Remember your first board?
 

I was looking around the site last night and stumbled into the gear section. I actually found the first board I ever owned. I got a few good laughs as I read some of the reviews on the gear from back in the day.

http://www.wakeworld.com/products/in...oduct_list&c=1

Here is my first which I still have...1999 Hyperlite Charge 147. What was yours?

2003 or 2004 O'Brien Science...Yellow one....great board

obrien evil twin.
wanted a flight 69 sooooooooooo bad,
barts water sports had a blemish evil twin, and the rest is an addiction

1998 Hyperlite Camano
Wish I still had it
Still have my second board - 1999 hyperlite drifter 136 honeycomb
Will never get rid of it
If anybody has an old camano....let me know, I'd love to have it

hyperlite fluid

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skurfer blast. got it the spring of 1990. kept it for several years as I bounced between that and my ski. first real board was an LF Free 135 which I picked up in I believe 1995 or 1996. wish I still had that one.

Best graphics ever Joe, loved that board!!

My first board was the 02 CWB Absolute shape. That was a great board and very beginner friendly. It was loose enough with a small fin to be fun, but forgiving enough and set a nice edge for a beginner. I had several riders on the boat with more advanced boards who were trying to stick a trick and both times they stuck the trick on the Absolute first.

one of the best, but i think this one's the best ever.

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99 Hyperlite Lavelle 141 Honeycomb. Still got it too.

01 LF Rythm. Man I miss that board

Dad bought my a skurf board in the early 90's.. Rode that for a couple of summers and then didn't get my first real board til about 99 or 2000.. Might have been a Byerly? Can't remember.

02 Hyperlite Belmont DNA
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jackknife
not sure of the year or who made it haha just know it got me hooked.

First Board
 

I learned to ride on my friend's Connelly Bladerunner that looked just like this one

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My first board was a 1998 O'brien Buzz, I love that board because it was mine and I could ride anytime i wanted, looking back it was the worst riding board I have ever touched.

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'96 Connely Blade Runner.

Jeremy Kovak style, baby.

This was the first twin tip I ever bought. I also had an Obrien Apex skiboard, but couldn't find a pic of it.

Bindings were a different story. I went through so many bindings back then, it seems like I owned every pair that was out.

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Not sure if it was 94 or 95, but this was my first board, wayyyy old school:D

O'Brien Xtra Vert don't know the year but that is what I got started one. I still have it sitting in the garage up at the lake

O'Brien Phatty. The graphics on the first one peeled right off, got it warrantied and still have it today.
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Can't find a picture of mine. Was a Neptune GTO package from a local boat shop.

'95 or '96 Connelly Blade. It was sick! Sandal bindings on that bad boy directional board. Upgraded to a Connelly Switchstance the next year or two later.

99 OBRIEN BLUNT
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mine was an old black and red evolution that had hols in the bottom of it because the bolts for the bindings were too long and they went strait through the bottom

Ok so I rode a board I have never seen before or since and it's not on the wakeworld here.
It is a circa 95 Neptune "Vicious Fishes" model. I know it was either the or one of the first twin
tip designs ever made. Anyone else of heard of it? I still have it today....just don't ride it :) . Here's the only pic of it I have right now.... and I promise you I am NOT high in this picture hahaha.

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O man the good old days!!! 2000 CWB Area 51
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Hyperlite Juvi 131
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The first board I rode was a 96/97waketech flight 69, rented an 97 Eric Perez, and then my parents bought me a 98 LF Best Board.

Heck yeah, first board I ever rode was a directional Waketech the BFA maybe. I can't remember exactly. The first board I ever threw down cash for was the Sound Harris Pro. Here's all the boards I've owned over the years.

Ho hypelite pro!!!!

I think that is the board Jonathon McDonald tore up when he was done kneeboarding!!

NBN with sandal bindings.

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1997 Hyperlite Murray 137 Honeycomb - still have it too!

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Sickest board at the time. I loved this thing.

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This was the very first board I tried to ride with. I was 7 or maybe 8.

CWB phantom! Not sure what year though. It was blue and had about 2 inch fins on it!

gdavid, that is the board I learned on! Classic.

My first board that the family bought was the Wake Tech Big Air. After that we got a LF Free 135 in the classic oatmeal color (Train, I still have it!).

Then the first board I bought myself was the O'brien Evil Twin, learned my first inverts on that bad boy.

1) was the Hyperlite BAFF ( Bad A$$ Flying Fish)

2) Waketech Byerly Blunt

3) Blindside - don't remember model

Have more but those are the oldest boards I have.

