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Having only competed for 3 seasons now and starting with 1st tournament PB 3@32mph and now have an avg in 38' I can say that my opinion has changed on this topic. I have always been in M4 South Central where M4 is stacked with alot of level 8 skiers, so I have always been behind great skiers so beating everyone in M4 has never been a reality for me, but I do take great pride when I ski good and beat others that are of the same ability level. First and foremost increasing my avg and climbing the National Ranking list is what drives me. This season I skied in 25 tournaments and 70 tournament Rounds since May. I have come to love the social aspect of 6 round Slalom Tournaments the best. Everyone is super friendly and most of the time go to dinner or have a party on site. Alot of one day tournaments are less social -Ski and go home right after.

1-Fitness and lose another 20lbs 2-Better Technic from Center line, Transition, to Apex. 3-Best equipment for my style. 4-get off Clincher type gloves- All the boat crews will appreciate this one!!!

There is no solution that will make is perfect for everyone. I qualified for Nationals for the first time this year and could not afford to make the trip. It is just the cost of travel, Lodging and Food for most people. Then if you add the whole family it can be very expensive. I think we could double the cost of entry fee for Nationals to help the LOC with expenses. I have an idea for making it worth while for non Qualified skiers to come watch and interact with all the vendors. College Baseball World Series is in Omaha every year and they have 3 to 4 full youth Select baseball tournaments going on during the College World Series. My stepson played select traveling baseball from 9u thru 18u and played on teams that went to these tournaments. Were talking several hundred teams each 4 day youth tournament. each player had parents and/or families all going to the College World Series games while they are not playing. It is the best use of marketing and promoting I have ever seen. CWS and the Omaha area figured out a way to have thousands of baseball loving fans there for a great local tournament and have the CWS games sold out every game. We could use this example and have a few C tournaments at a near by location running the same time as Nationals. Just a thought.

@MarcusBrown love your effort and passion to keep our sport interesting and thriving. Loved the pod cast interview. I have had the opportunity to visit with Will after Record tournaments in Austin and he Pulled me for Demo ride on the V type R. I asked him a bunch of questions but I didn't want to annoy him so I didn't over do it. So your pod cast was awesome on covering a ton of topics and questions. I watch all your Flow Point pieces and you do a great job with the Quality and the way they are set up and flow. Thanks again keep up the great work.

Great thread! I have been dealing with this issue for two seasons now. When I over train (12+ sets a week) I feel like I have a pinched nerve in the hip joint. I do stretch alot and when I tone down the training It changes to a dull ache instead of a pinching sensation. Im Rff and have used aReflex supershell and RTP all season. Just went to my old Rear Radar Vector boot in Aug, but using it loose top laces so its still like a rear toe with lateral heel support. Hip issue only shows up when I ski 3 to 4 days in a row. Guess I need to listen to the body! lol

@Horton Neveu has an extra line length!!! lol-- his 38 is like the same reach as most of us at 35 or 32.

@Wolfeie - I used to be stationed in the Navy by Lemoore and was good friends and training partners with Brian Perkins who built two lakes in Lemoore. They host INT league events at their site all the time. Is that who you are talking about?

I agree with @Bruce_Butterfield it's not the reach! I bet Regina runs more 39's then 90% of men 34mph skiers that have run 39' and are 6' or taller!!!

@horton and @TallSkinnyGuy thanks guys. What an awesome network of slalom skiers with ball of spray.

Ballers, Does anyone know where is the closest slalom course to Porterville Ca? I have friends that would like to get their two boys involved in 3 event competition. They maybe willing to do a membership if it's a good fit.

I mostly train with a 2012 nautique 200 - during the season I stick to just ZO boats, but I do own a 94 MC Prostar with Classic PP That I use in the winter. Works good but always a hot start - alot like the + setting on ZO.

"In gear" then different phrases "hit it, lets give it a try, yep, ok, lets go," Grew up with my dad teaching everyone to say "Hit It"

A warm up! lol

@Kelvin - that incident tower 1 just called 0. Like most people have said. we call what we see and are all just volunteers. I have no beef. just giving an example how we can all see different in a pass. Diving and Gymnastics have many judges so the high and lows are thrown out.

@Kelvin - that incident tower 1 just called 0. Like most people have said. we call what we see and are all just volunteers. I have no beef. just giving an example how we can all see different in a pass. Diving and Gymnastics have many judges so the high and lows are thrown out.

I love my white and silver. I demoed the black and copper at the Ball of Spray in Austin and visually looked like a skinny tip. Probably would have a different perspective now that I have been on one since May 10th. Its really just a personal choice. if your inbetween lengths go with next longer. very stable, fast and can turn on a dime! Have run 35' 10 times in practice and setting Pb's almost every tournament since.

I love my white and silver. I demoed the black and copper at the Ball of Spray in Austin and visually looked like a skinny tip. Probably would have a different perspective now that I have been on one since May 10th. Its really just a personal choice. if your inbetween lengths go with next longer. very stable, fast and can turn on a dime! Have run 35' 10 times in practice and setting Pb's almost every tournament since.

@mr jones - I had the same situation happen judging this last weekend in a tournament. they were using the boat dock top as scoring and a judge tower (which could not see if inside or outside if the skier kept sking at far end) . twice we had 3 different calls from towers and boat. One call was 0 from gate tower, 1 from boat and 2.5 from tower 2. the skier kept skiing and looked like he went around 3 and stood up from the far tower. back to the point - we each called what we could see. He wound up getting one. My input would be the gate tower should always trump the other two judges if he calls missed gates.

@Out_The_Front - don't worry about small external weeping cracks. I have a boat repair business and had a 93 Bendella that had an external crack on one head, compression was good and used it for 400+ more hours with no issues. I have a 94 MC PS now that has a small weeping crack and same - no issues to compression or mixing with oil. Boat runs great. when I get ready to sell it I will install a rebuilt head just for resale, but as a mechanic I know its fine.

that is funny stuff. I have had a bug hit the back of my throat coming in to ball 2 in practice - dang near choked-- Still got around 3

bought one

I have a boat repair business and a 94 PS also that I just had to replace the heads for the same reason. You have a cracked head on the side that is getting water in the cylinders. Also that is what was causing the start issue. water does not compress and hydro locks the motor. that is how I found out that i had water in my cylinder. the water chambers for the block and heads were impacted with crud. I didnt pull the motor, because my cylinders were good and I still had decent compression. I bought a set of used rebuilt heads and flushed out the water chambers of the block and installed the new heads and it runs great.

I have had a boat repair business for 4 yrs now and have rebuilt hundreds of Holley carbs. All the comments about the floats are spot on. I would guess that the needle and seats for the floats need to be replaced.

I have a wooden "Pennsylvania Sea Dart" that was my first slalom ski mounted on my wall. My first real slalom ski was an EP Stiletto.

This sounds great! Im sure we can build a team