Old guy but still kicking. Suggestions please 28 off 34

[Carl]

https://youtu.be/udt8g5BXbks

[Adam Caldwell]

Shorten the rope!

[ScottScott]

Nice boat.

[Carl]

Here is a 32 off pass. This is where i struggle to be consistent. Thanks for the help

 

https://youtu.be/_2djNbuuQMY

[Adam Caldwell]

@Carl -Definitely seem to be lacking a little energy in the pullout and gate glide. The effort is there, but too many inefficiencys are holding you back from getting out what your putting in.

 

This may sound a little 'abstract'. But if your open to new ideas, read through give it a spin.

 

At the very early stages of the gate, as you begin to initiate motion/movement to pullout and roll the ski on edge, try to move in such a way as to prevent the ski from building angle against the course and boat. In other words try your best to keep the ski parralel with the boat. Note, this is basically impossible as the ski will absolutely create 'angle'. But its not the goal. If we can contorl what happens to the angle of the ski, what then happens on top of the ski should change dramatically. Above the ski, move your entire body - head, shoulders, hips & handle - in a DOWNCOURSE direction toward where the 'zero ball' would be. Resist the urge to only move and Fall to the left. Put more effort into FORWARD, trusting that if the rope is tight and you have speed, you will gain your width on the boat eventually, and at the right time.

 

Effectively controling the ski's angle and direction of lean creates a situation where the pull from the boat is litterally pulling you further up over your feet as the ski beings to roll up (or bank up) and move forward with the boat, without nearly as much drag otherwise caused by premature ski angle before any speed/motion has been created. Creating ski angle & line load prior to getting your mass moving and traversing around the pylon is no good at shortline. You do not want too much YAW in the ski too early. Angle will come naturally at the the right time, but it should not be the objective/goal. Failure to create motion/speed before creating ski angle is like trying to get going in first gear with the parking break on. Makes the car work a lot harder without actually getting anywhere very quickly. You just end up with excessive and unproductive drag on the ski that forces you in the back seat with an overall speed & energy deficit.

 

With COM more over the feet, and less load on the ski and the rope, it should be easier to keep your hips up, elbows tight and handle well connected to the core during the movement outward. The improved position and ski efficiency will give you more speed in the glide with less load allowing you to stay connected and pull to a higher point on the boat.

 

Hopefully you wont have to shift the pullout point at all - but get a better result. If you can get they dynamics noted above to work for you, you will get 'up on the boat' AND 'wide on the boat' in less time, meaning the 'pullout phase' will happen over less distance. This translates to

an increase in glide distance and time before the the turn in for course. This is the magic setup that allows the boat to start to move away from you sooner and gain energy in the downswing from a wider point.

 

As the rope gets shorter, we need to find ways to have more energy at CL. This energy comes from the gate sequence and the potential energy we have within the gate glide itself. The above logic applies on the movement back toward CL for the gate. Just think through it in reverse.

[Carl]

THANKS! Going south in 2 weeks so a good time to work on that gate pull out. You mentioned dragg a couple times and that is what i feel all the time.

[Rich]

Hips up, Counter more into both turns, open up more behind the boat.

 

[Adam Caldwell]

@Carl

 

If you make a solid effort to get moving on the gate differently, but still feel like you can’t get free of the boats pull, it might be worth making a bump on the fin/wing/boot setup to get things working better for you.

 

What boat setting do you use?

 

Keep us posted!

[UWSkier]

Noticed the same thing as Adam, especially in the 32 vid. You mentioned going south. Is that to a school? If so, tell them that's what you want to work on.

 

Gate pull-outs seem on the surface like something you shouldn't really have to think about too much, but it's critical to get it working right for you. There's a lot more going on in the pullouts of the really good skiers than meets the eye.

[ScottScott]

Hard to tell with the quality of the video, but seems to me that we're seeing too much space between front leg and back leg. I'm thinking hips and knee pointing to the right for the pullout and onside crosses.....? Or is it possible bindings are too far apart? I'm thinking alignment issues.