Freestyle Waterskiing

I'm going to Ireland with about 25 friends in about a month - some of them own a house there by a lake witha boat, wakeboards, waterskis. I figured I'll try waterskiing a few times to get used to the water, then try wakeboarding (I don't even snowboard/skate, so waterskis to wakeboard will probably be an easier transition than straight to wakeboard). Does anyone have any tips? Is waterskiing anything like skiing deep powder?

I've seen freestyle waterskiing on TV - very fruity - no style at all.

I saw a wakeboarding movie on TV last week too - awesome shit. There were guy doing it with no bindings (I've found out it's called wakeskating) - crazy crazy shit, doing shoveits to sliders and shit - sick.

waterskiing really doesn't seem anything like skiing to me, unless you ski on those big nordic jumping skis, with rubber boots on. If you are just starting out, I would wakeboard, super easy to get up, and ride, and a lot more rewarding, falling is even fun, well no, no it's not. If you have guys there that can waterski or wakeboard you won't have a problem. If not the best way i teach new people is sit them on a dock, no board, stand infront of them while they are sitting up (they should be sitting like they are in a go cart kind of position) and then I reach one hand out and help them to their feet, it's all about letting the guy on top pull you, you wouldn't try to pull him down if you were trying to get up would you? No, so grab his hand or arm with both hands, let him pull and gently scoot up where you ass hits your heels and then stand up. Same exact thing in the water except you have a board on and a rope instead of an arm. If your buddies know how to ride you'll be fine. If you want to reasearch more, check out this site, it is the best for everything.
http://www.wakeworld.com

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Yea, it doesn't really make any diff if you waterskiied before you wakeboard. I have a slalom background, but tons of friends have gotten up on their first tries. It's basically just getting comfortable on the board that takes time.

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Don't know about Willamete but here in Oz we have the River Murray, its some huge fucking river going through three states. Unfortunately its been fucked around and is now salty and pretty low water level but still good for skiing/wakeboarding. If there is lots of snow this season then when it melts it should top th river up (although lots of snow in Australia, chances aren't too good!) They started a pro wakeboading tour here last year going around to all these palces (think there were four events). I had a look when it came down to Adelaide and man did tey pull some big tricks. I think Dan Watkins won it in the end and a couple of guys from the US were here as well.

I Can do a 360 on my water skis flying about a 135 feet.