Taelan28

Ive only used an rtp and i dont know what it feels like starting in two boots much less a variety of skis. If you really value boots listen to these guys...otherwise all these slalom skis are probably less than an inch apart in width. if i was you id buy a pair of supercheap beginner skis to get up and then drop one after youre up and slip on the other if you fall. Its as nice as you can be on the body. Off the dock starts jerk you...yet ive yet to try it. If getting up is as hard for you as i think it is youre also sapping a good chunk of your muscle stamina and power after getting up. my two cents get up on two and drop. your body will thank you.

Every ski club in korea has about 4 of them. Nice stable ski but pathetically slow. Skied on one all year last year.

That woman is laotian...not korean

HOW DARE YOU GUYS CRITICIZE THE AM SKI ITS NOT EVEN OUT YET. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEIR NEW HOLLOW CORE PRODUCTION PROCESS AND TESTING PROCESS. IF THEY DONT TEST IT AS MUCH AS THEY CAN AND GET IT JUST RIGHT THEN THEY WILL HAVE A BAD NAME IN THE MARKET. IM SURE THEY ARE TESTING ALL DAY EVERY DAY AND TRYING TO RAMP UP PRODUCTION... HONESTLY GUYS ITS ANDY MAPPLE HES DONE SO MUCH FOR THE SPORT. YOU DONT EVEN NEED TO HAVE FAITH IN H AND ADAM CORD. THEYLL MAKE A GREAT SKI AND BLOW EVERYONE AWAY WITH A STICK THAT MAY BE MARGINALLY BETTER THAN ANYTHING ON THE MARKET. YOU JUST WAIT AND SHUT YOUR TRAPS!!

A guy that frequents my club has that with the boots and a color co-ordinated Eagle jacket. Looks slick.

Can you post an example of an axe murderer face? i look at all the pictures of myself skiing and i love them. Im very photogenic when im caught in the moment. On the other hand photos make me realize hpw bad my technique is. I used them to run 22 off cold...or lukewarm.

Get more speed on the way out l. Lean in preturn and cut harder. I used to have a problem with that but when i ski moderately aggressively its never a problem.

I woke up at 730 to some bad weather and said IM GOING TO DAEJEON 4 HOURS AWAY. 4 hours later im at a new lake. Stunning. Closed by mountains no wind, perfect size for skiing and a forgiving shore that calms a wake immediately. Dude wanted 20 bucks for two passes on the course. I almost slapped him. I free skied like a pro. I got so wide it made your momma felt thin and i closed that gap so well David letterman and Flea's orthodontists were taking notes. Emmit Brown was wondering where I got the 1.21 gigawatts of power. I said it was 1.23. Kanye west even wanted to remix his song Power and feature me in the video... but i fell 4 times and i never fall more than 2..Pack up and went back to the home lake. 3 hours later im tired and gassed. I barely ate a full meal and i had been on my bike for six hours. Ah what the heck one more time. Im sick of free skiing and i wanted to do the course. I told my driver 16 meters. He was like "sucka what did you say? you cant even run the course at 18 how ya gonna do it at 16?" i didnt care I'd been free skiing 16m like a machine. Id try not to fall. Get around 3 balls ok and almost got the fourth. Not too bad. Then the Deion Sanders on my shoulder said "c'mon baaaaby you got this" next pass i rocked it like a hurricane. My driver, who pulls 100 people a day, had to give me a hell yea with his fist up. Can i do it twice? ive only ever done a full pass twice at 15 off at 52kph. First four balls went well fifth was ugly and i pulled like a teenager to get to six. I didnt think id make but i got there. Not only did i get the buoy i made a perfect triangular apex of a turn theb recovered like an alcoholic to make it through the gates. Sick. It was so sick the ambulance was there on the dock waiting foe me and the CDC was on its way to quarantine the area. It was so awesome that north korean intelligence found out about my walls of water and have to redo their war strategy as they have nothing to break through. It was so awesome that Nas and Jay-Z are going their next albums Skimatic and The Skimatic. After the korean honeys could resistant insisted on pictures. Then i went for some dinner and pounded down 600grams of pork like a boss. Thats how we roll south of Seoul. B

Crashman you have the best workout. Skijay i completely agree. If i take 3 days off from the gym i ski GREAT but the next day im sore and out of synch. Better to dig deep and ski fatigued.

What type of yellow fever are you referring to?

Is it in the rules? Then its ethical.

During the events of this thread this video I saw two years ago came to mind. Fast forward to the two minute mark. Checkmate.

