DROP or SPIN

[swbca]

When you are practicing slalom in a course and will be repeating the same rope length rope for the next pass, do you drop or spin? This is about getting the most out of your practice.

[The_MS]

Always drop unless gator or snake in the water

[lakeaustinskier]

Being older I appreciate the rest and most importantly - regardless of whether its the same line length or not, I like to quickly assess my skiing technique between passes.

[JackQ]

Depends on your goal, if you want to work on conditioning and toughness..spin. If you want to work on form or technique, drop, reflect and repeat.

[Jmoski]

Skiing on a public lake I only spin if I think another boat will try and steal the course from me while I rest!

 

Dropping also keeps my wake coming from a consistent direction for others out and about on the water.

[braindamage]

We ski public water and the drip helps with the wake not coming back into our return pass.

[escmanaze]

After pulling that hard 6 times across the wake, my sorry fat butt has to drop just to try to recover for a second before I try to do it again. With my conditioning, or lack thereof, I don't have a choice if I want to ski even half decent.

 

[ALPJr]

That past two seasons have brought us high water and some lumpy gravy, so it’s been drop for the most part. With more normal water levels I’d sometimes spin for back to backs in early spring and late fall.

[wilecoyote]

Sometimes if I miss the pass early I'll spin, sometimes when the water is really cold.

[Horton]

i don't remember the last time i spun

[dave2ball]

I’ll spin when for a work out.

[BrennanKMN]

Always drop. If you do spin you get one pass until the rollers catch up with you. Spinning is only a last set, last pass go go go if another boat started ripping across the lake.

 

Generally I'd rather drop and call it quits then spin for 1 more 'beat the wake' pass.

[ScottScott]

If I fall in the middle, sometimes I'll spin for the pass back through. Or to beat another boat's rollers.

[swbca]

If I make a mess of my first pass of the day, I may spin to the next pass. It like getting an official rerun that cancels out the bad pass. More often its because we have big rollers headed our way and they be in the course before I could get 3 or 4 passes done if I dropped

[503Kento]

Our set up is a narrow (no room for spinning) dead end one way and wide open the other. So I always drop one way but will spin on the other end if I’m not shortening.

[jedgell]

Typically drop at end of each pass. Unless I fall on opener or do something stupid on an easier pass, then I’ll occasionally spin as a way to punish myself.

[ETskier]

I always drop. Lets the lake calm down and me too. We coach each other.

[Fam-man]

As a group we always spin at one end and drop at the other. The crew was doing it when I started skiing the course and it just continues. Saves some time when trying to get multiple sets for a few skiers.

[6balls]

Don't spin if you can avoid it--you will ski stronger and in better position for more passes, and have the chance to improve more rapidly. Also allows your driver/crew to coach you a bit on the ends(or listen to your brother coach himself!)

[Than_Bogan]

Always drop unless {}.

 

(Little math humor there, but anyhow always drop.)

[Skoot1123]

Most of the time I drop unless the water is super cold or there is a lot of chop in one direction.

[swbca]

@Than_Bogan

how many buoys qualify as a {}

[DW]

Items mentioned above (wildlife, water temp, impending rollers) and if there are issues specifically related to pullups a spin allows more passes. Back issues & joint replacements can be annoying, painful & inhibiting ability on get ups.

[ral]

I believe the “I always drop, period” option should have been listed.

 

In man made lakes, not dropping will usually mean less than perfect conditions.

[morfoot]

Myself and the regulars I ski with on a Public lake always drop if the course is up or not. Only reason we spin on the south end is if the water is cold or if the %$#&ing surfers decide to invade skier cove and start surfing it up instead of waiting their turn.

[swbca]

@ral Thanks for the explanation about man made lakes needing time to settle. This POLL was for less experienced skier to learn from others so they can improve their practice habits.

[scuppers]

NEVER EVER spin

[Jody_Seal]

I would love to do back to back however our lake needs a few seconds to clear out or it will be a little rolling on the pull out and 1 ball.

[3mustskiteer]

I always drop @ ea. end unless there's a huge snapping turtle I may accidentally land on, again.

[chris_logan]

I always drop at each end because I need the rest. Rarely would there be any condition that I wouldn't drop.

[Fam-man]

One time I was getting coaching and fell on every pass of both sets, totally bought into “if you’re not falling you’re not learning”. When you add in dropping at the end for coaching it was a total of 24 deep water starts in the day. I could barely hold a cup of coffee the next day, fortunately I wasn’t skiing that day

[swbca]

For those of you who were unhappy there wasn't a plain option in the POLL to "Always Drop without exception". I figured you could imagine a spin if there was severe storm squall or other bad situation to get away from fast.

[lpskier]

So one of my ski friends hates to get wet. She does a dock hop start, goes through the course, spins, back through the course, skis into the dock and sits on it, climbs out, and repeats for her whole set. Even when it’s warm out, she’ll spin one end so she only gets wet every other pass. She has more gold medals from Nationals than all of us on this forum put together and she’s in W8. Spin to win!

[TravisNW]

I spin for a variety of reasons.

It can be fun.

Spin for conditioning in early season.

Spin to ski tougher conditions if an upcoming tournament is at a rough site.

Spin harder runnable passes mid season in lieu of attempting hardest passes to have more 6 buoy passes.

 

That said I am a firm believer that 60 seconds or more is best for technique and optimal recovery. Sometimes tournaments don’t allot this therefore specialized training sets with x second breaks (depending on event rules) is intelligent set design.

[richfoster]

The backwash is too bad to spin at my home site. At TwinLakes sw of Tulsa the lakes are connected at both ends. I love spinning 28 and 32 off there. Sadly, my sister and her family just moved away from there.