Taking wakeboard pics is not really my forte, but thank Kelly B. (my girl) because she snapped some.
Enjoy what we have and feel free to email me with your best wakeboard pictures.
I will add the pic of the week to my Water Wednesday blog posts!
Before I talk anymore about cable parks and about my 2011 Cable Park Tour. I should fill you in on what a cable park is.
A simple explanation of a cable park is a body of water where you get pulled by a rope that is connected to a overhead cable. The cable is run by an electric motor which allows multiple people to wakeboard at the same time without the use of a boat. Every rider on the cable can ride until they fall. After they fall the cable will pull the rope around to the next rider, and they will be off and riding in a blink of an eye. Along with getting pulled around the lake by a cable, the lakes are usually littered with obstacles that you can slide, bonk, or hit at your free will. Obstacles come in all variations, and the most common obstacles include sliders and kickers.
If you don’t have a boat and want to learn how to wakeboard, look up a cable park, go there, and ride till your arms fall off. You will never regret it, and everyone can do it. I went to Wake Nation a few days ago, and there was a 60 year old bush whacker out there testing her skills. If she could do it, so can you! The best thing about cable parks: They give us all another way to Board the Midwest All Day Everyday.
Earlier I wrote about ways to get into wakeboarding. Well today I have found another way for you to start your journey into the wakeboard world. Heck this could be the way wakeboarding started; I doubt it, but who can really say? Check out this picture!
What do you think? Is it wakeboarding? Does it really matter? I don’t think so. I have to admit that getting pulled around the lake on a piece of plywood is one of the most memorable rides I have ever had. You should try it! For those of you who love to wakesurf, check out the wake behind this guy. If they had another rope and you had a board, I could see you right behind him trying to ride that mushy wave. This could be as redneck as it gets, but I have give it up to these people. They have just given us all another way to board the Midwest all day, everyday.
Lately I have been trying to figure out how I can fit into the Wakeboard, Snowboard, and Wakesurf industries. With so much going on in each of these industries it is hard to keep up and it is even harder to fit in. Without worrying about fitting in, I keep myself involved in anyway that I can. With this said, I have come up with a new idea and have started a plan that will help spread the word of wakeboarding and cable parks. My new idea is to do a US Wakeboard Cable Park Tour in 2011.
In the picture above I have mapped out 15 different stops that I could hit in 2011. From the time I have started my plan, I have found out that there are 40+ cable parks in the US, and I am sure by the time I put this together there will be a lot more US cable parks to tour. Not to mention the 60 or so that are already up and running across seas!
Like I said, I just started to plan this project, and I still have to figure out many of the details. I would love to get some of your feedback to see what you think about an idea like this. As I continue on this journey, I will keep you posted on everything that I find and plan on doing. Again, your feedback and input would be much appreciated, and I hope to meet a lot of good people along the way.
Skinny, fat, black, white, big headed, ugly, cute, stupid, blind, deaf, crazy, addict, frugal, rich, blue, pink, albino, F-student, metal worker, horse manure picker upper, head in the sand, I hope I didn’t leave you out! What I want you to know is that YOU can get behind a boat and wakeboard and wakesurf.
One of the best reasons I hear from people who don’t want to give these sports a try is “I can’t do that, I’m too old.” Do you want to know what I think about statements like this? It’s Crap! Why don’t you just say that you don’t want to do it? This is really what you are saying, anyway. Don’t use an excuse, just say that you are not interested. This will allow me to move on and talk about something in your life that you are interested in. I won’t hate you, you can still be my friend, and I am sure that there is something we can talk about. Do you like apples?
On the bright side, if you can get out of a chair, you can get up on a wakeboard or wakesurf board. I know kids 5 years old that wakeboard, and I know people 60 years old that wakesurf. So if you have the itch and think that you would like to give these sports a try, you should because you can.
If you don’t have a boat to get out on, or you don’t know anyone who has a boat, there are still many ways that you can Still Get Into It. I encourage everyone to get out on a boat if you even have the slightest feeling that you would like to give these sports a try. There is only one way to tell if you will like them or not, and that is to give them a try!
Do you have any stories or good excuses that you have heard. It is always fun to hear how people get out of stuff that they really don’t want to do. Please Share!!
