PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 01, 2010 – (March 1, 2010 –Montreal, Canada) – ID Communications Inc. announces acquisition of worldwide distribution rights for "Gifted” documentary by Brad Priekulis. Featuring noted water skiing pros Freddie Krueger, Willy Asher, Ryan Fitts, Karina Nowlan, Thomas Moore, Billy Suzi, Tom Asher, Damian Sharman, Trent Finlayson, Ian Trapp, and many more top skiers, "Gifted" delivers impact action in a documentary format, featuring a top soundtrack, with a range of top recording artists. For trailer: http://www.idcommunications.org/gifted.html
“Produced and directed by Brad Priekulis of Australia "Gifted" is simply a dose of visual adrenalin rarely seen on TV or DVD. What some of these skiers do on and off the water is just a little nuts...and getting inside the lives of these competitors is just icing on the cake said ID’s principal, Dan Shannon.
"Gifted" will be presented for the first time to international TV and DVD markets at MIPTV in Cannes France in April 2010.
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See the Worlds best Skiers and Boarders as the tour visted Russia, China & Malaysia for all three rounds of the 2009 IWWF Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup.
I would like to formally announce my partnership with Doug and Robby Trimble at SkiSunsetRanch. Earlier in my career I worked fulltime, coaching, traveling around the country giving clinics and skiing tournaments. After a life-changing event in 2005, I greatly reduced my availability to be on the road for coaching. Instead, I focused more on my own skiing and re-establishing my life, coaching some here and there, but nothing like previously.
I am now back where I began my skiing career on the West Coast of Northern California, settling in the Sacramento area. Now the timing and opportunity are right to resume coaching on a full time basis, while also focusing on training close to home.
I'm inviting everyone to come to Sunset Ranch and see what I'm so excited about. Take this opportunity to come experience the ultimate water-ski vacation with individualized coaching and skiing at Sunset Ranch, one of the best sites I've skied. It's one of the premier slalom facilities in the world, with it's surrounding of vineyards and location in sunny Northern California (just 30 minutes south of the Sacramento Airport).
Come ski the West Coast and learn about "west coast slalom". And when you ski with me we'll work on the techniques that I have used and developed for myself through my personal skiing experience, as well as that of a coach. Some of the things we'll work on are...
Learning about counter-rotation, and how it applies to both turns to get the most out of each side.
Learning about proper body alignment, to increase your power and balance.
Learning to control the handle, and learning to separate the edge-change from the release of the handle.
Skiing lighter for increased efficiency and timing management.
Each coaching session will be customized to fit your personal needs. All levels are welcome!
During your time at Sunset Ranch you'll also be able to learn more about, and ride the line of D3 skis including the new Z7 ST, along with trying-out my new T-Factor bindings due to come out this Spring.
Contact SkiSunsetRanch today to book your ultimate water-ski vacation and come ski with me!
Horton: This interview is about ski design, but I think we need to start by telling the readers about you. How did you get started skiing?
Rini: My Grampa, Mom and Aunt all skied so I first skied at my Aunt’s house like just about every Canadian does in the summer. My brother, Dan, and I used to spend a lot of our summer vacation with my Grandparents, and there was a ski club right by their house so we both joined. We used to spend all day hanging out and skiing…we didn’t know any better so we would ski as many times as our name came up in the rotation some days it was 9 or 10 times.
Horton: By your mid twenties you had a few Canadian National titles and were a member of the Canadian world team. How did you go from national champ to world class coach and ski designer?
Rini: I skied with Mike Ferraro for a lot of years. His way of coaching always made me think and question the usual coaching I heard everywhere else at the time. He would always ask me to coach him or coach the kids at his school. When I hit my twenties and couldn’t make enough money skiing, coaching was a natural transition for me. My passion for ski design came from Mike as well. He always worked for Herb. When I opened my own school, I used HO gear so whenever something new came out Mike, Drew and Wade would ask me my opinion. From there he hired me and I have been working for Herb ever since….well, of course, Sully is my real boss!
Horton: How would you describe your coaching philosophy?
The comeback of pure water ski design by Nick Parsons
If you've been skiing for several years and you've been hunting for an increase in buoys and overall better performance, then perhaps the next generation of skis might be something you need to invest in. Over the past decade materials for skis have changed drastically. Between the amount of carbon used and the types of cores within the skis almost all manufactures now produce top world cup stock skis. Now, to narrow it down a bit, ski shapes have drastically started to change for the better. At the moment four ski companies have really started to think out of the box and get back to actual ski shape design. There is a new phase coming in water ski design where water ski companies are designing skis with and for pro athletes. In previous years there has been a lot of ski shape copying only to make small changes and then call it their own. Ski shapes now are starting to be built with a specific style and person in mind and the shape design starts from scratch. These are the fundamental elements that make up pure ski design.
POLK CITY, Fla. – U.S. water ski athletes Makayla Haw (Rio Linda, Calif.), Lauren Morgan
(Odessa, Fla.) and Zane Nicholson (Gallatin, Tenn.) won titles in respective events Thursday as the 2010 Junior Moomba Masters concluded on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia.
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Horton: This interview is about ski design, but I think we need to start by telling the readers about you. How did you get started skiing? 
If you've been skiing for several years and you've been hunting for an increase in buoys and 
MELBOURNE'S Moomba Masters has been described as the "Super Bowl" of water skiing as it reaches its 50th anniversary.
