What would be wrong with putting griptape on a wakeboard and calling it a wakeskate? <BR>Have you done it?

can't say i have

Wakeboards are about 30cm give or take few longer than wakeskates.

So if your normal length is 141, and you have an old 137..... seems it should be about right. What else am I missing <img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/clipart/uhoh.gif" border=0>

While you could certainly do that, you would just be better off buying an inexpensive skate. So you would be using an old 137 to do this? Frankly, I think that you would be hard pressed to ollie that thing out of the water let alone get it to spin under you on shuvs. Typical wakeskates are around 105-115 or so, hence the 30cm difference as mentioned above. <BR> <BR>However, if you just plan on doing this for fun then go for it. Personally I would just mount the board on a wall or sell it to a newb.

yeah, my wakeskate is 104, and my wakeboard is 135, i couldn't imagine doing a shuv it on my board.. just drop 80 bucks and get a cwb Tribute <BR> <BR>it'll be worth it

OK, I'm convinced.....<img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/clipart/triangle_right.gif" border=0> <BR>Thanks for the input!

the first wakeskates were made by people that shortened their board and threw some grip tape (or variant) on the top.

sure why not.. just put some foam on the top and take off all your fins, or buy the HL Byerly like i did!!

we have wakeskate wars after a day of riding and usually we only have 1 skate out there so we take the bindings off a wakeboard and one person rocks that and the other rocks a skate... its basically the same thing but its more difficult to do tricks and stuff on but w/e