Taelan28

This was on the home page of Ballofspray. I was wondering how true it was. If 1 pass is 6 turns (am I right?) thats at most 120 cuts in a day. What the most passes/cuts you've skied in a day?

Brent, thanks for noticing that I am a MAN! Funny thing though. I was all hardcore tough about it all summer and I stuck it out even though my callouses were nearly being pinched off. I've borrowed gloves before and really didnt notice a difference and sometimes it would still hurt like hell...after 250+ turns in two days and 200 reps in the gym (now Im just bragging). I didnt want to shell out $90 for ski gloves here either (thats their price here, you dont want to know what skis and boots cost). Sure enough on the second to last run of the season I slipped on some gloves and I had one of my best runs with a lot of speed and rhythm. Although I can tough out the pain the reality was I was easing up on my crossing the wake because it would make it hurt more. Maybe that great run with the Elite had more to do with the gloves. My last run of the year I forgot to put on the gloves and I eased up a lot. Bottom line is I can still do well without gloves, but its like going to work with a cold, it just isn't 100%.

Yes thats the ski. It gripped the water a lot better and put up that spray I wanted (Im such a poser). The review Im reading said it accelerated out of the hole well, me thinks not, especially when it decelerated better than any other ski at the time. Maybe because of my own laziness and tired body, but I never really blasted side to side on that. The boots from that other ski were HO attack boots. Those were goddamn dog shit, maybe because they were too big, but they were really stiff and didnt come close to fitting right no matter how hard I pulled on the strings.

I was thinking Animals if they were compatible, otherwise I'd go with the Obrien X-9s.

Thanks for the input. I'll have to try a course a few times just to get the timing down, but in terms of raw learning and muscle memory a 6 ball course would be difficult to learn on. I miss a turn and I miss the rest easily. Bam $10 down the drain. I haven't ridden many "good" skis, (or at least ones that looked good.) The rental I used most often said "7000" on the bottom and something else. I thought it was great the first time I tried it compared to another one that was a little small, I also blame myself for being so wobbly and inconsistent and not having the balance (my torso does not like relax or twist and I have a funny way of initiating an offside turn). The good skis I used early on I didnt notice too much of a difference, but when I went back to them a month later I noticed they were better right away. The D3 that was fast was ridden twice, the first time I didnt notice much of a difference, the second time was insane and I face planted into the first wake, party because the driver throttled it and partly because my form was shit. I remember one time when the 7000 was missing and I used a different ski. I did well on it making some of the most effortless turns I've ever done and stuck with it for a few days, then it just didnt feel right and I went back to the 7000. The Elite particularly sticks out. When I went to the ski club in Jecheon for the first time the owner told me to use his ski because he was impressed with me. I really didn't know what I was looking at. After a couple turns it was clear that the thinness, light weight and glossy bottom made it incredible. The guy said he counted me doing 50 turns in the kilometer I did. The turns felt much easier and I got so much lower crossing the wakes. I even had a couple "holy shit" moments because it got my from side to side so fast. Maybe my memory is getting the best of me because I was having a "career day." As you can see I have my heart set on that Elite. I'd like to change my mind to an A2 or something deemed more stable but its hard to justify hundreds of dollars on something I havent tried out and cant try out, Im sure I'd be happy with it but I want to be 100% sure on a purchase. There are skis for sale but for a premium cost (The elite here is close to $2600) and Im sure there's a used market but I cant shuffle through all the Korean text to find it.

I've been on one ski since I was 14, but I've only ridden a couple time since then at 15, 21, and now 24. I've recorded a lot of video and although I thought I was good, I realize Im fucking bad, like miserably bad. My offside is hideous, I dont go out that far, and I use two hands on a turn instead of one. I've never run a course I just like to go out and put up a big spray because it looks cool. Some people here have been impressed with the way I ski and I've had a couple good runs and turn where it was effortless. Since its $25 a kilometer of skiing I really cant afford to just go back and forth and play around to get used to things and it would probably cost me $50 a day just to warm up and get my coordination right. @skibug Im pretty cheap. An adjustable fin lock means nothing to me since I don't have the feel for a proper fin setting. I honestly dont know what adjusting a fin would do. I just go out and ski. I am interested in your ski but I'll wait for you to put it up on ski-it-again. Further, did you mean to say that a smaller sweet spot means the ski is more precise when the settings are dialed in right?

I've been eyeing that ski at 325 since other prices dont come close, but the lack of detail in the description makes me wary. Yea "Used 1 year. Great condition...Great price" is pretty straight forward but I have this idea that someone who takes care of their stuff and puts more effort into description. The fact that you said its skidawg's old ski and now a friend of yours has it means that the description is wrong/misleading, as it has had a previous owner its likely its been used two seasons. The seller just could tell the truth and say: "09 67" Elite. Used two seasons, one by me and a previous owner, ski is still in great shape with no knicks or scuffs and still rides like an Elite should as both owners took great care of it, if it wasn't in the water in was in the bag." A short reason as to why he is selling it would be beneficial since I wonder why he is selling the ski I was for almost half the price of other skis. Since its got a reference I am more keen now, there's also a lot of time between now and May/June when the season starts so Im in no rush to spend $300-400.

Good question. I think a couple in the south do, Ive never been there as I did most of the searching with Google maps and daum.net. There's at least one ski course in Gapyeong where half the country goes to ski and wakeboard, but its FUCKING BUSY there. Im almost positive there's one in chuncheon as there have been competitions there, but I dont remember seeing it. The small lake by Osan has one as does a TINY little lake north of Cheonaon "Swan Lake". Without a car a lot of these places are hard to get to. I've got a motorcycle so I can get to them, but the further away they are the harder it is since I cant ride on the freeways and the backroads/highways wind around the mountains and have frequent stop lights near cities. There are also a grip of places to ski on the Hangang in soul. Dont come in July as the river is flooded and no one will take you. But skiing on a sunny morning in the middle of an asian metropolis cant be beat.

View Lakes to Scout in a larger maphttp://g.co/maps/9ppehSome places I've been to. A lot are just marked places to put a boat.

By sweet spot, what exactly do you mean? I know the sweet spot on a baseball bat is where you want to his the ball so it goes far. Can you explain the sweet spot of a ski and why its important to have a large area, or the benefits of a small sweet spot? Based on one ride of that Alpha Im pretty sold on it but I'd like a lot of feedback before I'm shelling out hundreds of dollars on a used ski. Whats worse is that the ski clubs here charge $25 for a 1000 yards of skiing, so I really don't have the luxury to test things out.

Hey. I just started skiing last summer in Korea and I love it. I've rode on a bunch of skis that the ski clubs let people use, some were good some were bad but really had no gauge for what I was riding. A think a D3 an an Obrien Elite stood out, especially the Elite. That thing was paper thin, feather light, fast as hell while all the other high end skis were thicker. A new Elite is too expensive, so I have a couple questions: Whats wrong with buying a 2 year old ski whether its an Elite or not? Are there any aging issues? How do the other high end skis (thicker skis) such as the Strada, A2, S2, Nano "Twist", Razor compare to each other and the Elite? Detailed answers welcome.