Beezer

@Horton I’m Gonna go with A… and B with 2400hrs it might be the problem! My next post here will be with a bit more education about my club boat and the boats Im skiing behind at tournaments and ski school!

@Horton I don’t know exactly WHAT I’m behind in tournaments, but they are not special Pro Stars. Sounds like I need to make a call to find out exactly what’s different on the pro stars I’ve skied behind that feel so much different from our 200. Maybe there’s something going on with our boat that’s making it feel so much different. I assumed they were 6.2’s…. The HIGHest form of ignorance!! I know there has been some prop swapping on the pro stars in our area so i will educate myself a little more.

The whole reason for the post and the question, is I want to train on the ‘11 200 5.7 as close to a 21+ pro star 6.2. At my weight I figured it would be pretty easy to find a setting that would feel like the 6.2. I tried deviating from A tonight and quickly figured out, that was not an option for me. C1 I could learn to use or test myself with but I need more time on it. A3 was money until I shortened to my hard pass and it felt violent (probably because I’m loading ZO more than I can handle). It’s becoming obvious that there’s no science to matching boats and power plants with ZO otherwise you guys would point me to it. I dont think you can produce the power/torque of a 6.2 in a 5.7 with a different ZO setting. After tonight I think our boat has plenty of power to respond to my in puts. I just need to find ZO response curve that suites me best on my hardest pass.

So I wanna see if I have this in my head correctly. Im a 165# guy, 28-32 off skier at this time and learning line control. The letter is a reaction time to my load on the boat and the number is the intensity LIMIT? So the higher number I go in the same letter will respond to my load with more intensity and continue to increase to the LIMIT, until I unload the boat and the boat returns to it set speed. So what I want to feel for or find is the settings thats give me the most width early and line control off the ball. Then I’m skiing with the boat in time???

I’ll try the + settings.

Interesting… So did you think to ask if line length mattered or had an impact? If I up the speed, will that adapt for line length the same way, At the same ZO setting? Or would going from A2 to A3 achieve the same goal?

How is ZO affected by the HP of the motor in the boat skied behind??? I ski behind a 2011 nautique 5.7 on a 6-8 set a weekly basis on A2. Most all of our local tournaments are behind newer Master Craft large motor boats. A2 Never feels the same until 3-5 passes later. Im not sure what I’m adjusting to, but I know it’s me. When I go back to my home boat, everything feels slower. Some of that feeling is being back at my home site but the pull of the boat is softer “easier to manage” or smoother. At times I question the BOAT SPEED to the driver when I GET BACK. Do I need to run a different setting on ZO on the smaller motor boats to make it feel like the larger motor boats that I ski on in tournaments?

28-32. Im in my 3rd season skiing, so Im learning. Ive been stuck at 2-4@28 most of the summer. It waSNT IN 10 days but the C95 quickly showed me how to handle the slack on my off side and I was off to the races. Its the most stable ski Ive been on yet. Im not sure its all the ski, but I sure couldn’t do it on the others Ive been on.

My search is over: Ive been through 4 skis this year and not completely satisfied with any of them. I jumped on a C95 10 days ago and ran to my normal the first set. 10 sets later Im 6 balls deeper!

The grip of both gloves are without question excellent! However… I been through 3 pair of pigoski gloves in 3 months. They dont hold up for me. The Apex (Kevlar) tore at the seams in the 2 middle fingers of both hands. The ultras tore in the palms back at the wrist where the tabs to pull the glove on are. I have a pair of the stealth gloves and D3 that have lasted me for over a year.

I got mine last Thursday. Im 8 sets in and I think I settled into some settings today for a couple weeks. Its a really good ski!

Well if you dont push with your front foot when pressure is applied by the boat, you’re gonna do a front flip over the front of the ski or get pulled to the handle side. NO one said do a 450lb leg press or push your legs straight. But you have to take the pressure from the boat and apply it to the ski in a positive motion to get up out of the water.

This guy has it NAILED! You push with your legs just before the boat hits you. There’s a little timing to it but once you have the feel you can be early or late but late takes more effort to get the ski out in front of you.

Will a Vapor boot fit directly to a reflex plate without mods? Or do I need a vapor plate with the vapor boot?

The part that perplexes me is… Why, when this is achieved, every thing seems to slow down. I have to be more patient, not rush. The ski becomes glued to the water “as it feels”. To me what you’re describing is adding energy to the system but it feels like I’m slowing down. Does the boat actually help me slow down if I stay on the handle longer with my mass close to it?