Best part is I have kept all my boards from over the years from the beginning. They will get mounted in my man cave on day with all my snowboards. Once I have a man cave anyway.lol. Need a bigger house first.

I remember that I had a hyperlite skurfer as my first board, but don't remember the model of it. Just remember that when I first started nobody else was doing it on my lake so I had no idea how to get up....Took me a couple of hours of being dragged around on the board to be able to stand up.

First was a 1994 neptune Scepter (tie-dyde direction board) and the rest to date.

Current is Byerly Monarch with Liquid force flex for rails.

This thread has taken me back to the good ole days.
Here is a list of the first three boards I rode.

1. 1997, Blindside BSDT2 - The blue.

2. 1998, 1998 Jobe RULER

3. 1999, Liquid Force Liquid Force Rhythm 34

1996 Jobe Switch

First board ever Liquid Force Search....I remember doing the Wakesports Contests on this board...until i stepped up to a Subjekt.....

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Man, this takes me back! My first board was the 1995 Hyperlite Shapiro Pro with the bungee wraps. It still blows my mind that Darin could throw mobes on that thing!

Andy that picture is classic!!!!

Before I got my Hyperlite Charge, I used to ride a directional red HO board (tri fin) with sandal bindings behind a Sea Doo. It was awesome.

wow yal make me feel young haha or at least like a complete newb....2004 subjekt with the blue alpha bindings to match

Hyperlite BAFF bad ass flying fish

JIM - You had an Origin Weddington!
I had that thing too, never seen another one. Sold it to a buddy who still rides it, now I want it back to take to the cable

Darin - I tried that Origin weddington at a clinic and was impressed so i bought one. I retired it and turned it into a Bench lol.

I had some strange ones.

1. Skurfer

2. Connelly Stick

3. KD 55 (Can't Find a Picture of one)

4. Stinger Freak (Can't Find a Picture of one)

5. Neptune Six

6. Full Tilt Mike Weddington (Can't Find a Picture of one)

I still have a good condition Origin Skull that I am interested in selling if either of you are interested. Blew my knee before I could really ride it much. It does have some slider marks, but core is still in great shape. Just been sitting in the garage.

There she is...the HO Hyperlite PRO. I love the golf ball texture on the bottom and the channel in the nose for riding switch! We used to carry 2 boards in the boat--the Hyperlite pro for haulin' ass at the wake, and the twin tip 'lunch tray' (forget the mfg) for 180's!

Darin C - I've got a nearly pristine Weddington in my garage. Not sure if I'd want to get rid of it, I loved that board despite it landing like a ton of bricks.

That board Changed my LIFE!!!!

I'd be up for one of the Origin's, but don't wanna pay much

Anyone know where I can get a pic of the Duvall Victory Assured?..it had some serious phasers.

God I remember hanging with Shaprio in like 1994, and he had epoxied the last two phasers on his hyperlite pro saying it made the board better. SO what did I do, I went home and screwd up my pro with epoxy!!! HAHAHAHA

Hyperlite B.A.F.F. 142, signed by Shapiro, Zane, and Brannon Johnson

Connelly Dually for me

My first board was a WakeTech Rave 145 circa 1992-93

My First Board
 

My first board was a 2001 O'Brien Blunt. Of course I still have it.

1997 obrien double ender

132 Neptune World with some sick double up bindings.
The deck was epic, there was a cowboy pointing at your nuts with a 6-shooter. I still have this bad boy laying around in the garage and one of these days i'll turn it into a wakeskate or a wall shrine.

Real board?
 

According to this guy there was a Wake Tech Eric Perez........

http://www.wakeworld.com/news/featur...-e-deegan.html

There was a wake tech perez, it just wasn't one of the first twins to come out. I think it first appeared in 1997.

Is it this?
 

:Dthis is my favorite board of all time, would love to take it off your hands. Email me with pics and a price Linsey@nova.edu. I rode both versions of this board, the blue skull and red skull and then purchased the joyride version as a collector to find out my dad gave it away to my uncle as a decoration of his tiki hut :(. But anyhow, as long as it isn't destroyed, I will buy it 100%

A-dub, that's the one. It's also in the wakeworld gear guide jobby. There are pics of so many old boards I felt like I was looking at a buyer's guide from 1996.:)

since I'm here I'll add my first board: connelly dually from 1996. I went round and around on what board I wanted...a sea horse, an impala, blah blah blah, but that dually won out on celebrity worship. I remember being so pumped when my shop got that board...I special ordered it with the "high end" boots at the time. the days!!!