Join me in encouraging Ragboy

[Oklahoma Breakdown]

Good Luck! Cant wait to see pics. That board looks pretty cool...

[sagmanaur]

Good luck Ragboy!!!

You have been giving out the T-shirts to the kids, maybe someone should get a special shirt made up for you. "I'm stopping the Hate by Surfing".

[NICKYPOO]

Piece a cake man. You got this.

[chpthril]

Go "Stop The Hate" board

[ragboy]

Well, tomorrow or Saturday should be the big day, will let you know. Thanks for all the support. Pressure is on!

[gwhite94]

Do work Rag!

[dogbert]

Please join me in wishing Robert GOOD LUCK! in his efforts to free surf the Stop Hatred board over this weekend!

Not that you need it Robert, but Good Luck and I just know I'll see that rope toss picture, here, come Monday.

With that board, he and I could ride it together!

[ragboy]

Thank you guys so much, here is some video, I am on my iPad, I will post about this video later tonight. The new custom sacs are amazing. All of this video is nothing but automated water ballast and people.

[ragboy]

ok, so let me give you the play by play on that video...

It is just a rough cut of raw video.

1. RJ getting up for first time on goofy with new custom sacs, fully auto system, wake was perfect, and rubrail just kissing. Wake was big, long, and clean, and the boat was not overweighted. Only Me and 2 little ones and Chris Martinez(majestic) in boat.
2. Chris Martinez on new system, RJ driving, me in BB seat, 2 little kids.
3. Chris now with Dennis in the boat next to me, wake is bigger.
4. Dennis riding back side, wake is up to his waist. Only me and Chris in boat, RJ driving on opposite side, 2 little kids.
5. Dennis riding switch, wave a bit smaller, the sac leaks out the vent, we will have that fixed tomorrow. Did you see how far back he went, at 270 lbs, Dennis and Chris both commented on lots of push. Chris said, wake was tons of fun, and effortless. So much push that he felt like he could easily surf, and adjust his feet, etc, and not worry about falling out like he normally does.
6. This is all of my attempts and surfing with rope. I will work to slack the boat tomorrow. I got huge splinters from plywood, the couple of attempts where it looks like I just gave up, one my feet slipped a bit, and big splinter in my foot. Another I just didn't have my feet right. Once I figured it out, it was tough, I am large and it pulled my arms very hard, but I didn't want to let everyone down so I gutted it out. All of a sudden it planed, and just got easier.

I grew up skateboarding, surfing, single skiing, skurfing, and even surfing behind boat but not wake surfing. We used to use a ski rope and lie down like surfing, then stand up when on plane. Once the board planed, it felt natural to me and I felt comfortable riding. But I promised jeff I would get a picture of me throwing in the rope, but the SLR was on the pontoon. I was looking for the pontoon and it was way behind me. So I went to adjust my feet and stand up more comfortably and lost it. I wanted to be able to do again tomorrow, so I came in and will do again tomorrow.

We are having a blast, Jocelyn Fulford and Mitch Lemos are with us from CMS, they came up for dinner and are hitting the lake with us tomorrow. Tomorrow we sac out the 24Ve just for fun, and see what it will do. And we give Jocelyn a ride on a good goofy wake, and make fun of mitch.

Thanks again to you all, and especially to Surfdad for the board, and putting on the pressure.

[KonaKing]

So great to see. I still think the board should be called the dance floor.



Like my tag says SUCCESS.

[Surfdad]

YES!!!!!!! Go Robert! You just have to love all of the kids cheering Robert on as he gets up on that last attempt. That is just beyond cool!

Congratulations Robert and want that picture! Rope in the air and that hige Ragboy smile!

[chpthril]

Take that all you haters That's just awesome!

[ragboy]

It was very cool man, and I was so happy all day. That wake was so beautiful. We did our first, in the field switch over from goofy to regular, flipped the switch, 15 mins and GO!

Watch when dennis rides switch, how far back he goes, no pumping, and we didn't kink the boat.

[Ewok]

Sweet!!! Looks like that wave has plenty of push to let you free ride! I know you will but keep the videos coming! Comgrats!

[da.bell]

Awesome and glad that you were successful Robert. The excitement from the boat was unbelievable. Stop the hate