sick method!

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 04-21-2006, 10:01 AM

from concrete's site.

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(twakess) · (twakess) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 04-21-2006, 10:10 AM

Thats is Sick. Joe I think that is Zuky from the DU team back in the day.

(vlxray) · (vlxray) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 04-21-2006, 11:09 AM

Now that is how a method should look. Sweet!

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 04-21-2006, 11:27 AM

here is another

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(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 04-21-2006, 11:35 AM

here's me but not nearly as cool as the methods above.

pic taken by daniel bowen.

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(dan_forrest) · (dan_forrest) **Join Date: Jan 2006** 04-21-2006, 12:07 PM

ahhhh....to be able to do that. Sure would be nice. Sweet pics

(brhanley) · (brhanley) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 04-21-2006, 12:10 PM

Bring on the methods! Good looking methods are underappreciated and much more difficult than many inverts...they can evidently also cost you gold medals in snowboardcross, but stylie nonetheless.

Where's the Randy Harris double up method I've seen on here several times? Couple good ones from wakepics (amongst several poorly thrown or named "methods" search on wakepics):

http://www.wakepics.com/view_single.php/Method_wakeboarding-video.html?medid=5599

http://www.wakepics.com/view_single.php/Delta-style_wakeboarding-wake.html?medid=870

(seattle) · (seattle) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 04-21-2006, 1:38 PM

Umali,

The first pic is very reminiscent of Funk's methods.

(guido) · (guido) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 04-21-2006, 1:41 PM

Methods are cool, but unless they're done Randy Harris style, they just aren't that special. <<imo>>

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 04-21-2006, 1:57 PM

thanks evan. i tried real hard to do that method right.

(thane_dogg) · (thane_dogg) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 04-21-2006, 2:28 PM

(guido) · (guido) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 04-21-2006, 2:47 PM

Yeah, now that's what I'm talking about....

Joe, I for sure wasn't saying your method isn't legit, because it's definitely solid. I just don't think methods are all that sick. Not sure why, but they don't to it for me. I guess that's why opinions are like a$$es....

(lizzyb) · (lizzyb) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 04-21-2006, 2:49 PM

I dig the grab Joe.. forget Evan!

(Message edited by lizzyb on April 21, 2006)

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 04-21-2006, 3:09 PM

This one is okay. Not the best ever, but God do i love doing Methods!!!

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(brinks) · (brinks) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 04-21-2006, 7:08 PM

Here is one of mine.
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(anodyne) · (anodyne) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 04-21-2006, 7:37 PM

say... what ever happened to Earthboard?! I just went to their site, and there is no significant information on wakeboards... I remember they used to be a well-known name

(tentcitygoon) · (tentcitygoon) **Join Date: Mar 2006** 04-21-2006, 10:23 PM

The shot of Randy in Natural Born Thrillaz is the best one ever documented.

(westsidarider) · (westsidarider) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 04-25-2006, 7:25 PM

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 04-25-2006, 7:27 PM

grab it, don't fingertip it!

just kidding jason! i like the backlighting on that shot.

(westsidarider) · (westsidarider) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 04-25-2006, 7:29 PM

hahaha. thats funny. yea the lighting was pretty cool. the shot was taken yesterday by my good buddy tony corsello.

(solo) · (solo) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 04-25-2006, 8:04 PM

Gator

(thane_dogg) · (thane_dogg) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 04-25-2006, 8:06 PM

Hahn that ain't no method!

(westsidarider) · (westsidarider) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 04-25-2006, 8:14 PM

what would u call it then

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 04-25-2006, 8:29 PM

looks like a melan to me. maybe it's the angle...

(twitch) · (twitch) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 04-25-2006, 8:40 PM

ok so the method is a back hand heelside between the feet with a 180 twist?

just trying to clarify

(westsidarider) · (westsidarider) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 04-25-2006, 8:43 PM

so its a whole different grab jus cuz it wasnt tweaked more?

(garrett_cortese)

A melan is a front hand grab between the feet on the heelside edge of the board.

A method is the same grab, physically, but the board is tweaked around. From the boat, a good method will show the entire bottom of the board and the front foot will be poked down a little. A method is more of a move, whereas a melan is a grab.

Technically, a method is a move, not a grab. There is actually no such thing as a method crow mobe, or a method roll to revert. It would be a melan crow mobe or melan roll to revert. And it is melan with an "A" 'cause it comes from the word "melancholy" which the grab was originally named after, not "melon" like watermelon or my head.

Randy Harris' method from Natural Born Thrillaz is pretty much the sweetest one any of us will ever see.

(wakeriderixi) · (wakeriderixi) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 04-25-2006, 9:56 PM

Randy Harris has nothing on mine!

I just felt like making you laugh.

(jrad) · (jrad) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 04-25-2006, 10:31 PM

Cortese, way to get technical. Do you have a problem with methods, GARRETT?

(olddude) · (olddude) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 04-26-2006, 6:08 AM

I think you'll have a hard time finding a method grab as sick as this one!!! This was taken at the Performance Gravel Tour Stop.

(olddude) · (olddude) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 04-26-2006, 6:51 AM

Here's the attachment Upload

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 04-26-2006, 7:52 AM

Craig,

That's a sick grab and I'm not trying to take anything away from it, but I wouldn't really call that a method. Garrett pretty much sum it up on the grab.

(solo) · (solo) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 04-26-2006, 8:17 AM

Gator can't tweak anymore, he's too old and beat up.... You're right though. Here, is this better?
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(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 04-26-2006, 8:33 AM

Justin calls that the "Scientific Method"

Here's a better shot of it.

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(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 04-26-2006, 8:34 AM

Oops, that one he actually got the nose

(kybool) · (kybool) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 04-26-2006, 1:04 PM

yeah, I would have to say that isn't really a method. A method is a melan grab with a backside shifty. If it ain't shifty(like Gator's), it ain't a method. Just my .02. Upload

Sorry, had to do it again. Sickest method ever.

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 04-26-2006, 1:08 PM

Is that Gator or Harris?

(guido) · (guido) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 04-26-2006, 1:14 PM

That pic is a snapshot of Harris in Natural born Thrillaz. It's one of the biggest dubs I've ever seen.

(guido) · (guido) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 04-26-2006, 1:14 PM

Hey Callen, what's up with riding the old Roam?

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 04-26-2006, 1:15 PM

That's what I thought.

(westsidarider) · (westsidarider) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 04-26-2006, 3:55 PM

broke the new one. had to ship it to washington. jus got my new one today though. lookin for a 3rd to ride it now though.

(delphi) · (delphi) **Join Date: Jan 2006** 04-26-2006, 4:19 PM

yall make me wana share my method. it aint no randal vandal, but its my favourite move by far. this is of a kicker at our cable park.

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(tentcitygoon) · (tentcitygoon) **Join Date: Mar 2006** 04-26-2006, 11:17 PM

I think the best methods are done when the board becomes parallel with a flat, not vertical handle position. Many methods are shot from the side, thus giving the appearance that the rider is poking the grab into a method; the truth is a good side shot would show less of the bottom because as stated: the bottom should face the boat, not the shoreline.