Slowing down a 230 Questions

[joshugan]

I have been seeing quite a few videos about slowing the boat down so that you can learn new tricks with much softer landings. I have a 2008 230 and ride around 22.5 to 23 in order to get a good wake on both sides and have the wakes be narrow enough. Does anyone have experience and advice with slowing a 230 down but still getting a good wake?

I'm contemplating slowing it down substantially and just doing single wake jumps on each side. Any thoughts on that?

[hal2814]

I had a 230. The short answer is no. It really can’t do slow well. Your only real solution is to drop ballast and even then the boat has a hard time cleaning up under 20mph. My “slow speed” was 20mph with 50% ballast all around and the hydro gate on full vert.

[swatguy]

What tricks are you trying to learn ?

the 230 wake won’t fully clean up symmetrically at low speeds but you would be able
to slowdown and keep one side of the wake clean .

[joshugan]

Awesome! Thank you both. I figured I could work on tricks with an asymmetric wake. I'm wanting to learn a roll to revert and 360 heelside. Maybe a tantrum too if I feel really comfortable with it. I bruised my ACL real bad when I was trying to learn how to do tantrums a few years ago. Toeside, I'd like to learn how to do a scarecrow and a 360.

I may try to get it down to 15 to 16 mph with an asymmetric wake and a short line. We'll see. I'm an old dog that really wants to learn some new tricks.

[Scooter G]

I like the shorter rope method for the new pony tricks. You don't have to work as hard to get across the wake, but you do lose hang time. If you could get the speed down a few clicks (maybe to hal2814's slow speed) and still keep a doable wake, it will soften the fails.
Murray does a great job with his videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0T_v6XCiA

[Waveslayer]

Scooter G has it right. When I was competing many years ago, we would shorten the rope at least 10 feet to have enough clearance crossing the wake. Slowing the speed won't really lesson the hurt when falling. What you end up doing is edging hard to make up the lost speed to get the "pop" off the wake.

Best practice is the trampoline. Tape a skateboard to your feet. Tantrum is easy as long as you "go all the way up the wake"

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[joshugan]

Thanks everyone! I got the speed down to about 16 mph with an asymmetric wake. Interestingly, to get the wake to shape right, my friend actually found it was much better by putting the wake gate in slalom mode. I was able to get decent pop and got the rotation on a few 360s but really need to train myself for the handle pass. I definitely plan to experiment with it some more. I think 18 mph might be better.

[Waveslayer]

What's your body weight?

Tie a rope to something and practice jumping and handle passing. Spin blindside, backside and frontside. Frontline spins are the easiest out of the 360's .

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[swatguy]

Two ways to work on handle pass. As mentioned above tie rope to something. Jump and spin 360. Or another way I liked. Fill milk jug with water or sand. Grab an old handle with 7-10ft of rope and pas the handle around your body with h momentum. Keeps the jug swinging and acts like tension on the line from the boat.

[Scooter G]

I need to put a tramp board on my winter blahs Christmas wish list, kind of spendy buggers for what they are.
https://www.amazon.com/NorthShore-NS...s%2C161&sr=8-7