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@horton when one deals with Muhlitner in regards to anything at all, notes should never be taken.

we should be around, also, shouldn't miss a chance to ski with twhisper. @Drago i do remember hanging out underneath that wilting sapling, those were the days.

Does anyone have any data on the actual percentage of skiers that are LFF and RFF, or is this simply observational anecdotal evidence on par with UFO or Big Foot sightings? Perhaps AWSA could put an R or an L next to your scores so that everyone would know which foot forward you were, that wouldn't be too confusing.

@liquid d one of my fondest ski memories, eventhough I lost....that's the beautiful thing about skiing

@liquid d I agree, they ought to let the big guy in, just like they should of gave you and I a tie at the '96 nats, I got screwed by the wind in that runoff!

He's the only skier that keeps his shoulders in alignment with his hips, which are directly above his knees, which are directly above his feet, for the entire 16.08 seconds, most the rest of the pros and certainly all of us, spend our time moving in and out of this sweet spot sparingly. The acceleration, handle control, proper load, etc...is a by-product of this.

Record sandbagging, you gotta be shitting me.

@Horton if Don Henley could ski as good as he could sing he'd be running 39, you need to step up your game.

I'm not sure anyone is prescribing that one purposely open up their hips at the edgechange, I think a better way to describe what is happening is that we are simply maintaining our previously attained position. Going back to what Terry had written, at this juncture in the course any additional efforts to twist away further, bare no additional fruit. Any twisting away with load is only going to cause handle separation. Maybe after the handle release you can look at opening up toward the shore, but that is a different story. What you are looking at in the picture of Nate is simply a neutral position for an offside cut. If you were to freeze his oneside cut edge change, you would see open hips to the boat. Getting back to @Horton original question, "why do I feel so much wider when I twist my hips away?" You aren't twisting away, you are just doing a better job of maintaining what you have already achieved and most likely are more on top of the ski. Perhaps a better term for twisting away with your hips would be "keeping your hips moving forward and not allowing your butt to drop back." If twisting away with your hips is the key term to get you to do this, then so be it...but that is not what is happening.

I'm not sure anyone is prescribing that one purposely open up their hips at the edgechange, I think a better way to describe what is happening is that we are simply maintaining our previously attained position. Going back to what Terry had written, at this juncture in the course any additional efforts to twist away further, bare no additional fruit. Any twisting away with load is only going to cause handle separation. Maybe after the handle release you can look at opening up toward the shore, but that is a different story. What you are looking at in the picture of Nate is simply a neutral position for an offside cut. If you were to freeze his oneside cut edge change, you would see open hips to the boat. Getting back to @Horton original question, "why do I feel so much wider when I twist my hips away?" You aren't twisting away, you are just doing a better job of maintaining what you have already achieved and most likely are more on top of the ski. Perhaps a better term for twisting away with your hips would be "keeping your hips moving forward and not allowing your butt to drop back." If twisting away with your hips is the key term to get you to do this, then so be it...but that is not what is happening.

those stats seem "goofy"....couldn't find a LFF skier at a tournament if my life depended on it

yes 2012 A2 @Horton knows more about me than i do, @skidawg it was 2@41 at that tourney, i believe the year before i ran 3...great place to ski, even in the rain!

@horton @skidawg the shadows are great, the rafters are even better, much easier to swoop out of nowhere on un-suspecting victims

@horton this guy is gold, and yes pretty good impression i must say

@horton can i still make fun of you?

the good news is that if you ski with @horton you'll get to try 12 or more new skis, but, consequently you'll lose 12 or more buoys.

@wtrskior have you been to Bakersfield in the summer....or for that matter, have you ever been to Bakersfield period?

If you have to consciously think about sucking your legs up to edge change, it means you are pulling too long and still loaded with your legs past the second wake, or you must have not created enough angle and speed out of the previous turn and cut. You ideally want your legs to be free of the boat load at that point and and shoulders still away as @Colebrah has already indicated. If I was skiing the Schnitz coordinates and tried to suck my knees up in the edge change I'd only be able to run the mini course.

I would definitely win big dawg ping pong tour

@Texas6 a couple of herniated discs in lumbar region

@MISkier the score to beat was 4.5@39. This is what Nate knew. His strategy was brilliant, he got an early start at 1 and 2, then took it easy at 3 and 4 to do just enough to get out to 5 and take the win. If he had decided to run the pass inexplicably in those crappy conditions, he would of had to be much more aggressive at 3 and 4, and we all know what can happen at that 3 ball, every year someone goes down there. There is no way he could of anticipated that scores would change while he was skiing and there was no way he should of just guessed that the scores would change, thereby changing his strategy to a much more risky one. @Horton you don't turn 5 ball in that situation and try to be a hero, I know how you hate a score of 5, but c'mon man.

@horton no one cares about your mens 1 regional trick title missed opportunity in 85' at Sundown

yeah why complicate things, you know what you need to do, keep your width on the gate. just do that one thing, you can easily do it by pulling out as early as you do now, you just have to lean on the rope a little bit to stay out there...nothing wrong with that. once you get the feel of turning in for the gates from that wider point, then you can begin to adjust the ways in which you can make it easier to do so, ie. pulling out later, more progressive, etc. adjust one variable at a time.

@DefectiveDave I think the first thing you need to ask yourself is, what are you trying to accomplish by pulling out so wide on your gates? Does pulling out wide give you an advantage? If so, how does it give you an advantage? The primary advantage in keeping width at your gates, would be the ability to quickly get your body in the correct leverage position while there is little load out wide, and before the brunt of the load comes at the wakes. With a wider gate, you should have time to accomplish this. However, in your video you have shot yourself in the foot as you have wasted your time out wide by drifting in and never attaining the proper speed and leverage position when the load comes. In short, the quickest remedy in doing this is don't pull out quite so wide, maybe pull out a little later, keep that width, and when you do decide to turn in for the gates, go for it, hard and fast. Because on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being an Andy Mapple intense gate, you are at about a 1.5. You just need to simplify, go harder earlier from a consistent setup point, act as if when you do decide to go, you are trying to get to that first wake as quickly as possible. Then you can bring that video back to the forum where some of the more advanced concepts being discussed on here can actually start to be worked on to refine your new approach.

@liquid d better get her some of your duct tape and get those piano keys back in place.