oh i don't have a problem with it at all!!! I just like to rile ya up
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Originally posted by Domsz06 View Postoh i don't have a problem with it at all!!! I just like to rile ya up
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coach next time you go out take him on the surfer with you....
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We were talking about that with the kids. I have introduced surfing to the group and they love it. We had two guys get to a point of throwing the rope in the boat. I am just not sure how easy it would be to get up with the kid?Originally posted by G-MONEY View Post
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coach next time you go out take him on the surfer with you....Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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you mean like this??Originally posted by G-MONEYComment
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I've heard that it's not hard to do...
I've seen pics of people doing it on a wakeboard with their kids....Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. Albert EinsteinComment
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it's hard for my bro in that pic as I have a small surfboard, but it sure was funny watching them eat it, look at this pic!!Originally posted by G-MONEYComment
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Thats great! I am working with my 2 yr old now, all my kids have gotten up early. RJ was practically born on the boat.http://wake9.com/Comment
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it's so awesome that you guys do this with your kids. I wish my dad had done that. He had a boat when he was growing up and always had to work on it, so he wouldn't touch one as a grown up
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That's awesome Coach! Its best to try to teach them early.
It can be dangerous though...When I was five they tried to teach me with a set of traing skis not sure exactly how the story goes but I don't think I was holding the rope very well so the decided to tie the rope to the skis and they thought I would just pop up and be fine...well guess what it didn't work that way and I was dragged swollowed half the lake and came out in my birthday suit. After that I wouldn't go in the water past my ankles and would go on any boat unless my grandfather took me on the boat. Luckily I got over that and now love skiing and own my own boat.Comment
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Congrats Coach, that's awesome
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Way to go, Coach!
Gotta start them early. Both my kids started skiing when they were 3. We were towing them on tubes much younger than that. My youngest couldn't get enough of the tube. He'd ride it so long that he fell asleep. We had one of those TWC, kinda looked like a jet ski as a tube...his head would be floppin' around as I gently tried to get the jetski back to shore.
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You guys are awesome! I can't seem to get my kids interested in anything other than tubing until around 7 or 8.
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It can be dangerous. However, I have found the trainers with a handle on BOTH sides of the rope the best. You DO NOT put the roap on the tower or the pylon. You sit on the back of the boat, and hold the handle, and the rope is short. I think this is absolutely VITAL with trainers, and have used on several of my kids. If they fall, you just throw the rope out, so they CANNOT get dragged. It works great. The worst thing that can happen with kids is you get them started, and they have a bad experience that takes a long time to overcome the fear of. So from someone who has done it, use the trainer with handles on BOTH sides.Originally posted by five o'clock View Posthttp://wake9.com/Comment
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He's right. That's what we used. I have an old Kawasaki Tandem Sport that we use for teaching them. I'm usually holding onto the rope with one hand and the throttle with the other. I'm in a cove, so it's easy to stay out of the way of boat traffic and we usually don't go very far.Originally posted by ragboy View Post
Most of the time, we get them used to olding directly onto the handle and freeing the training straps on the skis before we'll move up to the boat.
Like he says, it always needs to be a good experience until they're hooked.
Oh and Moki, my kids did tube more until they got hooked on wakeboarding, wakesurfing, wakeskating and kneeboarding. Tubing's still fun, but the others are more cool when they're around their friends. Peer pressure seems to get them to try more things (both good and bad).Cursed by a fortune cookie: "Your principles mean more to you than any money or success."Comment
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Originally posted by dogbert View Post
I am just opposite. I can not get my oldest to do anything except ride the tube and he is 14. He is the one that would be able to do it if he would just try.
My youngest he wants to do it and tries to but he just is not coordinated enough and he needs to work on building some strength to do it. He cry's because he can't do it so we have two extremes. My oldest tells us he will do it when it is just the family, the four of us but I don't believe that to be true. His standard answer is no. So we have to tell him to bad get out there and do it. He always has fun after that. So guess what, next trip he is going in even if he says NO. He can say no all the way to the water and the end of the rope. He won't get back in until he accepts the fact that he can get up and does it. I must be a bully dad. But I know he will love it once he knows he can do it.
Congrats coach on having a son willing to get out there and do it. That is great.
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