Wakeboard vs wakesurf

[J-RAD]

No luck! The bag sat up in Salt Lake City since 8am... Still hasn't departed their facility.

 

[J-RAD]

Look who decided to join the party...

 

[MidnightRider]

Although I still love wake boarding I’m getting to that age When body parts take 3 months to heal instead of 3 days. I still wakeboard but I no longer push the limits with it a try new tricks etc. With wakesurfing I can push the limits and try new stuff without the worry of hobbling to work for the next X months. Skim board is interesting to me, never done it but may look into that as well. We also still do a fair amount of slalom skiing.

Funny I just posted that about a week ago. This last weekend I did some wakeboarding and it may be my last run honestly. Got over my board on a wake-to-wake and caught the front edge. Felt like I got hit by a truck. Now I've done similar in the past obviously but I'm slowly approaching the big 50 and I'm telling you my body doesn't recover like it used to. My wife says "whatever you'll forget this brief moment of wisdom and do it again (she always worries and telling me I need to hang it up)". Pretty sure I had a slight concussion and my head/ears were painful all night. Feeling better now but it may be my time to let the wakeboard go and enjoy this new found thing called surfing. I'll still have the slalom to feed the need for speed. Also there is alway wakefoiling, that's safer right??? That's what I'm telling my wife anyway.

 

[J-RAD]

Funny I just posted that about a week ago. This last weekend I did some wakeboarding and it may be my last run honestly. Got over my board on a wake-to-wake and caught the front edge. Felt like I got hit by a truck. Now I've done similar in the past obviously but I'm slowly approaching the big 50 and I'm telling you my body doesn't recover like it used to. My wife says "whatever you'll forget this brief moment of wisdom and do it again (she always worries and telling me I need to hang it up)". Pretty sure I had a slight concussion and my head/ears were painful all night. Feeling better now but it may be my time to let the wakeboard go and enjoy this new found thing called surfing. I'll still have the slalom to feed the need for speed. Also there is alway wakefoiling, that's safer right??? That's what I'm telling my wife anyway.

Definitely give the wakefoil a go, I LOVE it! Although, it's happened twice now, where I went down and it felt like I got slapped in the nuts... no contact with the board, just falling awkwardly I guess...

 

[J-RAD]

They need one of those famous Yamaha warnings about protecting your genitals and orifices laminated to the board. lol!

 

[DavisAR195]

@J-RAD did you get a chance to tryout the bag?

 

[J-RAD]

@J-RAD did you get a chance to tryout the bag?

Unfortunately no... all the arm twisting in the world couldn't get my wife to go out last weekend, I was pretty annoyed because it was a waste of a perfectly good opportunity and there's only a few of those left. I think I've got her talked into going out on Monday though. I will definitely be trying it out... I don't care how chilly the water is getting!

Our biggest issue is the closest lake to us, Utah Lake, has been under a warning due to a toxic algae bloom (seems to happen every year now ). Our other favorite Reservoir saw the water level drop below the ramp. Others near by are so crowded on the weekends you can't even drive in a straight line (borderline dangerous and full of idiots)... So we're driving 1.5 hours away just to do some decent boating. It's a great little reservoir though, and totally worth the effort!

 

[John Mcpartland]

@J-RAD did you get a chance to tryout the bag?

Have you tried yours yet? We are going out this evening

 

[2kwik4u]

I really want to try one of these bags on my little 190. I'm really curious if the single 1.8 has enough grunt to get to 12mph with that ballast. I would absolutely LOVE to be able to surf behind my $30k boat in front of some buddies that tell me you need a $125k boat to "surf even a little bit"........Anyone in the Louisville/Indy/Nashville area have a 19' bag they want to lend out for a few hours on a weekend day?

 

[DavisAR195]

Have you tried yours yet? We are going out this evening

Nope we’re leaving on Saturday for a week long camping trip at Billy Chinook and I can’t wait to try that bad boy out!

 

[John Mcpartland]

Nope we’re leaving on Saturday for a week long camping trip at Billy Chinook and I can’t wait to try that bad boy out!

I love Billy Chinook, have a good time

 

[J-RAD]

Plan a whole week to spend the holiday on the water, test out the new transom bag, etc... and wouldn't you know it, the 1 year old pukes all over his bed and runs a fever of 103 last night.

 

[Jgorm]

Had some fun yesterday. Not really "wakesurfing" but surfing on the wake. 2006 era 24' cobalt cuddy in San Diego bay. No ballast, no special wedges, no special gear, just fun. Costco 9' foam board. Please don't warm me on the danger of surfing on an io. That's why I'm 10' away from the prop.

 

[swatski]

Had some fun yesterday. Not really "wakesurfing" but surfing on the wake. 2006 era 24' cobalt cuddy in San Diego bay. No ballast, no special wedges, no special gear, just fun. Costco 9' foam board. Please don't warm me on the danger of surfing on an io. That's why I'm 10' away from the prop.

It just occurred to me - I'll need to try doing this with the ZUP (2.0) board!
We got it for the kids and guests and most people love it as it is very easy to get going even with zero experience.
I didn't care to ride it so far, but you just gave me some ideas!!!

