What if the first form of skateboarding just happened to be ramp or pipe, and the sport took on the name Rampboarding? A big hypothetical of course.
As new terrains were introduced to the sport, we would still be stuck with the name Rampboarding, even though ramps may not be involved. The fact is, whether it's pipe, longboarding, freestyle, street skating.....it's all skateboarding regardless of the terrain. You're riding a board with wheels.
Wakeboarding inherited a name based on the terrain where it was introduced, not know what the future would hold. If we had called it waterboarding, this question would never come up.
I'm not a cable guy defending that side of the sport. I'm a 90% boat guy.
He's throwing doubles all the time at OWC. From the looks of that ramp I'm not surprised that he stuck the triple. Congrats Cody! Anyone that thinks it's disappointing, I invite them to ODub to show us how easy it is.
What if the first form of skateboarding just happened to be ramp or pipe, and the sport took on the name Rampboarding? A big hypothetical of course.
As new terrains were introduced to the sport, we would still be stuck with the name Rampboarding, even though ramps may not be involved. The fact is, whether it's pipe, longboarding, freestyle, street skating.....it's all skateboarding regardless of the terrain. You're riding a board with wheels.
Wakeboarding inherited a name based on the terrain where it was introduced, not know what the future would hold. If we had called it waterboarding, this question would never come up.
I'm not a cable guy defending that side of the sport. I'm a 90% boat guy.
Anybody besides me remember when Wakeskating started getting real? Thomas Horrell wanted to call it waterboarding. He didn't like the fact that the term "Skate" had been attached to the sport because they were not skating on the water, they were riding a board over the water, hence "waterboarding." Back then say circa 98-99 waterboarding was not a bad term in the sense that people didnt associate it with the interrogation/simulated drowning technique they associate it with today.
Like Jarrod I am not a cable defender. I am always more excited to see stuff landed behind the boat than of a kicker or on a cable. I ride boat 90% of the time, that said the dozen or so rides a year I get behind a cable each year I love it. I can see what it so addicting, no boat, no spotter needed, no gas burned. You can run to the cable and take a quick set or two and go home without the hassle of dealing with the boat. Not that boat riding is a hassle, but these days I rarely go out in the boat when I only have enough time for one quick pull. Hell my boat is my backyard on the lift, going out couldnt be easier for me, but it still takes 2 hours to get the boat set up take one run and put the boat away. If I had access to a cable I would ride there all the time for that reason.
To a certain extent, not being stoked on a triple flip off the kicker is like saying that the dude who just landed a quad on a snowboard off a purpose built kicker should not count. It's like saying that quad should not count because he didn't do it off a natural kicker in the back country landing in 4 feet of fresh powder, because back country snowboarding is the only real form snowboarding.
I've been riding the G21/G23 (they have both) at OWC every wed for the last 3 weeks and am hooked. I love both the boat and the cable. One nice thing about the cable besides the breadth of challenges it offers is the amount of people you hook up with as fellow enthusiasts. Quite frankly the idea of objecting to calling it wakeboarding when you are on the cable seems like a petty mentality that is rooted in some kind of insecurity.
Andy, that wasn't thomas. That was kyle walton and the homeless crew. And then the oak guys. And the name change totally stuck.
as for the topic, i don't wakeboard but i respect what this guy did and how he pushes himself. And i also dig byerly's enthusiasm for it, and how he's a part of wakeboarding in a different way. The ramp really doesn't matter--eventually everything gets bigger and it requires balls and skill to do anything on it. Look at how pipes in snowboarding have changed and it's not cheating or "less than."
Also, i don't think waterboarding would ever be an acceptable name because it's a form of human torture. Changing the name doesn't change what you do.--i think you'll all be OK.
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And thinking back, colin wright was the first guy who wrote an article suggesting a name change for wakeskating, and he wrote that in the early nauts. One of the first times the word wakeskate was in print was with bill mccaffray's article called "wakeskate" in 1998 for wakeboarding magazine.
Last edited by electricsnow; 06-17-2015 at 1:20 PM.