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I'm curious, is anyone using this boot on a releasable plate for trick? Currently using 2021 Vapors on a sequence plate for Slalom and Wiley for Trick but this is interesting for using the same front boot for trick and slalom.

While watching live streams of tournaments I've seen more and more jumpers wearing what appears to be a rubber strap around their foot, ankle and heel. I first saw Freddy with them. I'm just curious if anyone is able to enlighten me what these straps are and why they are being used?

@OSSKI: I am completely unable to use this app. When I try to add a pass it always gives me an error and I am unable to add any more passes. Clicking the Log Set button also gives me an error. I have tried across multiple browsers on multiple devices and I get the same errors every time.

Has anyone had issues with the single puck system. I recently had to replace the head unit in my boat and upgraded to the ECI puck. I have now encountered a couple times when the boat will accelerate unexpectedly in the middle of the course with a skier, it then abruptly slows down below the set speed and re-engages and comes back to the correct speed. I have noticed when it does this the ZO screen appears to go mostly blank with just "0" showing for the speed. When the speed comes back on the screen is when it drops the power and then rengages and comes back up to the set speed. Anyone experienced anything like this with REV R and the ECI single puck? I plan to get more trouble shooting info when I get back out to the lake.

I wasted an hour or so yesterday and found this: https://www.truesport.store/index.php/product/point-951-120-worldcup/ It appears to be a Alpine Snowboard Hardboot cut down that Joel uses.

I had the same thing happen to me, though where it really hurt was overall scores. My case was slightly different though. All my scores were at 36 LL because I could run 34-15 consistently but just couldn't run 36 in a tournament to save my life. No all my scores are showing up at 34 LL when I had actually run 34-15 to even get that score. So at a minimum my scores should have been at 34-15. So far both tournaments I've skied since moving up I've run 22 and I feel like I'll be knocking down some 28's next year so it's kind of moot point there. But my overall scores were lowered enough that I moved out of level 8. Where as with scores at 34-15 I would have been in level 8. I don't have any 3 event scores since moving up but I should be able to get my average back up. Especially if I can run a 28 in a tourney sometime.

I found this: http://www.wakehouse.com/vtype/

@6balls I totally agree kipping is not the same as strict dead hang pull ups. I can "do a pile of 'em" yet I can only knock out about 4-5 strict pull-ups at the moment. Once I get my shoulder healed up my goal is to improve my strict pull-ups and even progress in to weighted pull ups to help improve my strength.

Real here as well can do more kipping. Right now I'm dealing with a shoulder injury so I'm only doing banded pull ups so I don't lose scapular tension in my injured shoulder. Otherwise anything hanging from a bar is out (ie Toes 2 Bar) as are push-ups, dips and bench press. Funny thing is that Snatches don't bother me at all and Jerks only bother me occasionally. I think that as long as I am recovering properly then any of those compound weight-lifting movements are great for my skiing. They work the whole body and I can definitely tell I'm stronger and more fit. Where I really noticed it was after big OTB jumping a couple weekends ago I never really got sore or hurt anywhere. I attribute that to my increased core strength/mobility/flexibility from performing those lifting movements. Granted I have drunk the Crossfit kool-aid so some people may discredit my comments just because of that.

Since I have chance with no tournaments on the near horizon I have been giving this a try. I am 36mph skier and have yet to run 36 -15 in a tournament or up the rope in practice. Though I run 36 -15 at least once in most practice sets and have run 36 -22 once this year. I have had 3 sets skiing at 28. My last time out I ran 30 -28 and 32 -28 off the back of the boat. I have yet to put together a full pass at 34 -28. After a few stabs and not making it I went back to 32 -32 and ran it on my second try ever. I then tried one pass at 32 -35 and got 1/2 and if it hadn't been my 9 pass of the set I definitely could have made much more. It was a lot of fun but most importantly I think I'm learning how to turn and get into position to receive the pull from the boat better. I also am getting a better feel for the timing of things as well. My next set was more like tournament set working up from 32 -15 into 36. Going from 35 to 15 was a huge jump and took a pass to acclimate. I still had some trouble running 36 -15 but I eventually ran it. I took one shot at -22 and I could really feel some of the things I had done at shorter lengths start to come together on that pass. If it weren't for being tired and some stupid mental mistakes I probably should have run that pass. I like this experiment for myself. I think it will really help as I shorten the line at 36 but most importantly it makes it fun instead of beating my head against -15 and -22 at 36 all the time and not being very successful.

