Lieutenant Dan

@MatadorMaine  How much of the Teak Sealer is needed to do two coats?  Where did you buy it?  Thanks. 

4 hours ago, MarcusBrown said:

Thx for the feedback everyone!  Sounds like people are hungry for some LFF skiing....I've already gone ahead and filmed a bit more....including some left foot forward skiers.

More to come!

Dane or Cole McCormick?

@m_pags I hope to be able to check this out when we are down in Sarasota area from early March to early April!  Thanks for posting this!

@Slaloman https://towerbiminis.com/

@SkipGundlachLink to trailer in Wisconsin below

📸 Look at this post on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/RH711oPbYCQt8wD4/?mibextid=79PoIi

@SkipGundlach Being down with a sinus infection for the last couple of days I’ve spent some time looking around Facebook Marketplace for used Reponses or Nautique 196s. While doing that I have noticed quite a few Malibu VLXs of that vintage for sale. If that’s the boat you want  there are lots out there to choose from and certainly some have trailers. That being said, there is a 2021 Malibu trailer for sale up in Wisconsin or Minnesota that I saw as well. 

Interesting comment by @unksskis regarding the cost / economy impacting watersports and skiing. I do a fair amount of skiing on Norris Lake in TN every summer. Last year we noted that there seemed to be a significant number of people waterskiing (especially slaloming) and that there seemed to be a steep drop off in the number of surfing barges. Perhaps the price of boat gas was the straw that broke the camel’s back on top of the cost of the boat, tow vehicle, etc. for the wakesurfing crowd. It was encouraging to see that more people were skiing and were out behind more reasonable boats. 

22 hours ago, ETskier said:

Driving on the highway, see a lake along side and start counting seconds to see if it's long enough. Have done that so many times.

+1 here

I saw Nate Smith’s father do gates like that  on every pass probably 18 years ago while skiing at a local tournament here in the Cincinnati area. He also back-sided every ball. You could hear him hit every one going down the course:  wop…wop…wop

@MISkier is correct. One of my ski partners has a 2003 196 limited like the OP and it was converted to ZO a number of years ago. I can’t recall what exactly needed to be done but @Jody_Seal would know…

That’s a great warmup. It’s too bad the music is so overpowering, I’d love to hear her instructions a bit better 

@aupatking There’s great stuff in this thread by the Adams about how to swing and edge change early. Worth a thorough read…

The Denali “Adams” have some great advice regarding how they achieve swing and early edge change (includes standing up early and pointing the ski down the lake) in the “Connection and Swing” thread from fall of 2019. I brought it forward recently if you scroll down a bit you’ll find this thread 

Someone else recently remarked in another thread that they were looking for this thread and couldn’t find it. 
 

Here it is. 

@drew Bergman?

@Jody_Seal Like how much cheaper?

@Skoot1123 Just my $0.02 on top of the @CParrish43 gate advice above: try the Gut Gate approach from @AdamCord

 

https://denaliskis.com/pages/gut-gate

 

Although I personally am struggling with consistency at 32 off, I have been told that I have one of the slowest and in control 28-off 1 balls (34.2 mph) using this approach

That is FUNNY! BTW anyone have a 2022 67” MISSESHISOPENER for sale?!?! I laughed so hard at his suggested ski names I cried.

@UWSkier +1 on slalom (or just waterskiing) resurgence. We spent 4th of July weekend at Norris Lake TN and saw way more waterskiers than surfers (maybe saw one wakeboarder other than me). We were amazed at how many other slalomers were out for the morning glass runs. With gas at $7.00 at the marinas maybe those with the surfing barges are having to cut back? Who knows, but it was refreshing not to have so many huge wakes to avoid when out for an Airchair or wakeboard run in the afternoon.

My ski partner is turning 67 soon and likes to say that he’s the world’s oldest teenager.

I will be 64 in a couple of weeks. I thought earlier in the season that I might just stay at 32 mph. Once I got in better skiing shape I tried 34 and just found it to be too fun! Run 28 off consistently. Struggling at 32 off but having fun and as long as I don’t try to do anything too stupid I am not too concerned about getting injured.

Found the post I was thinking about above in the "Connection and Swing" discussion. It was Adam Cord not Adam Caldwell. I will post it below. Lot's of great stuff in that discussion that relates to the Spraymakers Podcast referenced above.

 

"Without it getting complicated - As SOON as I hit what feels like maximum angle and load in the pull (usually right at the start of the first white wash), I am doing everything I can to get the ski out of angle and off it's cutting edge. Mechanically I do that by pushing the ski more in front of me and trying to point it straight down the lake (not across it toward the shore). At the same time I am leaning away from the pylon with my upper body to keep myself in position to hold the centrifugal force. What it feels like from the skier perspective is that I am standing up very straight and tall through the wakes. That forces the ski to roll flat and lets me stay in a hips to the handle position against the rope."

I remember Adam Caldwell posting once that he purposely tries to point his ski down the lake after crossing the wakes. (I’m not sure that was his exact words but was the concept). I believe that the reason why was to fully take advantage of the “weight on the end of a pendulum” effect so as to get as high on the boat as quickly as possible. I think that is some of what they are talking about in this podcast.

@UWSkier Flex tape?

My 2016 Vapor Front Boot failed this week. The rubber piece ripped up the side where it connects to the harder shell.

 

Is there anything that can be applied to the rubber part on the heels of Radar Vapor boots to keep them from dry rotting? Maybe silicone?