Axis Wakeboard Boat Forum

I've been lurking on several forums for the past few months so I figured I should join and introduce myself.

A few months ago I was dead set on x-stars until I dug into the forums. At that point I knew Axis would fit the bill both in cost and performance. My wife was able to facilitate the purchase while I was deployed and during my limited time home (30 days) we accumulated an additional 76 hours. I haven't done much wakeboarding in the past and when I did it was behind 17ft I/O's and jetskis. So with a wake specific boat I knew I needed to properly learn to wakeboard in order to maximize our A22. We loaded up and went to Texas for a week and it was there, at Texas Mastercraft, after a few lessons I was wake to wake 180's. My first wake to wake 180 was behind our Axis later that evening. The Axis wake made it so easy. I'm only at 65' back right now, but I hope to stretch that out next summer when I'm home.

I think Axis makes a great boat and the price makes it very enjoyable. We are already wanting to get an A24 with surf gate in the next year or two.

I believe most of you are familiar with this A22. It was purchased from a member here (get_sum).

I really couldn't dial in a good surf wake. Tried all different configurations. I guess I need more weight.

Welcome. Congrats on your purchase. Take your time on progression and don't worry about line length. I rode at 60' behind my A22 all the time and now 65' behind the A24'. Weird how the wake is more narrow from A20, to A22, then down to the A24

Zach!! Nice to see you made it home safely. I'm currently deployed as well. Yes, more bow weight. Take the bow bag out from under the cushions and put it on top of the front seat. Then fill it as much as you feel comfortable. Slam that 900 in the rear corner. If it's just you and the wife, take the other 900 out, plug it up with sumo plugs, pop out the seat on the surf side, put that down in there and fill it up about half or 2/3 with a portable pump.

People ballast really helps out too!

Thanks get_sum. I will just buy 1 or 2 more bags to place on the rear seats. Good gosh these boats require a lot of weight.

On an unrelated note what's up with the Clarion EQ unit under the dash? I understand it's purpose but did it actually work when I took possession of the boat? I tried all sorts of different connection combinations with no luck. Is it missing anything thats needed to make the EQ headunit work? I would really like to get MTX system "tuned" as best I can before I make the final decision on a new stereo.

Here is a short Go-Pro Studio video of some surfing in Texas.

http://youtu.be/RRDAjc_29NU

I disconnected the RCA cables to it because of a lot of feedback with the system. I installed it relatively recently before you purchased it and didn't have time to tune it properly.