I am about 220 right now was down to 195 last summer but as high as 230 probably a couple years ago and ride a 68" Radar Strada. I would say that for 215 a standard 68" ski should be about right. I really don't have much issue at all on deep water starts with any ski that I've tried. I still ski 36mph for tournaments and get into 28off in practice on occasion. Though for fun just the other night I skied 1 @ 35off @ 32mph just to change things up for a set (thanks AB for the tip). This all to say that deep water starts don't have to be difficult (think about trying to flatten out the ski to get it pop up on the water faster) if you kind of sink down and have the ski more straight up and down, any ski is going to be more difficult to get up on. Also for your weight any standard ski will work good for you. Like AB said as you get up to 34 and working on shorter line lengths will be more difficult to ski. I also meant to mention that I think about not using my arms at all on the starts. All I think about is letting my arms out and not pulling in while getting up. Instead of fighting the boat with my arms and back I kind of become a ball and the boat just pulls my entire body up as one unit and I pop on top of the water.

I started out riding a wakeboard in college and I had experience on a wakeboard before my college tournament experience. Mostly because nobody on the team actually had/ or rode a trick ski. After I got out of college and bought a boat I finally got an OBrien rubber edged trick ski (44"). I can't exactly remember my progression but eventually I bought a goodman trick ski (45"). I only had enough tricks on one ski for one pass so I started out riding two skis for the first pass and one ski for the second in tournaments, but I think I primarily practice on just one ski when not in tournaments. About 2 years ago or so I finally started learning toe tricks and now I only ride one ski with a hand pass and a toe pass in tournaments. I am slowly picking up more tricks but really I just don't get enough water time to progress quickly. If you get enough water time you should be able to progress quickly enough to only need one ski. I have learned several tricks just by trying them at the end of my run in a tournament since I don't get a lot of chance to practice especially toe tricks. I only practiced and learned toe wake back and toe wake front in my tournament passes due to not having a pin person available enough to practice it at home.

@sunvalleylaw - that would be Perfect North Slopes just outside of Cincinnati, OH. Modern fat skis ride in powder with a similar angle of attack as a water ski does in water. But in neither case do you lean back instead you aim to remain stacked over your skis. I have used this same description with students who seem to think you need to lean back in powder, crud or other similar conditions and I have also used the same description when helping snow skiers learn to waterski.

@sunvalleylaw -- I am also a full cert instructor as well as a member of the ski patrol. I think it's funny because whenever I tell someone about I snow ski with about waterskiing they always comment about how it's different and you have to "lean back" on water skis. I always tell them it's actually more similar than you would think. I have found that if you compare waterskiing to skiing in powder (at least while on two skis) it seems to make more sense to people. Besides water skiing I also do quite a bit of running and have been getting into triathlons lately.

Maybe vests like ropes shrink as they get older? I've always had a little trouble with vest covering my gut. I've found that my eagle is plenty long enough to cover everything. (At least until it rides up, now that I have less gut than I used to.)

Chef, are his hips dragging back, or are his shoulders too far forward. I kept trying to get my hips farther and farther forward but it still didn't work. When I realized that it wasn't so much as my hips being back but instead my shoulders being to far forward then I was able to correct the problem. I tried and tried to get my hips to the handle/handle to my hips and everything in between, but in the end it was thinking about getting my shoulders back. When my shoulders went back my hips were closer to the handle.

We didn't put the boat in the water yet but on Sunday after disconnecting the battery it seemed like ZO was working again. We were using someone else's boat so we didn't actually run it to see if it worked but I think it should. Thanks for the help.

Thager, what do you mean by "moved menu button around"?

So we went to ski this morning but when we were getting ready to ski the zero off unit was in the off mode. When we pressed the on/off button to turn it on it would never change to the on mode. It always showed the black box with "Off" in it in the upper left corner of the screen. Doing the diagnostic check we found that it had an error coad "Xout_min". Does anybody have any idea what this means or how to fix it? Any body encountered this before? This is on a 2010 MC PS197 TT.

