transition from cable to boat

generally people ride boat and have questions about how to ride cable. I'm quite the opposite. I've only ridden behind a boat twice and that was when I first learned to ride. Next week I'm going out with some people I met to ride behind there X-star. I can do a variety of rolls and raley based tricks on a cable. How hard will it be for me to take my cable tricks to the boat?

just don't use the wake and you should be fine!

lol...that's what I was thinking, I'll just do air tricks

benjamin, my case is the same. I've actually learned on the cable and gone for the boat just last season. It is really hard. You get the wake, but you lose the catapult. It's different. You'll get some really bad slams. Falling behind a boat is way more painful and surprisingly hard. Make some wake to wake jumps. It's not that easy although you might throw some really impressive tricks on the cable. Then try some spins. Then go for backroll and/or raley. When doing a raley you should wait a little more before you pull out your board, you should use the throwing force of the wake, and your catapult is weaker.

Boat riding is great fun, so... go for it! The beast of it all is when you ride both on cable and boat.

(Message edited by georgi on April 16, 2007)

A friend of mine who only rides the cable went out on my boat and landed a raley on his first outing.