RIP Dave Jennings ... Watersports has lost a legend
I was on facebook yesterday and saw Dean Lavelles status about this and immediately made some phone calls, and unfortunately it was true. For those of you who have never heard of Dave Jennings, he was the worlds greatest kneeboarder of all time and also a professional Wakeboarder during the 1990s. I had the pleasure of getting to watch him ride when I was younger taking lessons with Brian Arthur, and went to OWC with him when there were no obstacles in the water yet besides the pipe dragon. He made me learn my first raley off the flats. Here is a video of him doing what he does best and here is another link of the full story. 37 years young, to young to die, RIP Dave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsi60VXLtg http://www.kneeboardworld.com:80/new...jennings.shtml ps I'm on my iPhone so if someone wants to embed the video for Dave that would be awesome. Thanks -Kyle |
RIP Dave. May heaven bring you eternal butter.
Kneeboard or not, he was throwing some pretty crazy stuff. |
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Most people on here are too young or either have not been riding long enough to remember Brian Arthur. He was a pro rider for CWB and Mastercraft and was so fun to watch ride. He had the old school Necrasson style where everything was done HUGE into the flats. He had the original absolute prototype sent to him which was just a white board and I remember thinking that it was probably the coolest thing I had ever seen. He also would do absolutely massive S-bends that were a pretty big trick back then. Here is a link to a wakeboardingmag interview from 2000 with Brian. He is only 34 but stopped riding professionally at 29ish because it just wasn't enough to support his family. I was just a little kid so when I thought of a "PRO" wakeboarder, I was thinking they were making at least $100k a year. Turns out the first wakeboarder to make $100k was Darin Shapiro when he signed his contract with O'brien which was something like a 5-6 year contract at $115k a year. Brian went into the real estate business and was there for the boom so I really hope he made out of it OK. When he moved off the lake, we lost touch because he was just so burnt on the industry and the last place he wanted to be was on the lake. A couple of summers ago I called him up to see if he wanted to come out and take a set with us. He showed up with his old Super Squirt 132, Pro Suctions with the classic 2 inch rainbows and rode like he had never stopped riding. I guess that's how it is when you are at that level. http://wakeboardingmag.com/features/.../brian-arthur/ |
Here's the embedded video:
<object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bNkOFBR1WNU"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bNkOFBR1WNU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object> Amazingly talented guy. He could do S-bends, Skyscrapers and wrapped 9s all day long. He was also responsible for the development of the HO Joker kneeboard. |
Wow, that was cool, but man does that hurt my knees just watching it.
RIP |
Great Knee and wakeboarder for real......
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