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Interesting…any video of the ski dialled in?

I am definitely intrigued…..

My take on the radar boot is that it is essentially a vapor boot with new materials - same release mechanism as before. But, I am standing by to be proved wrong.. I love the vapor boot - and I am only on my frankenboot because of an ankle injury..however, with a lot of guidance from Adam, my boot is going to be hard to beat..

The puck software is out of date..the original ‘life’ was 20yrs or so..the gps date has confirmed this as the problem.. It’s not about how many sats your gps is seeing….it’s where it thinks the sats are in the sky. Satellites move over time - and this can be predicted, just like the tide. If the gps is looking in the wrong place, it won’t find them..or, worse, it finds them but then thinks they are in a different location when trying to work out its own location. Currently, your system is using satellite position data from 2001… Easy solution is to buy 1 new Garmin puck and replace the right hand puck..unplug the left hand puck as the ZO system only uses one puck at a time..this is a simple replacement job.. We decided to go for the full Single puck upgrade with Rev S for both our club boats…they ski better than ever, but that is a slightly pricier option..

Any more updates?

I recently skied with Glenn Campbell (skier not singer) - he asked me to try the O’Brien G6. I have been skiing pretty well, so I agreed.. Damn, that ski is amazing..he dialled in my fin settings from my MC, and I ripped through 35’@36 on my first set…i can’t recommend this ski enough.. it is fast, balanced and very stable. I have been told that it might be a revamped Elite/ sixam? Anyway, If I was in the market for a new ski, this would be at the top of my list..not often do I jump on a ski and think that it will make me a better skier..after 2 sets, I jumped back on the MC, and it felt equally as awesome - so I reluctantly handed the G6 back… The best bit - the price. Don’t listen to those who say it is cheapo quality..Glenn is about 115kgs and still runs into 41@36 - he has never had any issues with quality, longevity etc of these skis..

@Horton - are there stock numbers for this ski? I can’t seem to find any info on the website…if so, how far off these did you go? There is a school of thought that subscribes to the idea that whatever ski you try, you use ‘your’ fin numbers - at least as a starting point….I am not completely sold, but I have recently tried an O’Brien G6 with my MC numbers…the G6 was awesome - just needed a small tweak from there..

Equally, I have seen a senate run 41’ @34… i subscribe to the wider ski at slower speed theory..I have jumped onto a friends 67” omni - 35’off @ 34 no probs 4th pass. It was a horrible pass, but It was the fact that it carried speed and supported me that was important…one of my ski buddies runs 39’ off @18mph on a trick ski…no way he could do that on a slalom ski… The vapor is a great ski…stand on it properly and it will ski great at most speeds..whatever works I guess..

That isn’t a hitch….that is how she re-centres herself over her feet before the handle release…

You could always make your ski faster….that’s exactly what the denali boys do.. Try reducing the wing angle…or, remove it completely..

Watching this video was a real aha moment….

Bump… This ties in beautifully with Horton’s ‘Reinvent his offside’ thread & the ‘Brooke Baldwin’ thread..

@AdamCord - ok, so please enlighten me..I can’t find anyone who has been able to explain to me what or how I should be achieving this…occasionally I will nail the ‘movement’, but I felt ‘nothing’ other than everything felt easy and wide..sadly, I can’t recreate ‘nothing’. My principles and goals are 100% aligned with yours..but, as it was explained to me by a big dawg skier…’once you work out what you need to do off the 2nd wake, your short line skiing will be unlocked’.. Bad Gav can run btb 35’ @36..and when the stars and moon are in alignment I can get 4-5 @38..good gav doesn’t like the way bad Gav skis and wants to change his movement through the wakes out to the buoy…

I know what @mrpreuss is saying as I see it too. Brooke Baldwin the the most obvious skier that comes to mind. You can see, what looks like to me, her ‘pulling’ herself over her ski during the Pre turn..this is where she ends up - on both sides.. https://us.v-cdn.net/5017617/uploads/editor/le/z6d1bn8fcmaf.jpeg Watch Joel Hopley in slowmo.. I, like Horton, am trying to reinvent my skiing and I have identified that the key difference between good club skiers and pros is what they do from the wake to ball..all of ‘us’ look the same, all of ‘them’ look the same..hence why 38’off and shorter requires a vastly different way of skiing, which most of ‘us’ haven’t learnt.. I am not that interested in the mechanics of turning, because if you get the the ski in the right place, everything else becomes natural and automatic…you become a different skier without even thinking..@hortons 35’off pass was very impressive and a huge improvement. His move off the 2nd wake into 2-4 is exactly the area that I am working on.

