New Harley Vid... WTF
 

2:05... seriously? WTF

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Everything he throws is soo clean!! That wake is ridiculously huge! Any body know what kind of weight he runs in his x star?

That kid is not human, he's like the terminator of Wakeboarding! Everytime he lands something insane "HE'LL BE BACK" to trump another trick

INSANE Luker good call on 2:05 that was gnarly

He runs ALOT OF WEIGHT

Harley is making it really hard for us up-and-coming riders...this is next level boat riding for sure. Im really jealous of the Tailgrab late KGB's

im sure he uses factory ballast with additional fat sacs.. they have a vid of him with parks bonifay pulling him on his xstar with a 12 foot fac sac in the middle of the boat!!!

I have a friend who rode a demo with him last summer and Harley said he was running north of 7k on his boat at home which I don't doubt. I remember rusty ran something like 7k too

ok so i didn't realize how large his wake was until watching the edit I posted (X1 wake with about 1600 lbs) and this video back to back. That is MASSIVE, holy crap. His riding looks so good too for the amount of rotation he does. Unreal.

WOW captain obvious! Hahaha

As mason said I had a friend ride a demo day with him and he was running around 8k... insaine.

Bwahahaha... My friend saw him riding one time and says every time he hits the wake a little hampster jumps out of his ass to give him and extra push :D

Regardless of how much weight the kid runs... 2:05 could really be the most insane trick I've seen on a wakeboard to date.

Best part by far was the dog at the very end walking with him

ts w2w 10 and crow 7 just casually thrown in there as well

that kid kills it!

How about the nuclear blind pete? Hardest grab on the hardest mobe? Whirly 7 to switch whirly 7? So what are we calling the 2:05 trick? Is it a toe back off 3 to revert? Toe off back shifty 180? Man.....

HOLY @!#$%$$#@ I dont even know where to start!

KGB @ 1:20 was in SANE so HUGE

Sevens into the flats!

Crowmobe 7 look better than most crow mobes out there

HS 9er to Switch HS 9er!

B2B Whirly Sevens Switch and Rego!

And 2:05 WTF That is INSANE!!!!

If you break down the trick its actually just a melan wake jump :D

I think we should call it the "I'm way better than everybody"

Hahahahaha

I like

"I'm way better than everybody!" Or "I understand the physics of this Sport better than you."

Hillarious.
But I agree, the kid is on a whole different level than anybody else IMO.
2:05 - crazy sick, and what about the kung-foo kicked out indy tantrum right before it? Very basic trick for these guys, but that little kick right in the middle set it apart from the others in my book.

Nah, I think understanding the physics is what screws you up! I think he just does it in his sleep!

How in the heck do you get 8k of ballast up on plane?

That riding is absoultely, positively, technically, difficulty blah blah HOLY CRAP!

Ha! My buddy sent me a link to this video yesterday and I sent him back an email basically saying the exact same thing. Never seen anything like that, it's like a TS OA BS 1 rewind or something, crazy...

Currently......The greatest EVER.

Every other wake video is now obsolete

wow, insane.

Simply amazing. I wonder if he's part of some secret govt anti-gravity experiment.

I'm not normally one to label someone (or anything) as the greatest ever; but I'd have to agree. Harley is changing the sport forever. I imagine it was a lot like this when Parks was up and coming.

I wouldn't be surprised if all of that was in one set without falling. They probably filmed the whole video without him even getting wet!

In all seriousness, this is video game riding. Its borderline superhuman!

so amazing... watch it again... it will blow your mind lol

love the vid, Harley has skills that don't make sense. Does anyone know if he started doing double flips? I remember a video some time back with him saying that he wanted to start trying more, just curious.

yeah Mike hes landed double backrolls

Information overload... Did pretty good identifying the tricks until that TS OA whatchamacallit. Then all I saw was just a buch of flying spinning summersalt something or others. I'll watch this one a few more times, I think.

