Wakeboard bindings - quick/easy question

quote:

---

Kid wears a size 8 shoe, bindings for these are 10/12.

---

stuff the toes for now, because in another year or two he will be a 9 or 10

quote:

---

while true, he will have a better experience if his bindings fit well. Nothing worse than loose bindings

---

then have him wear shoes, then it will fit secure and tight

Get the correct size. You can sell them when they outgrow them.

I learned 30 years ago and if they learn with the proper equipment, they will be more comfortable and catch on more quickly.

I'm 47 and I still wakeboard 3-4 times a week and will do some jumps and tricks.

Get him a wakeskate instead. Got one for my son last year and now he wants to go ski school. I didn’t get the pro level model, just the latest one of these (Ronix Electric Collective 41):





Impossible to tear a knee, way more fun to get lined up, and hard tricks are technically hard and not dangerous…until you get to rails.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KI5XNY1RgTA

I was real interested in wakeskating...but answer me this...

My kid is 14 and relatively athletic and coordinated. He is an absolute beginner and has only even attempted wakeboarding once, but that one time he got super interested and has pretty much outgrown the joy of our tube.

I don't see him doing any/many tricks, especially since our boat is a center console bay boat, not any type of real wake-producing boat.

For just regular ole riding around, does a wakeskate increase his odds of serious injury?

quote:

---

For just regular ole riding around, does a wakeskate increase his odds of serious injury?

---

Not really. He can get hurt doing both. Both are very fun. Wakeboarding is generally easier for people to learn. The board is bigger, it floats more, and he's strapped in so he's not constantly trying to figure out what he's doing with his feet.

Wakeskating is a totally different game.

quote:

---

tore my ACL, MCL, and meniscus wakeskating, along with my labrum

---

Dam Son. You know you can bail, right?


Worst I’ve done on a skate is erase my ankle skin on the grip tape and get credit carded.

Haha yeah. I was pretty heavy into wakeskating for several years but it kinda wrecked my body. The knee injury injury was from not getting my back foot back on the board/splitting on a trick called a benihana. A lot of wakeskate injuries involve the back leg knee getting roughed up from splitting.

Like two weeks after I got back on the water after fixing and rehabbing the knee issue, I put my arm through the handle on a backside spin, fell, and got drug by my shoulder for like 30 yards. Felt the pop in my shoulder and knew something tore. MRI confirmed labrum. I couldn't lift my arm above shoulder height for weeks. Gave me a whole new appreciation for Drew Brees .