Kid ejected off tube behind surf boat (slow motion)

Kids tubing behind a surf boat get launched into the air in slow motion video.

[Corey-Goodwin]

Every kid should have a memory like this. I remember looking at my cousin in the air upside down vividly when I was 7 on almost the same tube with a similar wake

[jaredh]

Mom’s freaking out.

Dad’s laughing hysterically.

The kid understands the idea of death for the first time.

[peterkovach]

This made me weirdly nostalgic and miss my Dad.

[Nik-oknu]

Man, an entire generation of kids were brought up being absolutely PUNISHED by their dads and uncles on these tubes! My big toe nail got ripped off once when my uncle cornered his jet boat somewhere between 50 MPH and Mach 1 while towing me on a tube! I cried, he laughed, and I was tougher afterwards! Good old fashioned character building stuff here!

[pauharpe]

Love seeing kids living on the edge, memories he will never forget..priceless

[hazysativa]

Thats a ride he will never forget! Those are the best memories ever as a kid.

[jewcyk]

Man, the best of times; trying to hold on for dear life, shifting weight with your friends around the tube so you don't flip while your dad is looking for every possible wave to destroy you with. I've got home videos I need to go watch.

[charlesd]

We call waves lined up in a row outside of the wake a “graveyard.” The challenge is to give a good ride with causing injury. Every dad has experienced the following scenario. Kids say, “don’t throw us off.” No problem. After about 5 minutes the kids act bored and pretend to be sleeping on the tube. Then mom says “get ‘em!” Then the driver speeds up, hits waves, tosses the kids off, kids cry and say “why did you do that?”…… then they ask for another ride.

[petehaack]

As a kid, I would think this was awesome! As an older guy, I now look at it and be like "broken hip...."

[iroc]

You haven't lived until you catch air like that! Or the proverbial water enema at 50 mph! LOL. That hurts!

[Imugi]

Oh man I miss doing things like this. My dad used to tow us into this little cove on the local lake and start doing circles in the cove and the waves would start bouncing back off the shore and meeting back in the middle and they'd get MASSIVE. I've been thrown in the air like this more times then I can count and it was fun as hell. We didn't have a visit inner tube like that, we just had those little circular ones that could carry 2 people each hanging off a side.

[claytongibson]

Oh yeah, these things build character. My dad used to think it was hilarious to sling my brother and I through the weeds along the sides of, really, any Florida river or stream. Bonus points if we fell off in said weeds.

He'd swing back around while we were fighting for our lives and shout "WATCH OUT FOR THAT SNAKE!" or "WATCH OUT FOR THAT GATOR!".

Lol, good times.

[ToG_]

That is fuckin awesome! Brought me straight back to being a kid. Time flies...and so do small children

[Yoshikage__Kira]

Kid really said "Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one."

[laurasutcliffe]

He looked rather victorious whilst careening through the air.
I give it an 8.6

[odog]

My grandpa used to take me and my sister and cousins tubing every year. Really good times. He passed a year and a half ago to cancer at just his mid 60s. I am so glad we went tubing with him though. I will never forget the memories I made.

[gregorysagegreene]

Kid is like: "A W W E S O M M E !!!
I'm flyin'!"

[WokerThanThou]

He's hangin' out there like spiderman, getting ready to glom on to a wall.

[Tonnsfabrication]

That is what you call a life long chiropractic patient.

[dlakerguy]

I love how the kid that stayed on the tube looks over to see his buddy isn't there anymore!