DangerBoy

Rotator cuff tears and injuries are super common in folks over 40. Throw a ball when your arm's not warmed up enough, whatever. It just happens. I think I hurt mine doing a little weight lifting.I'm sure happy the Class IV laser fixed my injury and I've never had another rotator cuff injury since. If it ever happens again I'll immediately get over to see that guy and get him to zap me with that Class IV heal-o-matic gun of his again.

Here is a two-parter. I call this series, "Houston, we have a problem".In the first image you see the set-up to the fall: breaking at the waist on an off-side turn. Nothing good can come from that... Next you see me midway into the explosive OTF that resulted. Not hurt at all. Just glad someone got a picture of it.

When I was a teenager I really wanted a pair of Scott boots because that's what a lot of my cool friends and people I looked up to were skiing on. When I went to buy a pair, I found out that my foot size was right at the end of the size range for the medium shell and probably better suited for the large shell. But I thought the proportions of the medium shell looked way more aesthetically pleasing and cooler than the large shell so I insisted on getting the medium shell. The problem was that in order to fit the medium shell I had to go with the absolute thinnest liner they made for that shell. As a result, I only had at most a 1/8 inch thick liner around my feet and my feet nearly froze solid in any kind of weather. Horrible. It just goes to show how non-sensical some of your decisions were (or at least some of mine were) when you were (or at least I was) a kid/teenager. I look back on it now and just shake my head.

Why is there such a huge amount of empty space being inserted at the end of the original/first post now? There's no need for it and I, for one, find it a little annoying and would like to see that go away eventually although I realize you have more important issues to solve right now.

Yard sale! (good one!)

In this thread, I'm inviting people to show off their most impressive wipe-out/crash photos. Photos that record the most horrendous, explosive crashes you and your ski friends have ever captured in an image. All are welcome to contribute so please share your best images. Videos are welcome too.Want to see flailing limbs and huge mushroom clouds of spray as your/their pass/run comes to a sudden, explosive, fiery and ignominious end. I'll start things off with what I think is the best waterski crash photo I've ever taken. This one is a ski buddy of mine caught airborne between his first and second bounces following a horrendous OTF at high speed. Complete yard sale. Can't even see his ski in the photo (I think it burned up on re-entry) but you can certainly see the huge mushroom cloud of spray his first bounce created and if you look closely, you can see pretty clearly that his shorts are half way down his thighs ready to come off after the next bounce. That's my best. What else you peeps got? With all the years of waterskiing experience on this forum, I have to think there's got to be some impressive and amazing crash photos out there. Let's see your best ones! I've got a few more to share after this but I wanna see some of yours before I throw those in.

Yes, I was using the (most visible) top right search button. I never noticed the lower right one before so didn't even know it was there until I read your post. I just tried it and it works great! The search engine returned dozens of relevant results very quickly. It should be really easy to fix the upper right one then. Just give it the same code as the lower right one and it's fixed. Please add this little task to your to-do list,

I don't think the search engine is working very well. I tried searching the term "rotator cuff" in various ways and in each case the search engine returned zero results. That's pretty poor performance given there's a thread going right now with that exact phrase appearing in the subject line and dozens of times in the posts and there have been many other threads where that phrase appears in the subject line and many times in the posts.

Please take a look at this thread: I had a bona fide torn supraspinatus rotator cuff tendon/muscle. Could see the tear plain as day on the ultrasound and could certainly feel it every time I engaged the muscle in any type of movement. Conventional forms of physiotherapy don't work very well on that type of injury because they all work by trying to stimulate more blood flow to the injury site in order to bring the proteins and other things needed for healing to the injury site. That doesn't work for the Supraspinatus and probably other rotator cuff injuries because it/they have very, very low/restricted blood flow. That's why they never seem to heal on their own and why most forms of physiotherapy are largely ineffective on those types of injuries.The thread will tell you what type of therapy I received and explains why it was successful in completely healing the injury in a very short period of time. That information may help you avoid having to get surgery in the first place, or, if surgery is absolutely necessary, it will help you recover much faster from it.P.S. I have since sent several friends who have lived for years with nagging, seemingly unhealable rotator cuff injuries to get the same treatment. No one had quite the amazingly quick results I had (I was an exceptional case apparently) but they all report having far more and better results much quicker than they ever had with literally years conventional physiotherapy. I got that treatment back in 2012 or 13 when I was 51 or 52 and have never had a problem with that muscle/tendon or any other rotator cuff muscle since.

