lpskier

It’s funny. Reading the description of how people drive, you can pick out who drives Nautiques. For example, @ETskierdefinitely drives a Nautique.

Really. How could you drive with two hands and hand-throttle. And run the stop watch.

I watched that several times and I’m still not sure why that happened.

You are holding the handle with a reverse grip. Right foot forward skiers are typically coached to have the right hand palm down. You have your right palm up. Big spray though!

Has anyone else had the extreme pleasure of a Bob Marley show? As some know, Bob is both a comedian and an Eastern Region skier. He did a show tonight in Orlando that was hilarious. Notables in the crowd: Freddie Winter, CP, Cole McCormick, Leza Harrison, the Kuziak brothers and other skiers. If he comes to a venue near you, do yourself a favor and go see the show.

This interesting hypothetical came up in a discussion in a judging clinic last weekend. Since the slack line rule does not apply at six ball, the question is whether a “completed pass” (AWSA rule 10.01) trumps six no continuation. The answer is “six is six,” and our hypothetical skiers would tie.

Skier A runs 38. Coming around six ball at 39, A gets a ton of slack, but makes it back to line of boat guides before popping the handle. A does not go through the gates. B runs 38, runs 39 and out the gates. B throws the fist and skis back to the dock. What is the result and why?

Wally, hands down.

He was at my daughter’s birthday party last weekend. Feeling better, looks good if a smidge lighter. Back on the water skiing. And he’d much rather talk about Denali’s new ski design.

Actually, there is a great documentary on Parks, called “The Parks Bonify Documentary.” I bought a copy years ago at PerfSki. They may still carry it, but I think it is also available on YouTube. It’s very good.

Well, here’s a curve ball: I’m thinking of selling my 2015 200 (with 230.3 hours) and buying a center console family boat. I bet I’ve skied 200 sets since I skied last behind my own boat. So last weekend, I started shopping. Found a 24’ center console with a 300 hp outboard, and a ski pylon. Perfect for the whole family ( five at present, soon to be six) and capable of going far enough out to sea to reach the Gulf Stream to fish. Nothing fancy. $150 grand. WTF??!!

There is nothing wrong with staying in the game, but the older we get, the more important it is to maintain a reasonable level of fitness relative to how hard you ski. Not only will fitness help you avoid injury, it may help avoid a heart attack. If you ski with a bunch of old guys, and I am an old guy, at least two of you should have CPR training, just in case. A friend of mine had to be resuscitated in the water and on the platform this past summer. If his ski partner didn’t know CPR, my buddy would have been a goner.

@6ballsMaharaja made an adjustable binding like that for its slalom skis back when we all skied on wood. I’m not sure, but I’ll bet that was a KLP innovation.

Most buoys expend to the proper size ( i.e., tournament specifications) with air. Wally buoys are made to the proper size. If you put more that the suggested volume of air in the buoy, you run the risk of it making the buoy larger than desired.

I’ve heard the new owner is Russian, but I haven’t heard that from anyone whose last name is “McCormick.”

Wake surfing is really fun. Don’t be such curmudgeons. And just so you know, naked tubing is a great way to get an enema.

I moved the dft on my C-85 from .681 to .98 something (as far forward as it would go) and hardly noticed a difference until -35.

Interesting. Written on a typewriter and delivered by fax from a kneeboard company. Times have changed.

@Bruce_Butterfield Bruce, I thought you slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

I find that my first set of the year is really pretty good, but then my technique falls off a cliff for a couple sets and then climbs back.

Anyone besides Jennifer LaPoint skiing on a replaced ankle? I'm thinking I have to pull the trigger.

Boy, how times change. Both shorelines in the video are now wall-to-wall houses. Lake still skis great though.

I bought a Saucier. I couldn’t get it to work. Sold it to a friend who, maybe 47 years later, still skis on it.

This poster is on the wall at my gym in Orlando and offers Andy’s opinion about strength training. Andy worked out with Carl Percival for 20 years.

I agree with or at least share the same confusion as @ski6jones I responded earlier that in this scenario the skier would be going the same speed as the boat or very slightly faster, my rationale being that the skier has to travel the long side of a right triangle while the boat travels the second longest side of the triangle. The skier is traveling a longer distance than the boat and therefore must go slightly faster. @horton What is the math that says the skier would go slower? Bear in mind, I’m the token English and history major.