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@Bigblue I think your Doc is on target. Take it slow and build up gradually. I had a total hip (right & front) replaced in June 2006. With my Doc's permission, I was able to ski straight, minimal wake crossing in Sept - 90 days. After that I shut it down until the next year in late Feb and started to run the course again. Maybe its a sign of the times, but I know 4 others that I ski with that have had hip replacements that ski the course, I only wish I could match some of their bouy counts. Good Luck with your recovery.

I thought I would pass this along FWIW. For years I have wanted to compare a video of my skiing to another better skier, in a side by side comparison, in hope too see my mistakes, (me versus role model at same line length, Pro at ski school, etc.). I briefly looked at Dartfish, but it was too expensive for my budget. I am also somewhat technically challenged, so simplier is better in my case. I recently ran across an inexpensive ($40.00) side by side software called Video Compare. It was developed for slalom snow skiing, but its easily adaptable to water skiing. It has several slow speeds, actual, 0.5X, 0.25X, 0.125X, 0.063X, 0.031X. Or you can pause and forward or reverse frame by frame, which makes synching skiers reasonably easy as long as they are same speed in the course. It is amazing to see what a couple hundreds of a second can mean between a 38 off skier and me at 28 off pass. It doesn't allow you to save a file, or at least I can't figure how yet, so I can't upload a comparison. But, If you are interested you can see a demo, snow skiing on their web videocompare.org.