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Would venture to say podium skiers at nationals are a different creature than target group for Senate?

What are the necessary elements to get forward in turn? I have heard “stepping” into turn, hip rotation, moving hips forward etc. What are the coaching tips to help create this skill?

@Golfguy every product has a target market.

Futuristic or Reto?

What do you guys do to tighten up your turns (when needed)?

@o2bnMaine , great tip. Do you suggest pinning elbow to top or side of knee. What grip do you suggest.?

@Chris Rossi thanks guys for your great series. Wondering if you could explain a bit what you reference as “stepping into the turn”? Same on side vs offside?

Topic material in general has been lacking. Often times I will scroll down 15 threads to find one of solid interest. “The Adams” and podcasts have been carrying the show. Doing topic search and rereading old threads a good way to go. Lots of good stuff out there

She is 20 feet past ball one when finishing turn 1. The geometry this creates makes pass much harder for any skier, any speed, any line length. Have her ski the faster speed with a no gate start and practice staying on time. A good chance she will amazed how easy ball two is because she will be so early. Do this until finishing turns at the balls for entire pass. Now add gate and dial that in. She will have confidence running pass and able to put all focus on good start.

Christine’s did a great job on my skins for SN. Like @thager said mine were UV out, soiled and worn. (Carpet even more). Color match was close but not the same. Done as package looked new. Looking for one off piece to match old would be tough. Custom job, custom shop. Great work sourcing matching materials. Can you share manufacturers and colors for the rest of us?

In-Tow, been Loyal customer

for years. Great working with Brenda to get exactly what you want.

84-85 is about right. Turbo was edge to edge

Concave. Mach 1 I think think tunnel

design. Next ski that came along was the Extreme

Thanks guys for all the good stuff, so many solid tips. Thread is a short read, but coming from many different voices helps make more like coaching instead of nit picking.

Exactly what I was looking for. :)

Fam-man@ One is my neighbor who has pulled son on wakeboard a bunch. He is a real 1,2,3,4 guy. Individual points you gave are great and will be added to my list. Any metric for pulling up skiers?

I have several new boat drivers in training. After doing it so long has become a bit second nature to me. Wondering how BOS skiers have explained to their drivers what to do. Will be open water, no course, Stargazer, Thanks

I live 2500 miles away and made the journey 1999. Sitting in Pavilion with who’s who in the sport was a real thrill. Has been on my list to return and thought this was going to be the year.

Are you sure that boat didn't overheat. How was impeller and belt. Hydrolock is such an rare event and seems must have occurred at end of test drive? If guy knew of problem and didn't disclose must have big balls. I tend to assume the best in people and would try to rule out other causes first. I don't think flappers are the problem.

Saw axe throwing on TV. Looked like so much fun the family wanted to go as group outing. What a blast!

As crazy as it may sound I think every ski school would benefit from having a big swing. As kids we jumped on and figured out efficiencies to go higher. Learning to straighten arms and kick legs was part of it, but more important were timing and fluidity. Jacking too hard or too soon to that perfect position just bent the chain and limited progress.

 

Water skiing is a bit the same. Sometimes you see a good static body position, but because of over leaning or over turning, acceleration is like a Semi Truck. After finding solid body positions skiers need to develop efficiencies for speed and "on time" turns. These efficiencies are hard to teach, especially since "less is often more". Free skiing with primary focus on speed sure helped me.

 

 

 

One of my all time favorites.

Are seams glued and taped!

 

 

Skied with Chris 10 years ago and these were his main speaking points back then. I totally was the arm flexing, jaw clenching, gasping, and rope pulling guy he was talking about. In many sports you simply work harder to perform better. Not waterskiing. Rossi figured it out a long time ago. One of best coaches ever. A very fun review.

Jeff Rogers keeps the line so tight he pushes the boat!

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