Gates

[BraceMaker]

@GK - its not necessary, just a thought on how you could tweak the game. Using the 55's as a point where you'd have to be in the wakes for instance.

 

Its all functionally the same as the gate, just with less probability of a full on miss.

[Dusty]

I have seen folks miss the gates every way they can be missed- espeically on the exit (6, no continuation, for up course of right hand gate ball))- even by some pretty good skiers on occasion (usually in trouble at six ball.) I have missed that one too when sun glare made one or both invisible.

What it might boil down to is changing the rule could create another tier of records- old way v. the new way or some such. Since the World rules seem to govern these days, it would probably take a whole lot of people on board to accomplish any such change.