whats your average height of air?

whats your average hight (in feet) do you go in the air when you perform most tricks?

(Message edited by ryin on June 30, 2004)

5 or 6 ft...depending on trick. sometimes 7 or 8 if I use perfect technique. Double Ups anywhere from 8-12ft depending on how well my dad sets them up.

my average W2W jump is about 5 feet but when im really trying to do something i can get 5-7 feet.

I think on average i get a little less than 5 feet but im not that sure

around 5-7ft depending on the trick .i tend to lay off edge on relaxed tricks like most grabs and 180s so i dont go big but when i really throw down and edge for a big invert i go much bigger...the higheset ive ever been is 10ft off a dup ....i got old knees and ankles so i keep it down a lot to have more fun and less pain

Hey Bill do you wakeboard on lake granbury much?

What are you guys measuring? Without knowing that, all the numbers you are throwing around are meaningless. Are you talking about the bottom of your board? If so, does bending your knees more give you more air? Are you talking about your center of mass, i.e. your waist? Or perhaps the change in the height of your center of mass? That would be the only really accurate measurement which would factor out knee bending, whether you are inverted or not, etc. Perhaps you are estimating the height that your board would be IF you straightened your legs.

I'm guessing that you're probably talking about the maximum distance between the water and any part of your body since that will give you the biggest number. I don't like that method though because I know a guy who sucks his knees to his chest on every jump, giving him 3 extra feet of air (for a total of maybe 5 feet) by that measurement, so even though his w2w's are as bad/fast/rushed/missile-like/un-floaty as you can get, he could say, "I get about 5 feet of air," when a person who gets 5 feet of air with his legs straight would be a MUCH better rider.

I'm think that most people will tend to exaggerate as well, even if they don't know it. The only way you can tell your own height is by looking at a picture. In my experience, people tend to reference a spot on the water that is too far forward when judging their height, giving them a bit of an over-estimation. So, in addition to wondering what you are measuring when you say, "I usually get 7-8 ft. of air (or whatever)," I'm wondering how you measure it.

BTW, I'm not calling anyone a liar. I'm just trying to clarify the discussion and make this information more useful to everyone.

i would say measure from the water to the bottom of your board when your legs are exteneded out

i would say bottom most of you or the board... if your in an invert, doesnt count to measure from water to the board... hahaha....

But i have no idea how high i get... I clear the wake!

dude that sucks his knees in is still getting 5 feet of air regardless........ when measureing something like this, no matter what, it's the height of a pretend 'fixed' object that your body and your board and everything is clearing. Theres no real way to measue this without putting something out there to jump but with bad form or good form, its all a matter of did you clear the height?!!!!

how much height do you think some of the pros, such as Parks, are getting when going w2w or on the dubs.

It kinda depends on the trick. I do w2w Methods at like 5-6 feet. But then I take my Indy grab into the flats and go a little higher and definately travel farther. Toeside I probably consistently get 4-6 feet of air. Double ups are another story altogether. I can go pretty high, my profile pic is a pretty mellow roll. I think I've done an Indy of the D-up that was easily 15 feet.

At the Pro Hydrofoil tour they were jumping over a "step-up" similar to Motocross. One rider cleared 13ft+...

Check out the video, They're out in the flats without a wake. http://www.prohydrofoiltour.com/ProTourStops/videos/TSRStepUp2004Jun6.wmv

damn thats a lot of air, some of those crashes dont look healthy tho.

ok, hes got a hydrofoil and a tower. With those combinations you can get a lot of air even without a wake. Im waiting for someone to make a wakeboard with a hydrofoil...that would be huge air because you have your knees for pop. imagine a triple up.

that would be so crazy a wakeboard with a hydro foil and a triple up....

Yea man. It would be insane. You can create so much more pop with your legs. That is why kneeboarding isnt as big as wakeboarding in the height department.

On the billabong surf oddosey movie they have surfboard hydrofoils.

It's been done already. Foilboarding has been around for a few years, and I believe Bill Kinnison was the first to land an invert riding one. (a backroll) The videos look like it's a little harder to control than a sit-down hydrofoil. Seems like a good way to trash your knees though.

I go Big...