kfennell

13x14.5 OJ

The bid opening is today 3 hours ago and you have to mail in your bid, so, uhh?

An "easy" way to deal with @usaski1 scores is just double everything... It's not like he is improving all the time. As far as I understand you are improving at the same rate someone would be who is in say -39 or so, as in years between PB's?

@horton when i said that @usaski1 wasnt registered! And I am skiing about 4 balls past my likely handicap in practice, all I have to do is sandbag this weekend at Aquaplex..... or ski like I did this weekend. @skidawg I see logan is a few balls ahead of me now, hope I can catch up this weekend! Good job Logan

Hmm so far if I enter it will be neck and neck between me and Logan to win the handicap division.

@Horton Do you let people you don't know ski with you and trade pulls into 38? I am being kind of negative, but this forum is giving people weird impressions sometimes about what is owed them. That said I have pulled MANY MANY strangers and new skiiers for nothing or whatever they offered in the past. AFAIK more then anyone else in my neighborhood apart from maybe @Moskier3ev.

@Orlando76 Not to be mean, but I see this attitude come up a lot, you simply CAN NOT drive a skiier into 38 off if you aren't VERY familiar with course skiing and have spent hundreds of hours in the drivers seat in the course. There are a number of things at play here, but just dropping a skier at that rope length can be challenging for the inexperienced. You also probably can't give somebody at that level advice for their skiing so to be brutally honest, you can't offer them anything. It costs $30,000+ a year extra to live at a private lake and most people are trying to cram sets in after work and don't have a ton of time for beginners who can't reciprocate in any way. I agree that people need to learn to ski, but at a private site on others time is not always the best way? That said if someone would mow my lawn they could ski all they wanted to, so try that!

So to be clear it is 2 rounds on saturday class C, and 1 round sunday class C. Sunday you will either be in the top 16 and head to head, or you will be one of the 24 going for the handicap win for $3k? Will your handicap be vs your top 5 or your top 2?

@ntx Getting on the world rankings list for slalom is why I am skiing L

Thanks Keith, Thanks for nothing everyone else!

If I ski L slalom and C trick and jump do I still get a C overall score? Just trying to save the $40 on the extra L pulls. Thanks!

The turn balls I can't speak for, but the boat guides are absolutely the same, they even come with the taylor made tag on them.

2013 Pathfinder platinum, I chose it because it is the most fuel effecient vehicle that can tow the boat. (the explorer is slightly better but the initial $15k premium never pays off). I drive this mostly on road trips for work and rarely towing, so its barely adequate towing is still OK

Well our shortest lake at SMRR has a 417 ft setup and if you don't have a 6L it is pretty tight at 36 MPH to get up to speed, that is all I can offer there.

Down to $29k OBO

What is this ECI system?

@gt2003 I cannot be clear enough I don't think the wakes of the latest generation of the big 4 are sooooooo much different then everything that came before them that you are doing yourself a big dis-service considering all those other boats, I imagine that you wait a few months you could get a TXI with 1000 hours for that price and get the open bow you are looking for. Like the wakes on that XTI are going to be monsterous compared to the modern boats. I live in a big ski community and ski and drive and see LOTS of boats, and there is 100% no comparison. As much as I don't like them even a high hour 197 would be a better boat then those ones Additionally there is the simplicity of the zero off systems just working, having to deal with the careful throttle up on the perfect pass, and the fact that you will run like a full pass more behind a PP boat then ZO at your weight are both disadvantages (or an advantage I guess if you don't plan on skiing tournaments)

@gt2003 The best boat for $30k is mine by a lot, check this out! The wake will be smaller then any other boat in your price range, which will help you while you are learning a lot. http://www.ski-it-again.com/php/skiitagain.php?endless=summer&topic=Search&category=Comp_Boat&postid=32361 Edit: Oh i see you talked about my boat already. Well if you are even remotely serious about learning to ski then the wake of the newer boats should be 100x bigger of a concern for you then the open bow is. I ahve been in a number of OB boats and only ever used it exactly once, and the difference in wake between a CP and an LXI is well over 100% especially if you are around 28 MPH.

@disland IMO it should NOT be easy to put on an elite tournament, it should be done in a way that they get it RIGHT. Now for a regular L etc that is a different story, but for a tournament that decides the fate of so much money....

Bad boat video is not helping, if you had a GH4 with 1080p/60 All-intra and pulled the memory card after every skiier for review there would never be any question. The all-intra compression is important as it means that the compression for each frame is unique, so you don't get any "ghosting" between frames, and you can stop on any given frame and get a perfect picture. Don't say you can't because of cost either because a GH4 and lens cost less then one of the 4 sets of HD video transmitters they were using at the event, and you could always rent one for less then the cost of one skiiers entry fee.

You couldn't? I could. It was like this. Please say Nautique 200 at least 75 times per hour, preferably 200 times.

Yeah with that kind you can't, I was thinking of the first Masterline knotless that still had a big loop, on both ends, that one is the same as the intow that I said you can't get wrong.

My neighbor who runs the course around 32 mph and is ~60 really liked his after changing from an S2

@shaneh @LeonL Be careful voicing those opinions if you ever want to drive again in a tournament or the Good old boy network will just cut you out of driving, ask me how I know!

You can still screw it up with a knotless rope, the new intow is pretty hard to get wrong though