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SNobsessed
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DeepCreekNauti
Senior Member Joined: October-21-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 156 |
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This summer I am planning on teaching the kids how to surf since Deep Creek is a total mess most weekends.
How fast do you go with kids and adults surfing? |
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GlassSeeker
Grand Poobah Joined: November-26-2008 Location: Elk Grove, CA. Status: Offline Points: 2421 |
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Some real skills displayed in this video. |
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Sam B
Senior Member Joined: November-17-2007 Location: StevensPoint WI Status: Offline Points: 393 |
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Keith,
How much ballast and where in your 97 sport for surfing? |
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bhectus
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I really have no issue with guys wanting to surf behind a boat, if that's what blows your skirt up and makes you feel good, great. Personally, I only like surfing in the ocean on a wave created by mother nature. Every wave is different, and it requires stamina, skill, and precision. Plus you can sit out in the water with a bunch of your friends and BS while you're waiting on the next set to roll in.
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GlassSeeker
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At least with tubing you can eject boring riders making it somewhat entertaining but surfing--- OMG, he's out of the pocket! OH no!, he's slowly sinking! He may get water in his beer!!! I can't stand the excitment!
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TX Foilhead
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When you combine it with tubing you get the complete full body workout.
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bhectus
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Let's invent more things to make excuses for fat people to enjoy sports....Maybe you guys are forgetting, everyone is supposed to be a winner these days.
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'02 Ski Nautique 196 w/ 5.7 Apex bowtie - Sold
'87 Barefoot - sold '97 Super Sport Nautique - originally custom built for Walt Meloon '97 Ski Nautique '83 SN 2001 |
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TX Foilhead
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I grew up on and raced stand ups, worst thing the every happened was adding a seat to a jet ski. I would have one now if I could pass a stand up off as a family vehicle.
Surfing isn't worth wasting time to write mdown my thoughts. |
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AirTique98
Senior Member Joined: January-13-2011 Location: avon lake, ohio Status: Offline Points: 321 |
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I'm with you Larry, I just don't quite get it either. I'm of the opinion that surfing should be done where there is actually SURF! How riding a board at slow speed draining a can of beer compares with the real deal is beyond me. While jetskis remain an annoyance I have far less tolerance for the destructiveness of "surfing". |
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Bill
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75 Tique
Grand Poobah Joined: August-12-2004 Location: Seven Lakes, NC Status: Offline Points: 6121 |
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Sorry to beat this dead horse, but I just about laughed out loud when I saw this post on PN about an guy who just discovered surfing and thought it was great and posted this pic. |
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dip
Senior Member Joined: August-29-2009 Location: Eastern PA Status: Offline Points: 392 |
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I actually think I'd like surfing. I can't wakeboard like I used to. Neither my knees or my wits are what they used to be. Wakeskating is ok but talk about a learning curve to learn tricks (I can't skateboard worth a damn). My biggest problem with trying to surf is I can't stand filling fat sacks then dealing with a boat full of fat sacks, plus the amount and uneven distribution of weight necessary seems unsafe in a Ski Nautique. I guess I need a new Sport 200, except I love DD. I guess what I really need is a friend with one.
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dip
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Thats where the bikini clad crew comes in....MOTIVATION (and perhaps even better...consolation) And you get one vote NO from me on an E.D. affliction. |
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75 Tique
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No doubt there are some pretty talented surfers, including those in the new NSS video. I was impressed. But that kind of ability is so far down the road for me, I can't see making the trip.
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Tim D
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I like to surf, but it's last on my skiing agenda. Everyone is talking about how easy it is. Just standing there in one spot, yeah, but doing ollie airs, 180 ollies, 360's is not that easy. I went with Brian Grubb (pro wakeskater) last summer, I've got to get a board like his, shorter and wider, easier for tricks.