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[DavisAR195]

I love Billy Chinook, have a good time

Had a great week camping with the family at the lake. As someone new to wake surfing and have only done it twice prior to our trip we quickly found out that we needed more practice without the bag first. After a practicing without the bag for a few days I got fairly comfortable riding the front of the board within inches of the swim platform. That was the closest I was to being able to go rope less without the bag. The last couple days was spent trying to find the sweet spot on the wake. I still have a ways to go and need more practice.

I did notice with the bag on platform "passenger side" @ 11 mph, wife driving, father in-law passenger back corner, mother in-law passenger bow. When the boat is in a slight turn that it drops the corner and create a spray off the side of the boat which easily catches the tip of the board. Are other experiencing the same issues?

Tip: Order another quick connect fitting for the bag so when deflating the bag you can connect the pump at the low point overhanging the swim deck while the bag is still tied up.

 

[Rick Russler]

I have a Zup but stopped using it as soon as I could get up on a wakeboard. I’ve been wakeboarding maybe 10 times and am comfortable on it but still working on basic skills. I would like to try wakeskating next. Has anyone tried getting up on a Zup using a wake skate start? If so, is it harder to get up than a wakeskate? Once up, Should I assume it won’t handle as well as a wakeskate?

 

[Jgorm]

We spent last weekend at Havasu with a friend's sx230. It's weird driving someone else's boat that's identical to mine! I tried wakeboarding for about 2 minutes while the 1'+ chop and 2' rollers beat the shit out of me. I didn't even jump the wake. Wakesurfing was fun! I couldn't go ropeless, but i could ride for maybe 5 seconds with slack. I got the swimstep start and stop down without getting in the water, even with a new boost driver. You can't even feel the chop and the rollers don't matter much.

 

[JetMania]

Grew up skiing. I love to slalom. Just learned to wakeboard this summer on the new boat. 9yr old daughter and 12 & 13 yr old sons and wife also all learned. My boys are already getting 1 1/2 - 2 feet of air jumping wakes. However, we’ve all taken bad falls when catching front edges. That’s not fun and I’ve had a mild concussion or two for sure.

It’s clearly more risky than surfing, but surfing looks pretty boring to me. Plus all that set-up to go slow with very little mobility. Doesn’t seem much different than surfing at a wave pool which is fun, but no where near what wake boarding offers.

I turned 50 this year and I’m not ready to give-up wake boarding; however, I don’t think I’ll be catching much air. Slaloming on a wakeboard is exponentially more fun than surfing and carving glass like water is just awesome.

I see surfing as low impact way to get wet and enjoy the heat, but boarding is just so much more. Great thread, I never understood surfing, but know I feel like I have a better idea.

 

[MidnightRider]

Grew up skiing. I love to slalom. Just learned to wakeboard this summer on the new boat. 9yr old daughter and 12 & 13 yr old sons and wife also all learned. My boys are already getting 1 1/2 - 2 feet of air jumping wakes. However, we’ve all taken bad falls when catching front edges. That’s not fun and I’ve had a mild concussion or two for sure.

It’s clearly more risky than surfing, but surfing looks pretty boring to me. Plus all that set-up to go slow with very little mobility. Doesn’t seem much different than surfing at a wave pool which is fun, but no where near what wake boarding offers.

I turned 50 this year and I’m not ready to give-up wake boarding; however, I don’t think I’ll be catching much air. Slaloming on a wakeboard is exponentially more fun than surfing and carving glass like water is just awesome.

I see surfing as low impact way to get wet and enjoy the heat, but boarding is just so much more. Great thread, I never understood surfing, but know I feel like I have a better idea.

I'm a long time wakeboarder and definitely a "to each his own" type guy, but I can say its a pretty cool experience to throw the rope in the boat and surf along without any strings attached. So far I've only been able to do it for a minute or so but I'm hooked.

 

[2kwik4u]

Grew up skiing. I love to slalom. Just learned to wakeboard this summer on the new boat. 9yr old daughter and 12 & 13 yr old sons and wife also all learned. My boys are already getting 1 1/2 - 2 feet of air jumping wakes. However, we’ve all taken bad falls when catching front edges. That’s not fun and I’ve had a mild concussion or two for sure.

It’s clearly more risky than surfing, but surfing looks pretty boring to me. Plus all that set-up to go slow with very little mobility. Doesn’t seem much different than surfing at a wave pool which is fun, but no where near what wake boarding offers.

I turned 50 this year and I’m not ready to give-up wake boarding; however, I don’t think I’ll be catching much air. Slaloming on a wakeboard is exponentially more fun than surfing and carving glass like water is just awesome.

I see surfing as low impact way to get wet and enjoy the heat, but boarding is just so much more. Great thread, I never understood surfing, but know I feel like I have a better idea.

Try a wakeskate. All the fun and entertainment of a wakeboard without the concussion producing front edge crashes!

I love my wakeskate, such a simple/easy/low impact way to have fun on the water at the end of a rope