Fashion Air......Rediculous? or Rediculously Cool?

kc700 05-08-2007, 12:41 AM

Your Thoughts?

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 05-08-2007, 12:49 AM

i think they're fun. it shows the rider isn't taking his riding way too seriously. it's all about fun, right?

murrayair 05-08-2007, 1:25 AM

Fun, fun fun! Especially if you do it passing another boat full of riders who take wakeboarding way too seriously.

(greatdane) · (greatdane) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 05-08-2007, 1:36 AM

Some do it better than others. Its funny, some look cool and some look like dorks. Here's one of my favorite pics of some guy (can't remember his name)...

walt 05-08-2007, 5:33 AM

I say bring the fashion air on ! I love to see guys get in touch with their feminine side.

(andy_nintzel)

I start every set with one! I do it for the ladies I wont lie.

(socalwakepunk) · (socalwakepunk) **Join Date: Dec 2002** 05-08-2007, 6:29 AM

Card carrying member of the Fashion Air Force....

(Message edited by socalwakepunk on May 08, 2007)

(wakedad33) · (wakedad33) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 05-08-2007, 6:42 AM

At a pro DU contest the night before the Portland tour stop a few years ago, we were down to the four rider final, the first rider off the dock goes out and bust a couple of Fashions, I was thinking what was that all about because it was like a $2,000 pay day. Then the next rider does the same thing, all four riders busted fashions. They had all got together before the finals and decided to split the money and do fashion airs, it was pretty funny.

(jusstty) · (jusstty) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 05-08-2007, 6:47 AM

Very cool trick!!. I'd like to see more of them in the comps.

(mcwakerider) · (mcwakerider) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 05-08-2007, 6:52 AM

trick to put you back in a good mood on those days when you arent riding so well...

And over all crowd pleaser

(wiscoepic) · (wiscoepic) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 05-08-2007, 7:40 AM

This last weekend a buddy of mine threw the biggest fashion air ever and then on the landing he bust his a**.

(wakeparent) · (wakeparent) **Join Date: Jan 2005** 05-08-2007, 7:52 AM

A nice fashion air to blind always makes me laugh!

(ziggen) · (ziggen) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 05-08-2007, 7:55 AM

Me and another guy i ride with start off with a one wake fashion, i think he just does it to make fun of me though.

(martinez30) · (martinez30) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 05-08-2007, 7:55 AM

Fashion air rocks!

(hyperlink) · (hyperlink) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 05-08-2007, 7:58 AM

My first trick of every set... Im a big fan of goon riding!!!

(guido) · (guido) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 05-08-2007, 8:37 AM

Probably the gayest trick in wakeboarding (if you call it a trick). Fine when done to entertain, but don't take yourself too seriously when you're making a mockery of our sport. LOL!!!

(pearsonville) · (pearsonville) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 05-08-2007, 8:39 AM

KK

(dlwsrider) · (dlwsrider) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 05-08-2007, 8:39 AM

i do fashion air 3's and 180's haha.

their one of the funnest tricks in wakeboarding

(wakeworld) · (wakeworld) **Join Date: Jan 1997** 05-08-2007, 8:46 AM

I love the fashion and, to be quite honest, I'm embarrassed that I can't do it very well!

(jmv) · (jmv) **Join Date: Aug 2005** 05-08-2007, 9:13 AM

I'm with you David. I hope one day I'm good enough to bust one out like all my heroes out there.

(ttrigo) · (ttrigo) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 05-08-2007, 9:19 AM

where is that picture of Bates, busting the huge fashion air? classic photo.

(raketball) · (raketball) **Join Date: Apr 2005** 05-08-2007, 9:24 AM

"rediculous"

ridiculous or ridiculous?

(mkrueger313) · (mkrueger313) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 05-08-2007, 9:41 AM

the fashion air is the staple goof off move. Don't take you riding too seriously, youre gonna falll eventually right

(epic1) · (epic1) **Join Date: Oct 2006** 05-08-2007, 11:01 AM

"sounded like he said fashion hair"

(seattle) · (seattle) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 05-08-2007, 11:13 AM

rickdiculous>>>

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 05-08-2007, 11:18 AM

Its best when double pumped or tweaker pumped. If I was a cooler person I could do it to blind. A CWB rep I know named Steve does that, unfortunately for him he's married so his friends get all the chicks it pulls.

My favorite wakeboard line is this..."did you see the fashion on that air?" Cracks me up everytime.

(hawaiianstiln)

I always pull one out for the observers during a set. However, i'm all over throwing them in front of other boats now (thanks Mark D).

I pulled off a Fashion air to Indy a few weeks ago and was stoked about it. It made me have a good set after that. :-)

(blind) · (blind) **Join Date: Jun 2006** 05-08-2007, 5:21 PM

I've seen it done fashion to indy to blind, that made it a whole lot less gay!

(majorman22) · (majorman22) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 05-08-2007, 5:43 PM

i love screwin around with the fashion air just to have fun me and my friend also came up with the michael jackson "thriller"

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 05-08-2007, 5:45 PM

HATE IT

(malibuboarder75)

Oh come on J-Rod, no matter how gay it is, it is pretty fun when you see a really good rider break away from his normal bag of tricks and bust out the old fashion air.

(wakeworld) · (wakeworld) **Join Date: Jan 1997** 05-08-2007, 5:49 PM

If it doesn't look gay, then you're doing it wrong!

(mcwakerider) · (mcwakerider) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 05-08-2007, 5:51 PM

You got to get the big old cheesey smile when you do it too.