Brian Grubb landing a 360. |
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75 Tique
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Hush up about the rope. I don't want anyone to know. I can wait till White Lake gathering if you hope to make it up for that. ( I won't be making SJRR) If you arent going to make White Lake (assuming it happens, I haven't heard anything)then we can make some other arrangements. |
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Mojo
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You guys need to worry about stuff you can control, like making sure the douchebag that shows up late remembers the ice for the cooler. The rest is out of your hands....
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Morfoot
Grand Poobah Joined: February-06-2004 Location: South Lanier Status: Offline Points: 5320 |
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Hey Larry aka elitest douche..... I still have your BAREFOOT rope. I haven't forgoten you ...it's just that A.D.D. stuff that ..... "Wow, she's hot!"
Waternut, I'm guessing your on Tobesofkee? |
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"Morfoot; He can ski. He can wakeboard.He can cook chicken.He can create his own self-named beverage, & can also apparently fly. A man of many talents."72 Mustang "Kermit",88 SN Miss Scarlett, 99 SN "Sherman"
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Waternut
Senior Member Joined: July-11-2012 Location: Macon, GA Status: Offline Points: 292 |
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There are some surfers with boats that aren't weighted heavily enough to surf behind who will drive the boat in a large circle instead of a straight line. What this does is make the wake slightly larger on the surfers side. I'm sure you guys can all imagine what that does to the entire lake. There are worse things than heavily weighted boats... My lake is maybe 300-400 yards wide at the most and maybe 4-5 miles long so it's certainly not a large lake but obviously bigger than what some guys on this thread have. Anyway, if a wakeboarder or surfer is running along the bank parallel to me on one side and I run on the other, I rarely ever notice rollers from the other guys boat. |
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75 Tique
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You're right....here we go. This clearly has the potential to turn into a "you didn't build that" thread, which for some reason is the second longest thread on this site, after the "interesting craigslist" one. (and nobody had better put a post on that thread that isn't interesting or isn't craigslist or there is really going to be trouble) Anyway Keith, like those other things mentioned, I have nothing against soccer, it just never appealed. One, I was never a ball sport fan as a kid, not baseball, football or basketball. Not sure why, just never was, my dad really wasn't into it so I guess I never was either. In terms of participation, I was pretty much a one sport guy - swimming (and water skiing of course). After living in Houston and outside of Boston, I have become a bit of, but not a fanatical, football and baseball fan. But as far as soccer, never caught my interest. My kids did it for years and I didnt miss a game, and it was fun watching them play, but it certainly didnt turn me into a fan. My daughter switched to swimming in eighth grade and my son bailed out of soccer earlier but stuck with baseball through one year of Babe Ruth before tiring of it( through which I learned more about baseball than I had previously in my life) Perhaps soccer is too much random movement and not enough scoring(although I do kind of like to watch hockey (live, not on TV) and it really isnt much different - but I guess that could be a Bowdoin artifact) So, Keith, given my lack of enthusiasm for soccer, I hope I am not an elitest douche in your eyes.
I hope I don't need to start taking that Brian, but if there are any more votes for my E.D. I might have to consider it. |
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Keith
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Larry, what do you have against soccer ... Here we go! The gloves are off now.
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bkhallpass
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Larry,
I just saw an ad that says they have a pill for E.D. BKH |
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phatsat67
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Did you say Steak!?
My problem with early morning boarders on my lake is that they seem to take no direction and do not follow lake rules in the counter clockwise Indiana style. Just taking tangent lines in whatever direction they feel like at that moment. As previously stated these people with largly weighted boats aren't even finishing wake to wake jumps. Don't take me as a wake hater, I gladly pull all my wake buddies behind the old 2001 by the newer wake boats and they all look in awe as these guys are doing multiple inverts behind my old rig. We get more funny looks when my brother does that stuff on a kneeboard. Now that I think about it there is only one guy that is doing any type of invert board tricks on our lake with a purpose built wake boat. The only time I disobey the lake rules is during times when there is little to nobody on the water besides myself. By our landing there is a cove that blocks wind and stays extremely calm. I will slalom the cove side down and back with just like a slalom course dropping at both ends for the water to calm. Same when we barefoot back there. |
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quinner
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LOL, of course we have talked to her, she bought the boat from a friend of mine who has spent time on it with her as well. If you read my post no hateful pride was included, we pull boarders quite often, as noted.
