matthewbrown

@Roger he has a massive lean toward the wakes, so he’s able to stay completely on top of the ski and utilize the entire stick. Everyone else is leaning heavy on the boat and on the tail of the ski.

Was that picture taken with a 1977 Polaroid? I’ve seen better UFO/Bigfoot pictures. If it is what it is, I’d have a hard time believing the skier didn’t know but, perhaps it’s an optical illusion due to 1977 Ozzy technology.

@Drago I guess I said that the first time I saw lucky ski

@Drago after endless conversations with Marcus, I can assure you that is the opposite of what he really wants to do.

Keeping hips on top of ski and centered is easier done when you are taller and not as compressed just as whisper was talking about and as he perfectly showed in the pics.

The fact that Lucky Lowe’s legs are straight in that picture, has no relevance to the main issue that his ski is too far out in front of him. He’s pushing with his legs, leaning back and shooting his ski which leaves him zero platform to lean against in the edge change.That is his offside cut which as mentioned before in this thread is going to automatically lead to straighter legs. Nate’s legs on his offside are nearly that straight but he is centered completely on top of his ski. Straighter legs leads to higher hips which leads to slower and easier transitions. There is a difference between straight legs and pushing with your legs as I think @UCFskier skier is eluding to.

@AdamCord totally agree, going to have more knee bend on good side cut. But, the goal is the same, to stay on top of your ski with your hips, while behind the boat and through the transition. In both pictures above, particularly the onside cut, his hips are back. This is something he has been working on in recent years and has greatly approved upon, probably nobody better at it except Nate. So, my point is you can still muck up your main goal of staying centered on your ski with straight or bent knees.

Equality of opportunity whereby someone is not denied a chance at participation in anything do to the color of their skin, sex, religion, etc..is something worthwhile to strive for. Equality of outcome on the other hand, which i think a lot of you are rightfully railing against, promotes that regardless of how much you do, everyone gets the same piece of pie. A biological male who has converted to female still has a clear opportunity advantage if competing against true females. It would be akin to me going for a job interview only to find they hired the boss’ daughter instead. This has nothing to do with the merits or compassion or understanding of the transgender person, but everything to do with logic and reasoning.

@eleeski biological oddities do exist, and it seems to me they should be able to compete against one another in there own category so as not to discriminate against male or female.

At this point, the ski should still be closer to the boat then his body, he’s got the opposite going on.

According to biological science, there are only 2 sexes. It seems reasonable to follow this template in sports. But I digress, we have a long history of putting our feelings and beliefs over science so perhaps @Horton really will take the Womens 5 title at some future date.

You need concrete statistics on how many LFF skiers there are vs RFF. Without doing this, it’s hard to get accurate data. Not to mention you’ll need to define what your criteria is for “favor.” For instance, by most measurements, the top 2 left foot skiers of all time(Parrish/Rodgers)would not be favored over the top 2 right foot forward skiers of all time(Mapple/Smith). But, if you took the average PB of all skiers across the globe, maybe the lefties would have a slightly higher average. It’s a great question but I don’t think we have enough data.

@bdave6er never mind the video, go and see him.

Either there will be only smoke, or there will be fire, regardless of whatever happened in someone’s office hundreds of miles away. If there is some sort of magical connection between said office and this case that I’m not picking up on, then forget about investigating as you already have your answer.

@Horton exactly

Dimitri Gamzukoff was one of the greatest slalom skiers I’ve ever seen. Knocking down 39’s back in 95’ with a cocktail in one hand and a fist full of cash in the other.

No because he was never as efficient as Nate, it was more power and strength. If however, he was allowed to do it all over 30 years later, AND was able to make the slight adjustments to his technique from the start, then I would say Yes because of his physical prowess.

Scrapping 32’s when it’s 45/45 water feels like a different sport. May as well wait until spring when you don’t feel like you have a lead belt strapped around your waste.

The best drivers don’t pull tournaments because they are too busy skiing.

I wonder what the correlation is between those skiers who seek out drama in our sport, and those who use excuses when their ski ride goes bad?

GT-40 was solid, 5.8L 351 Ford. But Nautique had a special engine option that year, the Chevy 5.7L Apex engine 350. Really smooth power. Kreg Korinek had that setup down in Arizona and it was as good as it got.

97 Nautique, they should have never ever changed one thing to the bottom, just press the production button and then lounge chair/Budweiser for rest of day.

@Drago did Schroeder ski in as bad of wind as I had that one year there? Please tell me it wasn’t as bad so I don’t have to hear it from him!

Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player to have ever lived and it’s not even close, yet, she would lose 6-0, 6-0 to Roger Federer in about 30 minutes......so no, the answer is not Regina, unless your definition of best is subjective rather than objective.