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    Ski School Recommendations

    in Technique & Theory

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    This might be sacrilege here, but have you considered the Orlando Watersports Complex? It's mainly catered to cable wakeboarding, but has options for skiing, and a bunch of other activities to do incase the little ones decide that they don't want to ski or wakeboard at some point during the day. It might not be great for getting you coaching, but could be a fun option if a traditional ski school doesn't work out.

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    The Average Cost of Each Children's Sport (and Time Spent Participating)

    in News & Other Stuff

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    https://www.playgroundequipment.com/the-average-cost-of-each-childrens-sport/

    I came across this article about youth sport participation, participation cost has been discussed to death on this forum, but I thought that the second graph concerning participation time was an interesting place to start a discussion.

    This study claims that on average, children will do a sport for about 3yrs, and most will quit a sport by the time they turn 11.

    Many of us see skiing as potentially a lifelong sport, how do we reconcile the apparently very common occurrence of quitting early with developing more and more skiers while overcoming what seems to be a 3yr hump?

    On-line Slalom League

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    Last year the Ohio Waterski Association did a virtual slalom league with scoring based on bowling! Our solution to the vast mismatches that can happen was to divide skiers into divisions based on their averages so nobody was directly competing against someone on a vastly different level. Off the top of my head the tiers were "Never ran - 26, 15off", "28-32mph", "34-36, 22off", and "28off+". We also had an overall leader board based off of competing against a skiers own average.

    It was fun! Inconsistent turn out, which can be expected from a first time thing, but hopefully we'll market it more consistently and get more people involved next year!

    We Love College Waterski Graduation Gift Sign-Up

    in Videos, Photos & Media

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    Hi all! We Love College Waterski wants to commemorate the skiers who are graduating this fall and spring with a little care package! If you are a graduating skier (or know one) and you want a gift, please fill out this google form, and we'll get something shipped to your team's ski house!

    As always, be sure to follow @WeLoveCollegeWaterski on Instagram to stay up to date on our stuff!

    https://forms.gle/WKAsg8iAFchw1Rhh9

    $35-40,000 slalom tug. Possible?

    in Boat Talk

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    While not a slalom boat, or under $40k, Heyday is making a wakeboats that start at $66k. I know that generally those types of boats are sold for more than $100k to start. Hopefully they can make an impact on the wakeboard side industry, and encourage someone to make a new ski boat for much less than what's available now

    What if skiers only competed against their round at collegiate tournaments?

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    @Kelvin not that this was anything more than a thought experiment, and a way for me to burn a couple of hours, but if for some reason we were going to actually apply this kind of scoring, I imagine that teams would be limited to not adjusting their skiers for any reason after they submit their initial rosters on USAWS to enter the tournament (aside from something like an injury sub)

    What if skiers only competed against their round at collegiate tournaments?

    in News & Other Stuff

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    @Kelvin not that this was anything more than a thought experiment, and a way for me to burn a couple of hours, but if for some reason we were going to actually apply this kind of scoring, I imagine that teams would be limited to not adjusting their skiers for any reason after they submit their initial rosters on USAWS to enter the tournament (aside from something like an injury sub)

    What if skiers only competed against their round at collegiate tournaments?

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    After I finished watching everything related to NCWSA Nationals, one question came to mind: what if ski teams earned points based off of how well their 1st round skier did against every other team's first rounder? With too much time on my hands, I went through all of the scores on waterskiresults and made a custom scorebook to determine how schools would have placed, if all skiers only earned points by competing against the other skiers in their round of the tournament. The scorebook is attached to this post if you would like to look through it.

    How the scorebook works:

    • Each round is measured separately from the others
    • The winner of each round earns 12 team points, 2nd place earns 11, and so on.
    • If there was a scratch, the scratching team earns 0 points, and the next last place team earns points as if they had beaten the scratched skier (starts at 2pts)
    • All 5 skiers count towards team scores

    The results:

    • Slalom Scores:Alabama and ULM tied in slalom, ASU drops to 4th place, Kansas jumps to 8th place (from 11th), Michigan climbs to 10th place (from 12th), Ohio State drops to 11th (from 8th), and Miami comes in 12th (from 10th)
    • Trick Scores: Alabama and ULM once again tie for 3rd, Rollins and Florida Southern swap places (ROL now in 5th, FSC in 6th), Clemson and Wisconsin flip (Clemson now in 7th, and Wisconsin in 8th), Miami jumps to 9th place (from 11th), Michigan climbs to 10th place (from 12th), and Kansas drops to 12th place (from 9th)
    • Jump Scores: Clemson jumps to 8th place (from 12th), Rollins drops to 9th place (from 8th), Miami and Ohio State trade places (OSU to 10th, Miami to 11th), and Michigan goes to 12th (from 9th)
    • Overall Team Scores: No change. Using this method, all schools placed exactly where they did using the traditional collegiate scoring method

    ConclusionsI think that using this kind of scorebook could make for some interesting lineup decisions for teams based off of where they think they can earn the most points in a given tournament by strategically placing skiers in rounds they have the best chance of winning, rather than competing against other team's best skiers and potentially earning fewer team points.

    I was a little surprised that while team placements in S/T/J moved around quite a bit, there was no change in overall standings at the end

    This exercise could be beneficial to determine the most dominant collegiate team ever, if someone wanted to tear through other scorebooks. That determination could be based off of how many rounds a team wins. In this format, a team can potentially score 360 points (6 events, 60pts/event). We could see how close any given team has come to having a "perfect" tournament where all of their skiers won their specific round. This year ULL scored 317/360, while that is a great score, and certainly enough to win the tournament. They still "only" earned 88% of possible points, or a B+ grade going by academic measures. I would not be surprised if there was a previous team who has accomplished 90% or more of possible points in this format.

    Alabama's jump team very nearly had a perfect score, they had 114/120, with their men's team coming 1pt shy of a perfect 60

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