So this happened this weekend...

[Loop Bizkit]

I wakesurf a good bit. We have a Mastercraft X2 wakeboat, and it's super fun.


This dude (toward end of the video)... touches down in a seaplane pretty dang close. Funny thing is....he didn't even need to land. He touched down, I lost my wave, and then he took off again!

It was pretty epic though.



[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SC-DAHvvQ[/youtube]

[GuitarBilly]

That looks fun man. I used to surf back in my teens but never tried wake surfing.


Douche with the seaplane needs to go fuck himself though.

[Loop Bizkit]

haha, yeah I wasn't too pissed about it... it was actually pretty cool to see that close. But it distracted me and I was on a really long run. That was the bummer. As someone who also flies small airplanes, it was cool to have all of those things in one shot! I was thinking of how fun it'd be to be the douchey pilot while I was falling off my wave, lol.


Wakesurfing is a blast, man. Wakeboats have ballast tanks in them, & pumps. You can fill ours with close to 1 ton of water. Sinks the back end down, and you trawl below planing speed at about 2800 RPM, and pull a 5-6 foot wake. You start on the board with a rope, then toss the rope once you're in the wave....after that, normal surfing. With the tanks empty, its basically a crazy hot rod boat.

How we do it out here in the oceanless midwest.

[GuitarBilly]

haha, yeah I wasn't too pissed about it... it was actually pretty cool to see that close. But it distracted me and I was on a really long run. That was the bummer. As someone who also flies small airplanes, it was cool to have all of those things in one shot! I was thinking of how fun it'd be to be the douchey pilot while I was falling off my wave, lol.


Wakesurfing is a blast, man. Wakeboats have ballast tanks in them, & pumps. You can fill ours with close to 1 ton of water. Sinks the back end down, and you trawl below planing speed at about 2800 RPM, and pull a 5-6 foot wake. You start on the board with a rope, then toss the rope once you're in the wave....after that, normal surfing. With the tanks empty, its basically a crazy hot rod boat.

How we do it out here in the oceanless midwest.

yeah I am in oceanless PA now so that actually sounds like a good plan I need to look into this.

[Devin]

If only you were also holding the Back to the Future bass while surfing and having a seaplane land.

Keyboard player in my band is obsessed with wakeskating but i've personally never done any sort of boat treat like that, unless getting pulled and whipped around on an innertube counts (which is intense as fuck )

Wakesurfing looks rad

[mortatone]

I live on the St Johns River and have had a seaplane come in pretty close to me. I was near the shore fishing and he was center of the river so it wasn’t scary or anything. Was awesome to watch. If I ever see another one fly toward the river I’ll be quickly pulling out the phone for sure!

I saw a kayak video once of a guy a couple miles offshore and a boat hit the back end of his kayak without even slowing down. Luckily it only broke the guy’s rudder.

[ajaxlepinski]

Man, that looks like a blast!!!! So cool that you can weigh down your boat to create a surfable wave.

I'm sure you've seen the vids of Texans surfing oil tanker wakes...
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGBFFJf7ENg[/youtube]

[itchyfingers]

Is there anything that Loop cannot do? I think not.

If you're ever in Southern CA and want to hassle with paddling into waves.

[clipless bumper]

.....

I saw a kayak video once of a guy a couple miles offshore and a boat hit the back end of his kayak without even slowing down. Luckily it only broke the guy’s rudder.

Wait, what?? A kayak with a rudder???

[Loop Bizkit]

.....

I saw a kayak video once of a guy a couple miles offshore and a boat hit the back end of his kayak without even slowing down. Luckily it only broke the guy’s rudder.

Wait, what?? A kayak with a rudder???

Lots of kayaks have rudders... the pedal/paddle types from Hobie, for example.


Hell, my fishing kayak has a trolling motor.

[Devin]

Less common is a kayak with an udder

[Loop Bizkit]

Is there anything that Loop cannot do? I think not.

If you're ever in Southern CA and want to hassle with paddling into waves.

That'd be cool, man. I actually learned to surf in Santa Cruz when I was young.

[itchyfingers]

You don't say! I chose UC Santa Cruz strictly for the surf, and lived just off West Cliff my last term of freshman year. I probably would have been better served looking into the educational aspect of finding a college. Needless to say, I did not end up getting my degree from there, but LOVED the time I spent there.

[Loop Bizkit]

You don't say! I chose UC Santa Cruz strictly for the surf, and lived just off West Cliff my last term of freshman year. I probably would have been better served looking into the educational aspect of finding a college. Needless to say, I did not end up getting my degree from there, but LOVED the time I spent there.

I'm jealous. I went to GVSU in Michigan. Spent weekends on the Lake Michigan beach. Not bad, but not the Pacific either.


I was super into motocross in my younger years. My uncle is a badass and has a whole room full of trophies. We both raced a ton for a few years. He got me into road racing, as a fan at least, too, so we'd go out to Laguna Seca in Monterey every year for the Grand Prix.

That's what had me in CA a lot in younger years.

[ajaxlepinski]

Went swimming in Lake Erie, in Cleveland. No one should ever go swimming in Lake Erie, in Cleveland.