Small wake, need board with pop

[MattFL]

I am in the beginner category at wakeboarding, and I'm ready to buy a new board. My boat is small; 17' Whaler, less than 2000 pounds loaded, relatively no wake. I am 6', 155 pounds. I need a board that is friendly enough for me to learn tricks on, but has enough pop to get me some air from a very small wake, or from my own hopping on flat water. What are your suggestions? I've seen guys cruise outside the wake, dig the board in on flat water and do front and back rolls just from the hop, so that gives me hope for some trcks in my little no-wake boat.

[kristian]

There is the debate of weather 3-stage or continous rocker will give more pop on a small wake. And really that doesn't matter. What you want to look for is a board (135-139 ish) with a wide tip/tail for maximun surface area.
a couple to look at and are good to learn on:
LF Trip 138
LF Team 139
Jobe Lyman 136 or 141
Double up Summit 137
CWB Pure 135 or 141

[Frye]

there is boards out there designed for smaller wakes, and everyone of them is 3 stage. so if that doesnt show anything.... hahahaha :wink:

[kristian]

Tell me which boards.
Factors like tip and tail width would have more effect on the pop than rocker. Three-stage and cont' offer differant pop, not more or less (eg. keith lyman)
3-stage usually have more rocker made for bigger wakes. A 3 inch rocker wouldn't work aswell on a small wake as a 2.5.
But I'm not saying boards with 3-stage or cont are better or worse for small wakes, becaue a small wake is a small wake and you're not going to get as much height whatever you use but things like surface area would make more differance over rocker type in such a case, in the end it all comes down too personal preferance.

[Frye]

well 3 stage is designed for an up then down pop. and continuous is for distance. sooo the 3 stage would work better for a small wake because small would be more up then down when you get a bigger wake you start going up more then out to the flats more.

[kristian]

I don't know about that, going w2w on a small wake you dont go very high, but blasting out into the flats I find much more height. But as I said 3-stage boards are usually designed for biggers wakes because they have big rockers (3-stage was first designed to give speed to boards with too much rocker a 3inch cont' rocker would be slow as hell). Taking my origin skull (3inch 3-stage rocker) is terrible on a small wake. Something like a belmont was much better. Like 2-4 feet over 7-8 feet. A small 3-stage would work well.
Still asking where is this list of boards designed for small wakes?