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When the news broke a month ago that Nate Smith was out with an ankle injury for at least a few events, many would have imagined the level of competition in men’s slalom skiing would go down a touch. This prediction was, to say the least, wide of the mark. In the last three weeks over as many tournaments we have seen a back and forth battle between Will Asher and Freddie Winter that will live long in the memory, especially this latest event at the Travers Grand Prix. Asher started the weekend off with the best ever score in a pro tournament - 2@43off (notwithstanding Smith’s 3@43 from Swiss Pro in 2017 - subsequently ruled out for boat path issues) and setting a new European Record in the process. Following him in qualifying was his fellow Brit whose record he had just taken, Freddie Winter, who made it two 41offs in a row (scoring 0.5@43off). It would not be a long wait for a repeat. With Asher and Winter left to ski in the finals, Jon Travers, Thomas Degasperi and Brando Caruso were all piled up at 4@41off - a score that would have won the MasterCraft Pro and Malibu Open of the last two weeks. Winter pushed on with his 3rd 41off pass of the event, taking the lead with 1@43off, setting Asher a huge task. As Asher came in everyone on site new that a piece of history was in the offing: a pro title had never been decided at 43off. As Asher rounded 6 it became clear that record would be broken and, after Asher took no chances securing 1@43, a new one was set up as the first ever run-off starting at 41off was about to occur. Winter, going out first due to his inferior seed from the qualifying rounds, was the first ever skier to start at 41off. Typically, he attacked but blew the tail, setting Asher the relatively easy task of taking a full 1 buoy for the title, which he managed without any fuss. Asher, perhaps the only athlete in living memory across any sport to have his best ever season the same year he turned 40, took his fourth title of the season and his second of 8 days after Malibu Open last week. Winter, 2nd, will lick his wounds as the highest scoring loser ever but has followed his title at MasterCraft Pro two weeks ago with two 2nd places in run-offs with Will Asher after tying in the finals. Caruso, unfortunately pushed off his first Tour podium of the year by countback to qualifying at MasterCraft Pro, took 3rd as his qualifying score put him ahead of Degasperi and Travers. The level in the women’s field was just as impressive. The second round of qualifying was the highest scoring in history as three women scored 2@41off. Going into the final, the recently unassailable triumvirate of Regina Jaquess, Jaimee Bull and Whitney McClintock-Rini, each with a title in the last three events were set to battle it out for the win. Allie Nicholson however, cemented her highest scoring event with a 4@39off, a score McClintock-Rini, unusually, could not match after a strange tail slide at 3@39off. Bull, on her home lake and the venue for her World Championship win 51 weeks ago, narrowly missed 2@41off with Jaquess left to ski, leaving the door ever so slightly open. Jaquess made amends for uncharacteristic mistakes at MasterCraft Pro and California Pro-Am as she took her second title in a week with an imperious 2@41off. Asher’s win and Bull’s 2nd place confirmed their possession of the 2022 Waterski Pro Tour titles. However the positions below are all to play for with one event left. The Miami Pro - in four weekends time - will finish out the Pro Tour season in style.

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This episode rounds out an amazing third season of the podcast, thanks for tuning in along the way. To wrap the season the guys talk about reflection and learning from the ski season behind to make the next your best season yet. Enjoy and we’ll see you back next year! https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sGG0e0xsaOzij3pj7vnIS?si=8e3c425a803a43a4

https://open.spotify.com/show/3tr8CSukUOVugjjHCtuvHI?si=2fd42e24a4a643ef Back for a second week of listener questions, the guys discuss advancing through line lengths and how to maximize your training for success.

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This can be a common question for most who didn't grow up in tournament backgrounds and is a tricky question with lots of variables! But with the info I had I gave my best effort to Answer this Viewers question and hopefully this scenario can help others as well! Thanks for watching!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/06K9lvMLQwiRYR0jc33tLb?si=84311fb8c2f64e5bAs this third season winds down the guys take some of your questions and expand on the topics. This week they discuss adapting to different ropes and recovering from a poor gate setup.

Disclaimer: This is NOT me telling you to hit bouys and be happy with narrow skiing! This is more about changing your mindset and realising you will see a very different view at the shorter line lengths! As always that you so much for checking out the video and feel free to leave any questions or requests in the comments!

