My first time was just a few months ago. I've been on practically every riding object out there except a pwc. A few months ago, i was watching videos on youtube, and with the help of the "suggestions" videos on the right, i somehow was watching stand up freestyle, "was probably watching dirt bike freestyles prior to that, which linked me to other freestyle sports". Right there and then i knew i needed one. So i checked auto trader online and found a brand new 2011 kawasaki 800 Sx-r SE. I msg'd the guy and told him that i wanted it and to check my credit for financing. I then did some research, and found out that i should buy a SuperJet "freestyle" instead of the Sx-r "racing". I then did some more research and found out that they don't sell the SuperJet in Canada for some dumb reason, so i'd need to buy used. I checked every city within a few hours away and couldn't find any , only JS 550 and 650sx. But then a few days later, i found a 2009 SuperJet just three hours away. I called the boat shop that i used to work at and told them that I needed a trailer to go pick up the ski. The next day i drove to the shop, picked up the trailer and went straight to Sault St-Marie to pick up the SuperJet "had a smile from ear to ear, happiest guy in the world
lol". By the time i was home, it was too dark to try it out, so i had to wait till the next day. I ended up staying up all night, watching videos of jetskin, and finding out that their kinda hard to ride, lil tricky at first.
So the next day i was a lil nervous to try it cause of the stuff i rode up on it, so i decided to go to a small public lake where there was roughly 10 people "which were all staring lol". So I put the jetski in the water and started er up "didn't know about dry start". I wanted to let it warm up, but noticed that it kept wanting to take off, wasn't sure what to do, so i just let it drag me around a bit to warm up. Once it was warm, it was do or die lol. I read up that most people start on their knees, but i've been in a pretty bad motorcycle/transport accident and it now hurts when i go down on my left knee, so i had to stand up right away. I actually found it very easy to get up, but i couldn't figure out how to turn quickly. My turns were as wide as can be lol. I was also only able to do left turns, i bailed every time i would try and turn right. I try to go out as much as possible, and I notice improvement each time, i'm very comfortable on it now and can throw it around anywhere i want to. These things are way too fun to ride. Whenever I have free time I'm on it, my buddies are pissed since that's all i do, i'll hardly play any sports with them now, "this jetski is like a new girlfriend lol". I'm trying to get my buddies to buy one, but they won't since they say our summers are too short and they would rather buy a quad. Riding alone sucks though, so i usually bring a buddy and take turns. I'm planning on buying a Rickter xfs soon and starting a build
, so then i'll have more than one ski