Porkfight

Still haven't gotten onto a course or even skied behind an inboard, but I did get to ski almost every week this summer, which is a ton for me. My wife and I planned to buy a newish RLXi with her dad, instead of going on a honeymoon, but he backed out. Things that happened - skied in the rain, circumnavigated Lake Elsinore skiing moderately hard, taught a friend visiting from Germany to ski, and had about a dozen less OTF's behind jet powered wakeboardish boats vs last year. Didn't quite achieve a regional ranking this year, but I still had fun.

If someone made a ski that was designed to throw big spray, it would be my Parker Strip terrorism stick.

Boat wouldn't start on Wednesday :[ Dirt bikes ran great on Thursday :]

Kinky.

95 air, 74 water yesterday at Elsinore. It was just miserable.

Reserved!

5'10" 165 lbs. I think my '67 Senate C wants 10 more lbs.

I don't know how accurate they are, but there are free smart phone apps that can measure G force. A decent skier with a waterproof phone case might be able to provide some data. I am not really that skier.

Thumbs were numb on Sunday while skiing in the rain, but the boat is up and running after two months of fail. I'm not ready to get the dirt bikes out just yet.

It's less painful than my off-season motocross curse.

Summer is fire season and, right now, I'm on an engine heading to some fire near the Oregon/CA border. I'm told we will be up there for anywhere from 7-21 days. If it lasts 21 days, I will miss two multi-day ski trips and several day-trips to the local public lake.

So cool that this is the first thing you see when you visit Red Bull's Facebook page. I shared it on mine. My grandma was the first to hit "Like."

Are you going around buoys or free skiing in open water? If you're free skiing and continuing to pull out away from the boat after the second wake on the same side as your rear foot, your calf will take a beating. I used to get horrendous bruising when I was a kid and skied that way. More skiing that way makes it worse. It's not as bad if you are actually slalom skiing with decent form. A neoprene sleeve would help you quite a bit. HO's new crossover series of skis (like the Freeride) have a wakeboard-style bevel on the back half of the ski that really seems to decrease the beating on your back leg in a free skiing environment.

The beginning of this season was embarrassing for me as I kept falling to the instep of my front foot (RFF) during deep water starts. Changing my grip didn't help much. Setting the tip of my ski to the 1 o'clock position and keeping pressure on the right edge essentially fixed my problem. Thank you, deep water start thread! My friend's kids now have fewer reasons to laugh at me.

Still law in California, although it's more of a "skier down" thing. Not required while a person is up and skiing, as far as I know. It's been that way forever. If we see an orange flag flying, space is given to that boat and a hand is raised to show that the flag and downed skier are spotted.

The Strada-based (2012-2013) Senate and Theory are, essentially, the same except the theory is .20" wider than the Senate so the Theory would hold you higher in the water than the Senate at a given speed. The new Senate is based on the new Vapor shape, only .20" wider. I ride a '13 Senate-C in open water and love it. There was a brief adjustment period over my previous 30 yr old Jobe but now it's clearly superior in every way. I would recommend it or a Theory all day long.

I would also consider the Supra Comp TS6M if it were my money. Prices can vary. The boat in the link in the previous post looks like a great deal too.

None. Only public water for me. I never ski on weekends. The Wallies have the glass until Monday.

Woohooo! Congratulations!

Naproxen.

That is a boat I wouldn't mind being seen in.

I love this website. It helped renew my interest in something I set aside for 20 years. Centurion is going to send the very best example of their latest and greatest to the most visible person in our a sport. That's a smart move. John is likely telling it like he sees it when he gives his opinion of his CP. To me, that just shows how small the margin is between the Big 3+1.

I was in 5th or 6th grade recording every episode I could because it was on at 2 AM or something and I couldn't stay up that late. My one waterskiing friend would come over on the weekends and we'd watch the tapes. That and the Jet Ski races. Larry "the Ripper" Rippenkroeger was my hero back then.

I own a boat with a closed bow and want a boat with an open bow.

Well done, sir.