matthewbrown

@rico that’s what I’m talking about....that’s pure gold. @Horton it would be more accurate to say the Arvin area rather than Bakersfield area and that’s good enough for me.

JP Tipoch

Mental Toughness Formula= (The amount of times you dream about overcoming all obstacles in your path and relish the challenges in front of you) / (the amount of times you fear failing, and dread trying to overcome any obstacles)

@Horton can I talk about the driving at the Great Lakes Classic Tournament where Phil Adams helped me ski 6 buoys more than my practice PB?

@horton skid row had like 3 good songs

@dbski i had Bon Jovi and Skid Row being broadcast annoyingly in the halls of our door room, if only I could have been born 15 years earlier to hear Floyd fresh off the press in 73’

@Horton to only say that those two Floyd albums are “great” is akin to me saying Andy Mapple was an “ok”skier. The dreary Bakersfield winter is taking its toll on you.

@MillerTime38 no, I also typed humanistic which can be used interchangeably with Agnostic as no one was 100% sure of what he believed. I agree with @horton that the belief or non belief of God is irrelevant in this particular forum which is precisely why I was shocked to see a bible quote and then a mic drop as if that settles all issues. Uncertainty is part of life and it’s those who are the most certain to be aware of.

I actually saw a bible quote in this discussion somewhere, a freaking bible quote. On that note I reckon an appropriate atheist/humanistic counter quote would be in order and one that would appear to be more relevant to this discussion.... ” The whole problem with the world today is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” -Bertrand Russell

6.96, 2.522, .75

@Horton I agree, some of the worst gates I’ve ever seen.

101 degrees today, will be about 42 degrees for the tourney this weekend, great timing @Horton

The first goal is getting to the wakes as quickly as possible with as minimal as possible load on the back of the ski. The second goal is to take as long as possible to bleed off this speed and transition from one edge to the other. This is usually best accomplished with higher hips which helps manage the load into the wakes and also serves to keep your body and ski on the handle path all the way out to the buoy. That being said, you can accomplish nearly the same thing in a more squatted position if in your acceleration phase your body is leading your ski, and if in a deceleration phase you are taking your sweet time to transition from one edge to another by keeping the ski on the natural handle path arc. Basically, Fred is more squatted than Nate but they are both masters of the acceleration and transition phases so it really doesn’t matter that much. The problem is that most mortals who squat, drop their hips back...Fred doesn’t.

@Horton those pictures are phenomenal.

@Horton her upper body needs to be stacked on top of her lower body in this view of her cuts into 1.3.5. The ski is swinging too far away from the boat, causing her upper body to fall inside the ski arc too soon. As a result the ski loses speed and direction. This is why her 1.3.5 turns were on the tail at the shorter line lengths. Being stacked doesn’t just apply to the boat plane of view.

Maybe try Brandon or John Williams at Sunrise Lake. They own Sunrise excavating company in Redding.

Nearly everyone I’ve talked to does not like the pull, of course these are the same people that call in to question their fin settings, binding placements, boat driver, boat prop, and quality of the food at the onsite snack shack when their ride sucks so take it for what it’s worth.

As soon as the line gets tight after your gate move, right after your left hand gets back on the handle, your hips drop back and collapse, the ski moves out in front of your mass and you ride hard and heavy on the tail into 1. Then at every buoy the same thing happens. It’s easy to fix but you just have to be aware that this is happening so that you can consciously try to keep your hips higher and moving towards the wakes right over your feet. Probably start with the gate first and then see how that translates down the course.

@Horton The lean on the gate is too heavy and back on the ski, making a controlled edge change into 1 ball extremely difficult. Way less load away from the boat and way more lean toward the wakes will do you absolute wonders.

I broke my ankle skiing at Great Lakes in 1998. Ended up swimming to the shore right in front of Doc who was in the judges tower and he scrambled down to take a look at it. He got some ice in a matter of minutes and helped carry me to my car for the long ride home to AZ. I’ll never forget how caring he was.

There is nothing wrong with the gate width. The problem is in the coast for the gates and the balance point on the turn in. Your center of mass is well behind your feet on the gate coast and as a result on the turn in for the gates your ski comes underneath the line first, ahead of your shoulders and feet. This creates a slower loaded position. Think about it, you start to lean toward the wakes but then you stop that lean to allow the ski to catch up. That costs you time and demands that you hold an overloaded position. Basically, you are waiting until the ski comes completely underneath the line to begin your acceleration and this is what’s costing you everything. Stand taller on the glide, keep your hips rotated out more toward the shore and when you commit to the turn, your upper and lower body must move toward the wakes as quickly as possible leading your feet and ski. The ski should not come between you and the boat until you are at least at the first wake, you are doing this from the very beginning. Getting as wide as possible does nothing to alleviate this problem, the problem of being able to stay inside the turning arc with your body for as long as possible, that’s how you create the speed you need without the overload which undoubtedly is popping you to the inside of the line into 1 ball. One only needs to look at a Nate Smith gate to see this happening.

Post video, otherwise pissing in wind.

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