New Video: PRO LEVEL RIDING - JUSTIN BUTINSKY

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In January, I had an opportunity to visit Florida on business. I posted a thread here; looking for a pull. Craig Butinsky responded; he invited me out on their SLAMMED Super Air, on their private lake! The Butinsky family was extremely hospitable. I rode with them for two days, hung out at there home, and got to film Justin!! Check out the video of Justin. You won't be disappointed!! Keep an eye out for the Osmosis 540. I slowed it down for ya! Thank you Justin and Craig! Good luck on the PWT this year!!

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I began to download at 7:10, and gave up at 7:45.
Wakepics is getting slower and slower...and I have DSL.

that was a nice video, it is nice that there are people thatare that nice out there like they are

sorry for the download speed guys. Wakepics is downloading at 9k per second!!! That's 1/6 of the speed of a dial-up connection....ouch!

J-Rod, great video...one of the best I have seen in a while! Just make me realize how great this site is and how cool most of the people are on here. I have met some great friends on this site. Thanks Dave!

Still can't believe Justin wasn't wearing a life jacket.

That was an awesome video! makes me wanna leave work right now and ride

Very true Brent. As a matter of fact I met the guy that posted below you on this site and I'll be riding with him later today!

should be very nice midday today

Great video... I want a private lake!

Sick video and incredibly sick riding! Well worth the 45 min download.

J-Rod, I wanted to Thank You for taking the time to edit the video and posting it on Wakeworld. You did a great job taking and editing the video, you need to change your profession! It was a real pleasure having you over to ride with us. Life is short, so live it to the best of your ability and most of all, have fun, laugh, smile and invite others, it make other folks wonder what your up too! Wakeboarding is about having a great time expressing yourself and sometimes making a fool of yourself with friends and family. Justin and I have enjoyed having riders post request from others states and countries and having them over to ride with us. Hopefully Justin shoulder recovery from his skateboarding accident won't side line for too much of the wakeboard season.

Craig

dude, that vid is sweet!!

That was some sweet riding.

Thanks everyone. It's easier to make a good vid when the riding is sick. Anytime Craig.

Did I forget to mention that Justin's dad can bust Backrolls! Like father like son.

Dang. I wish my dad would even try to wakeboard! That is tight Craig! Sick riding and awsome editing JRod.

That osmosis 540 was so awesome! That video gets me amped and wanting to get out their and ride. What kind of wakeboard were you using? Thanks for giving me something good to watch at work

Mango, Justin is riding a hyperlite byerly in that video. Thank you!

Bennett, I enjoy riding, I get really angry when I don't ride at least once a week. I'd be trying more inverts but I have bad knees from Professional Barefooting back when I was my sons age. When Justin started riding 4 1/2 years ago, Justin was afraid to try an invert, I could do backrolls on the trick ski so it was pretty easy for me to land a backroll on a wakeboard, Justin couldn't be outdone by Pops, so he had to go out a land one, he's never looked back since. I'm going to do a raley before the summers out, when you my age knowing what I know now, it's not just harder physically but mentally but Pops is going to do it, I'll post the video when I accomplish it!

That was some sweet riding. Didn't anyone catch that suicide raley? Damn, I thought only Adkison did that move...

Seriously a great video job too J-Rod. I have to say that you're really good on the editing and content -- and I know I've said this before, but your Summer 2003 video was probably the best wakeboard video I've ever seen. You want to talk about epitomizing the sport and lifestyle, that's the video for sure.

Thanks David! That's cool of you to say that. I wish I could edit for a living.

Justin was pulling those Suicide Raleys all day long. He made them look easy.

Sweet riding, the tricks he was pulling were sick! Suicide Raley? Are you kidding me?
How old is Justin? I have been doing this for 13 years and I can't do half that stuff, but I am with you Craig, I want to learn those raleys soon too. Also, why is Justin not wearing a life jacket?

Hi Mark, Justin is 19, his wetsuit/drysuit floats him in case of emergency, when he rides without a wetsuit, he never rides without a vest especially since 2 years ago while practicing for worlds, his riding buddy did a hugh switch backside 3 and rotated 45 degrees too much, I heard a loud slap and it wasn't Tim board, it was his body, I looked in the mirror cause I expect a wave saying your OK when someone has a bad fall, Tim waved and as I was turning the boat around, Tim was laying face down in the water, we immediatly went to him, he was knocked out and had him in the boat before he came too! Talk about scarey. Tim remembered waving saying he was OK.

Wow. Yeah, I hate getting rocked hard. You can seriously knock yourself out! I remember once waking up on the swim deck with my board off. That is why I tend to wear a helment when I try new things. Specially a raley! *points to Craig* Be careful, they can be brutal but they feel so awsome and get you stoked.

now I know what it feels like to have dial-up
still waiting for the video to download
-can't wait to see his suicide raleys-

ok here we go it's show-time

Sorry about that. Wakepics is getting super slow. Did you get to see it Jake?

J-Rod
not your fault w/ the DL speed
-sweet video-
nice job on the multi camera angles
that suicide raley was sick and the camera angle
was perfect

love your profile pic

late/jake

Thanks Jake.

