Baller Roger Posted April 24, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 24, 2017 Oldest one I can lay my hands on right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller bigskieridaho Posted April 25, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 25, 2017 Talked to my mom and she couldn't find any old pics of me....I told her keep looking cause I need one for BOS. She said "what's that?" I said it is where the awesome people are. Maybe a pic will turn up soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Mateo_Vargas Posted April 25, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 25, 2017 @Rico is that 5 ball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jimbrake Posted April 25, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 25, 2017 @TomD - was that Western Regionals at Mantua, UT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomD Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 @jimbrake - Nope. Supermasters at Horton Lake. That's my van in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ShererSkier Posted April 26, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 26, 2017 I know I have an earlier one but my parents have it packed away. 1997, ten years old on a Kidder Hotline! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller MattL Posted April 26, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 26, 2017 Skiing in the pool before I hit the lake. I was 3 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jetpilotg4 Posted April 26, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 26, 2017 How well does the pool training help with deep water starts behind the boat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ RichardDoane Posted April 26, 2017 Baller_ Share Posted April 26, 2017 1985 I think. That jet boat was a lot of fun. We used to ski on Lake Entiat when Lake Chelan got rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller MattL Posted April 27, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 27, 2017 @jetpilotg4 Ask my dad @ToddL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ToddL Posted April 27, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 27, 2017 @jetpilotg4 - that was all about having fun. Fun is all that matters for the little ones. Anything that connects skiing with fun equates to early adoption of the sport. FWIW, his next time in the pool was on a ski skimmer. Mom at one end, dad with rope at the other. Mom held the skimmer such that Matt could stand knee-deep ready to go. I just pulled the rope hand-over-hand until he made it across. (50' community pool) 1 Dad Power was all it took to keep him on top and skimming. My arms wore out before his interest. Second time was at a public lake with family floating out about 40' near a floating dock. We did the same thing from the shore line out to the dock. Matt learned how to lean and edge due to his desire to ski close past nearby family. Third step was from shore to boat. We tricked him by keeping the boat in idle and slowly switching from Dad power to the boat's pull. He was then hooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ESPNSkier Posted April 28, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 28, 2017 1977, orange top EP Comp1, vinyl vest, cut off jeans, knees locked out, etc! This thread also made me think about my 1st inboard ski boat: orange/black 1972 Nautique. I loved that boat but hated that wake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller storm34 Posted April 30, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 30, 2017 @ESPNSkier looks familiar! Here's my 72 National Tow Boat I've been restoring over the past few years. Would love to see any other pics you may have! http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj532/chrismars515/47DE53A6-596E-4373-86AD-281603FD0D24_zpskffjccyu.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ESPNSkier Posted April 30, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 30, 2017 @storm34 that boat looks great, nice job! It's not hull serial #1958 by any chance is it? I'll see if I can dig up some other pics this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller storm34 Posted April 30, 2017 Baller Share Posted April 30, 2017 @ESPNSkier Unfortunately it's not. Mine is "1939", another CCFan owns "2011" but I know a few other "promo" owners and will check their serial numbers. Here's a sample from our "Dos Promos" photo shoot at a gathering in North Carolina. Probably the first time these boats have been together in 40 years? http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj532/chrismars515/_TMP6741_zpslm9sbn5h.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller thager Posted May 26, 2017 Baller Share Posted May 26, 2017 Late 70s I think. Hexcel Jacket, LaPoint Ski and hair! Lake Crystal, MN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Gar Posted May 27, 2017 Baller Share Posted May 27, 2017 @thager what color Lapping was that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller thager Posted May 27, 2017 Baller Share Posted May 27, 2017 @Gar Lapping? LaPoint? White/green. Bindings were like wearing loose slippers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Gar Posted May 28, 2017 Baller Share Posted May 28, 2017 Never remember sling a green one. I still have a red one! Got it signed by Kris! