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Damn man sorry to hear that. I’ll pour a cold one out for you Saturday morning! hope you recover quick.

Waters around 88-90 now. Tad on the warm side but ski sits nicely and its a bit sticky but still swings out. If you are skiing after 2pm, bring a poncho, goggles and patience. At one point we had 12+ boats today.

LOL socialism much? (Not a political statement) ”congratulations for your 3rd place podium finish. Here’s your invoice. We take Venmo or zelle in case you don’t have your wallet with you.” Hilarious. im all for the thought of contributing-volunteering a few extra dollars to fund the broadcast but the idea at the top. LOL.

One of the theories is "if you wouldn't say it on the dock, don't say it on the internet". This holds true. No offense, if you brought that up out loud on the dock at a bigger ski club with national skiers, they would laugh in your face.

You can't wimp out now. I was going to have another 4-pack of tallboy IPA's for only me to drink while we pontificate about life, waterskiing and solving the worlds problems while sitting in the bleachers watching Mens 3 and Mens 4. Don't forget to bring your quarters to gamble or wager on skiers passes, high scores, failures, buoy's they will fall at and win-place-show. It's an annual tradition. You won't be too sick to go to Hawaii the following week will you??

I'm a luddite. I dont have zelle/paypal/venmo/instagram/chinesetiktok and certainly not LifeLog I mean thefacebook. I probably wont be at nationals in any capacity. Ive gots a job now! Main northbound at the exit gates. Sorry.

Well I typed a long detailed reply. It was hidden and now disappeared. not in charge of practice. Heck I don’t remember the last time I’ve been to Okeeheelee.

Some decent information in this thread. im not in charge of practice but in 2019 msscoke and I worked the clipboards in the morning as we had no place to to ski. We were just volunteers. The worlds ever changing. I’ll find out what the status is if practice. Maybe. typcially the practice lake is running full time sun up to sun down. Starts at 7:30am (lines form at 6:45 am) the tournament lakes occasionally will pull practice if there is not a rain delay, there is enough daylight, a boat to officially pull practice, a driver and a crew person. As you can see it’s quite a bit to organize. Intiatllly trying to get practice is very hard due to the demand but trying to get it for a specific day behind a specific boat, that’s moving mountains or lottery ticket.

@MichaelWiebe Cool video and gorgeous lake. Where is that if you don't mind me asking? state or name of site? can send PM if you didnt want to share.

@aupatking How'd the rest of the summer progress? You mentioned you were down a pass or similar? What ski are you riding this summer? Hope all is well as you've been quiet.

You're a good skier. That ski isn't good enough for you and you're ready to move forward on something more stable and rewarding. Nice video!

Have video? Post video! Don't have video? Shoot video and post video!

12 th reply sniffed that schitt out. I was going to ski today but my dog ate my ski log and my cousins mom is working late and the sun is too bright this time of year and the water is too hot and i dont have gloves. how do i get up?

Anybody else getting some serious Sidd Finch vibes going here?? deepwater starts behind a 90hp Johnson with no gloves at 5’6” 200 lbs. this is a well played masterful troll job! Kudos as he caught quite a few on the line.

@BraceMaker You seem pretty knowledgeable about subjects but in this thread it comes off as you don't actually ski tournaments, regionals or nationals? Is that true?

Fairly certain in the manual, selecting the entrance gates is when the puck passes through the gate or the right hand gate. Unless that has changed to the pylon. I mean, you could do it whatever method you wanted though. Also, you used the words "hotter then normal". Yes having it mapped both directions freaks it out but "what is normal?". On a single puck behind a malibu or mastercraft, the boat will probably be doing +0.5 mph, 34.7 or so through the gates. on a single puck behind a Nautique, the boat, while pulling a 180lb skier and above, will probably be doing 0.7 mph, up to 34.9 or so through the gates, The boat has to be going faster then 34.2 or the RPM ramp up from zero to 1 ball would be brutally unsustainable for the skier. (all bets are off when you are not pulling a skier as you'll get 16.05's and 16.92's sometimes. The system is designed to have a skier.)