Counter is a consequence of outbound swing and connection off the 2nd wake..which is a result of accelerating and loading properly into the 1st wake…which in turn is a result of getting your gate swing right.. Counter used as a bandaid to correct the above deficiencies may work a bit, but more often than not, it will lead to a rearwards movement through the turn so you exit on the tail of the ski.. Get the loading and acceleration phase nailed and you will be able to swing out and up to the apex. As you release to reach, your hips will continue to move outbound whilst you can stay balanced over your feet - just like a high speed banked turn on a mountain bike..counter will be a natural automatic… Counter applied when disconnected to the handle and falling inside the turn will result in falling backwards… Watch pigozzi - to the untrained eye it looks like he is simply applying counter…all he is doing is allowing his hips and feet to swing out wide and he is having to counter to facilitate and balance this movement… Bandaid movements rarely work in the long run, hence why 35’off seems to be the natural boundary between good club skiers and the elite skier…You can completely change how a skier looks and skies by simply addressing the move into and out of the wakes..problem is, it’s the hardest nut to crack…just like the ball toss in tennis serve or the start of the back swing in a golf swing…

Damn.....now I know what to look for, I can see it - or not if you look at my skiing...watching the Joel Poland video again has been enlightening...as are the Joel howley videos...I think I can see more clearly now what they are doing off the 2nd wake....

Joel Poland 38’ off...@Adamhcaldwell - how is he able to do this? Anything to do with what you are talking about? https://www.instagram.com/p/B5hmzwpBFoQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

@adamhcaldwell...boom - back to 100%.... The only other person I have seen ‘live’ doing this quite so obviously is Boris Laval... The other candidate that comes to mind is Benny Stadlbaur.... To me, this is move is what separates the amateurs from the professionals...Boris is the only coach that I have skied with that truly understands this...the problem then lies with my thick skull and years of bad habits...but I am getting there...

@adamhcaldwell - back to the 99% that I do subscribe to (gonna have to agree to disagree on your ski racing theory)... In the Preturn, are you advocating active hip rotation in the direction of the turn as you swing up on the boat? I tried something along this many years ago and was surprised at the results.. Surffice to say that all I am concentrating on is staying Centred on the ski off the 2nd wake and trying to stay connected to the line as I swing up on the boat. I am trying to arrive at apex with my torso on top of my feet. In other words, not to arrive at the buoy with my feet ahead of me. If I get that right, the turn is automatic...if I don’t, my only move is inwards and I fall backwards onto the tail of the ski as I finish the turn...@Mattewbrown nailed what I am trying to achieve with his snapshot of Horton off the 2nd wake... Plenty an elite skier has told me that the key to short line skiing is what you do off the 2nd wake...it’s the most crucial element, the hardest to perfect and the most lacking part in the majority of skiers - me included...it’s also almost impossible to teach because the harder you ski, the harder it is to do. You are doing a valiant job of explaining it, but your athletic ability & balance is on a different level.

@adamhcaldwell - agree with you 99%, but gonna have to call you on your idea re: snow skiing...that photo isn’t ideal as it shows the skiing inclining into the turn, which isn’t ideal...he isn’t balanced...I appreciate that the camera angle is different, but look at Marcel Hirscher - the best slalom skier ever: And will Asher: Hirscher was so far ahead and dominant of the rest, and it was down to his ability to counter balance in the turn..the more you counter balance, the more you have grip. If you incline/ lean into the turn, you lose grip, and therefore speed..Hirscher was able to do this at the top of his turn - in other words his body was downhill of his skis, whilst the rest were waiting for the bottom half of the turn - and gravity to balance against...

When cutting the bottom off the liner, you will need to trim a lot more think. I have quite wide feet, so around the widest part of my foot, there is not much liner material down the side. By fitting the bottomless liner into the boot, and then feeling around with your fingers, you should be able to work out where the material needs to be trimmed away. Then use your foot to feel for any tight/ pinch points...when you get it all trimmed out, it feels amazing. Note, I have a custom footbed that has the NABOSO insole glued onto it, so I had to retrim my liner to fit. That is when I swapped out the radar liner for the intuition. The Radar liner is a lot thicker and it was squeezing my foot to death..

There is no bottom...it’s been cut out..

Off season binding repaint and service..

I have cut the bottom of both an intuition & vapor liner and I didn’t have any issues with the edges...remember, once you cut the bottom off the liner, you will have to fit the liner into the shell first before you then insert your foot..weirdly, I have to treat this set up exactly the same as if it were a rubber boot..ie, wet, lube, step in, then rinse out the excess lube before stepping into the binding..

I don’t think wrapping tape around the tie bar has any effect on the releasability of the binding. It doesn’t add any extra resistance and doesn’t interfere with the release mechanism in any way.. I have seen radiator hose being used to good effect. I warpped self amalgamating tape around the toebar that I have then covered in electrical tape. This has the advantage of conforming to the exact shape of the boot toe..