Wakeboarding Mag. Letter of the Month+ bad news..

I wrote into wakeboarding mag back when we had got busted for winching down at the lake on the ice. Anyways it made it into the mag, and I won a new wakeskate. Pretty cool i thought. Check it out if you get a chance..




Anyways, while riding over the weekend my buddy chad was doing huge front rolls all day, and they were looking real good. Then he ended up wrecking on one of them. I swung around to pick him up, and i asked if hes goin again, when he informed me that he broke his leg. He was not kidding! Snapped both Tibia and fibula! the bone came right out of his skin. I jumped in and we unbolted the bindings from the board then removed the one boot(good leg), we flew back to the launch and medics n police met us. Props to them, did a great job. It was quite a day on the lake...The funny thing is that the fish comission showed up and it was the guy who gave us the ticket from winching. Filled out a bunch of paper work with him, and we ran into him again in the ER. We BS'd for awhile and I ended up telling him that his face is going to be in the june issue. In the end he ended up being a good guy and said to swing over to their boat if we see him so he can check out the artical. Were trying to get in the "friend zone" with this guy, maybe save us on some fines next time.

Wow... bummer. Best of luck to your friend. That's nasty.

I love the guy in cut off shirt with the needle.

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gave me the shivers

ahaha ya the guy in the cut off is our buddy pat who is a medic, and just rolled down when he heard the call. I thought that was pretty cool of him.

Ya i even have a hard time looking at that pic. They cut my laces out of my boot, so i gota find some new ones somewhere. All the white on the boot was red by the time it was all done with. I dont know if i want to ride with them anyways..i think they are cursed now. I cut a deal on them if you wana buy ahahah. Mint condition.

heres the letter with the guy who gave us the fine

So hows the wakeskate ?


Just kidding, definitely a huge bummer, hope he is okay.

should send that letter to alliance as well and get some wakeskate shoes

that sux about the broken bones though. good luck to him and your crew making friends with the enforcers

That sucks for your buddy. Hope he gets well soon.

How much was the ticket for winching?

My buddy did the same thing with a Scare Crow last year... we made a mess on the Union Point dock with all the blood.

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Hope he has a quick recovery. Did they nail it? I did that 15 years ago on a horse....just takes time.

Sounds like a good plan to make friends with that guy!!

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what exactly did you get the fine for? like what law were you breaking?

The jeep that had the winch was parked on the lake bed (because the water was so low).

I posted some pictures and a larger size version of the article on the homepage here: http://wakeboardpittsburgh.com/

Its good to see some people in our area in a wakeboard magazine. The last time was when they did the 50 states article and our local nautique dealer was quoted as saying that our wakeboard scene is dismal...

There are a ton of people who wakeboard in Western PA, but no body knows each other because we are separated into small sections on the rivers by locks and dams. We are working on fixing this with the website.

Get well soon Chad!

Oh yeah, parking on a lake bed is illegal in PA. I did not make that very clear in my above post. That is why they got the ticket.

Ya kyle is right. Website is nice man! I will spread the word to locals about it. but ya, when we wer at the hospital talkin to the guy he said that as long as we dont take the jeep down on the shore we are good. My buddy ernie already made legs for the winch so we can just drive stakes into the ground and the winch is good to go. I remeber that article about the scene being "dismal". I realisticaly live in the middle of nowhere pa, so that comment wasnt far from the truth.

- also ernie lost in court. fine was $120. we split it 3 ways to be fare

Haha I just read that yesterday. Sucks about your buddy. Sorry to hear about the ticket but nice to hear more about your story. Peace.

I talked to him the other day. Hes home now, and doing theropy. Ill be back in town after finals next week "thank god!", and ill b swingin by to check up on his ass. I got a feeling hes not guna b riding for awhile.