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The California Pro-Am has never been afraid to mess with a winning formula. Over 20 years of existence, it has gone through name alterations - until 2013 it was known as Diablo Shores Pro-Am - and switched between three venues around Sacramento. This landmark anniversary year, with new disciplines on show and a phenomenal level of skiing, showed just how fresh and vital the longest running event of the Tour is. In many ways this was a year of 'firsts'. The first time a discipline not called slalom was involved as jump was included for the first time. The first time a skier has run 3 buoys at 41off and missed a final. The first time a skier has gotten around 5 at 41off and lost a head to head. However, as the old saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same as, by and large it was familiar faces at the top, including a last gasp win from the evergreen, 47-year old Freddy Krueger. On the slalom side, there were some surprises mixed in with the very high level of skiing during qualifying. Regina Jaquess missed out on her customary qualifying top spot as she fell at 39off in Round 2, ceding that place to the resurgent Whitney McClintock-Rini. In the men's Nate Smith qualified an extremely unlikely 8th and, if Nick Adams had rounded the 3 ball he grazed the inside of, would have been eliminated at the first opportunity. His tied scores with Jon Travers unusually, due to a novel set of rules, put him through based on seeding on the IWWF ranking list. As the first skier to get a full 3 at 41off and miss an 8 skier final, Travers might well feel hard done by. Elsewhere Joel Howley, competing in only his third event since his World Championship win in August 2019 and first outside of his native Australia, took top seed with scores of 5 and 4 at 41off, by far his best and most consistent scores in a pro event. In the women's head-to-head finals it was business as usual until the semi final bracket between 2021 World and Tour Champion Jaimee Bull and the undefeated in 2022 Regina Jaquess. Jaimee put up a respectable 5@39off but would have been pretty down on her chances of a place in the final as she saw Regina approach 5 early and up course. However a second abnormal slip up of the weekend saw Regina in the water with 4.5, leaving Bull to battle with Whitney McClintock-Rini in an all Canadian final. Bull put up 3 at 39off which Whitney, who is reaching the form that saw her win 3 events before her horror crash in October of last year, duly dispatched as she fell around 6. The most consistent skier of the weekend took her first win since Malibu Open 11 months ago, after 3 second places in as many Tour events in 2022. The consolation for Jaimee is that her 2nd place elevated her to top of the Tour leaderboard. The question is, with 4 events left and McClintock-Rini and Jaquess on the hunt, will she be able to stay there? On the men's side, top seed Joel Howley was taking out early in his unenviable pairing with 8th seed Nate Smith. Dane Mechler again displayed his improvement this year with 4 at 10.25 as he took out Steve Neveu. Dane couldn't quite cement a good start at 41off in his semi-final with Nate, putting up 3.5 which Nate surpassed with a complete pass. The other semi saw two Brits, Freddie Winter and Will Asher, contest the highest scoring head-to-head ever. Asher, out first, ran 4.5 at 41off only to see Winter get 5 to knock him out. This upped the bar for best ever losing score in a head to head from 4 to 4.5 at 41off, an unfortunate record for Asher. In the final, Smith was out first as he narrowly missed 6 at 10.25. Winter followed, again getting to 5 but, instead of standing up to force a run off, went for the turn - and the win - but agonizingly fell in the process leaving Smith with the win by the tightest of margins. Smith remains unbeaten in 2022 but, perhaps, the chasing pack are getting a touch closer. The inaugural California Pro-Am jump event was the first in Sacramento for 11 years. The women's event was incredibly competitive throughout with 2 feet separating the top trio of Hanna Straltsova, Sasha Danisheuskaya and Lauren Morgan in the first round and just 1 foot between the same three for the final. Lauren Morgan set the pace with a huge 181ft with two skiers to go. Though they got close, Morgan remained at the top taking a huge win, the 2nd of her career. The men's jump final saw a mistake from the usually cat-like Joel Poland as he fell when trying to ride out a huge 227 footer that would have put big pressure on the remaining skiers. World champ and recent dominant force Ryan Dodd soared 229ft - a huge score no doubt but the door was left slightly ajar for the final skier. Freddy Krueger, no stranger to high pressure wins, had two poor first jumps but, in the last chance saloon, put it all together for a 230 footer to take his first win of 2022. He won last time out in Sacramento in 2011 on a day when he also shared the podium with Ryan Dodd. So, a weekend of incredible skiing in California. Next up is the Mastercraft Pro where the slalomers and jumpers reconvene in Orlando on 23rd-24th September as the Tour enters its final stretch.

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Getting your ski set up correctly is one of the most imperative things to your success. Listen as the boys hone in on some keys to get your ski ripping right out of the box. https://anchor.fm/spraymakers/embed/episodes/Ski-Setup-e1mqdt0

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3 simple words can make a big difference to a 13 year olds slalom technique. I had been struggling with upper back pain for a while (due to sub-optimal slalom position) and this pain made my position worse! But one tip helped change this and put me on the road to a better position and less back pain!

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Joel Poland has invaded this industry like an alien from a planet where waterskiing is the life source keeping its population going. He’s the most talented kid we’ve ever seen ride a waterski, his determination to be the best is unwavering but the coolest thing about Joel is his weirdness. Weirdness in the weirdest, wildest, best possible sense of the term. He never stops dreaming about what’s possible on a ski, he’s invented more new tricks than anyone in the most recent years and due to that we offer the Joel Poland Ltd.Graviton, keep it weird Polish. https://radarskis.com/products/2023-graviton-ltd-joel-poland-edition