Ilivetoski

Wouldnt $4 get you a cold beer by itself?

Also that you dont have to be a doctor to afford to ski. You can buy a '99 Nautique or Bu for 10-12k. Throw in a ski and your anywhere from 10.5-14k for your setup.

Exactly. Its all in publicity. With ANYTHING if the public dosnt know about it, it dosnt grow. I also agree with you about making people understand WHY the boats are at the price point. At first glance it looks like a normal boat. However when they look at the huge V8's, $1500 gps cruise control, $800 heaters, yes they are accessories, but I wouldnt own a boat without speed control or heaters. Theres alot of stuff that just adds up. Its like buying a nice car. You can buy yourself one thats good enough for your needs and spend a low amount or you can go all out and get the ultimate but spend a ton. Same with skis. I can go on SIA right now and spend $700 on a strada or I can buy a new $1200 strada. Life is all about choices.

Longer they wait the more 200's and Txi's will be dominating. Im expecting minimal new MC sales next year. Close to promo only. The 197 just cant compete with the Txi and the 200 IMO.

@bishop I think that the answer to your skiing population question lays not in what little amount of access you can have with skiing but the large amount with other sports. You can down to any park in any town and play basketball, tennis, football etc. All you need is a ball and shoes for most sports. With skiing it is a geogrophy question. Most towns dont have any lakes. Making it hard for people to even get the idea of skiing or boating into thier head, especially with no advretising. Another aspect is that kids today see players like Lebron James and Aaron Rodgers everywhere. They realize that they are making millions a year. Not possible in skiing directly because of the small amount of people participating in it. Another thing is private ski lakes. I go to a private ski lake, I used to go to a public a few years ago. What I have noticed is that when someone sees a good skiier, someone who can get into shortline, they see that and say "oh, thats cool, I wanna do that" and some of them will come talk to you and try to learn a little bit about it. However with almost all of the tournment skiing population on private lakes, that takes that factor out of the public. Another thing is the price of boats. The Malibu dealership in Louisville had I believe a response Lxi out one time. and in a big sign it said "$45,999". To a normal person they will go by that and think "if that is a good deal, what is a average ski boat priced at". That isnt cheap. That also puts into thier mind "skiiers=rich" when they might be someone making a median income even though if they bought a used boat they could still afford to get into the game. There are so many factors that people dont realize until they talk to someone already in tournment skiing. Sadly that number will decrease if we continue having our tournment skiiers in lakes that only other tournment skiiers know about.

@taelan what happens is that its no big deal when 1-2 buoys are gone. But there is a public lake in KY that I used to ski at and it got so bad that they used empty milk jugs as buoys... thats when it becomes a problem. Also when fishermen take a large rock and sink your course.

Well it was another wakeboard boat, an X-30. Probobly the only number that they didnt have

Alot of Reflexes team is Asian (the people who ride the skis, all the pros here use the Reflex boot)

Its a Reflex ski. Its a Reflex wrap 8. They are probobly good skis, but I dont see ANY of them on the pro scene. I would really say that the skis made here for 1150-2k are just as good if not better. 90% of the skis you see on the podiums will be ones made here like RadaR, GOODE, HO, Obrien, Connelly. On the other hand at any international tournment at least 90% of the athletes on the podiums are Americas pros. Such as Willie, T-Gas, Rossi, Parrish etc. They may ski for other countries at worlds, but they train in FL and ski the American pro tour.

Ok so what is this gonna be? Im thinking a new ski boat because they are gonna be way behind comparing to the 200 and the Txi. Someone said it was a new wakeboard boat, but they already have an x1-1000. Anyone know anything?

@Purdue, "everyone has the right to use the lake" My coaches girlfriend said that while my coach was flagging down a boat that was using the course as a challange for his boat. 2 hours later the day of skiing and the relationship were both over.

Also what are the group rates? again not on the website.

Ok so i have a few questions. Me and a friend were just talking about going this coming season. Looked at her website and couldnt find anything about prices. Anyone have an idea about how much this might cost me? Im 17, ski about 15 sets a day if i can get the time, basically slalom only, a little bit of tricking but not much.

Soo any possibility for a first date?

@lundberg.... so dont go out and be attempting 41?

Some kind of MC. Looks like a smaller 300 but smaller than an X-star

That just made my day! I second what @Than said, you did tell her it was your friend right!

Breaking the 2k mark for GOODE. That price will only incease is the sad part. Team RadaR doing amazing. The new Txi (not sure if that would count since it didnt come out until most peoples season was over). Nate Smith, just anything to do with Nate. Larkin winning back to back moombas and Whitney winning worlds

We could be skiing in KY, it being 53 right now... Its been almost to 60 for like 2 weeks now....

You lost me after "I may have just learned something from the math I've been trying to do." However I understand later in it about the speed and deceleration and accelerating later into the buoy etc. and I couldnt agree more. I have had many arguments saying that you dont want to be extremely wide extremly early at lengths like 35 and 38. You just cant hold that outbound direction for the amount of time needed and you get pulled back into the boat.

Also at 32 you do need to get the right size ski because at that speed your ski is riding high enough in the water so that it isnt creating the drag that occurs at speeds like 24-28. Assuming that your top speed is 34, you should be losing some line length next season which is what that ski is conditioned for. I love the Strada and hope you do to.

If you think that you are going to be gaining weight over the off season, do a 67. If you are going to be losing weight or staying where you are then a 66. I have had this same problem and if you are unsure about which way you are going to be in weight next season go with the bigger size for safety. You are still in the range, and you dont risk getting the wrong size ski.

Well I think that part of it is that I always have to know what is going on with skiing. The others ski and thats all they do. Im always reading something new about technique, skis, just trying to understand it more. The limit that my friends know? They ski on GOODE's and according to them RadaR's suck. Also that they own Nautiques, and according to them, Malibu's suck. Thats who you are passing the sport on to.

It almost seems like they are, for lack of a better term, burnt out. They have been skiing since they were 5 or 6. I have only been skiing for about 4 years. Granted I am now actually competing with them instead of coming in last every tournment, but I cant see myself ever getting burnt out.

Im 16 and in with the other 5 people who are in that demographic. All the people I talk to around my age (B3 kids) all just dont seem to be that into it. They have said things like "I think skiing is ok, but if I never skiied another day in my life that would be perfectly fine with me" I dont see how anyone can feel this way. So I see no way for them to sign on to a forum website.