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Makes about as much sense to me as counting class C scores in AWSA Elite rankings list. This is supposed to be an event with the highest standards the governing body offers to see who is the best skier that day. I don't see reducing the scrutiny of judging as an acceptable trade-off to get more skiers to attend Nationals.

In order to 'keep up all the of strength gains' you made in the off-season would require you to lift the same weight (frequency and intensity) through the on-season. For me, this isn't logical as I start to ski more, so I'm willing to sacrifice some strength for skiing. The best way I know how to maintain as much strength as possible is to still lift heavy on a less frequent basis. Most of my on-season gym work is spent keeping my flexibility, especially anything that attaches to my pelvis, and keeping my conditioning up. I also do a lot of scapular work to account for some imbalances I have that limit my skiing. Point is, figure out what makes you ski well and work on those.

Agreed with gt2003 about calories. If you cut too many, you'll slow down your metabolism. I've read that metabolism accounts for 60-80% of your daily caloric needs. Keep lifting the weights. Use a medium to medium heavy weight and keep rest periods short...under 30 seconds would be ideal. Even better, do compound movements with alternating sets and opposing muscle groups (ie. squats paired with pushups) . If your heart rate stays up and you're sweating, you're in the right zone. High intensity is important and will increase your EPOC, which will help increase metabolism. Agreed that bodyweight makes a significant impact on skiing. Sounds like you're on the right track and your work out schedule looks impressive. Good luck.

In my opinion, Cross Fits greatest strength is its greatest weakness. When you have a team based approach with everyone encouraging each other (peer pressure) AND you measure all your workouts, it becomes very easy to overtrain. If you over reach on every session, injuries will happen as @bkreis mentioned. It's documented in studies that Cross Fit does have a much higher rate of injury than other conditioning/strength sports. I've never heard of the term rhabdomyolysis (rhabdo) until Cross Fit became popular, but now I know people who've had it and they are Cross Fitters. With the explosion of it's popularity, you can't deny it's appeal. Box owners/trainers are advancing their training curriculum to address these issue, so I would expect the incidence of injuries to decline and gain an even greater following. As I mentioned before, I've never done cross fit, but do believe in the principles on which it's built. For Cross Fit or any other strength/fitness approach, moderate with various levels of intensity, listen to your body, and apply the same amount of rigor to your recovery as you do your workouts.

16 weeks...during the puppy uglies. Roxy seems to be comfortable in boats and water. Lots to learn.

I know what cross fit is, but have never attended a box to do the workouts. I've been doing high intensity interval/power training for 8 years which are the same principles xFit is based on. Great for burning calories and maintaining/building lean mass.

2014 Carbon Pro 5.7. 123.0 hours.

@MattP agreed that World Elite List is better indicator of 'elite' skiers as the specifications are tighter, which is the reason for this AWSA amendment/request.

@MattP - Masters and Open divisions as documented in rule 3.03.

An AWSA Rules Amendment Form has been submitted to make entry on the Elite Rankings list possible only through ELR scores. As I understand it, this would put it back in line with how it was prior to the rankings list, back in the EP days. This doesn't necessarily mean the C scores won't count, but ELR scores required to enter/stay on the list. How the rules committee actually implements the rule is TBD, but it has received strong support so far.

If a driver is texting/talking/browsing on a device, I'm back in the boat. Too much risk, especially when I'm on the platform. Tugging is no fun either, but a distant 2nd.

I have a silver metal flake in South Florida. Lots of compliments on the 'clean' look. I've seen more white boats recently than I have in the past. I'll be posting it for sale on Ski-it-Again this weekend under promo section.

I've driven the 14' MC in two different tournaments. It was the same boat. One time it drove great and the other not so good. I learned there was weight in the very front of the boat on the time it didn't drive well. It tended to get chine locked. Couple that with a light to medium rudder and I simply couldn't get the boat to respond quickly enough to keep it straight or establish any sort of rhythm so you may want to play with weight distribution as well as rudder torque. Really nice boat though. As fun to ski as it is to drive when set up well.

My 13' ran 3430 with no skier at 34.2

While the results are on the okeeski.com server, it's dependent on the scorers to enable Live Scoring in WSTIMS during the events to push to our database. Since the tournament was not run by the Ski Club of the Palm Beaches, we can't force the scorers to upload the divisions, but we did request this throughout the event. Most were uploaded, some were not. Huge thanks to Dave Allen in the eastern region for building live scoring into WSTIMS. Great feature. Paul