Epic Faceplant !

(chuckbutta) · (chuckbutta) **Join Date: Oct 2009** 10-07-2009, 5:50 PM

i shot this at my buddies shore house in mayland where the philadelphia residents have to go to ride. My buddy rob took one on the chin pretty good the other day. lemme preface this by sayin that we are riding in the chesapeake bay behind my buddies 1985 20' outbaord, tri hull, center console boston wailer without a tower.Isn't ideal wake boat but actually isnt the worst salom boat wake is pretty smooth and melow at ski speeds. i grew up skiing in maine during the summers i just got into wakeboarding for real this summer. anywho ... onto the faceplant enjoy !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnuSyKM2IuA

my youtube account has more videos of some maryland riding and a biscuits concert i was at not too long ago. we dont do any high flying but you gotta start somewhere.

(homedawg678) · (homedawg678) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 10-07-2009, 5:53 PM

Where in Maryland?

(tchs22) · (tchs22) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 10-07-2009, 6:00 PM

omg i have never seen something like that!! Did somebody say " i think he might be dead?" lol i swear i heard it

(chuckbutta) · (chuckbutta) **Join Date: Oct 2009** 10-07-2009, 6:02 PM

rock hall. On the eastern shore. they on one of the inlets to the rivers of the bay. brackish water.

(chuckbutta) · (chuckbutta) **Join Date: Oct 2009** 10-07-2009, 6:02 PM

yea that was me the camera man saying that. he is a rugby player so he is used to getting decked from time to time. but that one put him down for a few. that was 1st run of the afternoon. he had to chill in the bow for bout 2.5 hrs after that fall. but to his credit he did get back out there at the end of the session

(Message edited by chuckbutta on October 07, 2009)

(tchs22) · (tchs22) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 10-07-2009, 6:04 PM

geez was he alright? lol

(chuckbutta) · (chuckbutta) **Join Date: Oct 2009** 10-07-2009, 6:06 PM

check my edited post .. but yea he was iaght after bout 30 or so

(homedawg678) · (homedawg678) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 10-07-2009, 6:10 PM

Dude Rock hall?

I live on a creek across the bay from Rock Hall.

Ride there all the time.

(benjaminp) · (benjaminp) **Join Date: Nov 2008** 10-07-2009, 6:17 PM

Were there bindings on the board as it flew through the air? Gnarly man.

(chuckbutta) · (chuckbutta) **Join Date: Oct 2009** 10-07-2009, 6:54 PM

wow cant believe u live near rock hall. no one knows where that place is. U should ride with my buddy next summer cause im actually moving to dallas this sunday. He was kinda bumed about not having someone to ride with regularly.

As for the bindings.. they stayed on his feet the plastic caps on the bolts ripped st8 off the metal part that screws in. bolts stayed in caps came off. just swaped bolts and board was str8. Which was good cause is his bro's board and they both have size 15 feet and i was the only other guy with a board and i have CT size 11.

(chuckbutta) · (chuckbutta) **Join Date: Oct 2009** 10-07-2009, 6:56 PM

and im sure he'd be pumped to ride behind an actual wakeboat. since his fam owns a boston wailer we have rode behind

(tcaz) · (tcaz) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 10-07-2009, 7:53 PM

Ouch, that looked gnarly. I had to rewind it, after the fall I thought "Wait, thought he was on a wakeboard, not a skate..." But nope, bindings really did rip off!

(backflop) · (backflop) **Join Date: Aug 2009** 10-07-2009, 7:54 PM

I can't even imagine how bad that had to hurt... ouch

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 10-08-2009, 6:29 AM

dam*

(lume1) · (lume1) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 10-08-2009, 6:51 AM

Man..that gotta hurt!
Here´s a friend of mine like a year ago...pretty nasty either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaTJKvWFnnc

(helinut) · (helinut) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 10-08-2009, 7:23 AM

Man. I wish we'd got a few on video this year. We had some epic plants. You know they are good when you hear their body slap the water in the boat. I'm surprised no one got a concussion. We did have 2 blown ear drums and one cracked rib though. :-)

(jason_b) · (jason_b) **Join Date: Feb 2008** 10-08-2009, 7:37 AM

haha, I love it when it's somebody else besides me. lol
OUCH

(eubanks01) · (eubanks01) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 10-08-2009, 7:39 AM

I took a worse one last Saturday and my neck is still jacked up! I faceplanted so badly that my underarms are bruised. I guess the momentum threw my arms over my head or something...I still can't figure out the bruises under both arm pits.

Anyway, that crash looked so crazy with a blank board flying through the air!

(dudeman) · (dudeman) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 10-08-2009, 7:40 AM

HaHa. Now we're wakeboarding. j/k, glad he's okay. What kind of bindings were those? Want to stay away from those as far as I can. Call me old, but I like my feet to release the old fashioned way, out of the binding, not ripped from the board.

(chuckbutta) · (chuckbutta) **Join Date: Oct 2009** 10-08-2009, 9:39 PM

not sure what the bindings were, but the actual bindings were fine . was the caps of the bolts that ripped off. the steel bolts were still screwed in the board, if you slow mo the impact you can see 2 black dots in the air. thats 2 of the 4 caps shooting into the air

(Message edited by chuckbutta on October 08, 2009)

murrayair 10-08-2009, 10:02 PM

His board must have gone 10-12ft into the air. Amazing! Glad he's all right.

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 10-09-2009, 6:13 AM

That was awesome

(burban89) · (burban89) **Join Date: Nov 2006** 10-09-2009, 7:51 AM

Anychance anyone can put this on Vimeo so I can view it at work?

(wakeandsnow27) · (wakeandsnow27) **Join Date: Jun 2004** 10-09-2009, 8:26 AM

"he might be dead". bwuahahahahahaha

(dizzyg) · (dizzyg) **Join Date: May 2005** 10-09-2009, 12:25 PM

that made my day, if it wasn't the crash the "he might be dead" comment was even better. WOW.

(john211) · (john211) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 10-09-2009, 12:46 PM

From the S-curves of the wake trail, it could only but help if his driver weren't pulling him like a tuber.