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Hey Horton! Do you work?

that's funny! Good one!

 GARBAGE IS THE FUTURE!!!! The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor converts household waste to power the time machine's flux capacitor and time circuits using nuclear fusion (specifically cold fusion.) Mr. Fusion allows the DeLorean time machine to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts needed to travel to any point in time. The energy produced by Mr. Fusion replaces plutonium as the primary power source of the DeLorean's time travel and flight capabilities, allowing the characters to bypass the arduous power-generation requirements that the plot of the first film hinged upon. It is never mentioned what Doc Brown did with the remaining plutonium, or if he used it all during unseen trips after he leaves Marty near the end of Back to the Future part one. http://www.bttfblog.com/images/back_to_the_future_delorean_for_sale/delorean_time_machine_rear2.jpg

Reading that same book now, it's good. Mental training is something that can be worked on outside of skiing, I found that learning to focus during the off season helped loads and a routine before I ski whether in training or tournament helps.

Happy birthday John, Hope it's a good one!

Pro Tour stop in Abbotsford B.C.

Awesome job! The website looks great!

Just got back from a week of skiing on my new WR and it rocks! Everyone owes it to themselves to try it!

Will Asher, Bob Lapoint, Dave Goode, Susi Graham, Doug Ross and the future Mrs John Horton! oh yeah and Karina Nowlan!!!

3 skis, carbon, carbon/bamboo and a wide ride... http://www.reflexworld.com/2009/slalom/slalom.htm

Sorry! My mistake, I thought CS was customer service not Chad Scott, me and my retail brain...

Scoke I vote a 66", email Dave, not CS and see what he says. Scot How do you feel that it's "too big"?

Scoke, I am 6'1" 185lb, ski at 36, but heavily trying to be convinced to ski 34. I skied on a 66" 166 amp 36 mph RFF model. I am LFF, couldn't be picky, free demo. I skied it at 34 and 36, one of the things that I liked was the fact that it carried speed very well trough the turn, no stalling at the finish. When I skied it at 34 this was a huge difference compared to every other ski I tried this year, which was too many according to my wife. Without great detail of any sort, I REALLY liked the ski. My new WR just arrived down south, so in two weeks I will get to ride it again. Before I ordered it I emailed Dave Goode and he suggested the 66" 146 amp model for me, besides the fact of weight/height I also inquired about skiing in colder water all the time, the warmest our lakes gets is mid 70's and that doesn't last long, so temp in my mind is a factor also. I got a few different ponits of view, one "big dawg" skier told me to be on a 64, another pro said 66, buddies always have lots of opinions, but who better to listen too than the man himself, I'll find out in a couple weeks!

Hypothetically if the pro's skied 34, 41 would be going down a lot more, I just don't think the talent pool is there for the crop of skiers @ 34 right now. No disrespect to anyone, it's incredible enough to see 39 ran that much in tourneys!

Animal, thanks for the congrats! And yes I was on the Goode when I did it. ÂÂ

I agree wiht that statement about cold water ski and a warm water ski, up here in the arctic circle you lewt one of those carbon bad boys get a little sun on them on a cold day and it reacts different. I know the coach I usually go to in Florida has told me I should use a softer ski because of the colder temps. Must be something to it.

From my expierience I can see the point of view of adjustments not needed basing that on a certain temp range. For me the setting work perfectly fine from water temps in a range form 60 deg up to the bathtub warm water of Florida, but as soon as the temps hit the low 50's and high 40's when were dumb enough to ski, there is a definite difference in the way the ski reacts. I don' think that anything dropping into the 60 deg range is needed of a fin adjustment. what's your guys' coldest temps of the lakes you ski on? And I am sure Mr.Schnitz would have an opinion in all of this!

So I got to ski on a Goode wide ride last week and was curious as if any one else has tried one and their thoughts and fellings on it. There hasn't been next to nothing on any of the forums of people trying them and results. Nobody wants to take the chance?

Thanks Andre! Runnin it was awesome! Pretty pumped about it! And yes it was a one handed gate.

okay so I just got back from getting some coaching down south and have issues with running 35 also. The biggest thing that I was told besides the usual counter, lead with your hips more spiel was the fact of where I pull out for the gates and speed into and through 0 ball. I was pulling out in a similar palce as you just around the 55's, the first thing that got changed was that I should be pulling out at least 1 boat length past the 55's and closer to 2 boat lengths as the rope gets shorter yet. This wasn't exactly a cponcept that I felt comfortable with but it worked! The concept is to carry the speed you create out in your pullout through 0 buoy and back towards 1. when you look at your video you have a glide before you turn back in which is bleeding speed and not helping you carry direction out, same thing I was doing, speed creates width and eleviates being late. My turn around 0 ball was probably 10 - 15' ish before the gates which was way later than what I was doing before. I ran 35 for the first time and had some of the widest earliest 32 passes ever. All about speed!!!  Make sense? /vanillaforum/js/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-undecided.gif

I'll second that notion! Our water temps at the highest are maybe mid 70's and the lowest low 50's in the spring and late fall. The water is always faster feeling as it gets colder. Just got back from Florida and let me tell you that water is SLOW compared to what we ski on here or were skiing on here. Jim you say you can't get as wide now that the water is colder, we seem to find that also, we usually add depth to the fin to compensate for the temp change which helps in the width department, but we usually don't start messing with that till were below 60 in water temp.

Congrats! Can she drive a boat?

Try standing on your front foot, all your weight on your toes/ball of your foot, if you can feel that you can't get much more weight forward. When I'm waiting to pull out for the gates I make sure I feel it all in my toes/ball of my front foot with my hips facing the wake ( attempting to mimick Larkin's gate), then I can slide/lead wth my hip into the direction I want to go staying open, it takes very little effort to pull out when I do this properly. In the glide or preturn for the gate being LFF I can feel the weight in my big toe/ball portion of my foot as I turn in, and at 2,4,6.

So there you go! Advice from the bad guy from the Incredibles and Krusty the clown! How can your skiing not improve?

Someone may correct me on this but countering starts as you edge change as you are atempting to carry direction outbound, if you watch Thomas Moore ski it would give you a great idea of body position, I think he does it more than anyone else. I would still bet your lead hip is behind when you are skiing. I found standing tall into the buoy helps also, when your crouched it's hard to bring that hip ahead.ÂÂ