pl0tz Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 This past summer I was away teaching skiing at Camp Rockmont in North Carolina, and gave up just about everything on the internet, but I did notice that when I got back, WetJacket/ProSkiCoach had vanished.. Does anyone know what happened? I emailed Wade, but never recieved a responce :( I used to be on there religiously, and it's been a slow year not having any waterski forum fun in this winter season. anyways!! I'M ESTATIC!! That Ball of Spray is still around!!!! Feel kinda bad I didn't remember about this forum earlier :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ForrestGump Posted April 3, 2013 Baller Share Posted April 3, 2013 PSC has been gone for two years now. Wade started Wetjacket in it's place, but it pretty well died off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pl0tz Posted April 3, 2013 Author Share Posted April 3, 2013 That's what I'm sayin, I used to use Wetjacket all the time, then it vanished when I got back from camp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Waternut Posted April 4, 2013 Baller Share Posted April 4, 2013 I never even knew about wetjacket. I remember using proskicoach regularly for ski settings and then I had to sign up for an account with wetjacket to access certain pages. Even after doing that, I still didn't know wetjacket was a website, forum, or anything other than a login to get to the fin adjustment page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ForrestGump Posted April 4, 2013 Baller Share Posted April 4, 2013 I just don't think people liked the format of Wetjacket. Last I saw, Wade had moved to Phoenix and was doing web development. Not even sure if he's still skiing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h2odawg79 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I miss PSC and the fam. Wade allowed the Domain name to expire on Wetjacket. But, somehow still owns the rights to PSC.com. Makes me wonder if he has some thoughts of bringing it back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ToddL Posted April 4, 2013 Baller Share Posted April 4, 2013 PSC/WJ - There was a lot of good information about old model skis' stock fin settings... I wonder it that information has been saved somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller A_B Posted April 4, 2013 Baller Share Posted April 4, 2013 http://www.proskicoach.com/skis/radar/strada/201. Some info still out there. I think his idea was to make $$$ by selling memberships to his site. We conversed via email a few times about it. The problem is there are other free sites with pretty good info to compete against, so you would need something pretty unique to get people to pay a monthly fee for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h2odawg79 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 He could have never charged enuf $$$ to profit off of Members. Advertising and Sponsors are where the $$$ is found. I used to talk with Wade quite a bit. He's a Great Guy! Creating optimum SEO, (Which he had and still ranks at the top) building mass appeal and site hits to bring and keep the Advertisers and Sponsors and of course making your Site family BIG by keeping Your Site family Happy to keep the site traffic up... The economy was a lot tougher a couple of years ago. He walked at the right time mentally, but financially, it was very unfortunate timing... The economy is now slowly getting better and people are again buying what other people are advertising! -and others are beginning to do A LOT of advertising... Gear, Equip, Apparel, Alcohol... -it's all about the $$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h2odawg79 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 @MattP, Why do so many of these topics not end up on top of the "Most recent" list???? -new post's put some of these threads 6 or more from the top... edit: this above post went STRAIGHT to #9 ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pl0tz Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 @shane He's still listed with Connelly, so yeah he's skiing @h20dawg79 I i'm noticing the same thing... and yeah PSC was never about getting money from users, Likewise I talked to wade frequently about stuff.. just so everyone's clear, I wasn't meaning to start any ruckus or elevate a form over another, I just wanted to find some answers to unanswered questions.. I hope this post isn't being hidden or edited in some way, I'm very glad ball of spray is up and running! BTW.. to go further off topic, does MB do his lil fireside chats anymore?? or did that die as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h2odawg79 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 @pl0tz, "BTW.. to go further off topic, does MB do his lil fireside chats anymore?? or did that die as well"? @MarcusBrown, With regards to the above post, what are you up to these days? Are there anymore "Live Chat" webcasts in the future? Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller A_B Posted April 7, 2013 Baller Share Posted April 7, 2013 Agree that PSC was not about memberships and it was abandoned. WJ was sprouted from PSC and it was based on free memberships initially and was intended to sell memberships when "premium" content was built into the site, and it also seems to be abandoned now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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