Tips & Tricks...
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Welcome to JC Sports’ Trick Tips Page. Here you can find some helpful info about water skiing and wakeboarding from JC himself. Please ski/wakeboard within your ability. As we add tips to this page, remember that not all tips listed here may pertain to you and your skill level. We will have some Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced level tips. I will try to be brief in my explanations for time and space sake. You should go to a professional instructor for more detailed instruction. Feel free to call me or email me with your questions. Don’t forget, JC Sports offers both water ski and wakeboard lessons for all skill levels. If you can’t get with us to train, get with someone. We all need some coaching regardless of our skill levels!!
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| Wakeboarding - Progressive Edging
The biggest key to wakeboarding properly, to me, is edging. You want to learn how to make a controlled approach to the wake. You do this by beginning your cut very easy and building the cut as you approach the wake. You want to hit the wake cutting, or edging, as hard as you can. This helps you get that explosive launch off of the wake that you see the pros on TV getting. Think about your approach to the wake this way: Start off with 0% energy and cut. Finish with 100% energy and cut, and EDGE ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE WAKE. Don’t flatten up as you hit the wake because you will give up all of the edge and energy you have just built. I train a lot of riders who start out doing this the opposite way. 100% cut at the beginning and 0% as they hit the wake. All this does is gives you a lot of speed at the wake and no control, or EDGE. Many of you are probably doing this at least partly incorrectly. Next time you ride, think about your edging and take a few practice jumps doing what I have described. Just be ready for more air and a landing farther out in the flats!! | Wakeboarding - Learn The Basics!
Yes, we all want to throw huge inverts and do spins and grabs. First, you must learn how to ride correctly! Wakeboarding is made up of simple parts. All of the parts when learned correctly and put together correctly will lead you those glory runs in front of all your friends. Here are the basics you need: 1)Heel-side two wake jump 2)Toe-side two wake jump (yes, you must learn this!) 3)Two wake heel-side 180 4)Two-wake toe-side 180 5)Two wake half cab (switch heel side 180). These 5 things are the building blocks to all of the other tricks you want to learn. You need to force yourself to learn how to ride as good toe-side as heel-side. That is what separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls! Thanks and have fun! | Wakeboarding - Handle Control
Keep the handle down!! Why? you may ask. You want to keep the handle down low around your waist or just a bit higher in order to keep control over the pull from the boat. If you leave your handle way out from your body and have it high up around shoulder level, you will constantly get pulled forward by the boat. Keeping the handle lower and a little bit closer to your body will give you control when edging jumping and doing tricks. | Water Skiing - Getting Rid Of Slack Rope
People always ask me why they get so much slack in their rope when they turn. Here is the reason: You get slack in the rope because your ski is moving faster than the boat when you attempt to turn. You need to learn how to slow your ski down, so that when you turn, the rope can stay tight. It will stay tight because you and the boat will be traveling at basically the same speed. To achieve this, think about not pulling or cutting anymore once you cross the wake. You should make your cut to the wake a very controlled and progressive one. Once you have cut all the way through the wake, you should begin your edge change. The edge change will help you slow down your ski and make a turn with a tight line. There are other factors that will affect the slack in your line, but eliminating the pull after the wakes and edge change will be a big improvement for you. | Water Skiing - What do you mean by "Edge Change"?
Edge change is simply the act of putting the ski that is on one edge onto the other edge. Edge changing does not mean turning. It is simply the first step to set up a nice smooth turn with (hopefully) at tight line! Changing edges gets the ski to decelerate into the turn. |
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