WadeWilliams

its an awesome suit. uve got to b super careful with it though. glued seems and thin material, it can get damaged but mine has held up for a couple seasons with good care.

Ofcourse, you barely realize that you're wearing a wetsuit, and it keeps you really warm, so I think it's worth it. You've got to be careful putting it on and off, because as you said, it's easy to damage .

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there will be some new boots for 2011.

PFG's on it, the colder water does ski "slower" though most skiers call it "fastr"

faster = a feeling you get when you ski more at the buoys

slower = a feeling you get when you ski wider, earlier

since colder water = more friction = physically slower = most skiers ski more at the buoys = feels faster

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skis and bodies are affected by cold water. how doesn't really matter IMO, bc,

as the water gets colder it is more viscous

colder water = thicker water = more viscous

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thicker water = harder to slide your ski thorugh = feels "faster" because your ski rides higher in the water.

hotter watter = less viscous = "thinner" water = ski rides lower in the water = feels "slower"

Let's Visualize water molecules (disregard weight):.

Low viscosity = hotter water = marbles

High viscosity = colder water = basketballs

Think about how your ski would react in those two mediums...

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also would add that the chart you posted is likely true across many brands, because it is the water that changes more than your ski or your body.

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I'm in Milwaukee this week, we have a meeting with a beer company to potentially be the title sponsor for the pro tour -- Here's my question:

 If it a beer sponsor stepped up to the plate to finance the pro tour, would you buy their products more ?

 Would you encourage your friends to purchase their products more than other beers?

 -or-

 Would your beer buying habits remain unchanged ?

Don't mean to poach Horton's Forum while he's in Vegas but we have a live chat with the webcast at http://pskic.com/chat

Tony and Tadd are both there!

The gear/settings link is deprecated.

Now that we are tracking all the slalom skis (319 different make/model/year/lengths so far) we have the recommended settings right along with the home page for each ski.

Looks like the deprecated gear/settings link has the right senate settings for 2008: http://www.proskicoach.com/skis/Radar/Senate/2008

Seth Stisher wrote a short review on the 2009 RCX here:

http://www.proskicoach.com/skis/D3/RCX/2009

please rate and review this ski, yourself, if you've ridden it!

Remember you can find recommended settings to all the latest skis at www.proskicoach.com/skis

If you're skiing on the A1, please write a review for it, here at the A1 Homepage: http://www.proskicoach.com/skis/HO/A1/2009

Free skiing isn't a prerequisite to run the course, but it should be!

The free skier understands rhythm with the boat. The free skier has open vision. If you're turning orange balls all the time, chances are that's all you'll see. Opening up your vision and seeing the lake, the boat, and the whole entire course is the easiest way to make huge improvements in your slalom. 

Without excellent "feel" you will always be tricked by your eyes into thinking you are later than you really are.

If you think you're late, you're going to be skiing differently than if you were early and ripping it. 

Free skiing is the best way to get the feel of the boat so you know how early you can really ski out of every single turn.

There's a great article by Seth Stisher in the latest waterski magazine about running a free ski rhythm in the course. I am a huge proponent of this. If you can turn every buoy 30 feet early, and be outside of them all, you know you just ran the course. If you turn 30 feet infront of 1, but you go around 6, you lost 30 feet of time and this would have made the whole pass a lot harder on your body. If you had been turning buoys you would have taken more slack hits from the boat and in effect practiced poor technique.

Chet Raley has beeen quoted for saying "Practice Makes Permanent" -- only Perfect Practice makes Perfect.

If you chase the pass, you will pull harder in the wrong places and add even more downcourse-speed to an already downcourse rhythm. This is why you feel like you get later and later.

The answer is in the timing of the pull and learning to allow the boat to feed you speed, rather than trying to take the speed from the boat. This is much easier to learn when you're not trying to quiver-slam a turn to "Make up Time" (?) at the buoy.

If all you're doing is turning orange balls, you'll have a hard time feeling how easy slalom skiing really is. That's not to say you can't do it. I skied in the course only for the first 5 or 6 years that I skied. Then I free skied for 25 or 30 sets and learned a TON.

www.proskicoach.com/slalom_articles/official_slalom_course_diagram

http://www.proskicoach.com/slalom_articles/official_slalom_course_diagram/img/slalomcourse.jpg

We will have GPS data acquisition available at SkiTek in the fall.

http://www.proskicoach.com

The difference between the 2008 and 2009 F1 is graphics. New black & red = sick. Old Blue white and black = also, sick.

 Difference between 2008 and 2007 f1 = softer flex pattern more gradually rated along the skis length. Much better than 2007.

 Prophecy has higher, but not 'high' carbon conent, I think there's more on the top sheet graphics than there is carbon in the ski, although it is lighter than the f1. The f1 in my experience has been the most reliable as far as toughness / longevity. The skis hold their flex over time and are robust to handle dings (won't loose a ski to a popped handle). And they dont pay me anything at all so you can't say this statement is a bribe :-)

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Tips and tricks are great but the greater understanding you can have of the physics involved leads to a greater understanding of the movements you need to make behind the boat to give yourself an opportunity to succeed. Waterskiing is easy. Physically strenuous? Yea. Mentally challenging? Ya. Frustrating as ****? Ya, got that too. I would go so far to say there's nothing as hard as waterskiing is when you look at it that way. But technique? ... Technique? Techique is something that is difficult to master but the more you can simplify what you are trying to do the more that you will be in harmony with the physicis involved. The more you struggle to "fight" against phsycial laws, the greater that... it will be a fight! It is not a fight, nor is it supposed to be.

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Optimally you will position yourself directly to the left of the gate. In a perfect world you would be able to ski @ 90 degrees cross course angle. You would start right next to the gate and have a continually progressive edge into the wake. So you wouldn't have 90 degrees of angle, but you would fall into more and more and more as you got close to the gate. If technology and physicis allowed us to, you'd be able to achieve this.

BUT, you can't. The most cross course angle you will ever, ever have on your hardest cut is 60 degrees.

You were almost to a break through when you nearly missed your gate. You have to keep it early and easy to be able to feel what you need to feel to bring your gate to the next level. Once you get the feel for the progressive edge then you can start moving it down (later and later) but as soon as you cut at it you've lost.

The best skiers in the world can begin their turn-in about 7-12 feet upcourse of the gate.... meaning from apex of the gate turn to the time they split it,  they've only moved downcourse a little bit. The less you can go down course, the more you can go up [across] course.

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