Post your biggest surf wave pic

I can ollie in the flats about a foot high, pretty consistantly. I have yet to be able to transfer that to the wave. Never sure if I am suppossed to be ollieing just after I hit the wave, or if I want to ride up the wave, and then ollie off the top? Kinda confused on the technique of when to pop it.

Here is a 2min video of me from early last summer. We have since added more weight hehe! Riding with a rope so I can recover if needed. First minute is slashes and stalls but at the end I am trying to ollie off the wake. http://www.vimeo.com/5714688

James I cannot watch youtube at work so I'll hafta check the vid at home. Ever try hosting with Vimeo? :) Are you coming to surf Worlds this summer? It's on my home river in Minneapolis! I am thinking about signing up for some ride time behind that wall of a wave. Hope you keep stopping by here!

Nice ridin in the video Mikey.

Watch James in this short video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_6Y5...eature=channel

Look at how he pumps off the top of the wave, then how hard he digs in at the bottom of the wave before shooting back up the face for the air.

I would suggest you get rid of the rope and practice. I used to practice with the rope, too, because I felt bad for my crew that they'd have to circle around to get me more often, but found that without the rope I had more use of that 2nd hand when working the wave and trying for airs, and it would also force me to learn how to pump and recover from further back on the wave. (not to mention, I'd always be thinking about where the slack in the rope was so it didn't get in the way instead of concentrating on my riding)

I usually warm up with the rope or try very-new tricks with the rope, otherwise I do not use it much. :) Here is the 2nd half of that run w/o any rope - but also w/o any ollies! hehe that was the only reason I posted the rope-run was to point out the ollies. http://www.vimeo.com/5713502

Yeah - we'll be at the WWSC, looing forward to being back in Minnesota. We used to ride the Lake Washington contest, but have missed the last few years. What was always so odd to me was the lack of fences! Out here in California we fence off our garbage cans to keep them from being stolen! :)

I do have a channel on Vimeo, check under Flyboywakesurf, that's the name where I posting everything now. Come say hello if you make the event!

Nice 3's Mikey!!!

Gotta Love It!
1st time riders, ya their bodies are a little soar the next day -
But I always get the comment, "Why is my jaw so soar?"
We call it jaw fatigue - From SMILIN!!!

https://forum.supraboats.com/attachm...1&d=1274366285

yep, jaw fatigue :)

Looking good, how do you have the boat weighted?

Wow, the water looks clear as can be. What lake do you go to?

Idaho Waters all the way up north to Coeur D'alene Lake. The clarity and color is like none else, makes for some beauty wave pics. If I remember we only had a few of us on the boat that day, a little bit of sac upfront, empty on the right and full 40 on the left at about 9.8. For what ever reason my boat doesn't take much to curve out a decent wave.

I can't see your pic water dog

Here are a couple pics, think im getting closed to dialed in finally ...

Lookin pretty clean KG

We kept referring back to the diagram you drew up of my wake in another thread.

"we just gotta get the yellow line up to the red line, I think we are gonna need more weight"

Ended with apprx 300 nonsurfside, 1300ish rearsurfside, 1150 playpen.

THat is a very clean wave! Good job fixin it up!! That seems like a LOT of bow weight for surfing.

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06 21v
400 both rear lockers
650 up front
400 on surf side rear seat
250 on surf side in bow
11.2mph wake plate all the way DOWN

Unfortunately for me, I get a better wave on starboard side.

stock set up,,, more pics to come later with the 1100#s, she sits at the rub rail now, its a beautiful site.

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I want to see some pictures of the boat with the water at the rail!
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http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...4100006-15.jpg

I was a little concerned this weekend because I had it up over the gas cap at times. Hopefully I have a tight sealing cap gasket....

How are you taking your pics from that angle? Are you getting a tube out there or doing it while surfing? The quality looks decent so that seems like a scary risk.

Doing it while surfing.
This picture is taken with a SeaLife underwater camera we bought a couple years ago for some snorkleing. It takes some nice pictures.
http://www.sealife-cameras.com/camer...ster_mini.html

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...rferview-1.jpg

The recent picture I just posted from behind the boat is actually a still image from a flip video camera in an underwater case. http://store.theflip.com/en-us/products/UltraHD.aspx I'm hoping to post a video I shot while surfing in the coming days.

