so when I was wakeboarding on sat (2nd time) I was actually able to get up and ride this time. I had a problem drifting to the heal side (i'm goofy footed) and had a hard time turning on my toe side. If I just used my right arm to hold the rope I could somewhat turn to my toe side. Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong? Could it be my binding setup? I tried the front slightly pointed to the front of the board and the rear straight and then i tried pointing the rear slightly to the back of the board.

eez -

On of the things that my be contributing to your weak toeside edge is your bindings. The best thing to so is to lay the board down in your living room in front of you, after removing the bindings. The stand behind the board and jump up and down, naturally, don't pay too much attention to your feet in the first 10-15 jumps. Just get comfortable, loosely jumping up and down.

On your 25th or 30th jump, look down and your feet in comparison to your board. Then install your bindings in the same fashion.

#1) Make sure you're not too wide, this will stress your knees and cause ligament damage,.
#2) Don't get too ducked or too pigeon toed, you want a balanced stance
#3) Reference your shoulders in regards to your placement of your bindings, keeping knees in mind.

When you go back out, make sure your right hand has the handle at waist height, keeping the placement in line with your center of gravity for balance. If you are above your hip or under, your edge will be effected.

The best bet is to edge out heelside with both hands and try going back and forth in the flats, over and over never crossing the wake. Work on your handle placement and edging back and forth making S's, out there int he flats. The more you do it the stronger your edge. Then beginning straightening your right arm a bit and digging the toeside edge in aggressively, but progressively. You want to start out slow 1,2,3,4 and as you count up to 10 you have to have your hardest most aggressive edge yet.

THANKS!!!!

eez, almost everyone we've ever gotten up does the same thing you're doing, so don't get discouraged. Loc's advice is good. Another version of the same idea is that we tell some people to just try to stay in between the wakes. It's amazing how quickly people pick it up once they realize the boundaries. First, they learn to stop going in that direction, and ever so slowly they start drifting back to the middle. The point is that you need to have some boundaries in which to just work back and forth, over and over. The move to do that is very subtle, almost subconscious.

Eez,

I too am a goofy footed rider!!!!! Everything Loc said about setting up those bindings and where to hold the rope handle is for sure great advice.

I also like sunscapejeffs advice on trying "in-between" the wake going back and forth to give yourself a point of reference to shoot for.

Once you get your bindings set right and feel confident in those settings and the actual feel of the bindings on your feet as far as give and support then I might add to their advice and say: To get a good toe side edge you got to stand up straight with your knees slightly bent, your head faces the boat, your shouldres are square with the boat, your right hip is aligned with the boat, your arms out straight in front of you facing the boat.....but the lower half of your body is totally twisted to face the shore with your pressure and weight pushing on your right toe down and trying to push your right hip away from the boat and towards the shore where your feet are facing. This is only my humble opionion. I can't do a heelside wake-to-wake quite yet, but i can do a toe-side jump with a 180, so i can get a good pull coming in on my toe-side.

thanks for all the help!! I was able to go toeside on saturday!!! Behind my own boat this time (IMG:http://forums.wakeoutlaws.com/style_emoticons/wake/).gif)

(IMG:http://forums.wakeoutlaws.com/style_emoticons/wake/Rockon.gif) Well done!