This vintage Connelly Hook is going to sell for at least $190 USD on eBay today. https://ebay.com/itm/275063791049 It's a pretty nice one, in pretty decent condition except for that one handle ding near the tip. It's also a pretty rare one having the rounded tip (both the Hooks and Comps almost always had blunted tips). It's also fairly rare/unusual because it has an upper veneer sheet on the bottom of the ski. The reason I know this is because I contacted Connelly about a very similar (but mint condition) 67" Hook that I own which also has a rounded tip and a very unusual and much fancier than normal bottom veneer. I was wondering if they could tell me what year it was made because of its unusual rounded tip. The nice folks at Connelly were kind enough to put me in touch with a retired employee who used to work in the factory back in the 70s when they were making those beautiful inlaid mahogany skis. He told me my ski had a top veneer sheet on the bottom and that they only did that when they ran out of bottom veneers (which are much more plain looking than top veneers) so they just used a top veneer on the bottom in order to keep the assembly line going. He also said it didn't happen very often when they had to do that so between the unusual/rare rounded tip and the the top veneer sheet used on the bottom, that ski is a pretty rare and unusual specimen. I wonder if the bidder knows this.

Being that it's getting close to Christmas I thought I'd give this thread its annual bump in case anyone might want to either give these for Christmas or put these on their Christmas list. ;) Here's the current link to the ad on SIA for the posters https://ski-it-again.com/php/skiitagain.php?endless=summer&topic=Search&category=Misc&postid=57943

I added a third chair to the set this year Here's the whole set together

@Dsully I like the steampunk mounting hardware. ? @ScottScott Nice chairs! ?

@GregHind I have PM'd you. @LoopSki Very exciting to see the first one coming out of the mold. Looking forward to seeing more shots of the first boat being made and then the final product if you can provide them.

@UWSkier Maybe you're correct about that for some outboards. My eTec never makes any smoke so I'm not sure if it works the same way on those motors. Actually, now that I think about it, there is one time when the eTec does make a little smoke. That's when I start it up for the first time in the spring. With the motor being fogged during the winterization process, there's a bit of excess oil that has to be burned off. Other than that one time each year, that motor never makes any smoke.

@6balls I'm running a 2010 Glastron GT180. Great hull. Really stable, well made/solid, handles well, really good in rough water and nice wake for skiing. I bought it used over the Internet from a gentleman in Pipestone, MN, had it towed to the US/Canada border in Montana (UShip) where I picked it up and imported it into Canada. It took me 3 years to find that boat and it was one of the best and smartest purchases I've ever made. Great boat for my purposes. All my ski buddies love skiing behind it. Interesting note... I just ran across a posting on an eTec owners forum about a guy who successfully adapted a Stargazer GPS PerfectPass speed control system to a G1 eTec 150 like mine. Being someone who loves modifying/tweaking things and having a nephew who is a senior eTec mechanic, I HAVE to look into it! ? It would be amazing if I could get that to work...

