I had my first taste of this about a week ago. It is hard to slip in activities such as this with the kids etc. but I was able to sneak away with a friend for a few hours and 4 of us were on the boat (a centurion Enzo 23 foot) and it was awesome!!
I have experience wakeboarding, knee boarding, snowboarding, etc. Never actually surfed though, but this was awesome. Especially as I am getting older and this was easier on the body. I am just tired of how much a wakeboard crash hurts.
Now I need to buy a boat for this. To bad they are so much money.
As far as how I did…getting up was easy, I was unable to release the rope as I still need to get used to the speed control with the front foot weighting. As Noted above I am used to other boards and the weighting of the front/back foot is quite a bit different.
If so, I’m not understanding what your problem is with letting go of the rope. This should be fairly easy for a wakeboarder to do. Maybe your surfboard is too small?
Good question. I was able to surf the wake, but I held the rope so that if I lost the wake I could just pull my self back into it.
Due to light running out I only got 1 set of 4 runs. So total of 15 minutes (?). And did not want to spend the entire time waiting in the water for the boat. So I kept the rope as a safety net.
All that being said I did manage to actually surf the wave.
I have no doubt I would be able to ditch the rope with a little more practice. First time on a surfboard with less then 15minutes (likely a high estimate) on the board.
Wakeboarding and snowboarding I would say are fairly different as you tend to bias the rear foot more then you would on a surf board. Particularly the snowboard (where my real proficiency used to lie) in powder.
I forgot to add I have not wakeboarded in over two summers, and have not snowboarded in 5 winters.
What I noted was when snowboarding powder I would have been biased to the back foot, nose of the board up and typically weight shifting side to side more then front back. ( there are of course exceptions to this)
On the surf board the weight bias from front to back foot determined your speed in relation to the boat. If I biased the front foot it would move towards the boat, lean back and I would move away from the boat. Once in that sweet spot I could carve left/right.
What I would mistakenly do was put to much weight on the back foot and move to far back, before I knew it I would lose the wake. With experience I have no doubt I would get better at this.
We have a supreme surf 226 and the speed and where the weight is placed the boat are huge factors. we ass 2500lb of ballast and have about 7 people and the perfect speed is 10.9. Less people and less weight the perfect speed is 10.4. If you want a shorter steeper wake pull everyone in the back. For a smaller longer wave more people up front. It is a fun weigh to almost feel the waves… unless you put 2 boats close together. That does feel like an ocean wave and is way way way more fun.
I am goofy foot so the right rear ballast was filled. And three in the boat were on the right. The wake was fairly tall but was short. Not sure why the front ballast were not filled, but what do I know.
I believe the boat owner said when all ballasts are full it will hold 4500lbs. I have not verified this.
Thanks for pointing that mistake out. I meant to say I am goofy foot. I ride on the right side of the boat toes toward the wake.
The owner of the boat was also goofy. The two others were regular. We started with the boat set up with the lef ballast full and the two regular riders surfed.