Here's a still pic of his suicide raley.

hey whats up everyone. i just wanted to thank you all for the good responses. i dont ever ride w/o a vest but he was shooting the video and my wet suit floats me enough. i have been riding for 5 years now and look for me on the tour. if anyone is my derection just give us a call and we will be more then happy to give you a pull. GO BIG OR GO HOME!!! AND HAVE FUN!!!thanks again for the good responses !!!

justin, hey babe congratulations!!! i am so proud of you. you are absolutely incredible at what you do and look where it has put you today. its so awesome that you can do what you wanna do and have fun with it.you are going to go so far, because you are so talented not only at wakeboarding but with pretty much anything. again congrats, i love ya.
~erica

J-Rod landed his first tantrum over the weekend, I knew you would land one the next time you tried, you should of landed one the weekend you spent with us back in January.

When's the next video coming out? I can't wait to see some more sick wakeboarding

I need to film some more sick riders. Any suggestions on who would make a cool video?

Come back to Florida and I could arrange a day with Andrew Adkison.

I would fly back to Florida for that!

Now that would be a kickass video - ANDREW & JUSTIN, I would go to see that. You should come to New Jersey with your Super AIR!

When Justin's shoulder better, I call and see when I could make this happen.

that should get its own article on the frontpage of Wakeworld for sure, damn

j-rod you have all of those local delta riders up there so it shouldnt be too hard to get some good riders

Yeah that's very true. But when you're already featured in a professional quality video like Delta Sessions, it might be difficult to get their attention! That's a good idea though.

J-Rod, my son Derek Conway, would love to ride for you. He's young, but good.

Tommy, Let's hook up and ride then. Is next weekend good for you? Anytime. Just let me know.

510.213.1820
jehlers@turnitin.com

that suicide raley is insane!

yeah if you come back keith and ryan wolf live with andrew plus they are on the same lake as murry and gerrry it should be fun im sure i can hook something up

David D and Jonathan French, several months ago I posted a picture of Justin's suicide raley, you said post the video because there's "no way he landed it" or too much slack in the line" check out the video!

Justin is my idol hahaha wait no i was serious

fyi

wakepics should be a bit faster now.

All i want to say is....JUUUUUDDDAAAAAS....I love it. Are there any other hospitable people out there who live on a lake and invite riders over to hang out??

Kyle

Thanks Chris!

Craig, I'm sure I was being facetious. I know Justin is a solid rider, you're a marketing genious and J-Rod makes a sic video.
Just been too busy to check it out.
Can you mail me a hard copy J-Rod?
Like I said before, I wish your son well on the PWT this year. You guys seem like good people.

Hey David!

Just think...I almost rode with you instead on my trip to Florida. This was almost your video! Thanks again BTW for the offer.

Hard copy? You want the high quality version on disk? I have 90 megabyte version I could send you. Would that work?

You da man. I'd love to have a high res copy - I'm sure it's killer.

I'll shoot you an e-mail.

yeah it's way better. I'll put the high res versions of all my stuff on the same disk.

thats tight.....no sliders on the lake though?

They are working on the sliders, new home, dock, lift, etc.. Justin will have wakeboarding heaven in his back yard!

Nice Video. I really enjoyed watching it .

Lisa

J-Rod, SWEEEET video. Good job. Loved the music, timing, multi angle and obviously riding. Good job.

j rod just wanted to say congrates on the new delta sessions thing you got going you said you would love to edit for a living you may get your wish you are a great guy and have awsome editing skills. hope things go good for you!!!!

Thanks Justin for the compliments. I've been talking to one of the guys responsible for production. Nothing final yet, but there's talk about me helping out on the next project. We'll see. I'm hoping you'll come spend a day riding with us when you come out to Cali for the Malibu Open this summer. Good luck with your shoulder!

DavidD, I see from you profile you live in the Orlando area, if you'd like to come over and ride with us, e-mail me and I'll give you directions, were 1 hour from the airport.

J-Rod, wow. Great video!

I got to ride with Craig on Saturday on his SAN. Craig's a great guy and a great rider. Thanks for a fun session Craig.

Here's a link to one of Craig's many backrolls:
http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showphoto.php?photo=3598&password=&sort=7&thecat=9 98

And there are a few more videos of Craig and his friend Jerry here:
http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showgallery.php?cat=998&thumb=1&si=flsurflover

SICK! How many people can say, "my dad does inverts?" I'm glad you got a chance to ride with the Butinsky's. Did you get to see Justin ride or is he still resting the shoulder?

Hey Jarrod. Justin wasn't there Saturday but his dad says he's slowly getting back to riding after his skateboarding injury. I'm looking forward to meeting him too. Craig is super nice.

that was insane. Makes it look so easy. props man

looks like he rips heelside, but what about toeside tricks

I knew there had to be at least one critic.

Does the TS off axis 5, 7, and crow mobe not count?

J-Rod, I think Jason (westsiderider) was talking about my video that Flsurflover posted of my backroll, not Justin's video.

Oh..oops.

Maybe you should stomp a TS backroll next Craig!

GREAT VIDEO JUSTIN.. you rip.. do you think one day if i work hard enough.. I can be as good as you... and by the way.. you need to get a surfboard so we can go again... sux you had to hurt your shoulder.. there's been some fun waves! lata

Jarrod, everytime I tried to do a toeside backroll, I end up going to revert. I tweaked my knee and haven't tried it since, that's what happens when you have old torn up knees like mine, there's some much I'd like to try but I rather ride than be laid up.