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The is the same vendor that University’s use to “Entice alumni to tell their story” and then encourage them to purchase a catalog of alumni stories, similar to a post graduate yearbook. Distasteful at best, and I am tired of the numerous postcards and spamish emails. It would have been more value added if they spent this amount of effort informing members of the forcing functions, options and pending decision for SafeSport

Again really! Many have spent much more time reading the post than taking the training. The requirement is not unique to our sport, just a reflection of the time. The reality is you can either suck it up and take the training or stay home.

I seriously doubt for a boat the used regularity, a 75hr change which is about 3,000 mile of use in a truck or car, would cause premature wear. For the casual boater who may not put 50 hrs in a year as oil dilution would be a factor. Do sure what bushing would be wearing and the rocker arm bushes are the only ones the come to mind, and typical are good for 500K in a vehicle.

Some of their engines are coil on plug, I am not aware if the 2020 is.

Cap, rotor and wires? Should have coil on plug.

I have used at two tournaments, and it is a big improvement. It allows you to ditch the DVR, and with two $15 interface cards and an old (or new) windows computer you are up and running. Reviewing is easy, but the judges need to do so before the preset period (30sec typically) and then if you hit pause you can go frame by frame or slow motion. Additionally if you allow the replay to run until the end, the video clip is saved to a Videogatges/review file if need later for a challenge, etc

I have to call BS on @BigSpray! You haven’t skied in 10 years, but now that you are, one manufactures rope is crap and another is wonderful, and your profile is private,

@dave2ball, You already have skied on one, before it seem that anyone knew of them…seems odd. I have skied all the ML, In-Tow, and SL ropes and I am in the camp that a rope is rope. Other may or think they feel a difference I dont. However, this Z rope announcement seem somewhat unsavory.

This is an interesting thread! If ML was going establish a subsidiary for lower cost products, you would not of expected a name that appears to mimic a competitor with a likely intention to confuse the customer. This does provide an inference to ML's cost of sales, by the Z line price.

I as many other are not interested in this or giving “our history” to AWSA. If they wanted our information verified as they claim they could do that electronically my email or on the website. So far I have received two emails and one postcard, they should have spent their time and energy communicating the SafeSport/Insurance issues and option to membership a year ago.

When boat video is used, the boat video will be monitored on the tower by another Judge who will advise the Chief Judge if he disagrees with the event Judges decision. In which case the Chief Judge and the review Judge will again review the video file to determine which score is correct. If they both agree on a score, that will be the given score. If they disagree or agree that the video does not clearly overrule the score given by the Judges, then that score will stand. If no other Judges are available the Chief Judge may act as boat video review Judge, and if he disagrees with the Event Judge’s decision he will ask the Judges to look at the video and the final score will be decided on by simple majority.

The proper procedure is the judges should make THE CALL by watching the skier. If the have doubts or disagree then review the video. They should not be utilizing the video for the initial call. That is how I understand the rules and common operational procedures.

@Laz as @skierjp stated, there were no resides for out of tolerance boat path. This is a testament to Scott G and Kieth A, which pulled all the open skiers. The last thing a driver wants, is to have an out of tolerance boat path for skiers who’s livelihood depends on their performance.

Increasing the tolerances for R is a good thing. SurePath is a great thing, an objective repeatable measurement. It has helped my driving and those who pull me. Does it require a bit more diligence and not have a S$#@ show boat, yes. It is an improvement in everyway over end course video, having someone suggest improvement to your boat path, and keeps everyone honest. I am not the easiest skier in the world to drive for, and have a 13yr old 196 (well maintained), and my wife rarely gets a out of tolerance pass for me at 38 & 39. I find the cost justified for the survey feature alone. I have been able to get our course “right on” not just in record tolerance, as I now aim for tolerance for less than 10 mm from actuals.

Jody’s suggestion is the best solution. But have your oil draining/drained for a month is essentially the same as having the engine sit for a month. The crank and everything except the oil pick up is above the oil level in your engine. I do believe that any significant drain has occurred in excess of what would happened it just the engine sat for a month.

A generic cable does not have the same range (less) of motion (travel) as the proper cable. Cost more but not having the rudder move as far as it should is not pleasant. I found out the hard way, by the proper cable.

Jury is still out, yet..it is encouraging. I ran 3@39 in a tournament, twice three weeks ago on my old ski, ran 2, 3 and 3.5@39 (in good shape but was impatient) in a tournament yesterday and ran 39 in practice today, which is only the 2nd one this year. I seem to like the binders forward (one hole on the D3 binders forward) compared to my old XTR, so there may be something to the " we moved the sweat spot forward.

@brettmainer, Taking to Martin B that I believe made the ski, he said no change in shape. Decrease in torsional stiffness and moved the sweat spot forward. How that is or could be done, I do not understand. I always take the claims of improvement with a large dose of salt from all manufactures. I remember the O’Brien piezo electric plate, and Goode flex tail (a real dog) and others

@brettmainer, I am in the same boat. I have a 5 year old XTR which is likely way past it’s sell by date. Two years ago I tried a XTR CC, which felt OK but could neve get past 4 ball on my hardest pass (which I only occasionally run) after two months, took my old skie out, ran the pass out of the boat, and 3of 6 rounds of tournaments remaining, and sold the ski. I am on my 2nd set on the XTR CC Team, and is to early to tell if it better than my old ski, but it feels pretty good so far. I have not yet shortened to my hard pass, but will soon.

Depends on your goal, if you want to work on conditioning and toughness..spin. If you want to work on form or technique, drop, reflect and repeat.

Is the question, has there been or is there? Video, shurepath, speed control, verification of handle length and other rules has greatly reduced the likelihood of cheating.

Thanks

Now when registration you have the flowing choices. *ASWSA National Championship *ASWSA Regional Championship * USA Residents Entrants only (National Competition) * USA Residents and Foreign Entrants (International Competition) * Club members Only * IWSF ProTour If "USA Residents Entrants only (National Competition)" option is selected does that mean the occasional foreign skier can not attend? I and our registrar is unaware of any communications or documentation of this.

Keep in mind that most handles have the same aluminum core, so a thicker diameter handle has more rubber to wear. Additionally if you need to have the handle restrung have the handle rotated so you wear the other “side” of the handle.

I believe that there is “much ado about nothing” when it comes to ropes. As long as the the rope has quality yarn and is built accurately, I can’t really find my difference is the skiing. I skied the two ML lines types and a In-tow rope, from 15 to 41 one after another (stretching them for a tournament) and did not ski any better or worse or feel a difference. The biggest differentiator for me was the attachment method, I am not fond of some of the methods, but others like it.