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Top 32 skiers will qualify for the H2H based on single highest score.  
 

fun event, great site, great conditions and good people.  
 

After Larkin skied he was the boat judge for the top seeds first round. 

Hats off to the organizers for keeping this going and giving these guys a fun platform to compete.  It’s difficult to put on any event, let alone a larger event like this, and even harder for a “tour”. 
 

This is the first time I could make it to one of these events and looking forward to it.  

Maybe my favorite episode yet.  Well done boys, I learned a bunch

We appreciate the feedback, especially when it’s constructive.  Announcing is harder than a lot of people think it is. Both Brian and I do the best we can and true to our personal styles.  Others would do it differently or suggest we do it differently.  

Right or wrong, I assume our audience is familiar with the sport.  We tried to do some explanation of the format and sport in general, but mostly playing to the experienced skier audience.  Listening back to it today, I think maybe a bit more speaking to the less experienced.  What do you think?
 

In SoCal air was 94 and water 83 yesterday. Cold front next week and air temps down to the 80s :-)

Where??

But S turns are super fun! Especially on side.

If you do it in a tournament set, straight up the rope with all passes in tolerance and you actually go around all the buoys and make all the gates, you can feel pretty damn good about it. But still practice.

In a tournament you have to do all of the above and deal with nerves, maybe a driver you don’t know or a boat you are not used too. It’s harder.

Clearly Joel proved he is capable in the CAProAm when he nearly ran 41. He got 5 right? I am cheering for him to put one formally in the book. I am sure Joel would agree, only then it counts.

@Horton “Dave would have been enormously proud of the Team”…I think so as well. And perhaps even more so, how the crew has rallied to keep the development rolling in Ogden.

Ya, typo. Sorry. Can’t seem to edit so…

 

My settings measured with a Goode slot caliper are 6.826, 2.472, 0.740, 9, 29.25.

I really like the XTR Team. Like Horton, I am having a less than ideal season due to life issues, but running lots of buoys for all the more I am skiing. Ski always turns and builds so well into the wakes. Now I just have to quit adding so I can enjoy the ride out to the next buoy.

 

My settings measured with a Goode slot caliper are 6.826, 2.742, 0.740, 9, 29.25.

 

I should have put @Horton fin in the same place, but I might also have put it in backwards.

 

I did enjoy meeting Kevin the dog, no butt sniffing required.

Site is amazing. Incredible property. And that Prostar is sweet, I took care of her for 2 years before it made it to Kodiac.

I have been curious if you could vacuum or filter the muck/silt off the bottom of a ski lake. Our true bottom is pretty hard and we have 6-12” of silt on top of that. Most people seem to drain and scrape. But seems like there should be another way. I picture a huge centrifuge or something spitting out the muck and putting the water back in the lake. Never did any serious feasibility study.

When I think of the waterski rabbit hole, I think of Adam and Adam building Denali skis. I know little about the details of their work but enough to know their path is the definition of a rabbit hole exploration! Not derogatory in any way, I admire what they are doing and look forward to the things they will discover.

When I felt the deepest pull into the rabbit hole of waterskiing was when I was making trips to ski with Jamie B at Trophy Lakes in the early 2000s. I was starting to run 38 and would consume every bit of knowledge I could get. Watched tons of video and trying to understand the sport so I could get better. Still haven’t let my foot off the gas but it seems less like a rabbit hole these days. At this point, I can’t get enough of the fundamentals I was taught years ago and still need to work on!

 

This mug cracks me up. I imagine its text being narrated by Matthew Mcconaughey as his character in Dazed and Confused.

Did anyone see Fred’s flip in frustration after his last round? I know he was bummed to miss the mark but that impromptu roll was sweet.

What @Bruce_Butterfield and @skiinxs said. The numbers do a good job of confirming if the pass was in tolerance. But I know I can give skiers a very different ride and get similar numbers. The breadcrumbs are helpful for sure.

 

Back on topic, that was perhaps the greatest tournament of all time as far as the performances and competition is concerned. Fantastic!

This is somewhat common for those particular manifolds. I was told it’s a weakness in the design/casting leading to the cracks.

Great skiing for Nate. He will do it again sometime, in a record.

Love this sport because of this sort of thing. Good stuff.

Been competitively skiing 30 years. At least 6,000 rides. So with 6 injuries, my odds are 99.9% chance I won’t get hurt when I ski. Good enough for me.

 

Stitches

Broken ankle

Rotator cuff impingement

Broken ankle

Back/Disk

Concussion

@Horton would @matthewbrown have considered that boat path within the definition of “straight as a grizzlies dick”?

 

We miss you Matt

@Milford totally get it, but will miss you this year. Always great to catch up at this event. Good luck with the sport events!