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    Who the heck is David Panneton? And what did he do at the Cypress Big Dog?

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    Lowell,

    Thank you for the kind words.

     

    John,

    Who the heck is David Panneton? I’m not a sand bagger or injured in 2010. I competed in tournaments in Mens 1 and in college (met my wife on the Texas A&M ski team) in the late 80’s. Once I started a career and didn’t have access to a boat, I stopped skiing. In the fall of 2008, my three kids showed interest in skiing and we bought a boat.

     

    After giving up on skiing in open water in 2009, we joined a ski club in Conroe Texas and started relearning the sport – 55M balls, perfect pass & ZO, $1000+ skis, 80 strand ropes, fin adjustments. I gave up my trusty 1988 Connelly Concept for a Prophecy and started trying weird things like being open and looking at the boat, looking down course and one handed gates.

     

    In 2010, my wife and I went to Ski Paradise for our 20th wedding anniversary. Our guest coaches were Kris Lapoint, Jennifer Lapoint and Will Asher. They were awesome and patient coaches! I was pumped after running a 28 off pass at 34mph that week and set a goal skiing in tournaments again and qualifying for regionals – my first and last regionals was in 1987 and I fell on my opening pass. After three tournaments I qualified for regionals and did better this time - posting a PB of 2@35.

     

    This season I wanted to try a different ski and got an A1. My first tournament with the A1 produced a new PB 3.5 @35. Just this past weekend, I skied the class C at the Big Dawg in Cypress. I had let Kris know when I was skiing and was extra nervous with him watching. Well, in my effort not to embarrass myself, I started at my usual 1st round line length of 15 off and didn’t stop until I rounded 3 ball and crossed the wakes at 38 off! I had never run 35 off in practice and had never attempted the gates at 38. I was still on cloud nine on my second round, started at 22 off and over turned 5 ball – and fell back to earth. Slalom humbles you in a hurry!

     

    Thank you for all of the work on the BOS website!

    David

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