Wakeboard Giants

Being 6'2" and seeing that all of the pros seem to be no taller than 5' (except rusty) I'm sure its pretty natural for me to feel out of place in this sport. Exactly how many of you are out there that are above 6' and feel this way haha.

Yo. 6'2", 235 here. Built for football (love to watch, kind of don't enjoy playing on any serious team), but not for the sport I really love :-( Oh well, I can still have fun, even if I'm the most awkward rider on the boat. ;-)

im 6'1" but most of the people i ride with are pretty tall so for me its the norm.

When you say no taller than 5' i imagine the riders being lil circus midgets with high pitch voices.

6'3''... its just not an excuse to be bad i've come to find out... got friends who are taller and are cranking out some nasty inverts and spins... i wanted for it to be but it's just not true... bigger they are the more water they move when they fall... inverts are much more impressive when a taller guys lays them out huge too

6'2 200......

I'm 6'7, So I am unoffically claiming to be the tallest wakeboarder in the world! Ok, probably not, but it sure looks cool when I do a backroll!

6'5 240
I bring the beef.

6'5" 240lbs. It took me awhile to learn to do inverts, but I don't think it had anything to do with me being fat and tall. It was more of a lack of coordination thing for me.

6'2 210 man.

I think we are starting to see a change in wakeboarders. The days of everyone being 5 feet are gone, the new wakeboarders are starting to be bigger and built more like linebackers. Look at Rusty, Rathy, Corey Bradley, Kyle Rattray, Nick Weinacker, Luis Becqueriaux, all big tall guys, excpt Rathy he's under 6 feet otherwise every one else is 6 feet or over. Nothing wrong with being big and tall.

6'2 225 lbs.....too tall for pro wakeboarding, too short for pro basketball!!! ha ha

6/6'1 185lbs...i'm eating to hit 200 though, soon i hope!

one of my friends is 6'7" too and rides once and a while...no inverts though

6'1" 185

You know what they say....Bigger is Better!!!

6'4" around 200. I saw Ruck yesterday at the Tour stop and he is taller than most of the pros.

6' 215 no inverts but soon...after reading about bleeding eyes I can't wait to try.

Watched updog the other day with my girlfriend, and she asked if Shapiro was a midget...... because his board was taller than him.........

6'1" 245#. thanks for this thread im a newb to boarding (3 months)and am having trouble getting good "pop".im getting better but seem to have hit a wall with the height/pop thing. look im also 39 so inverts might never be in my future but nice air with a grab or 3 would be nice some day. but im stuck at only lets say 2 feet off the surface.i can only clear the wake if i do a line drive say a foot off the surface so i have given up (for now) on trying to get across the wake and am trying to get more height. since some of you bigger guys seem to have the pop im looking for what advice do you have. i ride a hyper.tfd142 with cwb faction bindings. i have seen others but smaller go big on the board so i am confident its just me not doing something right. so im open to all advice and would be thankful for any you could give.(im working on the weight thing so other than that what you got 4 me)
the guy who was helping me is very very good but he has gone to texas to ski at seaworld so i lost my coach for a couple of months but i like to get different opinions/methods. maybe you have a different way of putting/saying it that might help me. thanx again

ha, 6'6 185, it can be a bit hard on the knees but hasn't stopped me from throwing any inverts. I do feel kind of out of place when everyone else is 5'9 haha.

I'm 6'6", so I'm right there with you Jeigh. Being big and wakeboarding looks weird.

I think the worst part is when you catch an edge, you have that much further to pick up speed as your falling, then you hit! Oh well, it could be worse, I could be ticked off my because of the short mans complex!

i didnt really know there were this many tall wakeboarders out there, i dont feel so left out now! It didnt seem like this in orlando when I was at OWC. I was looking down to basically everyone there, I definitely felt a little out of place there.

6'3" 190 here.

6' 145 with a few inches left to put on the knees, but I mainly wakeskate, so fit pretty well with my body type.

Shane Bonifay has to be at least 7 feet... he still rips???

6'2" 176 and could stand to gain a few pounds.. however, i am a pilot and during my last FAA medical they took a BMI test and the chart indicated i was "normal"? what is normal..?

anyway, here is a link to one of those body mass index calculators they used on us but the chart was obviously designed for gary coleman IMO..

