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Thread: Learning to ski...

  1. #1
    fourspeednup
    I've never skied before since as a kid we boated on casitas(no body contact) but now that I have my own boat I want to learn before I get any older. Is there any chance I could start on a single ski? There is a nice one at the river house already.

  2. #2
    Chase
    Learn to wakeboard...so much more fun, and physically easier on the body

  3. #3
    jackpunx
    you wont have a problem with either.. but I think wake boarding is a little easier.. just takes some upper body strength to get up.. then you cool.. Try it this year.. I'll bring my board to spring break.

  4. #4
    fourspeednup
    I have an 18 ft jetboat...no wake but I guess it would make learning easier

  5. #5
    fourspeednup
    Originally posted by jackpunx
    you wont have a problem with either.. but I think wake boarding is a little easier.. just takes some upper body strength to get up.. then you cool.. Try it this year.. I'll bring my board to spring break.
    Cool! You can watch me eat shit, should be pretty amusing!

  6. #6
    jackpunx
    Oh Hell no.. I'll take pictures so that everyone can see

  7. #7
    fourspeednup
    Allright! That's even better, at least I can watch! Better drink some more beer...don't want my shorts falling down what with that cold river water

  8. #8
    Outnumbered
    Originally posted by Chase
    Learn to wakeboard...so much more fun, and physically easier on the body
    Absolutely,
    Since I learned to wakeboard about 7 years ago I have not skied. I had/have a nice HO slalom ski that I have not used since 1997. Wakeboard is way more fun and less fatigue.
    If you do decide to ski I would try a set of doubles and then get that down before you do a single. Unless you weight 140# you will get very frustrated trying to learn on a single first.
    Have fun,
    OL

  9. #9
    fourspeednup
    Cool, sounds like wakeboarding is the way to go

  10. #10
    Sleek-Jet
    Originally posted by fourspeednup
    Cool, sounds like wakeboarding is the way to go
    Well if you do that, you might as well get a rainbow sticker for the boat.
    Seriously, I would learn to do both, but personally I live to ski when I go boating. You can learn to get up slalom, but it would be easier to get your sea legs on doubles, then start the single ski shit. The biggest advantage to learning to ski is having a driver that knows what they are doing.
    Get up on doubles for a couple times, learn what it feels like to get pulled around, how your boat pulls ya out of the water, that kind of stuff. The you can learn to slalom, either by dropping one or deep starting (or if your at true masocist, beach starting).
    Good luck.

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