MarcusBrown

Ski2Heaven sounds an awful lot like R Marking. Same old cloudy thinking, just with a new name. You can't hide behind different "style's", "experiences" or "physiological builds" and think you're going to fool physics. However warm and cozy all that may sound....the real world still waits for us when we put our ski on and pull outside the wakes each time. If you want to be efficient, light on the rope, fast, etc....you have to use your ski efficiently: aka, accelerate by moving over your front foot. If you want to see how great pulling up with your front foot works for efficiency, try it at the end of the lake when you're dropping and see how much spray you get in the face. Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world because he moves his center of mass more than anyone else....and his legs are able to keep up. Our "Usain Bolt" does pretty much the same thing...only on water, and its why he can run more balls than the rest of us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6kqh0kY6V4&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLC7629F2F254C2590

Jones is on the $$. Big Dawgs should ski 36 mph. Period.

Can't speak for CP. All I can speak to is the legitimacy of our Syndicate program and the skis our team is developing. I had a rough start this season, & found my groove again on my A2 prototype w/A1 graphics from last fall. Felt skiing good was more important than image after the Militia Gold Rush and I don't regret the decision. FYI, CP looks solid on the A2. Looks like old CP again

The majority of the comments on this thread exemplify a basic problem with our sport today, the reason why its been "dying" for the past (x) years. Folks have come to expect 14 to 1 shorelines, no bounce back, no wind,.....i.e. perfection. Why? Because USA Water Ski has structured competition such that its not competition....its choreography. If we are going to spend $400/wknd per tournament or $1000/week for nationals, we all want the best scores, at every lake, all the time. The system pushes us to strive for good scores. That pushes us to the best lakes. The best lakes are private & hidden... ....meanwhile normal folks are out on public lakes looking for things to do. No ski clubs anymore, no tournament skiers, no free skiers....folks do what they see. Wakeboard, tube, kneeboard, etc... Until we have a system based on TRUE COMPETITION where scores don't matter, only how you stack up against everyone else....our sport will have little chance to grow. Tournaments at private sites where skiers can get top scores and set records do absolutely nothing for the sport. We need competition again, and a system that rewards competition,...not highest score. The only Pro list anyone looks at anymore is the Elite World Ranking List....because its based off points accumulated at events skied against other pros. Its not based on score, but rather placement. Did the crappy conditions and TRUE COMPETITION at Nationals grow our sport? Not really, cuz it happened to be at another private/manmade lake in the middle of nowhere. But it did highlight a self defeating mentality the exists across the board within our sport. Its time to rethink the future, realize we need to let go of old thinking and demand something different. Sorry, but hosting tournaments at $2,000,000 dream lakes is unsustainable. Time to go back to where we came from before all the "we's" are folks who ONLY know private ski lakes..

1997, Cheyenne Lake, in southern cal.... This is why I wear the Clincher: