new to wakeboarding

[lrat4]

I am new to wakeboarding and have not been able to get up out of the pointers? Do you accelerate slowly or hammer down? While in the water do you leave your feet pointing straight up or do you try and point them towards the boat?

Thanks

 

[WakeLevi]

Re: new to wakeboarding

If you are trying to get up, there are only a few things you need to keep in mind.

If you are just getting started you will want your driver to accelerate slowly at first so you can feel the board, then hammer down a little, to help you get up.

The main thing about getting up is, the boat is doing all the work, you are essentially doing nothing but tweaking your body position a little.

So, you will want to be 'sitting down' in the water with your board in front of you, also you will want your elbows around your knees.

When you feel the boat start to pull you, start pointing your toes down just a little bit at a time until you feel the board planing or moving up towards the surface, then you want to start sitting up, so you are more even with the board, and if you keep that up you'll be on the water.

Now this will all happen in roughly 2-4 seconds, so it is more important to feel the board, than to try to think it through. Once you get up once, you'll know what to do - kinda like riding a bike.

If you need to see it visually there are tons of videos on youtube about getting up.

 

[Dave.Mishchenko]

Re: new to wakeboarding

Here's a similar thread to look at - http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?p=2528331. As stated you have to let the boat do the work of getting you on top of the water. If you try to pull yourself up you'll end up going over the board.

Once you have the process down it becomes pretty fluid, but when you start don't worry if you stretch out of steps until you become comfortable with it.