As someone who has spent many, many years treating a boat like a jet ski
, what I see in that video is tabs all the way up, and a little too much speed for his settings. His bow gets high enough that his air speed actually created lift on the bow, and his tail being heavy, of course, stalled and dropped - or actually followed the natural arch of the jump. It's a good lesson about picking between two choices when wake jumping - go high, or go fast - unfortunately he did both. You can get the same height he did, going slower - with positive drive trim and tabs up, dropping the throttle right before hitting the wave to drop the bow into the wave, then getting back on it as you go up the wave, but you're gonna be bow high, so the speed must be kept down - to avoid his exact adventure. You can get alot of air this way, but your speed drops way down by the time you land - to avoid trouble. If keeping the speed he did, positve drives may have been ok for getting good air, but you would have to keep the tabs down to some degree, to get a more level flight, without playing with the throttles so much. It's just one of those things that you learn from doing, but getting to know your particular boat's handling is critical - with no-one in the boat, so they don't become victims of your learning curve
. He just got that one wrong that day, as could happen to anyone that enjoys the extremes - and it's very unfortunate for all involved. I'm just glad no-one has any footage of my learning curve
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