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Lifer
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Question for the Captain
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7/14/2012 6:42:13 PM
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I am behind the curve on wake boarding and wake surfing especially, which leads to a question. The other day I saw a wake surfing boat take off with a 'surfer' for the first time. The surfer was actually standing on the swim platform and then stepped onto the board with one foot, balanced, and stepped on with the other foot. I have seen surfers take off with very short ropes before but I had never seen this maneuver before. I also understand that on true inboards like the one I was watching the prop is tucked well up under the boat and not out the back like inboard/outboard boats, but this still seemed like a very dangerous maneuver, but apparently is one of the accepted methods of take off for wake surfing.
My question is how is this different from someone just wanting a thrill and riding on the swim platform?
Maybe this falls under the category of laws that need updating. How can one activity, surfing, and the other, thrill riding, be differentiated? I am just curious as I will never participate in wake surfing, or platform riding for that matter.
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