@UWSkier Outboards vent exhaust through the propeller so that shouldn't be an issue. For the record, the Bombardier/Evinrude eTec 2-stroke motors produce LOWER emissions than their 4-stroke competitors. Given the enormous emissions the old 2-stroke outboards produced, the e-Tecs are truly an amazing feat of engineering. @6balls You are correct in many of the points you made, especially about the lack of speed control on outboards. That is one thing I wish my eTec could have. But I can live without it as we only free ski and have no access to a course. I ski at 22 and sometimes 28 feet off behind my boat and the wake is great. Never tried anything shorter than that so don't know if the wake would be any gòod there. That might put you crossing the wake right at the hump so it might not be very good at 32 or 35 off but at 22 or 28 off, the wake on my boat is just as nice or even nicer than my friend's Prostar. For me, however, the ability to tilt the motor and get the prop out of the water is a must and the performance, fuel economy and reliability my eTec delivers are major bonuses. I do wish it had speed control because the boat speed does sometimes drift a couple mph during a skier's run but we're just out there having a blast shredding up the calm morning water on a big beautiful lake knowing that afterwards we're gonna either be drinking coffee and Baileys in a hot tub or while soaking up the morning sun in anti-gravity chairs on a dock that gets the early morning sun so we don't sweat the imperfect speed or course control one bit. It's all good. ?? P.S. If anyone is thinking about getting an eTec outboard, I do highly recommend them but not the G2s. My nephew is a senior marine mechanic at an Evinrude/BRP dealer and works on them all the time and says the G2s are crap. The first gen eTecs are great, however, but they're getting harder to find since BRP got out of the outboard business and people who have them and love them aren't often willing to sell them. I'll never sell mine, that's for sure.

To my untrained eye at least he looked like he was in complete control all the way through that 41' off. He did it so well and without scrambling anywhere it surprises me that it was the first time he'd done it. To me at least, he looked like a guy who does it all the time on that run. Way to go!! B)

@unksskis If you look at all my other posts in this thread you'll see that I have all my best skis up on the wall in just about every room in my cabin and the workshop as well. I have no more room to put up any more skis! The skis that I've collected and made into chairs are ones that have been collecting dust in people's garages and boathouses for decades without being used or even seen. What I've done is repurpose them and have given them a new life where now they are seen and used every day my cabin is open. Not only are they now works of art that everybody who sees them says are cool and help to give my place a unique atmosphere, they're also functional pieces of comfortable and useful furniture that get used every day. You may see it as wrecking old pairs of vintage skis but I see it as giving them a whole new life and purpose and taking them from obscurity and disuse in a dark corner of someone's garage to a life of prominence and usefulness front center stage at a place I love and cherish more than any other on this earth. And if you want to look at it from a monetary perspective, those chairs are worth WAY more than the sum total value of the skis that were used to make them. Have you seen what people are charging for water ski Adirondack chairs on Etsy and other places that are nowhere near as sophisticated and well made as mine are?

It took me a while to collect all the skis but this summer I added another waterski Adirondack chair to my collection. Now I have three! :) Here's the new one Here's the collection together When we built the chairs, we duplicated the ergonomics of another chair that I thought was the most comfortable Adirondack chair I'd ever sat in. We copied all of the ergonomics of that chair exactly so now my three chairs are super comfy.

Years ago, I was told about this hilarious eBay auction ad that was going viral because it was so humorous. The item being sold was a beat up Type I Jensen Interceptor junker. The starting auction price was $50 but after more than 53,000 views and 28 bids, the car sold for an astronomical $425. That's an average bid increment of just under $14. Being a fan of clever sarcasm, the ad really appealed to my sense of humour (spelled it the Canadian/British way this time) (to be inclusive) so I made a pdf copy of it before eBay took it off-line. Something reminded me of it today so I thought I'd share it with you all in case some of you needed a laugh on a Monday. Hope you enjoy it. ;)

The above ski didn't sell at $175 but was relisted at $150 and then sold very quickly. I hope someone here got it. You rarely see those old Connellys in such mint condition and that one had a really nice looking inlay pattern.

Sorry to hear of your injury. I recommend you read this thread and I recommend you get Class IV laser treatment on your shoulder after your surgery. I believe it will speed your recovery. /forum#/discussion/20415/something-that-may-be-of-interest-for-those-with-rotator-cuff-injuries

This Connelly Hook is a little expensive but it's beautiful and mint. Hard to find one that's in this good of condition. Looks like it was hardly ever used or perhaps not used at all. It's in Miami. Hope someone gets it. https://ebay.com/itm/174942667201

No way I'm playing that video! ?