The Flip is really nice, but, when it's in the case the quality seems to suffer a bit. If in the market for a video camera on the boat, I'd check out the GoPro HD camera. http://www.goprocamera.com/

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I want to see some pictures of the boat with the water at the rail!

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yup, just like in scotts shot while surf n the water is at the rail, I would say my platform is 10 inch under water on the surf side.

does a guy have to worry about the steel grates getting water in them? is that the intake?


very sweet scott, I love all the bags, my gf was like wtf we still have theese 400lb launch bags on the floor I thought you said the new ones were enough and I say,, its never enough lol...

heres a few shots mo to come.

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Is this a 21v? If so, what year? Wave looks great.

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Is this a 21v? If so, what year? Wave looks great.

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mine?

I have 2006 22ssv. with 900ish rear corner 650 on the floor pushed to surf side and 650 in the locker.

I think scott has the 21v.

I was reading back through this thread and got excited.
It's been a couple months, and we've all played around with our weight.
Anybody have anything new to report???

I started surfing on the port side, this weekend I set up;
1200# surf side
400# factory bag ontop of the portside seat
400# pop bags lining the floor inside the port locker
1150# center bag full
200# pop bags in the bow
600# with all the batterys and subs exc on the starboard side
250-350# water in rear starboard locker
350# people in boat
wake plate 3/4 way up

I was very impressed with the setup, I had a waist high wake and could recover from 12-14' behind the boat... I have a video ill post on YouTube later

Sounds killer, can't wait to see the video

We managed to surf my boat this weekend, still not a great wave, could toss the rope for about 20 seconds...I think with a comp you need a very specific weight set up and person p[lacement and possibily a slightly longer board. We're riding a 5'0" board that seems fairly aggressive, more pics to come this ones off my Blackberry,
We managed to get an est. 1500lb'sof ballast plus another 400lb human weight. Had about 500 up front and the rest in the back in all sorts of containers!!!!!
Anyway the boat was freak'in low......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbrjYzGNr5E

Here you go Scott, dont laugh @ My skill level, or the video quality...
It was recorded by a 7yr old with an Iphone

Thanks for the video Matt, I dig it!! But then again, I'm a serious SurfAholic.... You're definitely on the right track, keep it up. Next, we expect to see the 7yr old on the board, and you behind the Iphone vid cam. :)

Maple - the stacked rubbermaids are AWESOME!!!!

took some advice from some good guys here and applied it. They don't seal up super good cuz of the weight they'll hold, but she got sunk and we surfed!!!!!!!!!!!Gotta find a way to make the pocket longer.....

800 lbs of ballast and 7 people

Lake Minnetonka (off friend's Malibu)

Good God man. I think the first supper was served on that thing..

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Gotta Love It!
1st time riders, ya their bodies are a little soar the next day -
But I always get the comment, "Why is my jaw so soar?"
We call it jaw fatigue - From SMILIN!!!

https://forum.supraboats.com/attachm...1&d=1274366285

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Man, look how clear that water is!! Makes the water I board in look like sewer!

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Lake Minnetonka (off friend's Malibu)

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Daaaaaaang!! What are you boarding on, an airplane wing?

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Good God man. I think the first supper was served on that thing..

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I was thinking the same thing, hahaha

Here's my port-side wave on a 2007 22ssv.
1100lb port locker
About 300-500 starboard locker
800lbs up front
400lbs on the port side floor
400lbs on the port side bench
Amplitude and length of the pocket are awesome. I'm just not a fan of the double lip created by the swim platform dragging. Going to try smoothing out the underside of the platform by filling with fiberglass.

My daughter behind an '09 21V with 750 in the port locker, full 650 up front and another approx 400 lb of human ballast on the port side.

Squeaky, how do you like that Ronix board? I almost bought one of those but I pulled back because of the swallow tail, it does have a swallow tail right?

Yes it does...you can see it in the picture.

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Squeaky, how do you like that Ronix board? I almost bought one of those but I pulled back because of the swallow tail, it does have a swallow tail right?

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Honestly, I hate that board. It does nothing for me, although my wife digs it for just cruising up n' down the lip. It feels slow & dull to me at 165 lbs. Yes, it's a swallow tail.

Last summer I purchased a surf style CWB Razr which I like a lot, and I purchased an IS Mucus this month which I'm jonesing to try...just another week or so before we launch the boat.