Actually I see it another way. They don't need more speed, they need the ideal way of slowing down ENOUGH. Once a skier can own 35 off, 38 and beyond is about slowing down ENOUGH. It's not about going fast enough. Suspect as per Nate's comments, gate timing, speed and energy margin for error is tiny. Too much and you there are probably quite a few 0.5s and 2 @. Same with any skier trying to run 38+ regardless of speed. It's about slowing down.

Pretty amazing skiing. Great guy and humble too. He's had a heck of a ski career through the years. Looking at the pictures, how tall is he? Hard to tell. Pretty interesting in the discussions about 41 and 43.

@jpwhit Your knowledge on this site is unreal and suspect you are knee deep in the industry. Just a question, are you sure that was 2012 and not 2011? 2010 was the first year of the 200 then 2011 there were still some changes. Our first 200 was a non-cat boat. Our second 200 was a later in the year built cat-boat and it had 2-3 changes such as engine box hinges and a few other things, both 5.7l's

I've been thinking about buying a summer house on a lake up north. this would qualify as it is north of I-10. Is this on "lake 4" or "3" or what? How close to the Saxmaster's old house?

We've got a new style 200 with the 6.0L. Best skiing Nautique we've owned. Our 2014 white boat was the best driving but the single puck isn't built for the 5.7engine. The 6.0L with the multi-port is sweeeet. Lots of lean and swing. Out of 7-10 Nautiques we've owned (quit counting), this is the best skiing one. Come ski it anytime over at Okeeheelee, @MitchellM

@SlalomSteve You’re exactly correct and should be confused as words have very specific meaning. Very cool that you’re asking the right questions. And that’s the difference in arm skiing versus leg skiing. My previous posts I talked about skiers owning 35 off and beyond, really ski with their legs while their arms are just attachments. They bend their arms, they don’t pull with their arms. Think ski pressure-tension versus line tension through our hands. Two different things. This was in several episodes of the spraymakers podcast. But heres the catch, in the pictures of the pro’s (typically), they are standing up through their legs, they are coming balanced and centered through their legs, while BENDING their arms. They are NOT pulling themselves up over their skis 100% with their arms but working the line tension in conjunction with the ski pressure through the legs with bent arms. Remember, the arms are just an extension of the pylon-rope. NOT our throttle nor our gas pedal. Remember back in the day Karina used to talk about “not breaking the icicle” of the rope? She never pulled her arms in as that breaks the (changes) line tension. Hence why I am so heavy-hard on the squat&pullers as they are actually arm skiing everywhere never firing their legs to generate pressure, hold pressure, release pressure. And as a result, they pull their COM forward and aft on the ski the entire time versus loose and lean against the boat letting the ski slip through the water. Which is why, all the video of the S&P’ers, they are hunched over, squatting at the top of the gate, riding the tail, nearly going out the front while losing all sense of ski slip efficiency and degradation of energy, while pulling themselves across the course. No matter how much they fight to "hold stack" (bunk), they never will be able to hold the energy as it's built up in their upper body, not their lower body. Do the opposite: stand up on the ski, lean over the edge with loose arms, bend the arms keeping connection out to the buoy while using the legs to swing wide out around the buoy. YMMV, JMO, ICW, DIRM, DNT100%, IDRGAF.

mom let me use her Tandy this morning so i can post properly. pretty cool you are shooting video, somewhat asking for feedback and evolving. Squatting & Pulling is the #1 block to owning 32 off and beyond. It makes 22 and 28 a battle. This is squatting: This is Pulling (with arms):

My last one broke so I am on my second one. Very pleased with it as we have 3 cats and need to go to the vet all the time.

Absolutely, go for it!! Can you take video? There is a reason the saying is "yes you can teach old dogs new tricks!"