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Does this ski even exist? I am pretty sure it is a hoax.

@scoke I am not qualified to coach an elite skier of your level. Gimmie a few days I will work on getting a coach worthy of your skills.

@S1Pitts I just promoted this thread so it appears in the sidebar of the forum and in all automated emails. I can not promote @MarcusBrown any more than that until he does something about the dreads 🙂

@CPski R Style back bindings are maybe my favorite product from Reflex. Switching both front and back bindings at the same time is a bold move. Often changing your back is a bigger change than the front. I can switch from Radar or HO or Reflex front bindings without missing a beat but just changing just the liner on my back binding will throw me for a loop. With the R Style make sure you are consistent with the buckles from ride to ride. I personally do not CRANK my buckles but also can not ski for Sh*t if they are too loose. With any buckle system, I mark the strap with a silver sharpie so I can tighten it to the same point every time. @mknippen Boot choice is personal. If you like the super shell you might want to stick with it. IDK. I like the classic better and am not even sure why. I strongly recommend the hardware with the micro adjustment built-in.

I think we are going to have to make these shirts. @BOS_Shirts are you on board? I plan to wear the YSAWS shirts and buy all my friends ISAWS shirts. 😁

for Open water skiing at 34 and or 36, you might as well upsize to a 67. deep water starts will be significantly easier and the physical effort to ski will be less. The ski is going to turn a little slower but I think you'll be happier.

@6balls One of the design choices that I specifically made was to keep all the lessons private. there's a number of reasons for this. two of the many reasons are listed below. The first reason is from the coach's perspective, they don't want thier information given out for free and they don't want to have to debate their coaching with the open forum. You will notice very rarely do elite skiers give advice in the public form. I can see a counter argument that this is short-sighted. it is what it is. The other reason is that many skiers very much do not want to be judged in the public forum. they don't want tons of comments on their skiing except for from the coach that they're asking for advice from. so lessons will 100% private until somebody convinces me otherwise. Good luck with that. let me be perfectly clear. The existence of professional coaching inside of this website does not preclude any of you guys from publicly posting videos of yourselves or commenting on the videos of other members. I don't really expect the professional service to diminish the amount of publicly posted videos.

@vtmecheng All of those GiveGo problems noted and addressed. I am sure at some point some student is going to be unhappy with BVCS. It is inevitable that eventually something will go wrong. In terms of customer service, the obvious difference between GiveGo and BVCS is that you guys can message me anytime. I'm going to take care of any issues in the most timely fashion possible and if there really is a problem you are going to get your money back promptly. you mentioned the GiveGo lessons were capped at 2 minutes. The four introductory lessons I did this week all stretched out to approximately 10 minutes. The truth is that I probably monologued a bit more than I should have and they didn't need to be 10 minutes. the point is there is no time limit. I would think that coaches would be wise to stick with one specific subject per lesson. This does bring me to another point. Each coach is going to have the freedom to respond however they wish. What I've been doing is voiceover on top of of the students lesson at quarter speed with some pause and then jumping back and forth in the video. GiveGo sort of boxed the coaches into using a cell phone interface and doing it in a limited time. BVCS has no such restriction.

https://www.swissprotricks.com/ I goofed and had to restart this thread. Sorry about that.

okay, I'm going to order two

@MISkier Yes but that is not the current culture of the sport and I know for a fact there is some level of worry about the increased liability of older boats.

@RAWSki with a new promo boat, there is an assumption that boat is all up to spec and as safe as possible. One of the worries about old boats in tournaments is (as an example) the steering cable could be old and break and there could be an accident that results in an injury.

Looks like "Baller Video Coaching System" is the official name. Mrs. BallOfSpray and I went out for sushi last night and brainstormed name options. She wanted to name it one of these A) You Suck At Water Skiing - YSAWS B) Kaiju Video ( translates to Monster Video) C) Distance Video Coaching - DVC I confess I did consider YSAWS. I think it is funny but I am pretty sure not everyone would think it is funny. @BOS_Shirts shirts that say YSAWS would be super funny to me but I think we might want to skip this idea. 🙂

Obviously, everyone knows I have a business relationship with MasterCraft and want everyone on this website to order a new ProStar. I believe in the product and believe in the company. My current ProStar is so pretty! I am also not stupid and understand that not everyone can or wants to pay for a new boat. We need as many skiers as possible and we need water skiing to be as affordable as possible. I sincerely wish the tournament scene would embrace the use of older boats. There is NOTHING wrong with an 08 or later 196. To be a tournament skier you do not NEED a new or almost new boat. We all want a new boat but we do not NEED a new boat. During COVID I owned a 196 for about 9 months. It was a fine boat. My wife said it smelled funny but it drove fine and skied fine. Yes there are some real safety and liability issues with older boats at tournaments but every year we have less promo boats. The sooner the sport works this out and accepts old boats as tournament boats the better.

@chaloux Just find a clean 08 or later 196. With the money you save you can upgrade. Those boats are bulletproof and not much can go wrong that can not be replaced or refurbished.

@mike_mapple To start with I am personally reaching out to skiers / coaches that I know and trust. I need to move slow to avoid a GiveGo type disaster. With some luck I will have one big name on the system in the next week or two. Stay tuned for that announcement. Beyond that, if skiers want a specific coach then I want that coach on the platform. My bottom line is I want happy Ballers. Also @ColeGiacopuzzi may not be a super famous name but he knows what he is talking about PLUS you can trust him. For a few less $ than famous name coaches, l will do lessons until the system gets momentum. My coaching is always about core fundamentals. Skiers between 28 off and 38 off are where I have the most to say.

@DvarianDan Johnson I can only speculate on what went wrong at GiveGo. I think Willie ( the GiveGo guy) was over-ambitious and is a "sell it now and apologize later sort of character". He is a very charismatic entrepreneur. Frankly, I think he dug himself a hole and then kept digging. From what I hear he is personally good guy but based on our business interactions I am sure I will never be on his Christmas card list. With Baller Video Coaching if your coach does not follow through in a timely manner they will get a personal call from me and you will get your money back ASAP. That is one big difference. GiveGo also seems to have had a poor system for choosing coaches. Picking and choosing coaches is an admin problem that I will have to think about. What I can say is I saw some examples of GiveGo lessons that were embarrassingly bad. Those bad lessons would be unacceptable in my system. I personally care about the quality of every lesson because BallOfSpray is my brand.

wife says ot should be Y.S.A.W.S.

maybe Nautique will bring back the Ski Tique for 60k

@Phil sorry to hear you're moving. for anybody looking for a place this lake skis amazing!

Who is going to tune in?

I briefly considered Baller Ski Video Coaching and then I figured out it would get shortened to BSVC & anything that starts with BS is going to be a bad look 🙂