Masters

[morfoot]

I gotta Agree with RAWski on this one. The weekend totally sucked. I got the chance to not only chat with Regina shortly after nailed the #1 seed for Sunday and how she totally forgot to put on her "heater shirt" shirt because she was so fired up getting ready for her ski to chatting with Nate on Sunday after the opening ceremonies. He took the time to sign autographs and take pics with folks on the beach and we continued our chat about how he ran 39.5 in such crappy conditions (which I saw from the pavillion) and his personal goal is to break Andy's record. I didn't want to keep him too long as I knew he needed to start focusing on his runs. What a finish and with #7 he's halfway there to tying the GOAT.  Then to cap off the weekend on finals day I witnessed and experienced something you'll never see in in other sport. JT and Will towed the ramp to the beach and just the two of them starting the disassembling process. WTH??? That's almost the equivalent of Peyton and Eli taking down the goal posts after the superbowl. I walked over and asked them if they could use a hand and they said " Sure, That would be great!" got the chance to meet and help both these guys take down the jump ramp. Holy crap!!!!! I've helped Jody do it a few times but didn't expect two Masters champions to be tearing it apart. Got as far as we could. They shook my hand and said thanks for the help then off they went.  Chatted with other legends of the sport all weekend, nice chat with Tyler Boyd and the nice change by the addition of Jerrod in the booth.  Been going since about 94. This year was an awful experience.

 

[MitchellM]

29 minutes ago, morfoot said:

I gotta Agree with RAWski on this one. The weekend totally sucked. I got the chance to not only chat with Regina shortly after nailed the #1 seed for Sunday and how she totally forgot to put on her "heater shirt" shirt because she was so fired up about skiing to chatting with Nate on Sunday after the opening ceremonies. He took the time to sign autographs and take pics with folks on the beach and we continued our chat about how he ran 39.5 in such crappy conditions (which I saw from the pavillion) and his personal goal is to break Andy's record. I didn't want to keep him too long as I knew he needed to start focusing on his runs. What a finish and with #7 he's halfway there to tying the GOAT.  Then to cap off the weekend on finals day I witnessed and experienced something you'll never see in in other sport. JT and Will towed the ramp to the beach and just the two of them starting the disassembling process. WTH??? That's almost the equivalent of Peyton and Eli taking down the goal posts after the superbowl. I walked over and asked them if they could use a hand and they said " Sure, That would be great!" got the chance to meet and help both these guys take down the jump ramp. Holy crap!!!!! I've helped Jody do it a few times but didn't expect two Masters champions to be tearing it apart. Got as far as we could. They shook my hand and said thanks for the help then off they went.  Chatted with other legends of the sport all weekend, nice chat with Tyler Boyd and the nice change by the addition of Jerrod in the booth.  Been going since about 94. This year was an awful experience.

 

I had a great time this weekend at my second Masters.  The wind was a bummer, but I love how the stars of our sport are so accessible and personable.

[mike_mapple]

JT has done the master ramp for the past few years.

[Garn]

I'm a bit disappointed by this thread to be honest.  I started reading it because I wanted to see how the competition went because I wasn't able to watch it.  I wanted to hear how the rounds went and the scores, etc.  There was a little of that at first.  But most of this thread is just a rant on how bad the broadcast was.

[Jody_Seal]

congratulations to the Masters overall winners! 

[kc]

21 hours ago, Jody_Seal said:

congratulations to the Masters overall winners! 

Bummer that overall titles for open were discontinued long ago. Only 9 NOPS points separated Regina and Paige!

Edited June 2, 2023 by kc
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[RAWSki]

On 5/29/2023 at 6:31 PM, disland said:

One big difference in webcast is no interviews (none), no skier perspective on the conditions. No retrospective on performances or strategy. 

Why no interviews?

I do think interviews would be a good add for Masters Waterski especially on Saturday.  Sunday is tight but still possible.

Appreciate what @Jody_Seal posted about over-all stats.   Having attended the Masters many many years ago (when they skied in July) it was more about the over-all title and I think we lost something when we began focusing on specialists$

I wish we could encourage and promote an event that awarded an overall prize that exceeded the financial payout for an individual event.  The Masters is the best possibility for this to happen unless MC or Malibu would get Bold!