I realize that sometimes when you want you have a large number of people who want to ski on a lake that some rules are necessary, but in general to many rules and regulations change the whole atmosphere and culture of the sport. It becomes more about money and making sure everyone is getting there fair share, and people begin to lose sight of the reasons that they started skiing in the first place. This is bad for the sport for two reasons, one it prevents people who are interested in the sport from not participating, case in point myself. I have never learned to ski around buoys it seems like anyone who has a ski course in my area has a whole list of reasons why I can't ski at their site, we can't teach you how to ski the course it will mess up everyone's rotations, it takes years of practice to be able to drive a ski boat through this course, so and so gets this many sets at this time and he already payed, your not insured. Believe me I've heard it all. The second reason being that it drives people currently involved in the sport away from it. A good example of something like this happening is the snowboarder Craig Kelly he turned down multiple sponsorship and contract offers because he just wanted to tear up the mountain and not have to deal with the politics of having to compete in snowboarding contests. I just don't like the rules and politics of belonging to a club, I guess that kinda of makes me an outsider in this sport.