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I put version 9 in my 1995 Prostar 190, my experience is that it's more forgiving to inexperienced drivers who over throttle or pulling slow speed skiers around turn islands. (Turn islands used to be the nemesis before the upgrade)

As far as times it's been spot on for me, no surging or bad times anywhere. Great upgrade and well worth the couple bucks they are asking for.

Maybe I'm mistaken but I think the point of the whole states vs. regionals requirements for nationals can be summed up in a couple of bullets:

1. By removing the regionals requirements and switching it to a states requirement, there should be a larger number of skiers who can logistically attend states. This is due to decreased travel (for not all states but most, again the goal here is incremental improvement) and usually states is run over a weekend (no PTO required).

2. With a theoretical larger number of people now potentially being qualified, potentially having more PTO, and also potentially having slightly larger amounts of dollars in their bank accounts, a cross country trip to nationals may be more realistic and appealing for them.

3. There is no perfect answer, but given the trends in attendance its 100% worth having conversations.

@LLUSA I have skied regionals before. (Jack Travers in Florida) And I've skied at your site a few times in college. Phenomenal place with well run tournaments and unreal conditions. My thought is that with declining attendance we focus on a single event "nationals" and build it into the powerhouse it once was where enough people are wanting to ski and attend that it requires having the additional qualifier of regionals.

It's not a perfect idea but the general premise is to focus our limited resources as a sport into one area with the goal of eventually expanding back out again into regional qualifiers.

Does anyone have any sources for some of the hard to find hoses for the LT-1 motors from the early 90's? I checked over on teamtalk and there are a few threads but the only source I found was $110 per hose. I'm looking for hose #5 in this diagram.

Hypothetically, would something like a new club opening up like this be a great opportunity for AWSA/USAWaterski to do an email marketing/ call campaign to former members to try to drive membership for this club?

Sounds like low hanging fruit to add membership.

My hope is always that more skiers = more places that get turned into ski sites.

My hope is always that more skiers = more places that get turned into ski sites.

@MattP the sport I always talk about that has the explosive growth model figured out is Crossfit. For a couple of reasons:

1. It's cheap ish. $150 a month, we can't compete there but if you think about it, when I was skiing at @OB1 's lake in Atlanta for $1800 for a 8 month season that isn't that far off.

2. Family aspect. People at Crossfit gyms are like family and it's very inviting. Waterskiing is very hit or miss with this, certain lakes welcome guests with open arms while other are very protective of their site. This needs to change. People don't skip their Crossfit workouts/competitions because it's hanging out with their friends and competitions together. NCWSA has this figured out, AWSA does not.

3. Video production. Everyone needs to go take a look at the Crossfit YouTube page. Tutorials, athlete profiles/stories, competition recaps (we can't even get scores posted most of the time) We have some really awesome and interesting people in this sport, it's time to get them on camera and using them to drive more membership.