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  1. #11
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    Default How many injuries have you sustained while wakeboarding?

    I’m a complete beginner and in the same boat as you (I’m 33 and bought a Craz) while learning the worst I’ve done is a catch a toeside edge which rings your bell/headache for 30-40 min and that’s it. Always get up the next morning and don’t feel really any soreness. Yesterday was my 6th time up on a wakeboard. I have some partial rotator cuff tears and need some physical therapy/PRP injections but I’m being careful and even that hasn’t gotten any worse.

    Wake to wake and grabs, and even inverts (if you learn them the right way) are pretty harmless. My understanding is that any spin is where you really take a beating.

    I’ve had a lot of compliments on the wake behind the Craz. It’s a very gradual ramp with no ballast, not super peaky, and very clean at lower speeds. Seems great to learn on in my opinion.

    Ballast makes the peak higher and you can get some serious air once your skill set is where it needs to be. But like a coach told me last month, “with wakeboarding, ballast is earned”.

    Here’s the wake at 18mph. Wakeplate at 50, about 1,500 of people and lead in the boat.


    The boat surfs great stock too. 500# of lead wakes it up a bit. Really happy with it all around, was finding push 25-30’ back yesterday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt0520 View Post
    I’m a complete beginner and in the same boat as you (I’m 33 and bought a Craz) while learning the worst I’ve done is a catch a toeside edge which rings your bell/headache for 30-40 min and that’s it. Always get up the next morning and don’t feel really any soreness. Yesterday was my 6th time up on a wakeboard. I have some partial rotator cuff tears and need some physical therapy/PRP injections but I’m being careful and even that hasn’t gotten any worse.

    Wake to wake and grabs, and even inverts (if you learn them the right way) are pretty harmless. My understanding is that any spin is where you really take a beating.

    I’ve had a lot of compliments on the wake behind the Craz. It’s a very gradual ramp with no ballast, not super peaky, and very clean at lower speeds. Seems great to learn on in my opinion.

    Ballast makes the peak higher and you can get some serious air once your skill set is where it needs to be. But like a coach told me last month, “with wakeboarding, ballast is earned”.

    Here’s the wake at 18mph. Wakeplate at 50, about 1,500 of people and lead in the boat.


    The boat surfs great stock too. 500# of lead wakes it up a bit. Really happy with it all around, was finding push 25-30’ back yesterday.

    I appreciate everyone's views, this forum has an amazing community. I'm going to definitely give wake boarding a shot. I figured I would get some "stick to tubing" replies but I just wanted to get some feedback before I made my decision on wakeboarding. My profession is in physical therapy so at least I will know where to go for rehab lol.

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    Tubing causes the worst injuries in my opinion.

    I have a tube ban on my boat.


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    Quote Originally Posted by larry_arizona View Post
    Tubing causes the worst injuries in my opinion.

    I have a tube ban on my boat.
    Agreed. My kids will attest to that! LOL Can't enforce a ban though, they keep coming back for more.
    So when is this "old enough to know better" supposed to kick in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt0520 View Post
    My understanding is that any spin is where you really take a beating.
    Hahahaha .... yes!!!!

    The comment regarding not riding when you are tired is solid advise.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lightfoot View Post
    I appreciate everyone's views, this forum has an amazing community. I'm going to definitely give wake boarding a shot. I figured I would get some "stick to tubing" replies but I just wanted to get some feedback before I made my decision on wakeboarding. My profession is in physical therapy so at least I will know where to go for rehab lol.
    You can't rehab your brian, my concerns aren't about broken bones and stuff. Just concussions.
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    Started wakeboarding at 23 and have never been injured and never had any injuries behind my boat. *knock on wood*. Take it easy and learn the basics before trying to charge and get some air. One of the main reasons I have never been injured I think has to do with my knowing that I can't afford to get injured, so I don't take too many unnecessary risks. Another important tip is if you feel like something is going wrong, LET GO! Don't hold onto the rope in an effort to save a fall, that only makes it 10 times worse. If you feel you are going down, let the rope go and try again.

    Once you start trying things that 360s, raleys, and inverts the injuries really start to happen. I have seen people break ankles and ribs, just not on my boat. I had a friend tear his lisfranc (I think thats what its called) tendon in his foot too.
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    Wakeboarded for years with no issues other than some bell ringers. That all changed when I progressed into inverts. I now walk around on a 10% meniscus tear. Was advised against surgery due to the risk of arthritis.

    Doesn’t bother me much anymore. Ran a marathon in Feb so I guess I’m doing ok....thought I had broken myself when I did it back in 2011.

    I surf now. 38 years old.


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    Quote Originally Posted by larry_arizona View Post
    Tubing causes the worst injuries in my opinion.

    I have a tube ban on my boat.
    I couldn't agree more. back when I was in my late 20's we went on a houseboat trip. We wakeboarded, skied, kneeboarded until we'd felt we'd done it all. Just for kicks, we pulled out the tube. My "Friends" destroyed me to the point where I literally couldn't strap on any kind of equipment and do any more watersports for the last day of the trip. My first chiropractic visit ever followed... No thanks. My family believes that the best tube is the one you leave at home.



    That said, I've been wakeboarding 23 years. I'm almost 47 now. I don't do inverts. I got to intermediate and plateaued. (a lot of it had to do with the fact that there really wasn't any coaching available to us in the late 90s. No one we knew wakeboarded!)

    My tricks include wake to wake jumps, sometimes out into the flats. I can throw a few different grabs. toe and heel butter slides. Toeside 180's. That's about it. I've had plenty of times over the years where I've rung my bell like mentioned above. I now ride with a helmet (there's some disagreement about the whole helmet thing, but since I wear one on the motorcycle, snowboard, and mountain bike; I also wear one wakeboarding and on the wakefoil. I've knocked the wind out of myself. I've woke up with a stuff neck (minor whiplash) but honestly NO more dangerous than snowboarding. In fact, my biggest soft tissue injury was a torn MCL and partially torn ACL and that was from snowboarding, not wakeboarding. Even with full boot bindings cinched up tight on my wakeboard, my biggest crashes have ripped my feet out of the board. in both slalom skiing and wakeboarding, I've probably cut too hard for my own good and given myself a bit of "golfer's elbow" and I get some wrist ache from fatigue from gripping the handle.

    Definitely wakeboard. There's nothing else like it. The feeling of flying thorough the air is fantastic. And the feeling of gliding and cutting the the butter glassy water. It's something that surfing can't even come close to. Like any boardsport, you pay for it occasionally. But I wouldn't give it up.



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