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These are super helpful responses. It looks like I should just go for an Omni. Help me understand the difference between the regular and the carbon version in terms of how it would feel.... that is help my justify the extra two hundred bucks or so to my wife. :smiley: @MDB1056 I used dish soap trying to get into the and it didn’t even seem close to going.

I recently bought a boat and, though I had little interest in water skiing, I thought I’d give it a try since the boat came with a ski. Well, now that’s about all I want to do. I’ve been skiing on an old HO Impact and I think I’ve got the basics down and I’m ready to move on to the next ski. We ski open water and have never tried a course and likely won’t have much opportunity anyway. I found an ‘04 Connelly F1 on Craigslist for $100 with double Animal bindings. Unfortunately, they are M and I can’t get my size 10 feet in them so I haven’t tried the ski. My wife used it and immediately looked better from the rear view mirror, but reported she found it much more difficult to have good form because it was so responsive. I had been thinking an Omni would be a good ski for us. Here’s the dilemma: I could put new bindings on the F1 or buy an Omni. If I put new bindings on the F1 I could move them a new ski later, but if I just got a ski and bindings at once I could go with the direct mount style. The question is: How does a ski like the old F1 compare to the Omni and how does the Omni compare to the Omni carbon? HO’s marketing has me convinced that is the ski for me.... anything else I should consider? Thank in advance for the input!