Great pics David. We are planning on being out this Friday. Just not sure if it will be the SBR or the Trinity.
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Great pics David. We are planning on being out this Friday. Just not sure if it will be the SBR or the Trinity.
Well yall have fun! this is my last time out will mid may or so! :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by rca
Hey Dave,
While I was drooling over your pics since I'm still a month away from ice out I noticed the pic where your buddy is getting ready for an intense nasal flush that your wake is solid on one side, but washed out on the other. I had this problem in my old boat too when I was under 21mph but I only had a few hundred pounds of ballast which I attributed it too. I'm guessing you had the tanks full if he's pulling backflips and I thought it would clean up the wake on both sides.
The people I pull don't like going over 21mph, I like it around 22-22.5 mph where the wake was sharp for me on both sides. I'm hoping for a clean wake on both sides at 20+mph with a new 13 LSV. Was this pic a fluke or a weight distribution problem with passengers?
Weight distribution may have been a contributing factor since we take a lot of people out who do not understand how to clean the wake but also whenever someone is loading the line on one side of the boat it seems to always make the other side wash. im sure if he was riding directly behind the boat there would be very little to no wash on the opposite side. as long as the side im going into is clean im all good hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Boatdrinks797
Happens to me too, whenever some goes to one side the opposite gets washed outQuote:
Originally Posted by rdlangston13
Oddly enough today she let me order her a new wet suit LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by snyderaaron
Good move....Quote:
Originally Posted by mmandley
David what sort of ballast/fill do you run when you are wakeboarding? Do you run it different for other riders like Heidi?
I run the stock gravity 3 full with the 650 IBS in the nose. I prefer to run light for beginner riders but generally the beginners that go out with us do not want to ride first so I will fill it all up for me and then it becomes to big of a pain to drain for them then refill for someone else. So I typically run full up for everyone lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by rca
Drain for Heidi??? She says if I need that much weight then so does she lol
I think I'm going to start riding with only the center bag full for a some sets to work on form and technique tho
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You go girl!!! That's the way to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by rdlangston13
I'm curious why people change the setup that they normally ride to work on form?Quote:
Originally Posted by rdlangston13
The sport and the equipment has changed so much that the form or style of the tricks have changed as well. If Shapiro was to ride the boats now days with huge wakes, non stretch dyneema lines and current wakeboard tech but didn't change the way he does the tricks, he would either launch himself into orbit or rip his arms off at the shoulders because that was how they did the tricks back then. No height, lots of speed and massive amounts of rope tension to get spring effect. At the same time the current pros would yard sale themselves if they were to ride the equipment that Shapiro and the early guys rode.
My point is, in my opinion your style should yours not what anybody else says you should look like. My son and his good riding buddy both do 360s but they look totally different doing it. Tyler's 360 is more straight up pop and knees bent where his buddies is very little height and legs straight but they are both completing heelside 360s w2w. Same thing on their heel back rolls, his buddy does an old school heel backroll that is super fast high rope tension but very little height, where again Tyler goes straight up and has less rope tension because of the height he gets. Both are doing the same trick but it looks very different.
Ok, sorry if I was ranting! I'm done now.
Maybe I want to go into orbit...
But seriously, my thinking is if I can learn to load the line and pop off a small wake and get good height then when I load the boat up and I can even get higher. I won't be relying so much on a big wake to boot me or to compensate for my lack of technique.
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Don't go telling Heide I was disrespecting her riding skills or said anything about draining for her! I just didn't think she was as crazy as you. I figured you loaded it all the way up for yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by rdlangston13
Haha, i won't. I want to get 750s in the rear and see how it looks. I mean with my ballast set up I still weigh less than a dry G23...that's crazy to think about
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David,
I'm with you. Whenever I'm trying to work on technique or a new trick, I slow it down to about 20.5 mph and fill only the center bag. Seems like it's easier to learn that way and the wipe-outs are much more forgiving lol
Brett
My march contribution
From me phone
Close the garage door or the neighbors will think that you are crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by chawk610
Lol garage boating at its finest
From me phone
I leave my garage door open. My neighbors know that I am crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by chawk610
Here's my contribution.... I am in China this week for work. This was at lunch yesterday. No. I did not have any!!!!
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Now that is funny, I am always telling my family how crappy the food in China was!! They kept taking me to high end restaurants and feeding me steamed boney fish, duck heads and chicken feet. When I asked if I could get rice I was told that "rice is for poor people"Quote:
Originally Posted by 04OUTBACK
For good food - Go to the Phillipines!!
GTFO... seriously. WOW
Well, the French Bulldog is much more tender than the American Bulldog or American Pitbull. Just don't let them see you putting ketchup on it or they'll know you are a poser.
When I lived in the Philippines I was told that they the locals did not want to eat American dogs due to the rabies shot spoiling the meat.
Maybe that is just what my parents told me so I would not be worried about our dog.
I went back again last night. Still had bulldog. We laughed with several folks about the bad translation. That also had donkey meat. And they say its best meat on land ..... I'm enough of an ass already to eat any jackass!
Home tonight. Bring me some Cajun and southern home cooking!
Jackass with cannibalistic tendencies?
Spent some time on the SBR today. A little breezy but still a fun day. Water was about 70.
Kate's first time on the kneeboard this season.
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Sisters
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Beth on her wakeboard
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A few more
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Fun perspective of Kate surfing
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Ron. Great pics especially that last one.
took some stuff to my dealer today... This is the view from their launch!!!
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something wrong with you water there. may need to add a softening agentQuote:
Originally Posted by jmvotto
Sunshine and no more Canadian air.
First surf of 2013
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Awesome drew. Shortys and the lake to yourself !
Joe, time to up up a financial office down south !! Every New Yorker ends up down In Fl at some point. Might as well now !
Had good friday off so I put myself to work and got the new Exiles installed. So much nicer looking and sounding than the white alpines they replaced. Wife got let off work early so we took a cruise.
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Next to come is windshield tint. Just doesn't look right to me yet.
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Just a quick paint job to look at the tint version. Don't judge.
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So I always talk about my two buffers and how my little random orbit porter cable is the only thing that touches my black cars and blah blah blah...cleaned up my pig yesterday after a winter of bashing on it....
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Ohhh, shiny!
Made a quick video for the beginning of our 2013 season. Lets see how this works... My video is FAR from complete, but worked on it more than I care to admit. haha!
http://vimeo.com/63065851
That's pretty good stuff right there. Wish I could fast forward my drive to the water.
Yeah, I tried to fast forward some clips on mine and it came out super choppy using windows live movie maker or whatever it's called
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It was kinda tricky to learn to do, but after several youtube videos and a walk to ease off frustration, I figured it out. You have to shoot at the highest frame rate per second the camera will allow in the resolution setting you want. so for the super slow motion shots, it's best to shoot at (in my case as I have the GoPro Silver) 720 with 60 fps. for speeding up, it is the same principle. More FPS there are, smoother it will be. I used iMovie to make this one. Once I learn and get better, if I REALLY like it I want to upgrade to Final Cut Pro.Quote:
Originally Posted by rdlangston13
But man it was neat to see all that. It was hard taking all the footage we really had and make a 1 minute video.