shifty

(pottsy) · (pottsy) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 06-27-2007, 7:28 AM

So last weekend I rode behind a high pylon for the first time. I had just bought it and installed it and went out to try it out. I was very happy with it, and felt really good about my air time. So i decided to try a shifty and see what happens. I tried it the first time and didn't turn the board all the way around, and still landed it. Then, on my second attempt, I turned it all the way but couldn't seem to turn my body back all the way. I felt reall off balance, and landed with the nose of the board facing the boat and slipped out.

I was wondering If you guys have any advice on shifty's and have any idea what i'm doing wrong. I just feel really off balance once I start turning my board. Thanks

(twoten) · (twoten) **Join Date: Jun 2007** 06-27-2007, 7:39 AM

do you drop your back hand... helps to straighten your hips.

(pottsy) · (pottsy) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 06-27-2007, 2:27 PM

yea, i drop my back hand when i start to rotate my board

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-27-2007, 2:32 PM

keep the handle close and low.

(garret_s) · (garret_s) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 06-28-2007, 8:35 AM

Agreed with Joe. Keeping the handle in tight is the most important advice for this trick. When I do it, I try to lock my elbows to my sides, so everything is at a nice 90 deg angle.

Good luck, post pics.

(big_xstar) · (big_xstar) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 06-28-2007, 8:53 AM

Like this......
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(helix_rider) · (helix_rider) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 06-28-2007, 10:26 AM

Nice stitch job!

(ogopogo) · (ogopogo) **Join Date: May 2005** 06-28-2007, 10:45 AM

or like this... handle in and do the look back for extra steez, the bigger you go the easier it is.

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(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-28-2007, 10:47 AM

i'm not a big fan of looking back on the shifty. to me, it's more stylie (and contorted) looking forward.

(ogopogo) · (ogopogo) **Join Date: May 2005** 06-28-2007, 10:53 AM

Personal choice I guess, but it sure feels good when you are looking back and down at the wash/shadow underneath you. That's how I time the landings on them..........

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-28-2007, 10:55 AM

ryan, don't get me wrong, i'm not knockin' it. i just can't do it!

(andy_nintzel)

I look back when I do a shifty, seems to help a ton! But I like to looking back, thats the position I land in on blind landings.

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(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-28-2007, 11:48 AM

TINDY!

haha! just messin' andy! ain't nothin' but steez in your pics!

(jkuzma) · (jkuzma) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 06-28-2007, 12:01 PM

ill give ita shot this weekend and see what happens' ill get some pics to give you all a good laugh aka never tried one yet.

(wakedad33) · (wakedad33) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 06-28-2007, 12:05 PM

Tail grab shifty
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(whitie) · (whitie) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 06-28-2007, 8:00 PM

They are easy with a real short power cut push off with your back foot, pull the handle to the small of your back and then after you cross the second wake pullthe handle to your lead hip.

(garret_s) · (garret_s) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 06-28-2007, 10:02 PM

from last weekend...

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(andy_nintzel)

Umali! I saw that coming Ha! Thanks for the dis and the props! Cant have one without the other. I am always like, "wow, dude that was sick I cant believe you stuck that, but you should have grabbed it!"

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 06-29-2007, 7:19 AM

Ryan...way to go BIG.

(ogopogo) · (ogopogo) **Join Date: May 2005** 06-29-2007, 8:44 AM

Thanks, man. That and a big boned out Stale's are my fav grabs right now. Just got to take it to blind from that height, if my knees could handle it!

(wakeboardwade)

advice... shiftys are dumb and i could do them in the 7 th grade....

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 06-29-2007, 11:00 AM

My favorite is now a Toeside ••••• indy or Stalefish into the flats. I just recently learned how to take my TS jumps into the flats. It feels good.

(ttrigo) · (ttrigo) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 06-29-2007, 11:02 AM

"advice... shiftys are dumb and i could do them in the 7 th grade...."

are you actually serious about this comment???

(ogopogo) · (ogopogo) **Join Date: May 2005** 06-29-2007, 11:09 AM

Hey WADE..........

Advice, Kiss my ass. Considering that you have only been out of the 7th grade for 5 years and I have been riding for 14 years, your opinion means nothing to me or anyone who has something positive to add to the site. Go hang out with Trevor.........

J-Rod, I love the toe stale's as well, it feels very tweaked when you bone it out.

(wakedad33) · (wakedad33) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 06-29-2007, 11:17 AM

Wade, after checking out your profile pic, maybe you should go back to the Shifty.

(wakeboardwade)

you know shifties are old school look sweet with a grab but not just a shifty.

(wakedad33) · (wakedad33) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 06-29-2007, 11:22 AM

I've posted this shifty shot before, but it's one of my favroite shots. Upload

Photo: Bryan Mess

(wakeboardwade)

i know my profile pic of me busting my ass... but that was back then after 7th grade.

(morgs) · (morgs) **Join Date: Nov 2005** 06-29-2007, 11:24 AM

Wade - you've got to be joking...right?

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Props to Andy and Colin...nice shots guys!

(garret_s) · (garret_s) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 06-29-2007, 11:37 AM

Paul...kickass shot.

Wade: your favorite rider is "Park Bonifay?" I've never heard of him...

(noti_dad) · (noti_dad) **Join Date: Jul 2003** 06-29-2007, 11:41 AM

funny how 18 yo's always refer to a boat as theirs.

quote:
Boat : any boat sold mine.

You did shifties in 7th grade @ 12 yo? Why aren't you pro? 6 years later........ you should've progressed to some very technical tricks. Post a more current pic than the one in your profile.

(andy_nintzel)

Paul,

Thats awesome, I saw that shot of Colin and was Like Hey that's my photo! Ha thanks for the Props! Minnesota knows how to party! Colin always says we are only good at two things in Minnesota, catching a buzz and wakeboarding!

(andy_nintzel)

Umali,
this ones for you! No tidny this time

wish I had a sequenec, i busted this one to switch.

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-29-2007, 12:57 PM

andy, now you're talkin'! haha!

sick man....sick!

(richd) · (richd) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 06-30-2007, 7:28 AM

Half or full tindy? LOL

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(morgs) · (morgs) **Join Date: Nov 2005** 06-30-2007, 8:47 AM

Andy, Rich - nice!

(wakechic06) · (wakechic06) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 06-30-2007, 9:37 AM

Not sure if I'm even doing it close to right, but I do them frontside. I try to poke my back leg toward the boat...is that even a technically correct??
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