Kneeboarding. How hard can it be?

[OLLIE45]

To cut a long story short, our Daughter has just started learning to kneeboard but the guy teaching her has left the area. She has asked me to buy a kneeboard and rope so she can carry on. Our boat should be good to go as the previous owner was an avid skiier.
How hard is it to learn to tow a kneeboarder? I have only watched from a distance in the past and to be honest , I wasn't paying that much attention. Any advice welcome.
Thanks

 

[lovezoo]

Its not that hard to do, especially if you are young. The main thing is to have the nerve to 'pop' up on to the board in one go.

Make sure you buy a decent board though, as cheap ones are a waste of money. A good alternative is a ringo - cheaper, no skill involved and around about 90% of the fun.

 

[enterprise]

I think your asking about driving the boat with kneeboarder in tow?, well we managed it without lessons or special technique when we had our first sportsboat.

Technique depends on how the kneeboarder starts, deepwater or from the beach, you need enough pull to get them going without being too fast that the kneeboarder is fighting to hang on.

Discuss a few signals before you start, nod of head speed ok, shaking of head slow down etc, your kneeboarder will let you know when things are right.

It's just practice to find a technique that suits you both.

 

[MapisM]

Enterprise pretty much said it all already, no rocket science here.
But imho, the best favour you can do to your daughter is teaching her to waterski, rather than kneeboarding.
Aside from being much more enjoyable once you get hold of it (and it doesn't take so much, really), kneeboard is a devil's invention from someone who must belong to an orthopaedic lobbie.
I know of more than one folk who had vertebrae compression problems with it.

 

[OLLIE45]

Thanks for taking the time to respond guys.
So putting them all together, maybe the best plan is to skip the kneeboard, buy a ringo for fun that the youngest daughter can join in with as well AND a set of skis to keep the eldest daughter's interest going.
Good to hear that there isn't anything complex in towing either. We will give it a crack.
Thanks

 

[kid's inheritance]

When I learnt to water ski, it was compulsory to have 2 on board,1 watching the skier and 1 on the helm.We had different hand signals but the principle was the same.The more grunt your boat has , the easier it is to get up on the plane as it were.
regards
rob