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North East wakeboarding lessons on New Jersey’s premier wakeboarding Lake Hopatcong.  We are in full swing here and the lake is like bath water.   We are currently accepting wakeboarders of any level.  Learn how to wakeboard, or polish your advanced skills and finally get that big trick you’ve been working on like the Air Raley. We are 45 minutes west of NYC.  Use the form below to contact us.

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I had a wakeboarding packed weekend.  Three lakes in 3 days! Started the weekend on Friday night with a wakeboarding session on Lake Hopatcong with 3 of my friends from snowboarding Mountain Creek.  We were riding behind a Moomba Mobius.

We then woke up 8 hours later and did some wakeboarding on Indian Lake in Denville, NJ.   Same crew on Saturday morning.  That was pretty sweet! The boat we were using was a little outboard with an 85HP engine.  The boat had a homemade wakeboard tower and the wake was SICK!!  Dock starts and buoy ollies were what the day was all about.

I then hit up the super secret lake on Sunday morning with 2 other wakeboarding friends. We rode behind a Malibu Wakesetter LSV 23. Sorry but I can not give the name of this lake because if I did, everyone would be hitting it up and this lake is S.I.C.K.!!!  Plus I promised not to tell about this jewel of a lake.

Needless to say, I am sore.  Prior to Friday,  I haven’t wakeboarded since March.  The water is much warmer now

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Here are some photos from last year wakeboarding on Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey

These particular photos were mostly early morning wakeboarding sessions.

NJ Wakeboarding 2009 – Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey

You wake up at 5am on a clear day with only one thought on your mind.  You are about to start your day off wakeboarding on the calmest water you’ve ever seen.   You find the perfect cove to wakeboard in and start your session.  Five minutes into your session, a fishing boat drives into your cove and anchors right in your path. What do you do?

Being a wakeboarder that enjoys fishing, I can relate to both sides.   It really comes down to respect.  If you give respect, you get respect.  There are some angry fishermen out there that would plow their boat into your wakeboard boat if you did them wrong.  There are also angry wakeboarders out there that think the water belongs to them just because they wakeboard in that spot on a regular basis.

It’s all BS! We all love the water so getting all pissed off because someone is trying to share the water is wrong.  Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of idiots out there – we call them AWAB’s (ass holes with a boat) that have no idea about boating or respect in general. Those people need to seriously get with the program and learn how to carry themselves on the water – or get off the water.

Wakeboarding leaves you in a vulnerable state, you are in the water hanging onto a rope – safety is always on a wakeboarder’s mind because a lot is at stake.  Wake created by other boats is also a concern for wakeboarders because it messes us up.

Wake created by other boats also screws up fishermen.  The loud engine scares away the fish.

Wakeboarders and Fishermen on the same water is obviously not the best option but there are things that we can all do to make the best of the situation.  I am curious to see if anyone out there has any ideas or stories about this topic.  I honestly don’t care if there are fishing boats in the area.  It’s the AWABs that get me going.  If you drive a boat, you need to know and follow the rules. PERIOD!

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The Lake Hopatcong Fireworks were canceled on the 2nd due to rain. They are now happening on Sunday July 5th at 915pm

Fireworks Sponsored by LHYC – On the Lake – July 5 – 9:15 PM

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Fireworks on Lake Hoptacong – Thursday, July 2 – 9:15 PM – Presented by LHYC Check here for fireworks – Rain date is Sunday, July 5

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If there was a cable park in NJ, would you go? Being a die hard wakeboarder, I would be there in a heartbeat.  The biggest challenge going wakeboarding is having a boat for starters, and having enough people to go (minimum 3 people in NJ).  A cable park seems like a no-brain-er.  It would bring wakeboarding to the next level in the North East.  All those kids that can not afford a boat would be there killin it! Rails, ramps, kickers, you name it!