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This was the closest option to my approach to my gates. As the line gets shorter I may pull out slightly later, but the main thing that I try to change is the intensity of my pull out. I try to add about 10% more than the previous line length. I just don’t need to be as far up on the boat at 28’ as I do at 38’. In my humble opinion there’s no right or wrong way to time your pull out. As long as the end result is that you’re wide on the boat and don’t drift in before you start your turn, then it’s all good.

The driver is definitely on the wrong side of the boat too...

2006 HO Monza - I've got it hanging up on the wall in my garage. You can actually get a good look at it in my profile picture.

"Yes sir" and "Yes ma'am"

I have on occasion used "Let's burn it down" in tournaments before a more difficult pass.

Holy poop! It's a good thing that you had the boat cover on when that happened!

 

 

My girlfriend and I have a little pond in Graniteville, SC that we lease from the land owners for $300 a year. Currently we're the only two people that ski there. The landowner even built me a turn island one year with his backhoe to help with the setup.

 

Now that I've typed that out I feel a little guilty...

It's been a slow week at the office so I'm going to take a quick set during my lunch break today. I really can't claim to be tough as the current air temp is 72 and the water is 64.

In my experience it’s a good thing to explain to your doctor what exactly you mean when you ask when you’ll be safely allowed to waterski again. A lot of doctors probably think we’re going to be gently pulled down the river on two skis. I hurt my knee skiing a couple years ago and asked the doctor when it would be safe to get back on the water. He told me that he didn’t see a problem in going out the following weekend. So I pulled up a video for him on YouTube to be sure that we were on the same page. His immediate response was, “Ooh. No, you don’t want to do that for a couple months.”

One.....maaaaaaybe two. But probably zero.

I grew up skiing in a cove that was nestled in the back of Lake Thurmond, SC. Eventually we got tired of fisherman puncturing our buoys and started looking for a pond somewhere in SC that we could lease from the land owner. That's where I am today.

Not gonna lie, I gave Natural Light (or as I call them Natty DeLights) very high marks. However, after reading the previous comments, I feel I may get booted from the site.

Congrats again to Corey! He's one of the nicest people I've ever heard of, let alone met.

I agree with @brody, the stability that an intermediate ski offers a 15' off level skier is immeasurable in my humble opinion. I know that when I'm in my glide before turning in for my gates my ski will give a little "shimmy" from side to side. High end skis like to be on one edge or the other and are less forgiving than something like a Radar Senate if you're not nice and stacked over your front foot.

In general O'neill makes that best board shorts, but their Hyperfreaks are unparalleled.

If you're looking for a good binding that won't cost you a lot of money then you should look a getting a pair of Radar Vector bindings.

I'm about 2½ hours from Savannah, I've got a good spot to ride your trick ski and don't mind giving you a pull. My spot is off of I-20 in Graniteville, SC. Shoot me a message if you're interested.

I take that back. If you get a Radar ski you're going to have both rear hole patterns. You'll be okay.

However I would still look into getting a different binding system.

@brettmag I'm going to have to disagree with @lpskier on this one. This is kind of tricky and I hope I don't confuse anyone, but it breaks down like this:

Every ski manufacturer has the same hole pattern for their front bindings. HO/Radar/O'Brien have the same rear hole pattern, and Connelly/D3 have the same rear hole pattern in their skis. (But if you ask nicely D3 will send you a rear HO hole pattern)

The rear Radar bindings however are setup to be compatible with all ski manufacturer hole patterns.

The long and the short of it is, if you want to put Radar bindings on your Connelly ski, you won't have a problem, if you want to put the Fastback bindings on your new Radar ski, that won't work out as well.

My personal opinion would be to get off of the Fastback bindings, you don't really release from them too well and I've know two different people that have suffered a broken ankle from a crash in those bindings.

My vote is to start three eventing. In college I was an average skier and a terrible trick skier that could plop off the end of the ramp and get solid points for the team. Since I was only tricking approx. 450 points and jumping about 50 feet I didn’t see a reason to take up three eventing after college.

Fast forward to today and I’ve got a garage full of slalom, trick and jump equipment. And it’s all because I have more fun at three event tournaments than I do at slalom tourneys. There’s one coming up in a few week that I’m looking to attend, three rounds of slalom, two trick and two jump for $80. That’s a hell of a deal considering I’ve paid more for just three rounds of slalom.

As far as taking up jumping, just find someone that knows how to do it safely to pull you over the top one time and you’ll be hooked.

 

I feel like a turn and burn in a one round tournament is just a different way of saying mulligan.

Some of my friends and I had a friendly competition in which we all skied with our opposite foot forward. For me it was like learning to ski all over again. 3 buoys at 15' 30mph took the title.

I spent a few years working at a ski school and was basically paid for my driving, landscaping and boat cleaning services with housing and free ski sets. Not that I'm complaining, it was a great time. But anytime that someone gives you a little extra cash in exchange for driving the boat in the sun all day, it's much appreciated. And considering that I most likely used said tip money to buy some Natural Light, a twelve pack of some craft beer is always appreciated too!

They're going to make it back up to the right like every other boat!

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