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@Horton any Driver who can recognize their mistakes and is happy to tell the skier is someone to keep hold of!! =)

@Horton @Chad_Scott I agree 100% BUT you are wanting to fastrack her skills? It is worth a try, I've used this method with a number of drivers with good results. Go pro is an excellent idea as well and have used this on the windscreen in front of the driver to compare hand movements with other drivers. With the right setting you can see skier on both sides of the course so no need for split screen.

Have her start to drive to where she is in the course not so much the skier i.e. start to counter at the spot of a skier who is on time (I presume being early in the season you are running B2B's) This will start to create the rhythm of driving and the feel of the skier will come fairly quickly. Pretty impressive for a newbie, she actually looks quite relaxed =)

Luca, a true Sportsman!!! @Horton Maybe edit the title of this thread with Luca's name?

@skihacker Yes they did,, re read my previous post, at one stage there was so many gate reviews they ran out of time to complete the ,,, I think from memory a semi final???? Was 2? skiers that had to ski after about an hours break.

Much easier to manage time frames without any reviews, this is I think why they went to live scoring

From reading through a number of other threads it seems a lot of people are not up to date with current rules AND just found the IWSF 2019 Rule book was released yesterday

I am pretty sure the reason Video is not used at Moomba is because of time restraints i.e. if the river is due to open at 5pm it is open at 5pm! Video Review adds to the pressure of this time restraint as we saw a few years ago with the top seed skiing about an hour? after other skiers. We also saw how quickly conditions can change on the Yarra!

I am also aware that Video transmission is extremely difficult at the site due to well, being in the middle of a city!!

Also best to read:

Moomba Rules

Pay particular attention to MM14.11

 

@JAS the @Splasheye system can be setup to give measurement at end of pass

@JAS I'm not sure that for position it is accurate enough, this is why we occasionally have to remap the gates due to GPS drift. I'm sure that the technology is out there somewhere though. The Splash eye system works well if you can get it to run i.e. environment has to be ideal

A ski is designed to work with pressure on its bottom and fin, at an extreme imagine skiing at 55kph in a 58kph tail current, the ski is not going to respond how it is designed. I have skied in strong current and could not run a tail current pass yet head current was simple. I'll take a head current ANY DAY.

Rubber washers work a treat!

Timing is also used as a double check to make sure speed has been set correctly. I have had bad times with ZO, VERY rare and there have been external factors e.g. hardware faults, weather? loosing Satellites at a certain site next to a cliff.

As a side note I do not believe I have ever asked a driver if mapping was good feeling something weird at the gate, I would notice more so what a hand was doing on the wheel =)

Ability based divisions can be super fun e.g. 26-32mph, 28-35off encourages competition in all divisions. A lot of fun to ski against other skiers at a similar level.

Disabled is held in conjunction with Australian Nationals and its awesome!!! We also run a States based team competition as part of Nationals and having the Disabled skiers there as well promotes a fantastic team environment in an individual sport.

 

@Klindy that is the system we use in Australia, the only extra stipulation being that an O21 skier who has achieved their Open rating MUST ski in the Open division.

Divisions used are U10 U14 U17 U21 O21 O35 O45 O55 O65 O70 and of course Open.

For Australian Nationals weights were supplied by Mastercraft, Basically lead bars wrapped in a high density foam. These were placed right beside the center drain bung and on the floor of the boat at the rear.

@eleeski I believe it is 150lb in centre bilge and 75lb either side at rear of boat. These positions are fixed and it is either all in or all out, that decision is made before tournament and is for all skiers.

The skier still has the optional weights they can use for balancing (110lb from memory)

@bishop8950 Just to really do your head in ,,, were they lucky ones or did the luck come from being never used??? You may be up for a new set of Boardies every tourny set =)

@Horton try opening caliper to full and wiping down the groove with alchohol (this may be foreign to some not consuming it =) ) I have had luck doing this before, cannot give you a reason why but it worked, maybe oils, sweat sunscreen etc??

Curiosity question. Does the score still stand for world ranking list or is it downgraded to what was in tolerance?

 

Awesome Job by Sam and Ben Beech capturing the 2017 Aussie Nationals held over Easter

@allycat get in touch with Maritime, it can be done, we have done it before (a group of friends) with a portable course on the Darling river. Talk to your local Maritime officer, in my experience they are ALWAYS very helpful.

Oh and get in touch with the Tournament Water Ski New South Wales facebook page, lots of good people there that will help as well

@allycat get in touch with Maritime, it can be done, we have done it before (a group of friends) with a portable course on the Darling river. Talk to your local Maritime officer, in my experience they are ALWAYS very helpful.

Oh and get in touch with the Tournament Water Ski New South Wales facebook page, lots of good people there that will help as well

@allycat you will need to get in touch with NSW roads and Maritime to get an aquatic licence for the course. Waterski and Wakebaord Australia will also be able to help you out as well. Dave Kidd at Supafloat.com.au will also know the requirements as well and be able to help you out with a course

@ellenm make sure whatever you go to you make sure new binding is in stock position for your ski NOT the position of your Approach! My experience was going from Approach the binding was a lot further back on the ski to where My FM e series ended up. i.e. FM's where almost 10mm further forward on the same ski