185StingLX
Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2015
- Messages
- 7
I am 45 yrs old and about 208 lbs. I decided to try wake boarding after buying a board for my daughters to learn on. So, yeah, I am attempting to ride a small (137, I think) ladies (if that even matters) board. The good news is that the boots seem to accommodate quite a range of foot size.
I have gotten to the point where I can get up at a rate of about 60% but coming up is anything but graceful. I can adjust and/or tolerate the hard starting but my real problem is that the instability is causing this activity to be zero fun. I can stay up even over other boat wakes but staying up is all I am doing.
Perhaps I am asking my driver to go too fast in an effort to keep the board high on the water? Or, is the board just too small for my size? I don't know what the speed was exactly but it felt a little faster than my preferred ski-speed.
I am stable on combo skis and can do anything I want on a knee-board. I have never been able to deep-water start on slalom but I have dropped a ski a few times. I want to enjoy boarding and will buy another board if that may help.
I am sure it doesn't matter to my stability issues but may contribute to my hard starts but, I am doing this behind a 3.0L on an 18ft Stingray with 21 inch prop.
I have gotten to the point where I can get up at a rate of about 60% but coming up is anything but graceful. I can adjust and/or tolerate the hard starting but my real problem is that the instability is causing this activity to be zero fun. I can stay up even over other boat wakes but staying up is all I am doing.
Perhaps I am asking my driver to go too fast in an effort to keep the board high on the water? Or, is the board just too small for my size? I don't know what the speed was exactly but it felt a little faster than my preferred ski-speed.
I am stable on combo skis and can do anything I want on a knee-board. I have never been able to deep-water start on slalom but I have dropped a ski a few times. I want to enjoy boarding and will buy another board if that may help.
I am sure it doesn't matter to my stability issues but may contribute to my hard starts but, I am doing this behind a 3.0L on an 18ft Stingray with 21 inch prop.