My name is Larry Zywicki, I'm 54 and ski on Middle Straits Lake in W. Bloomfield MI with my wife and 2 daughters. I'm a Field Service Eng./Project Manager for Thermotron, we make high performance environmental test equipment.  In other words I'm jack-of-all-trades and master of none. I've been skiing for about 35 years now and just love to be out on the lake, (skiing or not), it just takes all the pain and troubles of the day and floats them down stream. I've nerver skied in a tournament but have been to a few.  I'm  not a person that like to compete with others just better myself. PB was 6@32 about years ago before I took a small detour to the dark side and dislocated my knee wakeboarding. Now I'm trying to run 28 off with some consistenly but keep getting stuck going around 4 ball most times.  I've enjoyed this site, my carbon fin and all the information very much over the past couple of years very much. Keep it up John.