On topic, what would you tell surfers to do that would have less impact, other then "buy some ski's"?? |
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AAM196
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Amen to Barefooting, slalom and good steak!
I like where this is headed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag6VBKD6JMA no wake needed! |
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Waternut
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...and has even one person talked to this one inconsiderate boater? I don't necessarily recommend giving them a stern talking to because that would just make me mad if someone did that to me. However, if you invite them out on your boat or maybe invite yourself on their boat (yes I understand that may require someone to swallow some hateful pride and go wakeboarding), you may be able to make a difference. My point is... I taught waterskiing to beginners for 6 years. I typically taught 4 hours a day, everyday during the summer. In those 6 years and a few years to follow, I did powerturns every time someone fell or couldn't get up. The sad fact was, I didn't know any better because no one told me. It wasn't until I started riding with more experienced drivers and skiers/wakeboarders that I began to understand why powerturns were bad, why certain kinds of turns are bad, and how to minimize your wake for others. |
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75 Tique
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Wow...somebody had their Cheerios peed in. Since you made a point of quoting my "just don't get it" comment, I will assume that was directed at me. There are a lot of things I "just don't get" meaning I don't see the fun of it so I opt not to participate.... Ultimate Fighting Championships, soccer, the Kardashians, and turnips to name a few. On the other hand, there are things I do like: swimming, boating, steak and potato salad, family time, and barefooting and slalom. I bet if you and I sat and talked for a while we could identify things you don't care for vs things you enjoy. I am not sure liking to barefoot and slalom and not seeing the appeal of surfing makes me an elitist douche. I have spent time on the water with many of the guys who posted here, and although I could be wrong, I don't think their first impression of me is that I am an elitist douche. Maybe just a plain douche, or some other kind of douche, but hopefully not an elitist douche. I wasnt criticizing anything. I was just rendering an opinion on personal preferences. I would think/hope that would be a little less offensive than calling me an elitist douche. |
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Swatkinz
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Steve
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quinner
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Pretty rude comment, I have footed, skied, surfed or simply boated with many of the people in this thread and not one of them would I have any issue sending my child out skiing with. Will give you an example of what is happening on my private 220 acre lake. Last season a neighbor purchased a 220, they primarily wakeboard and run heavily ballasted all the time. Have yet to see anyone do a solid wake to wake let alone an invert behind that boat, so why do you need such a monster wake?? People often raft up on our lake for extended periods of time and those wakes are wreaking havoc and create a dangerous situation when kids are swimming near the boats and they are rocking violently. Of course we pull in our ski ropes as soon as we see them running as they will tear up the entire lake! There is already rumblings of imposing more "skiing rules" as a result. Meanwhile we have been here almost 20 yrs skiing, wakeboarding, footing, foiling, etc. etc. and "not doing power turns" and may be further regulated on our activities as the result of 1 overballasted boat. God forbid if they discover surfing and push an even bigger wake. I enjoy every pulled water sport, personally think tubing is lame x1000 however has it's place to transition young kids to skiing. Find surfing a close second, have surfed many times and no question it requires the least amount of skill yet creates the most environmental impact of any other water sport. A heavy ballasted big surf boat would be awesome down the road on Lake Michigan however on smaller bodies of water the impact is much more substantial. |
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SNobsessed
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Josh - yea, I realize my post was irrelavent. But to explain, have a very small lake & the traffic is thick. We got hit once already by an unattentive boater, so my kids are very nervous about being in the water with other boats zooming past.
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