High speed surfing

So yesterday I saw a YouTube of Kelly slater surfing behind a boat. Looked like around a 30' rope maybe 15 ish mph. Google it, I tried to recreate what I saw.

I loaded both stock ballast on my f21 and surfed a 25' rope at 16 mph. Fun as hell. Boat was evenly weighted so we were trying to jump the wake back n forth. Could actually ride with out the rope for a while in the sweet spot which surprised me. Felt like a new sport, big ol carves. It was amazing how much faster it felt than reg. surfing at 11.5 mph. Anyone tried this ?

That is pretty cool. It's like a cross between wakeboarding and surfing LOL. I love when he jumps wake to wake.
Here is the video:
http://videos-c-5.ak.instagram.com/h...50591969_n.mp4

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Originally Posted by jennecarter

So yesterday I saw a YouTube of Kelly slater surfing behind a boat. Looked like around a 30' rope maybe 15 ish mph. Google it, I tried to recreate what I saw.

I loaded both stock ballast on my f21 and surfed a 25' rope at 16 mph. Fun as hell. Boat was evenly weighted so we were trying to jump the wake back n forth. Could actually ride with out the rope for a while in the sweet spot which surprised me. Felt like a new sport, big ol carves. It was amazing how much faster it felt than reg. surfing at 11.5 mph. Anyone tried this ?

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I couldn't find the video your talking about. Do you have a link?

ROFL. me and my friends call that Skurfing. Ya know, like back in the day when wakeboarding was first invented?

Come on, some of your must be old enough to remember...
http://www.nwkite.com/forums/files/h...urfer1_647.jpg

Seriously though, my buddies kids do it all the time. surfboards at about 15mph.

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Originally Posted by trayson

ROFL. me and my friends call that Skurfing. Ya know, like back in the day when wakeboarding was first invented?

Come on, some of your must be old enough to remember...
http://www.nwkite.com/forums/files/h...urfer1_647.jpg

Seriously though, my buddies kids do it all the time. surfboards at about 15mph.

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Yeah, hahaha, I remember "SKURFING" back in the day! I was young,proabably 12 my older brother was 17, it was behind a 14ft flat bottom boat (we used to check the crab pots for Dunganess on the Hood Canal WA.) and it had a 25 HP outboard motor, ahhh those were the days!

i used to do this all the time when i fisrt started surfing but couldnt go ropeless. its actually a lot of fun.

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Originally Posted by devovino

Yeah, hahaha, I remember "SKURFING" back in the day! I was young,proabably 12 my older brother was 17, it was behind a 14ft flat bottom boat (we used to check the crab pots for Dunganess on the Hood Canal WA.) and it had a 25 HP outboard motor, ahhh those were the days!

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My lake cabin is 10 minutes from the Hood Canal

http://m.youtube.com/results?q=scott%20woodland&sm=1
skurfing in August folly beach south Carolina. Behind a fishing boat

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Originally Posted by CornRickey

My lake cabin is 10 minutes from the Hood Canal

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Just saw this, Ahh nice area! Do you frequent there, and what lake would that be?

Hey everyone just enjoying that video again and thought I would repost for everyone

http://www.theinertia.com/surf/kelly...behind-a-boat/


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Definitely have to try that when the lakes melt!