GaryWilkinson

People who do this kinda thing have very, very boring lives. Borderline psychotic. But most of all I think they are losers lacking real human connections and are “playing around” in here for the attention that is lacking in their daily lives. May they all be caught, banned and thus relieving us from wasting anymore time reading and responding to their tripe.

I’ve heard the Lewis’ steering wheel goes for about the same as a new tournament ski boat.

@Wish The photo of Paige is a great reminder of -hide the shoulder (gets my hips more outbound before first wake) -hips up in a more standing up (relative to the ski) position. @adamhcaldwell I’ve read GUT 10x at least. Has helped a tremendous amount especially for the gate. But pardon me for being hooked on upper body positioning. In lieu of a paragraph, I’ll go for the pictures you posted. After all, it’s worth a thousand words.

@adamhcaldwell now I’m confused sorry. I get the “stand up” concept in that it’s for me, “stand up from the ski not the water” and how this movement brings the chest and hips up and forward. I get the upper body engaged after midline. Just need you to give us a paragraph on shoulders, level not level, facing the boat, outbound, under load and in the glide before the ball. Because I keep these as good reminders,...

In my experience with a few coaches this past year, (Rini, Cole, Patrice at Swiss and Tgas) all we’re consistently promoting “hiding the shoulder” at peak resistance and wale crossing. This aspect helped me achieve better, earlier wake crossings and a somewhat more even pull. It also sets up better (for me at least) before the ball to keep my hips, shoulders and ski more outbound. Now I gotta figure out how to incorporate what this thread is promoting, ski pointed more towards the next ball while keeping upper body outbound.

@AdamCord for me it looks like your body position when you’ve set the edge and angle at zero ball and every other ball is perfect and on a very fast and quick to accelerate ski. (Great promotion for the Denali mark here). With the early speed and energy, you’re able to start the edge change early, directly behind the boat, continue through the wakes and your ski is neutral and just starting on the new inside edge at the crest of the 2nd wake. This is what gives you gags of time and space to “point the ski down the lake” HUH?! Something we’ve been taught not to do for many years now. Having a hard time getting my head around that one. Some other observations: Your timing with edge change and knees is perfect. We never see even the slightest pop off the wakes. You carry great speed through the turn at the buoys and line up the perfect amount of angle and lean immediately after the ball which enables you to get that early and quick angle cross course. What I don’t get is the comment to reduce angle and pressure with your ski and lower body at the 2nd wake. And yes, I’m hitting the wall at 35 off. Thanks for your thread and any comments

Her 1 ball at that pass was the best ball I’ve ever seen guys or gals, Ever! Such a shame she missed at the exit gate. What an athlete.

-15 off: that’s for barefooting when I was 16 yrs old -22 not fun anymore. Too much time, rope and drag. I usually screw it up!? -28 NOW we’re getting somewhere! It’s where I work the most free skiing time at with Pierre T. -32 when run, feels like ,... well you know! That, and it’s a good test of shortline technique. Buries the needle on the fun-o-meter when completed. -35 off? Haven’t run it yet. (And I’m 60!) true shortline. Tough to time it all right. A few times got to 4 in practice but not close enough to be fun yet. And for me it’s the holy grail. When I was young, buff and competing, 4.5 @ 38 was the world record. I want to get to one ball, but only after I run 35 ! Tick tick tick tick Than again, I always tell my friends,: “ slalom is not fun”. You want fun? Go buy a wakesurf boat. Slalom is way to intense to be “fun”.

@Orlando76 considering the carb swap but I’ve heard good results from a $100 carb kit that changes all the soft parts and presto kidabra she’s like new again. If not a fix for a rough idle? Well, I’ll go for the new carb then. Going to try @mfjaegersr fix for the helm sloppiness first then like the carb, if that doesn’t work, I’ll take it all down. Thanks so much for the 411 boys. Info is power. Lol ?

@mfjaegersr Wow! You rock What’s the best way to get your pics and description of how to proceed? I can pm you my cell number?

@BraceMaker @Orlando76 Well guys you’ve totally convinced me that my old Holley carb needs a carb kit, not a conversion to EFI and my distributor cap and rotor need a new version of same. Kinda nice and a relief that I’m not really missing out on anything, in fact having the ability to tune up and fix it myself is a good thing! Thanks for the valued input guys. Really helped me out. Now if I could only get rid of the slop in my steering rack and pinion...

@Orlando76 saw your comment “The TBI and the Protec Ignition is a quick and easy swap in the morning, nothing to shy away from” Although I’m confused. Do you recommend staying with carb and distributor? Or swapping to EFI and electronic ignition? I have a 95 Nautique that’s carb and distributor. If swapped, would I get any performance improvements ? Thanks

I also am looking for a used Z-box Anyone? Anyone.

Let me guess,... your course is in or close to Area 51?

@Than_Bogan Very nice work Than. I used to high jump (best was 1.83m) and marvelled at PV. Serious core strength requirement will help you out at 35, 38 off!

@paul413ski 67” 2020 Vapor Pro Build Whisper fin at FD = 2.510 Fl = 5.745 DFT = 1.960 Wing 9° Binding 30 1/8” I’m 174lbs 6’ ski at 34mph usually through 32 off and 2 at -35 on a good day.

I believe it’s as simple as this: If a country’s site is bidding and its “reasonably” safe with conditions like Moomba and the Masters where the issue is best explained by saying they have “predictable rollers”. AND they’re pretty sure to have big crowds? Then it’s worth sacrificing world record potential for exposure. (But never safety) In the absence of reasonably safe conditions and potential of big crowds? We should have world championships at the worlds best sites for performances and the small crowds that attend them. Let’s face it, the biggest audience for our sport now is water-skiers that view it online. Heck, I’d even travel to see a World championship at places like Shortline lake and Swiss. Also, Watch the video of Ryan again kids. He wasn’t bitching at the Organization Committee, (he was praising them for doing what they could to get good conditions) He was complaining about, and to the IWWF for picking that site in the first place. The Malaysian official took it very personally and lost his sh/t. HE got very personal and attacked and insulted Ryan and Jarred. That showed bad judgement for someone who’s supposed to be above all that and just generally childish behaviour. We should expect better from our sports’ management personnel.

@paul413ski Jay's setting on the 2020 and original lithium 30 1/8” binding location. That puts me hole #4 of 5 forward. Working very well so far and I haven’t even tried it on really calm water yet.

History of skiers?

Here’s the screens. Version R of ZeroOff.

@LeonL no big problem really. It’s just annoying and there is a worry that it’s taking up room on the chip and why not clear it off in case it does happen to change or affect settings. Goal is to continue with a clean slate.

@scuppers Yes I have 2 sets on the 2020 but never skied on it stock fin. Jay said use the same settings as my 17 vapor with a small binding adjustment and I did and holy f()<{. Man did that ski go well. Stayed down and accelerated nicely. Love it. Go with confidence.

Guys and Zero off experts: Ski buddy has had his boat 2 years now and has had no success in trying to get the clock to read 2019 not 2020. Plus, this boat was sent to the Canadian Nationals 2 years ago where the Nautique guys or drivers put 4 skier profiles in the system and we’ve also had no success clearing them out. Any ideas? Looks like a reset is in order but we don’t want to change any of the current setting that allow it to run so well right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

Leave it to the best jumper in the world to tell it like it is without saying he’s sorry because he’s Canadian. Check out this interview https://www.instagram.com/p/B1TsZHRhrQ7/?igshid=10j2cjrnc0zla