Quote Originally Posted by z28ke View Post
Your kid is a badass!!!

My 7yo son likes to think his phase5 scamp is for playing with in the water and uses this “I’m scared” stance about trying anything new (including foods). The only explanation I can think of is that he’s wanting to be his own individual and seems to steer away from anything I’m into including sports, dirtbikes, cars etc. By this age I really thought we would be into some form of racing together but he’s just not interested. I try not to push to hard in hopes he will eventually come around. He’s finally started asking to shoot his BB gun so maybe hunting in a few years lol.
I started my son on Snowskis at 3 years old. He was completely fearless. by 7 he was dropping double black diamonds. However, when we bought our wakeboats, he simply told me "watersports aren't my thing". The first season he would NOT play behind the boat. (I'm anti-tubing, so I won't even bring one on the boat). A few years ago, I think he was 10?, and he said he'd try surfing. He wasn't as intimidated with the slower speeds relative to wakeboarding. So, he tried with a 4'8 board that was too big for him and got up for an INSTANT and was stoked. I immediately bought him a scamp. After a handful of tries surfing, we went back to wakeboarding and he got up and rode. Then back to surfing and the wakeboarding paid off and he was up and riding the scamp. I still have to push him a bit to get behind the boat because often he'd just as soon be lazy and chill. Unless we're gonna do something crazy, then he's in. The doubles wakeboarding and doubles surfing was no problem to talk him into!