Who Was The First Female to do a S-Bend Behind The Boat?
Posted on: March 16, 2009
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Raimi Merritt is the answer, and she did it today (Monday 16th March 2009). We headed out to Darin Shapiro’s place at Ride The Spot to shoot for the morning, and Raimi for sure got the Trick of the Year as far as the female side of the sport is concerned. She nailed it on her second try behind the boat out at Darins, and is a real cool example of how cable riding is making boat riders better. Raimi has been on the Sesitec System 2.0 for the last 2 months, and then took her Raily’s and S-Bends to OWC on the regular cable. It didn’t take too much effort from her to bring it to the boat and raise the bar for female wakeboarding. Congrats to Raimi!!!!
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March 16th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
YEAAAHH RAIMI
March 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
props but as far as trick of the year id take back 5.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
flawless
March 16th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Wicked!
March 16th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
that was sooo sick, i would take backside 5 for female trick of the year, but s bend is really sick…its going to be a close one.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
agreed on the back 5 … and the year just started
March 16th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
NIcely done! Max and chris, not sure if you ride but if you do try a few bs 5’s and also a few sbends and see if you still think the same. 95% of the pro men do a bs 5 but how many do a Sbend? with the new scoring system a sbend will do a lot more for the pro men then a bs 5 but they still aren’t doing them. make you wonder why!
mad props for Raimi
JL
March 17th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Absolute awesomeness!
March 17th, 2009 at 10:55 am
if u fall on a bs5 u pop the handle or slip out on your heals on an s-bend you get delt with thats not even close espically for girls she is a hard ass
March 17th, 2009 at 10:55 am
ps who didnt give that 5 stars what a d bag
March 17th, 2009 at 11:01 am
were talking about the women not men arent we
March 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
yeaaaa raimi……owes it to her cable coach…..letgittttttt
March 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
and if youre going to bicker take it to wakeworld
March 17th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
About time someone did a trick with with some consequence looks good
March 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Sooooooooooooooooo SICK!
March 17th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
sick as hell YEAH!!!
March 17th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Sweet!! Thats s was clean as hell and definitely stepping up the womens game. Id watch out for Nicola trying this soon
Personally Id want TOTY to go this, not taking away from the Back 5 which is awesome, but as someone else already said, try a back 5 and an sbend behind the boat, you’ll quickly appreciate the difference. I would put difficulty of the back 5 above the sbend, but the danger factor of the sbend makes it the winner I think.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:55 am
je n ai jamais vu une fille aui a autant de couilles que Raimi.
that was really gangstar Raimi
congrats
March 19th, 2009 at 9:25 am
So SWEET!!!! Really cool to see a girl stepping up. The guys saying a Back 5 should be TOTY are clearly not riders. I have made back 5’s and also caught edges while learning ,they are not fun falls but falling on a sbend isn’t even in the same class. You couldn’t pay me to try one!
March 19th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Yea Raimi!
OWC is proud of you and knows all the hard work that you have put in this winter. Wait till the wakeboard world sees your other “first — by a female rider”
OWC
March 20th, 2009 at 10:56 am
THANK YOU RAIMI!!! way to represent the ladiesss
March 31st, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Raimii keep ripin, ur sick!!
April 15th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Great site, Good info
July 6th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
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