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@marknyour warm season is a few weeks longet😎

@Horton it ain’t about the hour of time.. Sitting on the sidelines has saved me thousands and has improved my skiing. I am old, the big dawgs are done, nationals suck, the organization got stale and went woke. I can wake up every day and wait for the best water to ski on. I dont need to commit a bunch of money to prove to myself that I can still get down 39 a bit.

What should have happened was there should have been a reasonable approach to the roll out of the program. Minimize the amount of people in the organization that need to perform training or the SS duties. Limit it to any team activity, coaches, Dr, elite athletes and offer volunteer training to parents that think they may need some help in spotting a perv. Separate the elites from the backyard enthusiast that support the organization. What should have been done was multiple governing bodies from multiple sports similar to waterskiing should have joined together in a class action against the BS legislation imposed by the people you and I voted for. What can be done? We can all contact our legislators. Until the cash flow from Govt dries up, they will impose upon us what ever they can to keep the money flowing to all the cronies.

@swbca I never tried the washer under the block thing. It may have been one if the @adams. Cord/Caldwell. Do you have off side issues with the Titanium?

I would bet that USA waterski will soon be required to have a DEI department. “The 44 page report has 14 recommendations that aim to reimagine the way government supports our sport system from the moment a child first slips on a uniform” Anytime you see the words like equity, reimagine, safety and funding, we have problems.

@buechsr what has changed in the last 30 years that has caused sports to get so expensive?

Look at these quotes. It recommends an overhaul of youth athletics development to improve “equity” But this system has fallen out of balance, and more Government Intervention is required The agency would run a competitive grant program and set minimum safety standards and best practices. Crap like this should scare the bijibius out of any parent. They actually want to use HSA money to pay for youth sports and equipment? In 2024 the interest on the debt is going to be larger than the defense budget. Wake the F up people. Congress has a 15% approval rating and you want these people to draw up rules for competitive Waterskiing ?

@skibrain The last 70f water day was the last official season close. I think it was early Dec I was the only one in our group without Neo on. @thager I wont trade for the weather but I would love to get up there to watch the high school hockey tournament

71 water today. Let the games begin

He can sell thats for sure. @Horton if he wants to separate safe sport with the pro divisions from the regular weekend class C tournaments, I would buy, but he is underestimating the effect it has on new entries. leave the Doctors, coaches, team managers and pro skiers to deal with safe sport.

Stock what? short/deep, long/shallow, 34 vs 36 KD even has Pro team settings

Super Bowl Sunday ski set Water was 66.

With an 8.1 billion Endowment fund at UCLA you would think they could spare some change to help out. It sucks that the University cant help with this.

Awesome. I still have my last card. I will call @mike_mapple this week and load up @Horton I am a BOS influencer

Pull ups and chin ups

Its a scam. A record gets set at a record capable event. Some how, judges that are better judges than the ones at the event, decide to not approve it. Make no sense

@aupatking I think a few of the highway dig lakes along 80 have some courses on them.

You stop to look at every small lake and wonder if a slalom course will fit

Looks like a rope tow bar at a crappy down hill resort in Minnesota

The old fin blocks on the sixams sucked.

I have learned to warm up the blood and get things flowing before skiing and to stretch after skiing.

@Horton after reading my post, i just realized my elbows hurt I was ready to never take your advise on skis again after buying that ski and dealing with elbow problems the rest of that summer

The Obrien Elite was the GOAT

Improves stability Enables ski to carry speed through the turn Improved controlled tail slide