Definitely gotta be those new engines their running in those MC's this year. 6.1L? That's beefy!!! The Parks Edition had ballpark 500 horse right? That could push 8K for sure.

on the nuclear blind pete he actually tosses the handle to the other hand instead of passing it.. pause at 45 seconds. Kinda badass

The new Ilmor's gotta be able to push some weight. I have an '04 X-Star with the 8.1L Vortec in it... I'm curious how much I'd be able to get up on plane with that :eek:

Not unless he can change handles while riding--which would be really impressive.

Best. Wakerider. Ever?

Rusty did a demo around here a few years ago before any of those new motors and he was running like 7 or 8k plus 5 people and he was getting up just fine. It was a demo xstar so I doubt it was even propped that low but he had to swerve a bit to get up. I think that boat had the 6.0. From what everyone says u cant get over 4k on plane w the 350 block. It's all about weight location. Actually if the weight is towered the front it will actually help you plane. My friend said it tried to nose dive when coming off the throttle

But yea I think it's safe to say Harley now has even surpassed parks in the early 2000s. I mean every pro has one or two hammer tricks but Harley has like 20 it's stupid! He's got harf and phils sig. tricks. And is even doing whirly dicks switch.

Just cancel the Pro Tour for the next couple years, its all just a formality at this point! WOW

At this point I think that's a very solid statement. After watching that for like the 100th time, nothing else really matters any more.

I love those moby dick indys, so freaking sick. I swear he adds another 180 on to everything like once a day. Insane.

Yeah that's his technique, he does it on every blind pete I've shot. Looks pretty dope when going through footage frame by frame.

so i finally watched this video. GOOD LORD! this kid is just ridiculously good! and yeah, @2:05...WHAT THE EFFING EFF????

That handle toss is unreal. This video was watched about 15 times in my house Monday morning. Warning, this is a terrible hangover cure. In fact, having your mind repetatively blown like that makes it worse. Be warned.

Overrated?



Ok, I'm kidding. I agree with the opinion of him being the best ever. Parks was light years ahead of the other guys in his prime but I think the gap between Harley and the others is bigger than that of Parks and his fellow riders at the time. And like others have said, it's amazing he not only can he do so many things others can not but he also makes everything look so much better with the tricks others can do.

In the words of the great Travis Rice, in most video parts 'you got your hammers, then you got your fillers'
I have to thank the videographer for throwing in a 'filler' at the end to make the rest of pro riders today feel better, cute dog.

My friend rode a demo day with with Harley and told me he fills his ballast with jello instead of water and makes everyone in the boat fill their pockets with pennies. Even the dog.

That vids got me sitting upside down in my cubicle spinning in my desk chair pretending like I’m doing those nasty moves. And I’m still falling. I love when videos that get the stoke going like that.

I like the conspiracy theories to explain Harley’s mad skilz. Jello, bahaha.
I think 2:05 looks kind of like a pete with a handle pass… It should prob be called the new trend and/or good luck, cause I’m sure everyone’s going to be tryn’ it.

it's an off-axis tsbs180 to stalefish rewind.

Agreed

Touche

You saying he changes his shorts without falling? Incredible

Thinking about the 2:05 (I think this is the name everyone is going to be calling it), and this is probably how a bunch of people are going to try it (haha!) is to come in toeside wrapped, let your lead hand go to get the grab but never unwrapping and land with you back hand never leaving that position. insane...

Also, I've heard people refer to certain riders as "If I had to show someone completely new a video of what wakeboarding is, I'd show them __________." This edit would definitely fit the bill.

Love how he pokes the board to the sky on a couple of those tricks, especially the one before the coveted 2:05 mark.

Can you imagine if he missed the handle right there? Holy crap this vid is INSANE!

I don't think that was his boat. Was it Rusty's?

so far, won the wake games, tour stop 1, & the masters.
whats next.....

pretty sure it's rustys boat

2:05 should be called "whiplash"

I can only imagine the whiplash one would get if they were to miss the rotation back.

tour stop 2.

Rusty does the same thing on a lot of his roll to blinds. Just watch his sections in butter effect and bent felix, they're pretty well highlighted there.