Being 39 you would be in the Men's 3 division. Men's 2 goes from 25-34, Men's 3 from 35-44 and Men's 4 from 45-52 The max speed is 34mph. In AWSA/USAWS tournaments the minimum speed is 15.5 for all divisions. How a tournament running order is constructed is up to the event organizer and I have seen many different ways to do it. Some seed within divisions, some seed everyone based on score, some do completely random order, some do some other sort of grouping based on drivers/judges/scorers needed. Typically the running order is posted before the event so you know when you will ski. The best way to figure this out is to contact the tournament director as each tournament could be different. -- Edited: The scores used to seed are typically pulled from the USA waterski ranking list which can be found at usawaterski.org. If you don't have have any scores you may be seeded as a zero score or the event organizer may ask you for your typical practice score and seed you that way. AWSA is a grouping within USAWS so you just need to be a member of USAWS and you would select AWSA as your discipline or sport group. As far as starting speed/line length I have seen it all over the board everything from 15.5 for W1 skiers on trick skis, 28off @ 30mph (for a M4 skier), 32off 34mph for a M2 skier going 36mph. Typical though is 15Off if less than max speed. If at max speed then whatever you are comfortable with. The idea is to select a line length and speed that you are comfortable running every time out no matter the conditions. I think most people tend to pick a line length that is 3-4 passes below their expected average score. So if you normally get into 32 you might start at 15off so that you would be skiing your 32 off as your 4th pass. The other thing I can suggest is that tournaments can become very boring if you are just waiting around for your next time to ski. In the mean time ask questions of the officials and other skiers, as how you can help and become involved. It helps pass the time while you are waiting between rounds.

I put my arm through the handle 16 years ago jumping (was 15 at the time). Did not have it repaired since I never wanted to be a body builder or model or anything. It has never held me back. Every once in a while I will do something where I notice it is slightly weaker than my other arm but since it was my non dominant arm it hasn't really effected anything as far as I can tell. I regularly rock climb and waterski 3 event and felt no ill effects.

What are the differences between the Red(2011) and Yellow(2012) Strada's? I can get either one new for about $150 difference, is the Yellow worth $150 more? Also for someone skiing 36 mph working into 28off and weighing 215 what size would you suggest? If I lost weight down to 200 or less would that change the size?

I have been skiing the Strada this season and I have been starting at 30mph. Due to the crazy year we've had I haven't been able to ski very much this year but I have been getting into 36mph regularly at tournaments(only one time last year). One thing I have noticed is that my 30mph and 32mph passes have gotten so clean and consistent since switching to the Strada. I absolutely love it, even at slower speeds.

I switched from an Obrien Sixam SS last year to a Radar Annex this spring to finally a Strada a couple weeks ago. I fell in love with my strada after the first pass I took on it. Compared to the Annex it was so effortless to ski on and it had so much speed, it seemed a bit faster than my Sixam even (though I never rode that ski this year to really compare). I have always been an inconsistent skier but that didn't seem to matter on the Strada. Last year I got to the point where I was running 34 at least once every set in practice but only ran it once in a tournament. This year I have yet to run 34mph in practice, partially due to that annex and due to lack of water time due to not being able to get on our normal lake yet this year. However, with just 3 total practice sets on the Strada I was able to tie my pb of 3@36 in the years first tournament even though I hadn't run 34 all year. On the Sixam I had a bad habit of standing on the front at the finish of the turn which would kill me. I find that on the Strada it's a little more forgiving if I get on the front of the ski but if I can stay patient, it skis awesome. It allows me to be back a little bit or forward a little bit and I can still maintain my pass which I've never had from a ski before so I'm feeling way confident that I can ski much more consistently this season even with a severe reduction in my practice time. For sure I have a lot of technique to work on but the Strada allows me to work on that technique instead of being in the water after a small bobble. I absolutely love this ski as someone who is just working his way through 34 and 36 -15 it seems to be working great for me.

I love stretchy board shorts, and usually I try to make sure they have 4 way stretch. I recently bought some Body Glove board shorts that have 4 way stretch and are pretty nice for around $25 at TJ Maxx. The fabric is a little thin on them though. Yesterday I was able to find a killer deal on some Oniell Super Freaks and Hyper Freaks from killerdana.com. If you look you can also find a 20% off coupon code you can use and bring the price down further. I think I ended up paying $32 each. The oniell Freaks are probably the best shorts I have tried.