BrianKennedy91

On 7/17/2023 at 8:07 PM, Wish said:

I’ve been in the boat watching Lou ski. Never give up is an understatement. I’ve never said to the other person in the boat “”…op, he’s done..nope he made that ball..but he’s not gonna make the ne….oh wow, he made that one too ..but now he’s prob do..  son of a bitch he made that one too. . That’s all 6. Shortening the rope.””  …. until watching Lou ski. 
 

No lie, our ski group refers to the skier that didn’t give up on a pass and it payed off as “pulling a Lou”. 
 

I’ve also had the pleasure of listening to his stories about his days as a Notre Dame football player. Every story had a life lesson. At least that’s my take away. Been a good while since I’ve seen him having not skied tournaments in some time. Look forward to running into him again. Just a great guy. Thanks for sharing the above 

This guy describing Lou ski is exactly what I was thinking the first time I saw Slade Cole ski.   I thought he was going to die first pass and by the time he was into 38 I was at a loss for words.  Somehow he just kept making 6...

Where are you located?

I've got some Polyform S-1 boat guides that I use as winter buoys. I noticed one of them has a little chew spot around the bottom where possibly a muskrat has chewed on it. It has a very small pin hole in it and I was wondering if anyone has tried to patch a little spot? I was wondering if a soldering gun or a heat gun would melt the hole back together?

Anyone tried this before or have any suggestions?

Tried to mount a SkiDoc 209603 Version 1.5 on a 2000 Ski Nautique pylon and the diameter is to large for the Ski-Doc clamp. Anyone have any experience with this?

I recently was trying to teach an adult to ski. I was using a pair of Obrien combo skis with adjustable heel piece rubber type bindings. I feel I am a pretty good coach and boat driver for teaching people to ski. The person was semi athletic and of normal weight to height ratio so I expected this to be a breeze. Over about 25 attempts with most times the result being the skier popped up on top of the water but had trouble balancing on the skis. I was so surprised they were having so much trouble but I just figured we should try again another day. Just out of coincidence the combo skis were on the dock and I decided to ski on them. I ride jump skis often but it had probably been 35 years since I had been on any type of combo skis. I was shocked at how difficult if felt for me to ski on the combos. They seemed to be very slick and the little bid of rubber they call a binding was terrible. It felt like the skis were constantly trying to come off and absolutely no ankle support. I also felt that it was very uncomfortable that there was no padding underneath the feet. All this from the point of view of someone used to skiing on good slalom and jump binders. I decided to do some searching of Overton's and Bart's websites in search of the best combo skis money could buy and I didn't see anything that looked even close to being much better than what I currently had. I'm wondering if anyone out there has decided to step back in time and play around on some combo skis they my have hanging in the rafters of the boathouse and let me know what you think.

If there is anyone out there who knows what the best combo skis are that would have the best shape, size and binding comfort and security I would really like to know what is best and where to purchase. I'm willing to spend even $300-$400 or more if it will be a help to teaching a new person to ski.

I wish this guy would have got 13 years instead of Chad.