the will to live and not feeling to great due to the large volumes of lake water consumed, but i'm hooked now and been on the cable and behind the boat a few times since, the guys at wmski near cirencester were great!
blank said:
A lot harder than it looks!!
Be prepared to be embarrassed in front of kids aged 10 who shoot around on the water like they're standing waiting for a bus. As you get about 10ft from the start point and faceplant straight into the water...
Oh the MK one supposedly isn't great. The one at Box End Park near Bedford is better.
Im totally ready for complete humiliation by a ten year old !Be prepared to be embarrassed in front of kids aged 10 who shoot around on the water like they're standing waiting for a bus. As you get about 10ft from the start point and faceplant straight into the water...
Oh the MK one supposedly isn't great. The one at Box End Park near Bedford is better.
What is it that you dont like about MK ?
Hope to get over there at the weekend, but time does look tight this weekend.
Toyless said:
blank said:
A lot harder than it looks!!
Be prepared to be embarrassed in front of kids aged 10 who shoot around on the water like they're standing waiting for a bus. As you get about 10ft from the start point and faceplant straight into the water...
Oh the MK one supposedly isn't great. The one at Box End Park near Bedford is better.
Im totally ready for complete humiliation by a ten year old !Be prepared to be embarrassed in front of kids aged 10 who shoot around on the water like they're standing waiting for a bus. As you get about 10ft from the start point and faceplant straight into the water...
Oh the MK one supposedly isn't great. The one at Box End Park near Bedford is better.
What is it that you dont like about MK ?
Hope to get over there at the weekend, but time does look tight this weekend.
Tried it for the first time yesterday...
Went to JB ski over by thorpe park and had a two hour session on the cables with some tuition. Started off on the knee board which was great fun then moved onto the wakeboard. I have done waterskiing quite a bit as a kid but wakeboarding is completely different. I got up first go and found it much easier to balance than on ski's. I am left foot forward and it took several attempts to get round the first corner but managed it in the end!
Really enjoyed it and will definitely go again.
2hr session with tuition and all kit hire was £35 which I thought was very good value!
Went to JB ski over by thorpe park and had a two hour session on the cables with some tuition. Started off on the knee board which was great fun then moved onto the wakeboard. I have done waterskiing quite a bit as a kid but wakeboarding is completely different. I got up first go and found it much easier to balance than on ski's. I am left foot forward and it took several attempts to get round the first corner but managed it in the end!
Really enjoyed it and will definitely go again.
2hr session with tuition and all kit hire was £35 which I thought was very good value!
Done it quite a few times now!
Its good fun!
Standing up is the harder part, but once you get the technique right its all good!
If you have snowboarded or anything like that the turning will be fine.
My advice would be to turn using the board/technique instead of loading up the rope.
Also when standing up, keep your arms outstretched instead of bent, this will take the load off your arms a bit more and should hopefully prevent the handle from snapping out your hands..... but im sure your instructors will tell you how anyway.
Its good fun!
Standing up is the harder part, but once you get the technique right its all good!
If you have snowboarded or anything like that the turning will be fine.
My advice would be to turn using the board/technique instead of loading up the rope.
Also when standing up, keep your arms outstretched instead of bent, this will take the load off your arms a bit more and should hopefully prevent the handle from snapping out your hands..... but im sure your instructors will tell you how anyway.
I found getting up behind a boat a lot easier than getting used to starting off on a cable tow.
If you decide to try behind a boat make sure you get a decent set of bindings. My first set were cheap and as a result I dislocated my knee quite badly during a wipeout - the back foot released on landing and the front foot stayed put!
If you decide to try behind a boat make sure you get a decent set of bindings. My first set were cheap and as a result I dislocated my knee quite badly during a wipeout - the back foot released on landing and the front foot stayed put!
I wakeboard quite a lot, either at Princes or JB at Thorpe or on the coast in Bournemouth.
I have also snowboarded for quite a few years and had skateboards/longboards and stuff. It's not always a dead cert that you'll be 'straight up'! I certainly wasn't!
I have also snowboarded for quite a few years and had skateboards/longboards and stuff. It's not always a dead cert that you'll be 'straight up'! I certainly wasn't!
Edited by parakitaMol. on Tuesday 3rd May 17:12
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