Front foot

[JAS]

Is there anything special you guys are doing between the second wake and turn to get COM centered over front foot?

[ski6jones]

I'm trying to keep my COM, or at least the vast majority of weight I apply to the ski, through my front foot at all times. From the pull out to the exit gates, so nothing special between second wake and turn. If I'm not over my front foot coming into the ball it usually means I stayed in my pulling position too long, not allowing the boat to pull my back up over the top of my ski.

[skialex]

Arms pinned to the vest!

[cragginshred]

Scott Rabeneau came to our lake and gave me a cool on land drill; get in your on dock pull position, then rock onto the soles of your feet and hold that. this is what you should be doing through the center of the wakes.

[Than_Bogan]

@cragginshred‌ Hm, I can't imagine telling someone to do that. Maybe I've missed the memo on a new technique?

[gregy]

@cragginshred‌ @Than_Bogan‌ Maybe he was talking about what Seth is talking about here to advance the ski?

 

[cragginshred]

@Than_Bogan Scott could describe this in person better than I with words. He coached down at Acapulco for 25 seasons and has helped me become a better skier this year!

 

[GaryWilkinson]

I find that if I'm not free of the boat in the pre-turn, or in other words, haven't generated enough speed before the second wake, I stay back too far, hold my edge too long and really don't have time to start a controlled turn that brings me over the front of the ski.

 

Without enough energy, momentum, angle and speed the ski is too flat and gets left behind too early= reach to the boat and bad bend at the waist. And zero chance of getting on the front foot in a controlled and easy pre-turn. You have to have enough speed/energy to the outside of the course to be able to do a smooth edge change and then get onto the front of the ski more. With this outward speed and energy it's very difficult to get on the front without bad results.

 

Watch what's happening before the edge change, if you are stacked and generating a good amount of speed up to the 2nd wake, it will set you up to stay tall, come on the front with the handle close and low, and thus allow the inside edge of the ski to bite in front of the boot and turn nicely.

 

Watch Terry Winter 1/4 speed BOS on you tube and you'll see this in perfection !

[JAS]

Great tips guys, Thxs

[ForrestGump]

Great topic and one I lived this weekend.

 

Chad Scott, Tyler Scott, Jerry Jackson, and Dane Mechler spent the weekend with us at Cypress on their way to Nationals. I got to see a lot of elite skiing. Saw 39s going down at 36 and 34mph. One thing was apparent. None of them make any sort of body move to move up over the front foot. It all starts behind the boat. It's a continuous outbound flow of the inside hip and handle that leaves their inside hip advanced and their core and shoulders centered over their front foot. Once they leave the second wake the handle never stops moving. They are constantly advancing it(the handle) while keeping the inside hip on the other side of it from the boat. First time to watch Dane from the boat and I was extremely impressed. Now I know what @Horton means when he says "flowey". After I watched Dane's opening pass for the first time from the boat, I said "So that's what @tfin has been trying to communicate to me."

 

I've got to say, it was a pretty awesome saturday and sunday. Like a clinic with Chad, Tyler, Jerry Jackson, and Dane all coaching. And then Sunday we had a small C tournament with Chad driving and Dane judging. Good stuff. As the line gets shorter I usually start loosing the line more and more on my offside. Third round, after getting some coaching from Dane on shore after the first two, I actually felt the pull of the boat coming through my reach arm, shoulder and peck at 28 and 32 off on my offside turns. That was a first. And the first time I could trust the ski was going to come under me like I wanted it. Of course at 35 I exploded and went back to my usual. LOL. But now I have felt what they were telling me.

[gregy]

Dane's 39 looked really good at nationals. Very smooth skier, he impressed me also. Oh by the way 2@41 off with a tail. @gator1 looked like he was on Wiley bindings more ammo for you theory. @shaneH what's he using double binding or rtp?

 

[Chef23]

Awesome skiing fun to watch. Even though it is propaganda for Goode I like the fact that Dave put this video together for the. Men's 1 champion.

[mylemsky]

@ShaneH please elaborate more on "the handle never stops moving"...forgive me.

 

Any one have any Mechler in boat vid?

[ForrestGump]

Next time he's at Cypress, I'll get some in boat video. As far as the handle never stops moving...... He keeps it always advancing crosscourse and then outward. And he keeps his inside hip(right going left and left one going right) advancing with the handle. He does it all the way to the top of the arc and the result is that when he reaches and gets to the apex, his hips and shoulders are already countered and open to the shore. There's no counter movement. Instead the counter builds all the way from center.

[mylemsky]

Thank you @ShaneH‌