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillskiing Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Nobody took a picture. Had huge walmart trainers. Was in my mid twenties behind a chaparral I/O. Took a few months to get up (deep water) and a few more to drop a ski. After that, we got a ski boat, Our ski Brendella was fine. We got Connelly concepts Slalom skis and found a course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Horton Posted May 29, 2017 Administrators Share Posted May 29, 2017 @TomD WOW! Goode ★ HO Syndicate ★ KD Skis ★ MasterCraft ★ PerfSki Radar ★ Reflex ★ S Lines ★ Stokes ★ Baller Video Coaching System Drop a dime in the can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopowpow Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 1988, at Coralville Lake behind the old orange and cream Glastron. I think I'm riding a friend's HO Mach 1. What a stylin life jacket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 6balls Posted May 29, 2017 Baller Share Posted May 29, 2017 @mopowpow good stuff. Started at Iowa in '91...lots of time on Coralville Lake (the Rez) while running tourneys on the river in Waverly, at Eagle Lake in Waterloo, Pickle Farm and Clear Water in Des Moines, and later Dream Lake Estates--you are at Dream Lake Estates, correct? I remember the early days there...two houses and a mud-pile with a big rain before the tournament it was hell getting the promo boats into the water even with a tractor and a lot of people-power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopowpow Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 @6balls, yes I'm at Dream Lake Estate. We only have 1 tournament a year now, the Iowa Games/state tourney. Most of the owners don't ski it anymore. Good thing ISU puts our lake to good use. We used to ski at Coralville all the time before we got our first inboard, my inlaws kept their boat there. We might have seen you, we were usually drooling over the inboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller sunvalleylaw Posted May 30, 2017 Author Baller Share Posted May 30, 2017 @mopowpow , I was a Glastron skier too. Ours was a 1980 with an Evinrude, tan and gold flake brown sparkle, known affectionately as the Sparkle Boat. At some point, we put one of those Casad pylons in. Maybe I will see if I can find an old pic of us skiing in that boat. Visiting Mom this weekend, so could be an opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Glydon Posted May 30, 2017 Baller Share Posted May 30, 2017 Long line barefoot 22 years old circa '92 150hp Johnson on 16.5 Doral ... used to do it all (slalom , skurf. kneeboard) but can't find any slalom pics right off hand ... self taught ... LOTS of painful lessons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopowpow Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 @sunvalleylaw, the Glastron we used was a mid-70s tri-hull, orange and cream. We called it the Dreamcicle. It actually had pretty good hole shot for an I/O, but boy did it go through the gas! Our 1993 Sport Nautique used about half the gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller sunvalleylaw Posted May 30, 2017 Author Baller Share Posted May 30, 2017 @mopowpow , I originally learned behind an old tri-hull, owned by a friend's family. It had something like a Johnson 85 or 90 or something. And you had to pull it up and put it down by hand. You could drain any water in the boat by pulling the plug from the inside, while at speed. And it had 6 gal cans that you had to mix the oil in. We usually took two for a day. It was avocado green and cream. You had to drag a leg to get up on the old Connelly hook we skied on. This was all in the salt waters of puget sound. It was fun to jump yacht wakes too. :) (dang kids!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopowpow Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 @sunvalleylaw, funny you should mention the Connolly Hook. The first time I skied with my husband and family, I skied on a Hook. It felt like slipping on wet ice! Maybe I could handle it a little better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller JAG Posted May 30, 2017 Baller Share Posted May 30, 2017 I think its from '78. Classic Connelly Hook. Wish I still had it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller JeffSwain Posted June 21, 2017 Baller Share Posted June 21, 2017 I think I have you all beat. This was the day I did my first deepwater start on a slalom, ca 1969. Cypress Gardens Lil' Monster! It was in Sarasota Bay, behind Dad's Wellcraft. No full pass at shortline, but boy I was proud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Gar Posted June 24, 2017 Baller Share Posted June 24, 2017 I never got t try that Lil Monster but wanted too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sodbuster88 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 @JeffSwain that is awesome. We have a lil monster still around somewhere along with some other goodies. You've inspired me to dig it out and throw it in the boat for a trip down memory lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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