Its a good thing, you are on your way to learning how to ski short line slalom. I free ski at 38 & 39.5 to learn the timing, I also ski in front of the balls at 38 & 39.5. I will ski in front of 1,2,3,4 and go around 5 & 6 Then as that gets good, ski in front of 1,2,3, go around 4 5 &6 I go to the width of the balls but turn in front of them, it also teaches you how early you can edge change and get to course width. Heres an interesting thing that happened to me, you don't realize how much your ski slides in the course. I skied 39.5 in front of all the balls but maintained the width. I cut the 3 4 5 6 ball lines off. When we came back all the balls were floating away. I found it easy to ski this line length, which taught me that if you keep good body position, edge change early, running very shortline slalom is more about timing and less about brute strength. Whats really crazy is that a young lady in the boat who didn't know skiing thought I ran the pass, as I was in perfect timing and sliding to each ball, my tail & finblade cutting the ball ties. It was a lesson learned for me. Now our egos say we should go around the balls, but training to run shortline slalom isn't about our egos. Short line slalom is as much about thinking ahead as it all happens very fast, and learning how early you can edge change and ride the turning edge out to the ball. One of the biggest mistakes we make is pulling too long, which will result in a late turn and a slack line, GAME OVER. This is my experience , hope it helps out.