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Beautiful site from the pics and video. It looks like you might have dug out the lake a little bit on the far end? What's your length in the course as well as how are you handling the ends? Spin, dog-leg or straight in or other? From Okeeheelee, it looks like it's about 2 hours 24 minutes. Might be worth a drive over soon!

I'm tryin to like or awesome the great post from January 4th 2023 but it's not letting me?

This thread is inspiring! Don't let the haters slow you down. Keep going! To get the ski to engage and turn more in the tip, have you considered drilling a few "relief" holes in the forebody front deck? or even in the front side walls? That's a common solution to relieve pressure. It's 2024, all up is down and down is up now. Anything goes!!

@skialex If you have any interest in coming down, day trip or other and skiing Okeeheelee for a day, let me know as you can ski our boat or potentially I can arrange a pull for you. We've got a 2019 200 with a 6.0L. The water has been around 70 right now and should be 70-74 by then. Most folks are just wearing tank tops under vests. We have an apartment you can stay in if you were overnighting, that one I have to check and make sure msscoke doesn't have someone else scheduled in it. Let me know. or Next trip!

This has "THREAD OF THE YEAR POTENTIAL" and delivers! Too bad the OP won't be sharing video of what is to come. Unless he will?!

Smells like lots of "junk buoys" being run in here. The opposite of modern business coaching, sports psychology and positive mental approaches pushing for the next level and honest personal accountability. Modern terms which could be read up on, deployed or other: Deliberate practice Clarity of execution Floor of performance Feedback loop evaluation process

Well the issue is if it's ever been skied on, touched a wood platform or whacked during mounting boots, the warranty is voided! Otherwise, it's a reverse break or you're somehow at fault!!!

@DW yes I did an edit as it was 5mm rear left foot rotated toes. (Not 5cm as I typoed) one of the posters is lff and rotated his rear left as well which is the opposite of what most folks do. Also, I’ve got a reply for you in the thin tailed skis and dft. Just need to type it up.

Been there and done that. Had an Acme 422 that we bent the tip on. Sent it to Acme for a rework as we ran it on a 196 with the 343 motor and zero off. That boat was never the same with that prop and the prop was never the same. You could sense something was "off" or otherwise. I called Acme and they admitted that the prop will never be the same as it is. It's laser cut and the tips and cup of those props is laser thin. Heck, I think a high hour acme prop does not feel the same as a brand new one. I had a 99 Sportstar for 3 years. Hell of an awesome boat. If I'm in your shoes, i'm putting an OJ or another equivalent prop on it and testing that. What color is your boat? I see your in Texas, where did the boat come out of?

Unless I am misunderstanding, you might be backwards. Quite a few RFF skiers who run buoys cant the toes/rear shell front about 5mm to the left. Especially in powershells. Reason being: At the top of the gate it allows for the left leg to be straighter pressing the COM over the balance point of the ski. Allows for a total clean alignment without squatting on the ski. Allows for the left hip to be "kicked out" at the top of the gate. 246: easier for that left hip to open towards the shore as the ski breaks outbound on the second spray. "Back to the buoy" feeling At the top of 246, left edge of the ski has more pressure, pressing it out and now allowing it be brought under the rope before leaning. If you're running clean, consistent and strong buoys with the toe the wrong direction while improving year over year, more power to ya! Edit: good catch LPskier, 5mm good to see you posting. hopefully not from the hospital.

Doesn't look like you got an overwhelming list of solutions on this website. Why not rely on a site sponsor and professional coach?

@Dano Great work Dano!! You are spot on as it sounds like your fundamentals have improved. If your fundamentals are cleaner and stronger, you WILL taste it: Took some time but I think I'm on the right track. My scores are up, consistency is way up, and my body is pain free. Here is more information for you and you were close on the quote: Pulling versus leaning. Perfect Pass, our muscle and mass was the power source. Zero Off, the boat is the power source. Our job is to get into postion and be ready to move. Hence why arm skiers, pullers and too heavy to height ratios get absolutely crushed while typically breaking at the waste, shoulders are tilted and they are fighting the boat. This leads to lots of issues of inconsistency and chasing their tails while “working on the gate” or jumping on the latest hyped ski. This is a fundamental issue when skiing zero off. “Loose and Lean” We’re really supposed to be acting as a lever in the zero off era. Need power? Apply more throttle. Visualize a throttle with a cable attached toward near the top of it. The cable is our shoulders-arms and then our body is the level. Lean to turn add power to the throttle. Second spray out, we’re vertical but still connected and we have turn off the power while the boat has swung us out to the buoy line and we are “free but connected” to the boat through our connectors, the hands-arm. Legs vs arms: “Power and pull” The arm skiers. Usually guys will be stuck at 4@32 or 1@35. It’s pretty common as they are using the wrong power source, their bodies are tense, they’re fighting the boat and their mind is in chaos to run buoys and you’ll see things like: · Top of gate, they have a big bow in the rope (typically squatting on the ski) · Arms are bent across the boat (pulling!!) · Hips drag or they lose alignment as soon as they hit the bounce or any disturbance in the wake. · Out to the buoy line, the COM will be over their rear heal. · They have a big sweeping turn using their arms, not their legs. The arms will be doing all the work vs the legs. · They will turn the ski with their shoulder and come out of the buoy tilted with the hips/COM dragging cross the boat. The majority of the above will never really run 35, leads to a boat load of inconsistency and 6 months of head scratching through each season. If you talk to the loose and leaners, you ask them, “are your muscles clenched?” they’ll answer, “I don’t know.” Or “no”. If you ask a puller (squatter too), they’ll say “yes, so sore, jacked up etc etc”. The difference is a puller is grabbing a barbell in the gym and firing-contracting all their muscles as they are trying to be a power source. Then they lock up their muscles and hips and can’t actively move on the ski. A leaner is trying to elongate their muscles while having them loose not contracted. This gives them the advantage to swing and move. Perfect pass: Our muscles were fired to be the power source. Zero off: our muscles are firing to hold position for short durations then we move on the ski. Really buoys are run through movement, not power. So all this above was my reference and relation to skiing with the arms vs legs with a little backstory of zero off vs perfect pass. Again, my perspective is a fishbowl of Okeeheelee just watching skiers for 12 months of the year show up, “ski” and bang their heads while “having fun”. Dano, May 26th post: https://ballofspray.com/forums/topic/51731-fix-my-stack/#comment-851927 Each Pass, Different set of keys but clear keys which can’t be broken, January 4th: https://ballofspray.com/forums/topic/31479-10-things-to-shorten-the-trip-from-zero-to-32-off/page/2/#comment-844917

Thank you for posting. Cool to see the next generation of Mens 3 on the podium. Those guys are all getting after it!! Interesting stat as this "might" be the first Men3 finish without a Goode on the podium, ever? Mens4, not so much!

In general, the 67" probably needs to be in the range of: 6.760-6.767 2.496-2.502 .704-.711 9-10 degrees. Suspect the 66" is not that far off on the numbers too. The thin tailed CC skis are much more finicky with DFT then the previous generations. Oddly my 68" CC, which is a completely different shape, i've got to be around .706 (or 2.553 full measurement) or the ski goes to hell.

Does anyone have a picture of the men’s 3 podium from this years nationals?? I’ve got men’s 4 but didn’t get to see men’s 3! Thank you.

Understood. Last post but it’s interesting as someone is critiquing and criticizing other people’s work and has the reading comprehension of a lab rat while not willing to do any work that was offered. You’ve said many times, don’t criticize others and the work and energy people put into words. I’m apologizing , sorry if my offer hit a nerve on your insecurities. My offer stands if you want to come ski and we build new graphics together.

@vtmecheng Interesting prospective. Let me give you some back story. the author of those graphics is a professional engineer and successful mechanical engineer. The graphs are rooted in bending moment diagrams based on load and moments. They are fantastic actually. his graphs were built after my graphs were built. I took a different approach and had a wider audience with my graphs and were even more simplified. I interview ~10 big dawgs and 35off or better skiers in 2007-2009 to develop my graphs. He narrowed the audience and built them for technical folks. my write up and graphs were posted on Schnitz skis for years. are you available to help me test data for these DI engines? What line length and speed do you run? Do you have access to a variety of boats? Would you like to come down to Okeeheelee to test data for the Gen3 graphs? Do you have the ability to load the data in Tableau or PowerBi? I’m open to using excel. Look forward to you helping and being a core part of a team with their own energy for the community!! I’ll be on standby checking my engineering degree to see if it’s only a 6th grade vs 7th grade.

It was 2014. said truck was parked in MM’s driveway until he drove it to be turned in Sunday night in New Orleans. hence the charge of “falsifying government documents” as he wrote the seizure of the truck took place in New Orleans and documented the confiscation took place in Houston. It wasn’t “by the book” and let the manual. Vs a full seized and turned in to the Houston field office.

Not sure. hadnt been on site, besides driving by and watching the zoo from afar etc headed down to seminole cocunut creek casino. They've got 2x points on players cards for black jack tonight. come join me! Edit at 6:12pm looking at the radar: this is a legit bad one, 3 hours plus and lightning. driving by now and it’s bad. Main is 1 notch short of white caps. might go to the kennel club instead as they have 3 card monte. main lake is going to be “busy” water for the next two days fyi. edit 2: looks like 4 hours of skiers didn’t get on the water today.

we gots lightning! radar is gnasty and it's black out of my office window.

I dont want to be "the actually guy", but the live scoring right now is accurate. Had to start B3 (maybe) this morning and it pushed it all back.

Lots O Red during boat checkin

Thanks for posting. I'll be in the grandstands available to wager per skier, per pass and 1-5th. I'll double wagers specifically for the skiers on the water around 10:50-10:56 am!!!