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The Rossi + Trent outstanding podcast series “Spraymakers” has two episodes in particular that are full of useful information directly applicable to this discussion: Gates and Core Fundamentals. I highly recommend giving these both a listen.

I’m jealous! Of your gorgeous boat, not your water temp. But if your boat ever gets too cold, you can always send her down to me in Florida. ?

@mfjaegersr yes, “like” gets overused. As you correctly point out, it’s a verbal crutch... a filler. But at least the conversation is not filled with f-bombs and other offensive language that some of the other water ski broadcasts are so fond of, in spite of their trying to promote water skiing as a family sport. I really liked this and the previous episodes and find the information interesting and helpful. They provide actual substance.

Great podcast Chris and Trent! Lot’s of meat in both episodes so far. Plus you do it with class... family friendly with no gratuitous offensive language for a change. Refreshing. Looking forward to more!

@BobF I use Safari on my iPad. YouTubeMonkey downloads onto Safari for viewing just fine. But I can find no options for saving the video, much less selecting where I want it saved. The procedure I described above does work very efficiently, though it requires a few more keystrokes to get it done. But it does allows one to save the video into IOS Photos where it can then be readily imported into Coach’s Eye. So I do have a good working solution to my original question. Thanks for your input!

@BobF while YouTubeMonkey works on my iPad (in a way) it doesn’t accomplish the goal of downloading into IOS Photos where it can be accessed by Coach’s Eye. I’m not actually sure where they’re stored. It does download the videos somewhere where I can play them outside of YouTube, but it gives me no option of where to download them or where they went.

@BobF I went to try it and it appears to be for Windows. Is that correct?

@floridagm Hudl and Coach's Eye appear to have identical capabilities, assuming Hudl offers telestration like Coach's Eye does. However, the issue I posted about would presumably affect Hudl as well. That is, YouTube/Google have recently blocked the ability to directly import YouTube videos into a non Google app. Now the only download capability of YouTube is within the YouTube app itself so it can be viewed offline. The way around this I described above allows one to import a YouTube video into iPhone or iPhone "Photos", and from there it can be imported directly into Coach's Eye. That all having been said, if you know for sure that Hudl somehow can still import YouTube videos directly, please let me know and I'll check it out. Thanks.

@ToddF I have just figured out how to do this. Well, I didn’t figure it out, but rather found a source that explained how. It’s a bit convoluted because apparently YouTube / Google have made it so you have to view YouTube videos on their platform only. Thus you can download YouTube videos, but they stay within the YouTube app and not accessible from other apps. However there is a way around it, but it requires a 3rd party app called Documents by Readdle. The procedure isn’t especially hard once you do it a couple of times. 1. Open Documents 2. Tap the blue compass icon in the lower right 3. Type www.y2mate.com in the search bar 4. Paste the URL of the YouTube video you wish to download in the red search field (which you get by the Copy Link function on YouTube) 5. You’ll then get some download options for resolution. 720 is fine. Tap the green download for 720. 6. Tap the purple Done button when Save File page appears. 7. Tap down arrow at bottom of page 8. You next get a page showing your downloads. 9. Tap the eyeball looking icon for the video you want to save to your IOS Photos for your iPhone or iPad 10. Tap the ... underneath the video 11. Tap copy option 12. Select the Photos option for your iPad/iPhone Photos and tap the purple Copy button on top right. Violà!! Your video is now in your IPad Photos and can be imported into Coach’s Eye. Okay, I did say it was convoluted, but it works, it’s fast, and I haven’t found another way.

Terry Winter uses the Coach’s Eye app on his excellent training site the create split screen video analyses of a skier’s technique as compared with himself or another professional skier. It’s a great app and I was using it myself, importing video that my ski buddies and I would take of ourselves and post on YouTube, then studying the results. As well, I might import other slalom ski video of pro skiers for the same purpose. Now all of a sudden I can’t import any video at all from YouTube, even video that we ourselves have uploaded. The Coach’s Eye tech person said this is a YouTube issue. So, my question is, does anyone on BOS also use Coach’s Eye and are you encountering the same problem? I have YouTube Premium and if I could even just figure out a way to download a YouTube video into my iPad Photos, that would also solve the problem. But I can’t seem to do that either. I hate to lose such a great training/learning tool!

Gorgeous! I’m so envious!

Water 64.7° yesterday. Air 82°. Central FL.

65.5˚ today. Of course that meant a full wetsuit for me. VONMAN, on the other hand, didn't wear a stitch of rubber. There's wimps and there's tough guys.

69.5° midday today in central Florida. Full 3mm for me. My ski partners didn’t wear any rubber. Don’t know how they do it!

@Golfguy where can one see info on your Prostars?

Water 74.5°, air 83°. On my way home from a great morning of skiing (central FL).

@Horton if you really are looking for the fast and dirty solution as you say you are, I think you should revisit my suggestion a while back of simply placing a longish section of pipe over the protruding rebar and bending it flat against the bottom. Each one would only take a matter of a few seconds. Concern was expressed that they would break off. I don’t think they will though anything is possible, but why not try one? If that one bends without breaking then keep moving on down the line. If at any point one breaks then discontinue. But if it works you could have all of them done and safely out of the way in no time at all and still have anchor points for the buoy lines.

Close to 80°. Probably 78. Wearing a shorty, but probably don’t really need it.

@mmskiboat I have just had he solution for you. Send your Prostar down to me in Florida. I’ll keep it limbered up all winter long so come spring it will be in perfect running condition for you. Nothing worse for a boat than sitting idle for months at a time. I won’t charge you a dime!

Thanks @ScottScott, @Dacon62, and @coach3. A Prostar is definitely in my future, hopefully sooner rather than later!

@coach3, I’ve read a number of comments re: grinding the Prostar rudder to improve tracking or steering. Any thoughts on why the factory doesn’t do this? You’d think they would want these boats to perform their best right out of the box.

@stevie boy, I was always told to use a baseball grip. Well, being right handed I then put my right hand on the top of the handle (when vertical) and my left hand on the bottom just like I would with a baseball bat. But I’m also a goofy foot (RFF). It was some time before I came to realize I had my grip reversed. I needed to hold the handle like a left handed batter. The first couple. times after changing it, it felt totally weird. But in very short order it felt just fine.

Okay, @Stevie Boy, we’re talking about the same thing, but from different perspectives... handle vertical the left hand is on top, right hand is underneath (the left hand) on RFF. Handle horizontal and the left hand is an underhand grip and right hand is an overhand grip. Agreed. Without referencing you meant grip, your wording was ambiguous and I misunderstood your meaning. All is well!

Terry Winter, RFF: