Greg Lands a Raley!!!

Actually, he landed 3 in a row! Congrats, Greg!

Check them out:
http://www.wakepics.com/view_single.php?medid=9766

Jimmy - Does this mean you have to hang up your wakeboard???

Awesome Christie, Thank you so much for putting the video up so quickly. Corey, thank you for the tips, you helped me pull it all together.

Greg,

That is amazing. It was exactly 3 weeks ago today that I watched those first attempts. Talk about progress. It nice to see the old "Sanford butt check" make its way into the raley as well.

Hey, great job!! Hope to get up there and ride again soon.

Christie,

I think I've watched at least four of your movies in the last few weeks. They were all great as usual. Keep up the good work. Say hi to the gang for me.

how long have you been riding Greg?

Nice work!!! Sick riding, keep it up.

wow greg. that's ridiculous. nice progress!

Bennett, This is my fourth year ridding but my first time ridding during the winter months. Thanks for the comments.

i dont know you greg but great job..thats a tricks thats been killing me trying..it looks like you learned mhow to do them much more relaxed then i am being told..i am edging 3 times as hard as you look your doing..

whats the secret??walk us through your learning process and what finally turned the light on for you..i am interested in knowing..

thanks

I'm with Bill... I cut like 7 times harder. But then again, for a hoochy I have about the same cut.

Great job!!! It's so awesome to land new stuff.

Bill,

I think of 4 things
1. Do a normal huge air wake jump
2. Once I leave the wake just let my body completely loose, and let the boat lay you out in the Raley position. (make sure you hold on to that handle.)
3. Keep your head up and look at the tower.
4. Then when you feel a huge tug from the boat, pull that board back under you.

That's it really pretty simple the hardest thing is for me was to not be afraid of being in that laid out position and just go big. It's so counterintuitive laying your body out in that position, once I got over that I could focus on the rest of the trick.

One other thing I was doing wrong was throwing my board back to get out in the raley position. Corey in the boat noticed this and told me not to do that and to just relax and let the boat do the work. When I did that I felt it all come together. It was awesome.

Thanks again Corey! and Christie too for the video and the boat ride! and Rob and Henry for the support and encouragement!

One other thing, I am able to get big air pretty easily, which is a another topic, so that wasn't something I had to think about for the trick. In my opinion if you don't get big air for that trick it could hurt hesitating also hurts. When Christie gets the whole video from that day and the day before you will see the ones I didn't land.

Greg - I decided NOT to make a video from yesterday. After watching you land backrolls AND raleys in just a couple weekends when I have been trying unsuccessfully for a year and a half on that HS180 has really torqued me off!

LOL! JUST KIDDING! I started capturing video last night and worked on it more on BART this morning. I should get the full video posted by Wed.

Nice work on the new tricks! How long with the perma-grin last this time??

Great job Greg!!

Christie - you made that video awesome just by adding the "Ride of the Valkyries." Nice!

I hate all you guys.

F#<& all ya'll! I'm gonna take my boat and go home!!! Oh, wait... it's Fisher's boat.

I knew it wasn't gonna take long when I saw those first attempts a couple weeks ago. j/k Greg, congrats, that's so awesome! BTW, if you start sticking HS 5s, you might wanna seriously start watching your back. Sometimes people just mysteriously "vanish" and are never heard from again. It can even happen to wakeboarders. You just never know!

Oh yeah, I'd like to see the efforts that ended up in crashes before you finally landed those Greg...

I went to sleep last night with a grin on my face and woke up the same way.

Jimmy, are you trying to tell me that the HS 5 should be my next trick?

Dude, with your cut and pop you could probably learn tantrums in a half day. I predict that'll be the next one for ya. HS 5? Right now, I wouldn't put much past you.

Nice job Greg, I knew you would be landing it soon after your attempts on Saturday. I definately was thinking about you guys all day while I was stuck at work, conditions must have been great.

mark

Nice Supermans!

Go for krypts next!

Is this trick just called ralley? Is it one of the first tricks you learn as a wakeboarder or is it recommened for more of an advanced rider?

In my opinion this is not one of the first tricks to learn, definately for an advanced rider. I learned big air, 180's, then the back roll. I think the backroll is the first big trick someone should try.

Well I'm just an addicted noob rider, but by the loks of it the backroll seems so much harder. Looks like people always tend to intiate backrool to soon..
Cant wait till 5 months when i can wakeboard again!!!!!!!

}}Well I'm just an addicted noob rider, but by the loks of it the backroll seems so much harder. Looks like people always tend to intiate backrool to soon..
Cant wait till 5 months when i can wakeboard again!!!!!!!

Matt, the Raley is more of a mental challenge, and the consequences for failure usually are much more severe than for a backroll. A small percentage of riders I've met in my life seem to pick up the raley pretty easily, but not for most of us. For most folks, the back roll or tantrum is the easiest invert to pick up first.

Nice job on the raley, good height and pop. Now put a little more weight on your front foot and you won't end up "stargazing" - the board will pop level.