Greatest ball 6 ever

[andjules]

Sandro Ambrosi (Mex) at the World Games

https://instagram.com/p/BXNrhZBlPVe/

[MattP]

Score is 5.5... but that video is freaking awesome. Mapple used to pull out some amazing body slides and somehow get another buoy

[andjules]

Yes, Mapple was great at those slides, but I never saw him bounce into the air like this guy.

p.s. @MattP is there a way to embed that video in my post?

[Texas6]

That's fantastic. @MattP, curious how you judged that at 5.5? His ski appeared outside of 6, did he miss gates?

[liquid d]

no exit gates...score 5.5

[MattP]

@andjules I fixed the video in your post.

@Texas6 rounded 6 but didn't get to the buoy line before the exit gates.

[MuskokaKy]

sweet vid. wasn't THAT far off from making gates either. great dock story

[keithh2oskier]

He missed the exit gates by like 15-25' If you look right as he is crossing the wakes back you can see them.

[MISkier]

Even if he had made the gates, I believe the score is 5.5 once he leaves skiing position - even if it is eventually regained.

 

The definition of skiing position always perplexed me. It would seem you would violate it each time you jumped the wake and lost contact with the water.

[klindy]

@MISkier if he had made the gates it would have been 6. You are incorrect about "once he leaves skiing position - even if it is eventually regained".

 

Rule 8.06 states "If the skier does not lose possession of the tow line, has at least one ski on at all times, and ultimately regains skiing position, there has been no fall."

 

 

[klindy]

@rico you're right, IWWF rules apply. Even so, the skier was "ultimately able to regain control", he never lost possession of the tow line, he's riding forward with a ski on his feet, and his weight is entirely supported but his ski. That said, no fall occurred and he score would be 5.5 because he didn't get back to the boat guide buoy line before the exit gate.

 

 

[MISkier]

@klindy, I totally zeroed in on the definition of skiing position and neglected to read the definition of a fall directly above it. Thanks for the reminder.

[klindy]

@rico - if they got back to the buoy line before the gate the score would have been 6 (at least SHOULD have been 6). If they went thru the gate, the skier continues to the next pass.

[Gloersen]

phenomenal effort!

 

@rico - is that a trick question? Doesn't look like an AWSA approved towboat - no US sanction; score 0

[Texas6]

I believe that's the boat we all discussed last week manufactured out of Europe. I do believe it to be certified

[John Brooks]

I hurt just looking at that amazing feet!!

[bigskieridaho]

Beast

[keithh2oskier]

My shoulder dislocated just watching it.

[BraceMaker]

Finally got to see the boat everyone was discussing. Looks like a tug going down the course.

[GregHind]

My understanding is that the skiing position rule came about because of Brett Wing. From memory, he was slalom skiing in a top tournament and fell off around 5, tumble turned and completed the course. @Edbrazil may remember better. Brett actually completed the run but there was an argument from some that he was not in a skiing position. I saw video and it was amazing that he had time to tumble turn during a 35? off run without missing a buoy. By the look of the rule today, it seems the powers that be agreed!

Here is a video of him in action (unfortunately not the tumble turn in question but I think that is on the video you can still purchase Waterskiing with Brett Wing). That video blew me away when I first saw it. I had no idea those things could be done. And the instructional bits were brilliant. "To barefoot backwards, start on step off ski, turn around backwards, increase boat speed, step off". If only it was that easy for everybody else!