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As someone in my mid 40s, I just would not enjoy skiing against a 17-year old girl or 68-year old man. I much prefer skiing against someone who is in a similar life situation that I'm in: a bunch of kids, trying to grow a business/career, squeezing in some youth sports coaching, working hard to keep off the weight my beer drinking adds, etc., etc. Regardless if I get smoked by some of the best skiers, I'm gaining on them and that brings a lot more satisfaction than beating someone who just wrapped up their sophomore year of undergrad.

@Horton should get a commission ... ;)

Not all states have state championships. Some are only slalom. Some are after Nationals. Few have any real competition there. Substituting states for regionals is not a possibility.

I use the Weather Channel app but I'm guessing there are better options out there, especially for wind forecasts.

 

Any recommendations?

@JoelHowley sent you a direct message. Thanks.

No I am not. I'm spending much more on boat payments, gas, tournament entry fees, equipment, winter storage, etc., etc.

So you mean a typical New England season? Yeah, I say so. Every year in fact.

XTRs (and the Nano 1, N1XT etc. that it derived from) are not as wide as a mid, but are wider than traditional width (9900, 9960, 9970, etc.).

Hi Jay, do the skis come with bindings? If so, what are the sizes. Very interested and just 45 minutes down the road from you.

@RichardDoane interesting. Way better than no Nationals at all.

Plexiglass between the driver and boat judge seems like a smart, easy move.

suggests that the USOC thinks water skiing is one of the better prepared sports to re-open due to the fact that we are outside, are a non-contact sport and that our tournaments have relatively small number of participants. So good news.

@disland please re-read my post. My point is that if 100% of people take things seriously (maintain social distance, wipe down boat, etc.) then we could be good to go. But if a large percentage of people don't take things seriously (because they think it's overblown or for whatever reasons) then they will not be careful and they will endanger others.

The fact that as of right now 20% of respondents are saying that "the issue is over blown" and we should just operate as normal is a big indicator that maybe tournaments, no matter how they are set up, can't be ran safely. If a fifth of people showing up to any given tournament (or movie theater, or gym, etc.) don't recognize the risks and thus aren't doing what needs to be done to keep everyone safe, the efforts of the organizers and everybody else who "gets it" don't matter.

 

 

Mount a trawling motor on the back of that bad boy!

This year Regionals and Nationals should be ran as a Class C. Then you can run the tournaments with officials pulled from the pool of skiers (like any other tournament), eliminating the huge costs of hotels for the judges. Hopefully that would allow the organizers to protect their bottom lines and maybe even pass some of the savings on to skiers in the form of lower entry fees. Regional/National champs are still champs, entries fees are maybe a little lower and hopefully participation numbers remain relatively the same.

Not mechanically related, but picked up first boat brand new from the dealer and went straight to the lake. Was so excited I didn't notice the "boat ramp ends here" sign and drove the trailer right off the ledge. Had an undersized truck so it started pulling everything into the water but I was able to stop it. Had to use combo skis as a ramp/wedge to get the trailer wheels back over the ledge. Almost lost boat and truck within first 30 minutes of boat ownership.

For me I worry about if one of my kids get hurt will I:

 

1) expose them to the virus because they may/will come into contact with any number of emergency responders, physicians, nurses, etc., who themselves are probably being exposed at high rates, and

 

2) not be able to visit/stay with them in the ER or hospital due to our hospital severely limiting entry. I would feel absolutely terrible if one of my kids had to go through some medical ordeal all by themselves.

 

I love skiing, but sometimes it has to take a back seat.

@The_MS have you ever thought that it would be BETTER for the economy long term to take extreme actions to stop COVID-19 as quickly as possible, rather than let it fester and drain human and financial capital over a longer period of time?

 

My guess is that it's best to tackle it with our full force, let it die out, put it behind us and start rebuilding. I also think that might save hundreds of thousands of lives too, so that's a bonus.

Deciding that some people should die while others live sure sounds a lot like death panels to me. Maybe Sarah Palin was right!

Ha, ha @The_MS whines for weeks about the media overblowing things and creating mass hysteria and then he types something like this: "Is it right to for the nations (sic) children’s (sic) futures to be destroyed ..."

 

 

@The_MS "Estimates that I have seen say the number would be far greater then the virus itself."

 

Please share those sources if you don't mind. Would be interesting to see.

@twhisper is seems like you wouldn't be able to get your feet as close together as you could using a RTP or Wiley rear boot. Did you have to change your spacing at all to go with double Reflex or where you already that wide to begin with?

How common is the double reflex set up?

Anybody want to buy the Aztec Coyote molds?