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I personally take a lot of pride in being a 3 event skier. It's a challenge (sometimes frustrating) to go to a competition and have all 3 events working well at the same time.

I recommended a new Big Dawg rule to Greg Davis last year that all Big Dawg skiers had to compete in at least one event other than slalom.... :) he just laughed.

Thanks @MattP and @klindy.

Who should I contact if there are lakes that aren't on the list?

@horton I don't know. Do you think it would negatively impact water skiing?

Didn't someone have a Google map or something that listed a bunch of ski lakes?

I am probably a little biased as my girlfriend is a wake boarder so I would not be mad. I would love the opportunity to get to see her compete at the Olympics although she would probably be retired by then. Have to assume it will be Cable Wake Boarding.

Would love skiing to be in there as well but not sure that will ever happen.

Unless something has changed recently T-Gas is on a one of a kind T-Gas edition. They basically took the left half of one ski and the right half of another ski and put them together.

 

Just recently switched to the HO A3 and gotta say I'm really liking it.

I have been using the MasterLine ProLocks since June of 2009 and as long as they are available I will never use another pair of gloves for Slalom. I do use glove liners and I get some soreness in my hands if I ski enough passes or sets but they are the best gloves around in my opinion. My leans are so much stronger with these gloves and the things I can hold on too....if you saw my 38' against Kris LaPoint at the 09 Big Dawg Finals you know what I'm talking about.

Been on the A3 for about a month....pretty sure I've run more 39's in that time then I did all last summer. This ski rocks.

Well we live in Orlando but I'm good with going out west. Colorado, Utah, Cali....

Obviously a little off topic for BOS but I'm trying to plan a snowboarding trip for my girlfriend and I and I'm looking for suggestions. Good mountains. Good (preferably) inexpensive places to stay.

 

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

@Jody Seal I love correcting you when you're wrong. :) If you notice the format has been changed so that all male skiers will be going 35mph..... Should make for some really interesting scores on a 4 buoy course. Hope conditions are decent.

I'll be there.

First of all, anyone that knows Horton in person knows that when he gets excited his squeal gets pretty high pitched.

 

@estrom As a jumper and Horton at least as a former jumper can attest, the majority of jumpers will go thru most if not all of their career without ever taking a fall like that. I've been jumping since I was 9 (minus a 4 year hiatus from skiing) and I had a fall this year where I actually hit the water first then bounced onto shore. Completely freak accident and it doesn't even cross my mind that it will ever happen again. AND I totally get how lucky I was not to get hurt. Jumping doesn't have to be unsafe. It's all about getting good coaching and approaching it the right way

Todd R is and was on a Nano 1, But it's one of the earlier ones that looks like last years white Nanos.

 

@jtwhit I understand what you're saying about the top finishers but that's not always the case. There's a lot of great skiers in the Big Dawg field that can win that aren't as "connected" in the industry and do have real jobs.

 

Still by far the best event around.

The sweet 16 actually starts at 3pm (the webcast will recap it at 7pm). I'm headed back to the lake now to start covering the brackets.

There are two 5.7L 200's on site but they are being used for Tricks only

Sorry guys if you were looking at my spreadsheet. The skiers are right but some of the matchups are a little off, trying to figure out what I screwed up. I'll have them fixed soon. It's actually Chad Scott vs KLP in the first round and Andy vs Todd Kuykendall.

Sorry guys if you were looking at my spreadsheet. The skiers are right but some of the matchups are a little off, trying to figure out what I screwed up. I'll have them fixed soon. It's actually Chad Scott vs KLP in the first round and Andy vs Todd Kuykendall.

Sorry guys if you were looking at my spreadsheet. The skiers are right but some of the matchups are a little off, trying to figure out what I screwed up. I'll have them fixed soon. It's actually Chad Scott vs KLP in the first round and Andy vs Todd Kuykendall.

Hoping to. The Pan American Championships are a couple of days after so I'm looking at it. Really want to

@ntx skiing Big Dawg events does not make you MM. You can ski in Big Dawg events without being qualified for or competing in the MM division.

 

I think ultimately what you are that there are guys in the Big Dawg events that are skiing their age division at Nationals but should be skiing in MM....and there are several of those skiers where I would agree 100%

Hey guys, not all of the information in the first post is 100% accurate.  The event website, http://soakedorlando.com/ will be the best place to get information from about it.  Details will be updated in the next 24-48 hours.

It will be run at 35mph (57k) and there will be a prize for the best score by a guy 35+ as well one for a guy 50+.  But for all the best info check the website

My two cents.

 

First I slightly disagree with the first post regarding gates. While I do agree that you don't want to kill it at the turn for your gate you do not want to back off on the intensity of your lean thru the gates. And you may even want to ramp up the intensity. I promise you my gates at 39 & 41 are way stronger & more intense then my gate at 35 & 38.

 

In my opinion the major cause of slack is direction. To keep a tight line you have to maintain your outbound direction past the 2nd wake even after you change edges. Typically, especially at a new line length there's excitement and the feeling of things happening faster, what usually happens is that when you change edges you immediately let go of the handle and thus give all of your direction away and now are skiing straight downcourse at the next buoy. When this happens you're now going faster than the boat and when it's time to turn there's no way to do so without getting slack.

 

You might end up a little faster at the buoy when you maintain better outbound direction (it's not a bad thing) but you will be ok because you'll have a tight line when you finish your turn.

 

Good luck

@ jody seal was that painful to admit? :) I have to admit, I really enjoyed it.

 

Believe me, I'm disappointed that there are no other MM overall skiers at Nationals.

@jody seal actually M3 can jump at 57k but not on 5.5', they can only jump on 5'. I will, as far as I know, be the only MM overall skier this year this year at Nationals and it's disappointing. I am working on some other guys to join me, some have said they might next year, we'll see. I'm pretty sure our M4 skiing conditions matches what the rest of the world considers 45+ (Sr 2). When they upped the M4 jump speed a year or two ago (I think) that brought M4 up to the same playing level. M3 just does not still match. My reason for interjecting in this conversation is that too many times people think of MM as a slalom division. I realize that was the original intention of the division but it is no longer only a slalom division.

 

I still have hopes that MM Jump will grow as more M2 graduate into M3....or maybe I'm just one of the few 35+ guys thats not ready to jump 5'. Michael McCormick only skis in MM, I know Tommy James was jumping MM at one point

 

@MS Are you going to Nationals this year? I also disagree that you shouldn't be "invited". Qualifying for your countries national championship is a great feat and you should be proud.

 

Thanks for the compliments guys.