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    Moomba Masters International Invitational March 9th – 13th 2023

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    I am glad to be able to follow an event that is on the other side of the world. They keep stating that Moomba is the largest and most prestigious event in the world. However this webcast makes me want to turn it off! Commercials right up until the skier is pulling out for the gates. They are interviewing athletes right after they have finished skiing and they either play commercials or have a camera angle that is behind the interviewer. Something will have to change in order for me to want to tune in again for this event. I agree that we are spoiled with TWBC, they certainly have done an excellent job at presenting our sport exceptionally well. Thank you TWBC

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    Will you sanction a tournament in 2022?

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    This is a tough one for sure. We held 2 tournaments this last year after not having any at our site for over 10 years. We were excited to have more this coming year but our HOA is gong to have a hard time with taking on this liability. Also, we now would need to purchase additional insurance over the sanctioning fees that we would already be paying? That is BS for sure, maybe the sanction fees need to be reduced then.

     

    Drones

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    @Horton It really does not get much easier than The DJI Mavic. It folds up and is super easy to pack around. as a beginner it has a bunch of fail safe functions built in and as you get a bit better at flying the sport mode will keep up and pass the boat at a max speed of 40 mph. After some time of flying you will find that there are other controller apps like Litchi that will allow you to program in way points by the simple touch of the screen that allow full autonomous flight.

    Water Skiing mourns one of its greatest champions – Andy Mapple 1962 - 2015

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    I had met Andy only one time in my life but I will never forget the experience. It was 1980 and being a young want to be water skier, I decided to book some lessons at Liz Allen’s ski school in Florida. Now I had never been on a plane before nor had I ever been to the east coast. When I booked my time there I was reassured that someone would pick me up at the airport once I landed in town. I was extremely anxious for my experiences at Ski School. Never once did I ask how I was going to “picked up” at the airport, but had all the faith in the world that someone would be there for me. Once I landed and got off the plane I realized that I never inquired as to how I was going to know who was picking me up and of course just figured it would be one of the workers of the ski school. I de-boarded the plane, and no one was there, so I proceed to baggage claim and patiently wait for my ski to come down the oversize Shute. Only then did someone approach me and say “are you Russell?” I being the young naive fool that I was just assumed this was one of the workers of the ski school. We proceeded to board the van and head towards the school. A short time later this worker this worker stated that they were hungry and would I mind if we stopped at McDonalds to get some food. I of course after flying across the country was ready so I was completely on board with this stop. Now we are in the line at McDonalds waiting to order and it finally hits me that I have never introduced myself nor has he. So I say “I didn’t catch your name”. This is the point that he politely looks at me and Says “Um, I’m Andy Mapple” Now this is about the time that I realize that I am a completely different world now and I have just been picked up by the guy that just had won the worlds. Needless to say he took it quite well and over the next several weeks he was quite helpful with showing me how to tune skis and was always polite and cordial. I always figured that If I had the chance I would remind him of this event and express my complete embarrassment.
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