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This podcast is Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify! - Search "FPM Podcast" Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Rob's Trip to Collegiate Nationals 01:48 - Why is Collegiate Nationals the Best 02:15 - The Team Aspect 04:00 - Why Should people go to water ski at college 07:00 - Why Collegiate Waterskiing is important for the growth of the Sport 10:10 - Why Rob Didn't go to College 11:10 - The Passion in Collegiate Skiing 12:24 - What Makes Collegiate Skiing Special as a whole 16:52 - The Technical Side of Collegiate Water Skiing 17:30 - One Slalom Tip For Most Collegiate Teams 19:00 - How you Start in Skiing is how you Finish 20:23 - One Jump Tip For All Beginners 22:05 - Rob's Video 24:20 - Why Bennet's is Amazing 27:00 - Thank You

FOUR Rules for Swinging High on the Boat: 1 - Speed at Centerline 2 - Tight Rope Outbound (limit rebound of rope to the inside) 3 - Limit Deceleration of ski 4 - Keep Body/Ski (mass) as close to handle as long as possible moving outbound Ski Like The Pros! - We're back again with another episode breaking down what some of the best skiers in the world do (and sometimes don't do) really well, to be the best skiers they can be. This week we take a step back....to uncover the keys to being able to work on what we discussed Last week ( • Ski Like the PROS || FPM Podcast #29 ) regarding 2 hands on the handle longer. Enjoy this, and leave a comment, tell us what you wanna hear more of, and subscribe and share if you like this and want to see more! Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 03:27 - What it takes to Swing High on the Boat: The 4 Rules 04:17 - Rule 1: Speed at Centerline 07:08 - Rule 2: Tight Rope Outbound - Limit Rebounding of rope 09:00 - Limiting rope rebound 13:05 - Rule 3: Limit Deceleration through the feet - Balance Over Feet moving up beside boat 16:55 - Using spray off ski to assess weight distribution 18:04 - Rule 4: Keep mass as close to handle as possible, as long as possible 19:52 - Dual Skier Drone Overlay Analysis brings it all together 23:00 - Advantages of skiing a Higher, Wider path. 24:02 - Wider Path Outbound = Slower at the Buoy 25:53 - The sooner you have a tight rope on the backside of the buoy, the better you ski 26:35 - Small mistakes early, compound exponentially 27:54 - Closing thoughts For more FPM info head to: https://www.FlowPointMethod.com This podcast is Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify! - Search "FPM Podcast" Subscribe if you like, and let us know if you like this and want to see more of this!

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With less than 24 hours before the start of a new Water Ski Pro Tour season we talk tricks with World Champs Pato Font and Matt Gonzalez on this episode of the TWBC Podcast.

Post event reaction to an exciting competition which produced exceptional performances – from PB”s all the way to a pending World Record. Discussing this and other topics from the SPT is Tournament Organizer Clint Stadlbaur.

The Waterski Pro Tour returned for its fourth season with a trick event in which the female ‘old guard’ underlined, capitalized and circled their dominance while a new generation took flight in the men’s. After a wait of just under 7 months between Tour events, the Swiss Pro Tricks was just the barnstorming opener we were looking for. In the mens tricks, Pato Font, the undoubted dominant force with 11 pro titles, let his crown slip just a touch to allow a pair of 16 year olds onto the podium above him. Jake Abelson started well and improved in each round, culminating in a finals performance of 12,230 that is not only his best ever but a pending USA record. However, 1st place went to Mati Gonzalez as he paired his trademark toes with a huge hand pass that incorporated some exceptional ski line tricks. His 12,440 tied his best as he broke the 12k barrier for the third but certainly most important time in his career. He joins Font, Joel Poland (disappointed with an oh-so-close final run), Dorien Llewellyn and Adam Pickos as only the fifth pro event winner amongst the currently competing pack. Font, clearly devastated after a fall on his toe run that he put down to an uncharacteristic lapse on focus, still managed to finish third with 11,610. Photo by @tiaremirandaphotography That Gonzalez and Abelson were able to put together their best runs in the final in front of the eyes of the world at such a young age suggests pro trick skiing is in for a huge next decade or so. Martin Labra, another 16 year old with a 12k+ score but unlucky to fall in the final, will no doubt share in this future. Font, a seasoned veteran of men’s trick skiing at just 21, no doubt has many more moments of history to make despite his disappointment yesterday. He can take consolation from the pending World Record he set in Round 1 of 12,770. The trio of teenagers emerging to take on the slightly older field in the mens would no doubt have reminded trick ski fans of the same nearly a decade ago in the womens field. In 2015 Anna Gay upset the odds by defeating the seemingly indomitable Erika Lang at the US Open and World Championships back to back at age 15. Two years later Neilly Ross swept all before her at the same age. Since then Lang, Gay and Ross have become an outrageously dominant triumvirate that has taken every pro victory between them to date except one (US Open 2021 - Giannina Bonnemann). Any hope that this dominance would end with the start of a new season on the Tour was extinguished vigorously as they once again finished on the podium together. Ultimately, perhaps, the only real question was the order. Photo by @tiaremirandaphotography One would think that the outrageously high standard of women’s tricks in the last decade wouldn’t allow for any spell of dominance from one skier. Since the start of last season, however, Erika Lang has found a way, with 5 victories in 6 events and yesterday she won once again, and frankly, with some style. She took 3 of the 4 best scores of the event, including a rare glimpse of 11k in the final. She credited the modification of her toe run prior to last season as the basis of her hot streak but all told she has rarely looked so balanced and in tune with her ski. Ross will feel disappointed as an unusually off balance landing from a Front Flip 180 midway through her final hand run lost her some time as she salvaged a still incredibly respectable 10,370. Now two years since her last victory in tricks, she looks back to top form and her time will come soon enough. Anna Gay finished third after being disappointed with some heavy judicial cutting on her toe pass. Her slower start to the year after a January wedding will not have a bearing on where she ends up in 2024. From the top, the ages of those on the podium are 28, 22 and 24. Trick ski fans can look forward to many years of these ladies continuing to grow trick skiing going forward also. Trick skiing has long been the least represented discipline of the three that make up tournament waterskiing. Consistently slalom and jump have had more events and more money at them. Yesterday’s Swiss Pro Tricks, however, showed just how unjust this is; the level of competition is up there with any in competitive towed watersports and the youthful glow is unmatched anywhere. These athletes deserve to be recognised as among the best in the sport and, thankfully, events such as the still fairly new Swiss Pro Tricks give them the place to demonstrate that. Hopefully more events will follow and we can see them do so on a more frequent basis.

Tune in as Matteo and guest host Freddie Winter discuss ⁠Swiss Pro Tricks⁠ (video highlights), stop #1 of the ⁠Waterski Pro Tour⁠ for the 2024 season. ⁠Erika Lang⁠ defended the title in the Women Tricks division with 11030 points, followed by ⁠Neilly Ross⁠ with 10370, and Anna Gay with 9390 In the Men Tricks division, 16 year old Matias Gonzalez achieved his first Pro Tour win with 12440, followed by peer Jake Abelson with 12230, and Pato Font in third place with 11610. Check out the ⁠Waterski Pro Tour Leaderboard⁠ after the first event of the year!