Taelan Baylor. Skiing since 12, consistently since last year and properly since April. The Northland Chuck Stearns Shark wooden slalom ski in the garage has always had my ire. Seeing some guy on Balsam Lake wisconsin rip it up years ago put it in my head "That looks cool!" I've always been envious of people who lived on a lake, they get done with school or work and can take out the boat equally envious of the sweet looking runabout boat. Back home I only skied behind an 80 horse mercury on rare occasions as the thing was mostly for fishing. Coming to Korea I got out of debt and in shape. $25 for 5 minutes of skiing sounded like the most offensive ripoff I've ever heard in my life, but I did it anyways. After skiing 100x last year I decided to put down money on gear, get in shape again, and learn how to ski properly with one hand. Skiing for me is a release of long held desires. Why cant I do it? Further its also an outlet for my physical power when Im in shape. Through water skiing I travel throughout Korea and visit ski clubs. Its better than seeing lame ass temples and museums. At the moment I try to get maximum enjoyment the money I put into skiing, sometimes that means chasing balls sometimes it means tearing it up. Though the mention of me living in korea comes up a lot I try my best to not make comparisons between here and the states or make an opinion as to which place is better to live because I do not hold those beliefs and no one likes some asshat spouting garbage about where he is, and what he has, is so great. I also like debating--not arguing. Getting all the facts and making points is as rewarding as making a full pass. Name calling, and labeling people is counterproductive. Watching kids screw up the most simple things on a daily basis, then seeing similar things in adults has made me realize that everyone makes the right decisions based on the information or perception of information they have, thus wrong decisions come from the information and perception of the information, not the person's judgement.

Yes wildlife bothers me. If I saw a snake I'd chase it down and cut it up. Turtles? I'd check. Snapping turtles? Dead. Baby Gators? What baby gators? Fortunately theres no harmful wildlife where I am. From my experience in the US, even on the indian reservation, if someone hears gun shots the authorities are immediately called.

Continue the drills. She didnt continue to cut better the same reason you didnt put 2 and 2 together. The human brain, no matter the age, almost never learns something the first time. She did the drills and cut better but didnt keep it up, likewise you saw her cut better but didnt realize what caused it.

From the days of wood what has been the biggest advancement in skis? Specifically what material, production method or shape has lead to the greatest improvement in skiing?

For sure Chef. I ski fatigued quite often. Skiing fatigued is like skiing when its a little windy, it only does you good. Do a workout, get a meal in you and go skiing a little later. You're already warmed up. You wont be 100% but you'll still ski well. Take a two day rest then get on the course and you'll rippin it up. I recently took a week off from skiing and continued exercise. I skied very well, better than I thought but my right forearm and bicept arent too happy right now. Maybe because Im still young, or dumb, that I can say "Screw it Im going to continue using it" that allows me to continue, but I find that if the muscle tissue is in great condition (work on it 3x a week) you can be pretty abusive to it and still have it perform very well. I skid four times and worked out on a saturday which left me pretty gassed, and out of boredom I decided to ski even though I felt I should have rested. Once my muscles warmed up I skied ok. BTW, I know this will fall on the most deaf of ears here, but stop drinking the beer. That stuff is pure poison, not just he alcohol part, but the entire beverage. Even if I have 2 beers, sober up before bed and wake up feeling fine my body just doesnt perform nearly as well as it should. Beer and alcohol is just bad fuel.

If money were no object I'd get boat, maybe two, and a truck to pull it. Then get my friends interested in doing it. I'd probably learn how to wakeboard some too. And yes like Jibster have a bunch of different high end skis. I already spend money like its no object skiing. a quarter of my annual income has already gone to skiing. I have a member ship (100 pulls) and I still spend a good chunk of my time at other clubs. Worse yet, since Im in incredible physical condition my body can withstand skiing 12 passes a day, every day, so I take a rest because Im sick of skiing, not because I cant do it.

HA! Southern Canada. Ima likin' that one.

@thager Lookin fly, both of you. Looking good doesnt matter and in truth no one probably cares what vest or color co-ordination you have, but when you're spending this much money on a hobby you might as well look cool doing it. I still havent found a suit to match my Neil Pryde VX1.

Im going to have to agree with Horton. I dont know ski prices that well, but the ones not named Reflex or Sans Rival tend to be similarly priced and within a few hundred dollars of eachother. I know I could have settled for a cheap and old Monza from SIA for a couple hundred but I was dead sit on an Elite, cost was a factor but every couple weeks I saw myself raising my price limit by a hundred bucks.

What i learned last week... I suck. My form is really bad from free skiing. I couldnt even run a pass at 15off at 52kmph. The woman watching from the dock said i looked cool but my driver laughed and said "wtf didnt you see him miss ball 2 on his first pass?" Thats the first time someone said i suck. Cant get angry or object. The buoys are also waaay out there, further than I usually go free skiing. $25 for 4 passes is not worth it, thus I free ski most of the time. However if I got six passes I'd run the course A LOT more often. This place gave me six passes because the people in front of me got six passes, but when I got done to pay they said the bill was $75, like I went 3 times not two.... fiddle sticks. Yesterday i learned didnt lose as much as i thought. I didnt run the course but i got nice and wide at 22 off and had good rythm. Skiing in horrid windy conditions can be as helpful as running the course. I also learned that the shorter the rope the better my timing needs to be. At 15off i can turn whenever I please. At 28off i gotta whip out fast, lean to decellerate and wait for the right moment to turn if i want want to be jerked around. I also became a lot less numb to the position of my body. Before i was way to far back with pressure on my back leg. The adjustment really want big at all. I skied fairly consistently then got sloppier. All i want is consistenct and speed...and big spray... Chicks dig watching me ski. Really. The rainy season is coming and i want to be pounding the course to force me to ski aggressively.

