Meetup on Oroville Again

[ragboy]

Well, we had another day with the Wolters on Saturday and had a lot of fun. Also got a chance to check out Frank's Sanger v230 and how great is wake is coming along. I say coming along, because told me of a bunch of plans he still has! This guy has definitely drunken the wakesurfing Koolaid. I love it. So here are some pics.

Here is a decent picture of Frank's wake from the side with chris shootin the curl. Its amazing how much chris has progressed. He switches off between the SMED and his new 4.11 Shredstixx Thresher.


Here RJ is on board helping chris to get some air on that board.


He is going to show some sky under his board soon.


Lora is working on her "turneys" as she calls them.


Frank got on the yellow booger and he is really starting to move that board around the wake, looking good.


Hey, he got a new life jacket?


OK, so I have always wanted to try this. It was kinda nuts, a bit windy and choppy, so we only tried for about 20 mins, but we got the double wake going. Took a while to figure out distance and speed, we didn't quite get it, but we needed more time, and needed to do this mid week. We had other boats running for the hils, it was pretty funny the looks we got with this. This is a great pic. Frank has like 2000lbs+ in his side locker, and then at least as much people weight as we did. He had good shape, but it was obvious the MEAT/PUSH the tige wake had over the sanger. IMHO.


RJ surfing the wash.


RJ and Chris got out there, it was fun, they had a blast.

[ragboy]

Thresher Demo

RJ got a chance to try out the thresher, he had fun. At 4.11, it was probably a bit oversized for him, but he only had this session with it, and did alright.


Got a bit of air. I def noticed that RJ was not able to accelerate on the bottom turn to his air like his JWSM does.






The longer he spent on it, the more comfortable he got.


OK, so here he really had fun. The thresher being the thruster and the edge all the way to the back corner, actually made RJ feel more stable when riding revert. So was able to throw stall 360s very well. I think he landed like 6 out of 7. And he held his revert ride for a good second a few times. On the JWSM he is landing about half. He is getting there though.


















The JWSM is so responsive it is a lot more touchy/sensitive in revert, plus this thresher was bigger and more buoyant. James Walker really makes riding revert on his board look so easy. Anyway, had a lot of fun.

[jbort]

Super pics and lots of fun.

[larryueckert]

rag i always wanted to know how 2 boats would work at least it looked cool

[Goodwin]

When you guys do two boats again, you should see if he can go from wave to wave....

[ragboy]

He did, but not without the rope. Conditions were not good, so we only had a few minutes.