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 05-08-2007, 5:56 PM

It depends on the rider I guess. Arun Francis is rumored to have thrown a Fashion Glide. Although I haven't seen one, that sounds respectable. Bates and Arun are both extremely talented riders. I guess they can pull it off in between their huge bag of tricks.

walt 05-08-2007, 6:53 PM

Arun's Fashion.
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(soonerboarder) · (soonerboarder) **Join Date: Aug 2001** 05-08-2007, 6:58 PM

Fashion airs rule. I busted one on the snow at Wolf Creek in front of a bunch of dudes. I could tell they were massively impressed.

(hawk7) · (hawk7) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 05-08-2007, 7:09 PM

I like doin the W2W toeside fashion air fs 180. actually takes some skill to land if you hold the fashion through the entire 180.

yea just keepin it fun w/ the fashions.

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 05-08-2007, 7:21 PM

I want to say that shot is behind my old Malibu? Berryessa?

walt 05-08-2007, 7:27 PM

Berryessa behind My Bluewater.

(westerdude) · (westerdude) **Join Date: Nov 2006** 05-08-2007, 7:58 PM

Fashion Air = Rediculously Cool come on its the only trick that actually gets the chicks goin everyone knows that.....

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kidrik 05-09-2007, 6:46 AM

^^^I just threw up in my mouth a little bit....

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 05-09-2007, 7:14 AM

Everything about that is just wrong.

wakejjboard12 05-09-2007, 7:24 AM

DEF makes us laugh...
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(dudeman) · (dudeman) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 05-09-2007, 7:52 AM

westerdude, if you had any bun on that boat, you won't anymore.

(ronnyboy27) · (ronnyboy27) **Join Date: Nov 2005** 05-09-2007, 9:36 AM

Westerdude - there is so much wrong with that.

(twakess) · (twakess) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 05-09-2007, 9:41 AM

Fashion airs are all about having fun out there. I always throw one behind J-rods boat and always get the beat down.

stillstandin 05-09-2007, 9:49 AM

Man, that was my first hard laugh of the day..

(srock) · (srock) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 05-09-2007, 1:10 PM

I feel a little uncomfortable with a couple of those photos, I'm going to go now.

(jsxstar) · (jsxstar) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 05-09-2007, 1:25 PM

UN-believable! the best!

(big_xstar) · (big_xstar) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 05-09-2007, 4:16 PM

Ricky G D-up contest
fashion raley ...SICK!!!
rock on with the fashion air!!

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(Message edited by big_x-star on May 09, 2007)

(jmv) · (jmv) **Join Date: Aug 2005** 05-09-2007, 4:50 PM

I give him kudos for riding in that.

(westerdude) · (westerdude) **Join Date: Nov 2006** 05-09-2007, 9:15 PM

The boat was full of bun thats why i hit it up in the pulled up board shorts... trust me the chicks dig it!!

(hawkeye7708) · (hawkeye7708) **Join Date: Feb 2007** 05-09-2007, 9:40 PM

i think its one of the most fun tricks out there.

(mcwakerider) · (mcwakerider) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 05-09-2007, 9:53 PM

man look at those water conditions... Ricky G is a stud... the conditions look like spring ride in the afternoon...

murrayair 05-09-2007, 10:15 PM

Haha! Nice fashion raley!

(socalwakepunk) · (socalwakepunk) **Join Date: Dec 2002** 05-10-2007, 6:09 AM

If I'm not mistaken, Rickey G is actually doing a Double Fashion Raley, first left hand behind the head, then right hand before bringing it down.

(paulw) · (paulw) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 05-10-2007, 7:53 AM

You got to admit that pick cracked you up, and I'm a big time homophobic,sp?
Its got to be about the fun out there.

(wakeviolater) · (wakeviolater) **Join Date: Sep 2004** 05-10-2007, 8:35 AM

Please correct me if Im wrong, but from WAY back in the day I remember hearing that a Fashion air is an actual trick that is seeminly imposible today.

If i remember right the point of the trick is to grab the tip of your board, reaching back behind your head, and bending your knees.

Since board have become twin tipped, and much shorter, the Fashion air became a, ummm...fashionable trick.

(jhertz27) · (jhertz27) **Join Date: Jul 2005** 05-10-2007, 9:22 AM

Ridiculously cool for sure! Do them sparingly though, I was at a INT competition once and one kid did about 5 of them in one run and it was pretty lame.

(wakinwestcoast)

best trick ever

(matt_ostmeyer)

The fashion raley - I dubbed it the Hilton Glide. Fitting or not???

(wakerider111) · (wakerider111) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 05-13-2007, 11:32 PM

Is there any pics of chicks doing the fashion Air???

i cant say i have ever seen a girl do it

somehow it seems more like a joke among guys.

(greenpinky) · (greenpinky) **Join Date: Apr 2004** 05-14-2007, 6:37 AM

I'm with J-Rod. Hate it!

(Nice wake on that last pic, by the way)

(wakescene) · (wakescene) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 05-14-2007, 10:16 AM

I love this trick...
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(joshugan) · (joshugan) **Join Date: Apr 2005** 05-14-2007, 10:32 AM

I heard that back in the day Ricky G, and Erik Ruck were finalists in a Double-Up contest. Once it was just the two of them all they threw were fashion airs, sometimes double and even triple pumping them. IMO, that's hilarious.

People who take wakeboarding too seriously are lame.

(garret_s) · (garret_s) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 05-14-2007, 11:41 AM

matt,

I was about to post something about your hilton glide, I remember my brother telling me about it...

mad props