Freestyle How to do THE perfect wake....in flatwater

loictahiti

loictahiti

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Tahiti, french polynesia
Hi guys

Coming from freeride, i'm trying to make some tricks in flatwater, so my first question and thing to do, is the perfect wave.....
I'm trying to find on X some vid and explanation, but couldn't .(maybe my enghish is too poor...)
Did you have some links or draw of the right way, i've to do ?

I think it's first thing to learn , no ?

Thanks
 
deftons56

deftons56

Brian
Location
lake goodwin
Here you go, a quote from a different thread.

onlyFX-1 said:
Set up wakes,
Use trim, go fast enough so that the ski doesn't just want to ride nose high and smack you in the face, almost on plane. Go in a straight line about 15-20' start hooking left so you make a U then straight again. The U part of the wake for flips would be about 10-12' wide. With that setup you don't have to travel that far out before turning around to hit your wake. Always look over your left shoulder and watch what your wake is doing. It's all about timing and will just take practice. Just always watch what the wake is doing so you can figure out when to turn around and hit the wake. There should just be one good wake.

The wider you make your U the further out you have to go before turning around to hit it, and the smaller the wake will be.
If you make the U more narrow, the sooner you have to turn around to hit it but it will be bigger. You can go to narrow and the good wake(first one) will die out and there will be a second one, just takes practice.

Watch my vid in the pics and vids, it has a good pov of a setup wake.
Also when going for a flip, going too fast into the flip will take away height but make you travel further. Going slower at the wake will give you more height. If you go slower, get in the gas sooner when hitting the wake.


Hope that helps
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JGringo

JGringo

When in doubt, Throttle-out.
Location
Lafayette, Louisiana
Has anyone tried a (3/4) counter-clockwise circle [about 20' in diameter] followed by a quick clockwise U-turn leading into hitting the 'double-up' --> similar to a wakeboard boat's 'double-up' technique? I have found I can create a much more usable and larger set-up wake with this compared to the 'straight-uTurn-straight-uTurn' technique described above... Keeping the ski half-in/half-out of plane is the same for my approach...

Through trial and error I have found that the downfalls to this approach are that you have to hit the second wave [instead of the initial wave] of the 'double-up,' you are not able to attack the wave head-on, and it is a slower technique than the one described above...

-Gringo
 
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