parks bonifay pro spotlight

4:27 was the craziest ts bs 180 I've ever seen

wasn't that called the baller or something? passing between the legs like that?

Yup. Baller spins.

Did anyone see him on Nitro Circus (mtv)? How was he boarding out of the boots at the tip of the board?

Yeah. He did that in his section in Counterfeit This. Pretty cool trick. On my list of things to make a poor attempt at this summer!

Joe that is simple. Same thing as a hang ten on a surf board. Here is how you do it.

1) get up on your board with your feet out of your bindings, like your wakeskating. I usually get up with my feet right in front of both bindings, i.e. front foot on the nose of the board, back foot in the middle of the board.

2) once your up start to move your front foot towards the tip of the board. Next (this is the hard part) once your front foot is in position, slide your back foot up and step over the front binding.

3) inch your toes to the nose bro! then flash a hang ten!

Once you get it down you can sit down and do this.

^^^ Doing toes on the nose isn't really that hard. Once at the front I can sit down on the middle of the board and ride around then get back up. The other thing that is kind of fun to do is stand on the board still out of both bindings and put the handle around the boot and stand up not holding on to anything and move around a bit.

^ ya beat me to it!

(Message edited by BCRider on March 19, 2009)

yeah you can do it that way or the hard way and that is start in your boots and take them off and do it. Its way harder but it can be done. I have done it in closed toe 3ds's before. Have fun!

ahh sick....I miss the old Parks. Going bigger than anyone, super tech, and unique.

I love doing the toes on the nose... we usually just call it a "How ya doing" from welcome's commentary (i think).

Only we get up and just give the rider a huge whip and send them flying

Thanks! I can't wait to hurt myself trying that one.....

PB is the Mike Jordan of Wakeboardin!!!!!!!!!!

Or is Michael Jordan the Parks Bonifay of Basketball??

Think about that.lol.

Yea but mine rhymes haha.

I thought Randall was the Jordan of Boarding

and I think Parks is the Parks of Boarding



I originally though a baller bs 180, but looking at it closer,

it looks like he tricks us into thinking its a baller, then he passes it back to his original hand, then passes it very low to his legs... mind bottling

(Message edited by waterdork88 on March 19, 2009)

actually, jay z is the mike jordan of recordin... and wakeboarders aren't quite as gangsta as they'd like to believe...although parks and randall are slightly more gangsta than the rest of us

I happen to be pretty gangster myself.

(Message edited by fatsac on March 19, 2009)

MIND BOTTLING HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH~

I am unable to grasp how you can have all your weight on the nose of the board and still keep it elevated (as seen in photos above). Because I can bury the nose putting all my weight on my front foot when I am in the bindings. Mind bottling indeed. Parks still rules though.

I'm with on that Ben.

My cousin can do the same thing. i wont even think about it unless i want to pressure wash my face with lake water.

It's magic!

Really it just works? Awesome can't wait to try that.

It's called pressure. The board develops pressure when your at speed. The slower the speed, the lower the pressure, the easier it is to sink the nose.

It's really not that hard. The best look is when your cruising by some unsuspecting boat and they all look at you like they saw a ghost. Thumbs up!!

my guess on how it works is something with there being some suction between the board and water... if it was super choppy I think it might break it and you would nose dive, but as long as air doesn't go through and break it it keeps the back locked down.... I could be totally wrong though.

Parks rode better in his prime than any rider is riding now...that is all

^^ Oh for sure... what he was doing in 12 honkeys is just as good or better then any video part today.... its crazy how good he is/was before everyone else.

The only person who has done more/as many big amazing tricks is Danny Harf

+1 Parks owns all.

Randall is a legend, Byerly is an icon, and Soven is probably the most tech rider the sport has ever seen.... But Parks Bonifay is the all time face of wakeboarding and in his prime would have shut down any of those guys in all around riding.

For sure, Parks Bonifay and Danny harf are the two best riders of all time imo.

Spoke to Parks yesterday and he told me he was riding better than he has in a couple of years and said he was a 100%. So good luck to him this year. The guy is def a Legend no doubt.

Billy, thats awesome! I am going to the Wakeboarding Mag Wake House, andParks is supposed to be there. I cant wait to see him ride!

Ridden your PBV2 yet?

No he forgot my boots yesterday.

Which boots are they?

Only Parks could make falling look awesome.

I dont know. Free ones.

The SICKEST of ALL TIME.

Billy that is amazing to hear. He really just had a run of bad luck blowing his knees out on two slider demos. Something gives me a feeling we won't be seeing Parks at any rail jams that anything to do with the gap being over solid ground. Parks is my favorite rider of all time, and will always be and a lot of the people who have recently gotten into the sport haven't gotten to see what he is capable of at full potential. Remember he won the Carnival after not riding for 7 months or so. The guy is an enigma.

double backroll mobe says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkhIH8BFPps
nothing will ever beat that trick.
imo

For pure tech I think the OA Osmosis Ole 900 that Matt Simms pulled off is my favorite but that one is definately top 5 .

Toes on the nose! Check out Byerly in switch 22 from like 98