This is a huge pet peeve of mine. The key phrase "if you know you missed a ball". I know of two people who regularly do this in Minnesota. It drives me crazy. At the State tournament, one of them skied 2-3 feet inside 3 & 5 while skiing around the other buoys, then had the nerve to position themselves on the right side of the wake after getting through the exit gates hoping the driver was going to drop the skier and shorten the line. When the boat headed for the starting dock instead, the skier quickly adjusted and skied to shore.