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Because this sport needs to have one more tricky aspect.

Use the wakes as your reference point. There will be no confusion. The arm that is farthest away from the wakes is the back, trailing, or outside arm. Use all three terms in the same sentence to really confuse people.

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Forgot to shorten the rope.

Someone ran the easiest -39' ever... strike that, a pretty good back-to-back -38'

Getting your act together is filling an entry form. Don't wait until you can run some pass that makes you "qualified" to be in a tournament. You'll never feel like you are good enough to deserve entering. Skiing a tournament is as different as skiing with buoys is different from free-skiing. It's all worthwhile, and if watching the skiing was fun, getting on the water will be even better.

Magpie, what bindings were you using when you got hurt?

The last time a survey-monkey poll was rolled out, the main conclusion you could pull out was Out the Front and Non-release is bad. The data collection did not allow for further statistical analysis beyond that without extremely tedious data entry. There was also the fact that personal information was required that made it inappropriate for anyone other than the poller to look at the raw data.

 

When it come to water-ski bindings, I believe that anecdotal evidence is good enough. In that vein, the one type of boot I would avoid would be front-lace rubber such as Approaches, Drafts, etc...

Consult the oracle google. "Internet Cafe in Vienna" shows at least 7

WiFi is WiFi is WiFi. As long as it's free, or you pay for access rights, you'll be able to hop onto any WiFi signal that your phone can see. I can't imagine that you wont have at least one internet cafe that is convenient to where you are staying.

Anyone know off hand what the retail on a similarly trimmed MC or CC would be? It's got to be pretty close.

Feel free to lean a little in the direction of your front foot. If you're right foot forward, you can point the tip of the ski to the right and this can make it easier to stay balanced while getting up.

More so than when dragging a foot, don't press against the ski, let the water push the ski into your body. The squatter you are the less work you'll have to to do get over the water. 

First. For safety's sake, don't do anything stupid with the handle. Don't spike it. Don't try to throw it. If you're frustrated and done, just edge away from the wakes and let go of the handle like you would do at the end of a set. You don't need the handle bouncing up back at you or slack rope wrapping around a limb.

 

Second. I think it's okay to be frustrated. You don't ski back to the dock because you need some alone time. That's fine, just communicate that is what it's going to mean in the future. When you get back to the dock, it's over and your done being angry about the set. 

Did you go to a 16:9 aspect ratio?

Most computers have a widescreen monitor these day. But speaking for myself, I rarely put a browser window full screen.

What's the reasoning for recalculating the baseline between rounds?

Is this just the updated Annex, or is this Trent's signature ski that was teased a few months back?

Reads like they are updating the Annex to the Strada shape. The question is what Trent tattoo is going on? If it's mother earth, I'm getting one even if it's just for the wall.

Is it just me or is Andy channeling Mel Brooks?

 

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Strada boots would be a good place to start. I find the performance bump hard to describe: I was skiing stock Wiley's before moving to RS-1's. As they are, they are clearly good enough to get through very short ropes. Yet I have not found anyone that was overwhelmed by too much input to the edge: adopters running the gamut from -38' to -15' skiers. They are remarkably balanced, and I don't think I would hesitate to recommend them to anyone that is up to the price.

The release is smooth and predictably: I find them easier on the feet than my Wiley's were. Of course caveat exemptor, your mileage may vary. You can make them very easy or very difficult to release from. If you can take the ski off without undoing the laces, then you're in the clear.

 

I'm flip flopping on this a little. I think it's difficult to say, "This is how you ski -15'." In those videos, Seth has the leverage and efficiency off the buoy of... a skier that get's to the 10.75 loop. On the other hand, I don't think it would be going down the wrong road to emulate his positioning on the ski and control of the handle off the second wakes. It would be going down the wrong road to replicate his tempo, someone skiing longer lines will not likely be efficient enough to get to the next buoy using the same tempo.

Rumors and inuendo seem to be the way that Dave likes it.

For what it's worth. Chet's Warp did not have the tip attached: he had some kind of rubber cover up there. It was a continuation of the prototypes that had, for lack of a better term, a drain plug.

For what it's worth, the Exo boot are designed with a stop (both forward and back) so there is a clear and distinct point that your forward motion is going to start pulling against the release. I've seen at least one Reflex boot riveted to stop the cuff from moving, but I think this was done for performance not safety: that particular release is set off the charts.

There is nothing that can happen inside that thread that will help to dissolve the frustration that spawned it. Personally I belive a trip to see Drew, Andy, Seth, Trent, Chris, Wade, etc, etc... would go a long way to reducing such struggles, but that thread has nothing to do with overcoming the particular challange.

 

People decide to take their ball and go home all the time, and things keep plugging forward. You have to see where OB started, and where he was taken, too see where that particular quote came from.

I was sitting in a pickup boat with an HO dealer over the weekend. He mentioned a month, but it went in one ear and out the other. What I remember clearly is that there will not be an A1 in the 2011 run of skis. Dave is keeping a very tight lid on his skis.

Is there a bigger purpose to the stepped bottom, or is it simply to get more speed out an otherwise slow/er ski shape and flex?

When I've read or heard stories about injuries in RS-1's, it's difficult to figure out if the crash itself created the non-release situation. With my RS-1's I have full confidence that if my feet pull up (relative to the boot) they will come out.

Your milage may vary, but it's worth noting again: the construction of the RS-1 style boots allows for a consistant release that can easily be tested on dry land.