A few pics of me wakeboarding...

[ian ashton]

This is my second year riding a wakeboard, first year taking it seriously. I started out last year using my buddies generic board (velcro bindings!) behind his 23' Yamaha jet boat. Needless to say I wasn't getting very complex with that combo.

Since we picked up the Outback my skill level has been progressing at an exponential rate. This weekend I mastered riding switch, and flipping back and forth, and I also started to get a little more agressive with my 'jumping'. Unfortunately no pics of me airbound, at least not yet...








Switchin it up!

[ian ashton]

A few more;

[Aquaholic]

how do yall post the big pictures?? The cwb platitum is a great board, 134 right? Congrats on the progression and the Outback. 2 weekends ago I started switch TS w2w and add a 180 to it this past weekend. My current push is a Backroll and a Tantrum, I'm so close but it hurts me in ways that make me too cautious. 3 weekends back I had a Pro come to the house for a lesson and thats made all the difference in the world.

[ian ashton]

how do yall post the big pictures?? The cwb platitum is a great board, 134 right? Congrats on the progression and the Outback. 2 weekends ago I started switch TS w2w and add a 180 to it this past weekend. My current push is a Backroll and a Tantrum, I'm so close but it hurts me in ways that make me too cautious. 3 weekends back I had a Pro come to the house for a lesson and thats made all the difference in the world.

I absolutely love my board & bindings, very comfortable.

Regarding posting pictures, see this thread:
https://forum.moomba.com/showthread.php?t=5629

[ian ashton]

I've been progressing in my riding!

Here are a few pics of me 'airborne' from the other night. I need to work on my form, as shown by the pictures, but I figure not too bad for only catching air for a couple of weeks now.

I've also gotten pretty good at surface 360's, and even 1 wake 180s. I'm having a little trouble clearing the second wake still, I get about 75% across. Ballast full, 18-19 mph, 75 feet off.


Arms are way too high, and my board is at a goofy angle; I think I level off more as I crossed over the wake, this was definately snapped on the ascent.


I like this one, inspite of my bad body position;


Another weird body position; bending my legs trying to clear the second wake; didn't work, haha.


These are the first good pics I've seen of my jumping the wake, its kinda cool to be able to critique myself; hopefully it will help bring my technique up.

Pics were taken by my dad with his Nikon D70 d-slr.

[wake08]

Ian,

Isn't this stuff so addicting? Looks like you have some good water where you are. Just my 2 cents, about 3 years ago i owned an outback and just could not go wake to wake, I just kept casing the second wake. I shortened my rope to 70ft and bumped up my speed to 22.5 MPH and cleared the wake first try. Keep doing what you are doing and have fun.

[llxlv]

AT that speed shorten the rope to 65 or 70

[tazz3069]

Very nice pictures. I hope, with practice, I can do those things. Keep up the good work.

[MrsZ]

Awesome Ian! I just started too. But all I can do is switch. Riding with that right foot in front is bizarre! At the MOST, I can only get 3/4 across... and that is not switched. Keep us informed. Great pictures too!

[McMoomba]

Very cool, you look like you are progressing quick. I just wish I started wakeboarding when I was younger, I started when I was 36 and I'm 38 now. My goal is to be able to pull a backroll before I turn 40. Going from a 17.5' bayliner to our Outback V was a big boost. The first time out boarding I hit the wake, shot straight up, looked in the back of the boat and saw all three of my kids wide eyed and open mouthed (Didn't land that one). I have since learned how to set the wakeplate. Here are a few gabs from a video.

McMoomba