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/adult_BMI/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.htm

6'2 215 lbs and I can do soome loopy tee loops

Corey Bradley is tall and rips like no other. Im just tall

6' and about 235. It's a long way down around the vest and the gut to get a grab!

6"4' 245 can go wake to wake but no inverts yet. hopefully one day though. I also am the largest on the boat all of the time. I feel like a giant.

6'4 230-240lbs. I am also the biggest on the boat, but it is my boat lol so i can throw the midgets off if I want.

Kevin I have the same problem, I can w2w with a good amount of speed. I am just not getting a lot of pop. Since I got the SN2001 I seem to be getting a little more pop but not alot. I dont know if it is edging issues or what. It has been hard to get anyone to ride with us that can help me out also so i am learning this on my own.

My buddy that wakeskates is 6'7" 220
He is wakeboarding here though

David Howell, it is funny you should say that. When I had my long hair at worlds last year, somebody actually came over to one of my buddies and asked "Hey, is that Shane Bonifay?" There was a point I walked by him and he might come up to my shoulder...and that is a big might!

6'6" 210lbs. Can do all the basic flippy/spinnies no problem.

I never take pics so I dont have much to show

That is a BIG raley, in more than on way!

I'm 6'2 185. I'm trying to get my brother in on the sport but having trouble finding Hlite bindings. He's 6'7 170 and wears a 17 shoe. Think the XXL's will fit him?

I only have one picture of me in the air, and it's a still shot from a video. It is so damn hard to get people to film for me. I'm not good, but I like to see what I'm doing wrong, and how crappy I look out on the water.

The thing about being big is that you can get the same pop that a smaller guy gets, but because he's smaller, the perspective makes it look like he's going bigger than he is. It's somewhat frustrating.

i'm 6'3" 225-230. i like bein big, all the cats i ride with are super small too cept for BG, he's a house.

6'1" 210, this thread is hilarious

5'8 150lbs, but i have the heart of a giant!!!!

brandon, i wear a 15 and fit easily into xxl alphas. toes hang to the very edge of the cushioning but works fine.

heres some pics its a long way down to grab

and a 180

6'2" 220lbs I designed our boardshorts to fit tall guys like me, that is why we have some of the longest boardshorts in the industry. They are made to fit real people, not some skinny model kid.

6'1", 185 here

I'm 6'1", 75 kilos (hah, work that one out) most of the guys I ride with are about the same size but they're heavier than me for the most part. Still, they can all ride my 134 no worries.

6'7" 275lbs Dry. You guys are all lightweights. I am the ballast in the boat. Only inverted trick I have is a normal tantrum but it is sometthing to behold when I land it.

I'm with ya Todd.. 6'7" 250, size 15 boots. The wake seems much bigger when I'm driving compared to when I'm riding, lol

at 6'2" 240... i feel small compared to some of you. my friends are all pretty small. i think ppl trip when big guys throw down. Like BG. so sick to watch

6'7" 225 here

for those of you guys with long legs (as opposed to long torsos... do you guys have difficulty doing a tweaked out indy or stalefish? I've tried doing some on my back and the board is too far away for me to grab without goin 'tindy' any suggestions?
6'1" 190 here..

You just got to remember to bring your knees up as far as you can. I used to have problems grabbing because I would try to reach for the board too much. Stretching helps a ton too!

john, see above, just gotta suck those knees up

haha im rusty sized
6'0 200.
too bad i dont go as big as him.
the bigger you are the bigger you have to go to make it look good.

YES get this BG guy on here and tell him to give us big boys some tips he is a wakeboard GOD. whats BG stats like 6ft 250/260? what?

6'4" 200
-and we get more chicks (at least I used to-lol)

6'8" 255 here...

Any of you big guys have a used board to sell? I am trying to get my friend "Big Mike" into riding. He's 6'8-6'9 and wears a 15 shoe. Holler if you guys have an extra rig for sale. Thanks..ross 5'8"

6'0, 225 @ 12%. And yeah, I can cannonball. If nothing else, I can crash BIG.

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6'5" 225lbs.

6'2" 220lbs n got some flips n stuff.....

I am curious... Who of the Big guys has a mobe or better?