Stand up for tubing!

Reid,We all know you are a closet tuber!

hahaha. Yea, down here in VA, Boat drivers pulling tubers always follow like 100 feet behind my SN when i am pulling my dad skiing!!! It really pissis me off b/c they are so cluless to whats going on! Most of them, don't have a spotter, and are facing around looking at the tuber while driving!!! Very dangerous. But, im all for tubing rather than playing video games all day, just some people need to be more awar of whats going on. thats all.

I think most of us feel the same...however , the BKH girls get a free pass!

74SkiNautique wrote: Most tubers are not skiiers, so, they drive is circles making it impossible to slalom!!!!

That's why we slalom early in the morning or late in the evening, when the Tubers are either still asleep or tired from a fully loaded tubing day...

At the skiclubs in the neighborhood there is kind of a gentleman's agreement here: barefooters out first, followed by the slalommers and then the skiers. The rest do their thing the rest of the day...

Engine's start somewhere around 6.30 to 7 AM here, and by 10 to 11 AM, the skiers hit the beach and watch the unexperienced drivers and tourists do their thing on the water over a nice cold beer... We even get our own tubes out by then
Somewhere around 7 PM, we get back out on the water for the serious work.

Yep...not a sport, However, I see smiles! That's a good thing

As long as there are smiles....well "ya done good"!

Eh, it is what it is just don't think it's a sport.

When is tulltuber gonna get back on and post about his wild tubing weekend?

BK, great picture! It's good to see smiling faces out there. I have to agree that you do whatever it takes to get your loved ones out there and enjoying it.

We finally broke down and bought a tube (at a huge discount) four years ago. But it was such a pain to haul around I stopped taking it. We decided to save it for vacations only. However, the kids have started to enjoy skiing and boarding so much that we haven't even used the tube now for a couple summers.

The next step is to get them on the kneeboard with you.

we do tubing for people who can't do anything else. and usually my brother drives over 25mph so yeah you'll get you'll get a hell of a beating.
i myself will never sit in a tube again after the beating i got.

eric that's the best that can ever happen that's why when there are girls in the tube i'll help pulling them in to tell them their top fell of

Ill stand up for it. It is an excellent rough water sport on those busy weekends. Never to be done on deecent water though. My tubers arent being ran hard enough untill they are cartwheeling upon exiting the tube haha. Tubing behind my boat is equal to an ass beating ha.

in terms of alternate lifestyles, they are called speed bumps

Very exclusive HW. We can't have the wrong types diminishing the value of our sport. BKH

This is a great post. I just had an excellent experience over July 4th weekend. Mrs. Backfoot and I were at her bosses place for a party. They live on a lake so I took the boat over. He has a 12 yr. old daughter and 13 yr. old son who've never been skiing before. The son wanted to ski so I got him up on a pair of combos at the same time I taught the dad to drive an inboard and he was pulling his son around the lake in an hour.

His daughter was absolutely scared to death to even get in the water let alone ski. His wife has filled his daughter with these visions of snakes and gators since they were old enough to walk.

They don't have a ski boat but they do have a fishing boat, pontoon and PWC's and he went out and bought a tube just for the party knowing that I would be there with the boat. The daughter had a friend come over and the friend wanted to tube, but the daughter absolutely refused. The friend finally talked her into it after they saw me pulling a few of the boys around in the tube.

At the end of the day, the son learned to ski, the daughter was tubing (and absolutely loving the water) and the dad had experienced driving an inboard and pulling his son up for the first time.

I let them hold onto the combos and a tow rope and he now can't keep either of the kids off the water. He's even looking to buy an inboard now. Of course, I recommended a CC. All this in one day and it probably never would have happened without that tube. Don't tell me that tubes don't have a place in the world of watersports.

Riley wrote: Kyle, I was snooping around your neighborhood the other day trying to find you Skylark. Your house is easy to find with your 176 at the dock. I did't see any signs of that Skylark. Have you had it in the water this year?

He was out tubing. We tubing enthusiasts like to get out as often as possible, particularly in the morning when those pesky skiers mess up our water. BKH

My 15 month old grandson and his mother ..



He has riden many times and loves it until he goes to sleep.