I probably would have gotten the new attack boot but i went with the animal because it was what i knew. Any stick singular? id be like a girl with a closet full of skis. Id want a newer elite that new 33and whatever else i could put in my closet... Ive mentioned this before but skis here in korea are almost double the price. Carbon nano:$3000 A2 $2000. Sans rival or reflex are closer to $4000. Everyone go do youself a favor and buy a second ski because you can... Let the wife get some shoes too if it will make her shut up.

If your workout is under 90 min then you can ski and workout. Sure youre a little bit gassed if you do both in the same day but it makes you al the better. Sure im younger and can get away with it a lot better but you dont get in very good shape by doing the sport alone you supplement it. Your body getting in shape through sport alone or one activity alone is like climbing a ladder with a leg and an arm supplement it with something and both will be propelled. When i did weight lifting alone... A lot of it mind you...id get good results but once i aued hockey or did some physical job for more than two weeks the two activities would comploment eachother. I say do both. You body and especially your muscles are extremely resilient.

#9 The women are HOTT. They wear heels, dress nice from head to toe and are feminine almost to a fault. Even guys like myself who just didnt like asians at all found myself with yellow fever. Every guy thats been here for a period of time gets it. No its got nothing to do with water skiing but it cant be left out. If you see a girl wearing shorts from Utah then you're seeing something Goode! #8 Everything else for you vacation-y types. Do a temple stay, see some lame museums, enjoy a sauna, climb a mountain since hiking is big here too, if you can scuba dive and you must do it then go ahead. Play some starcraft in korea just for the novelty of it. The night life is Seoul, as an English man once pointed out to me, is "mental". #7 I've got it all mapped out. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=206994171726960017314.0004b225cec6f5bd953b0&msa=0 There it is, every place in the country. I may be missing a few obscure spots on a river though, and it the notes need to be updated for all you ball chasers out there. The place that is probably the most beautiful and set up for a vacation is also the worst place to ski as it is fully packed with weekend visitors. #6 You can ski the hangang in Seoul. Im not sure if there are skiing opportunities in other cosmopolitian cities around the world, but there's something to be said about skiing in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world at 7 am and Im not sure you can do the same anywhere else. #5 No lines. I dont think I've ever waited more than 10 minutes to ski, but I never feel like I'm waiting. #4 These cats ball up. There's no mid range skis here. People buy the high end thing. S2, A1, A2, Carbon Nano, 9800, Elite, Reflex, X7, Fusion and the very rare Sans Rival. Even women who started skiing last year end up buying a Carbon Nano for $3000 USD, and then tack on hard shells which are similarly marked. They may suck at skiing, but they buy quality products, speaking of which. #3 SKIIN' LIKE A ROCKSTAR. No disrespect to the koreans, their society is very compact and cramped, there are no large fields to play soccer and kids just plain cant run around and play like they do in the states, sports and activities are no where near as focused here as they are in the states, so they're poor skiers and everything else. You, however, are AWESOME! You're white, they've only seen one white dude come to the ski place (me), and you traveled all the way to Korea to ski. AMAZING! So is your stick, bindings and rope you brought with you. You go behind the inboard, you shorten the rope, and run the course better than the club owner, you make a big spray, the way you zoom back and forth across the wake makes it look like you're the one commanding the boat, and you whip off the handle really fast and far when going to the dock. People will clap for you when you're done, guys will want to take video and listen to tips, women will want to ride in the boat just to watch. Finally they'll invite you out to dinner and stuff you with lots of exotic food and get you sloshed on Soju. Nick and Will are probably still full. Bring your trick ski and these people will flip more than you. #2 You can help defend South Korea from the North by building a wall of water with each turn. #1 Skiing is more popular than wake boarding here. I'm sure of it. Outside of the popular and crowded place near Seoul you would be hard pressed to find a club that didn't have a 60/40 advantage in favor of skiers and even harder pressed to find a proper wakeboarding boat. Looking at the hardware racks full of member gear and you'll see that 90% of the equipment is skis. I think its because its easier to be a decent skier and look like a decent skier than wake boarder. No sideways hat wearing suckas around here. Come in the second week of August, to come earlier will be met with the wrath of the rain gods. Don't come later than mid september--its colder.