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Why is it so painful? This girl started skiing last year with a friend and loked it so much she continued. She also broke her ankle doing it last year and still got up to do it again. She said she feels alive whenever she skis thus she thinks about skiing all day every day. Fortunately she has a car and drives 50 minutes every morning to fulfill her desires. The kicker is that a carbon nano twist isnt $2000 here. Its actually $3000 and the bindings are similarly marked up. So although it may be painful to you that she gets all this highend equipment because it doeant fit her skill it actually fits her desire.

Oh yea in addition i want to thank the designer of the womens shorts at Goode. The shorts fit these women well : D

The whole day was good. Often times different ski clubs will have different preferences to skis, one in Jecheon prefers Elite, another in Chungju prefers HO. I thought this club was predominantly D3 but today I never seen so many GOODE skis before. Stacy mentioned how she was surprised how many high end skis there were yet few people could run a pass. Nick got the rockstar treatment. They had a big banner for Nick, a translator, t-shirts, lunch, flowers--yes flowers, and a ton of photo ops and ski signings. His name was on Reflex and D3 skis alike. We loaded three boats full of people to watch him run a couple passes. Nick spent most of the day adjusting skis and giving personal tips to people on the course. I personally didnt get any lessons as his presence and knowledge was more valued by the koreans than me. Maybe I should have, oh well. Credit to David Goode for setting this up. There are hundreds of ski clubs in Korea (albeit most of them are bottled up on one area) and Koreans like to spend their money on top quality products whether it be cameras, mountain bikes, motorcycles, or hiking gear, so it was wise to reward a store which has sold a lot of GOODE products with a GOODE representative. Everyone ate it up. One girl who started skiing last year and skis with two hands already had a Carbon Nano Twist with hard-shells. Will Asher was in town and Im sure he got similar treatment. Any major manufacturer sending someone to Korea for a week long tour is a good idea due to consumer habits here to buy high end stuff and nothing less. Will spending $2000 for a week long tour giving tips to 100 people result in $3000 in profit? Maybe, but thats not for me to calculate. Either way the people here loved to see a real pro.

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Supposedly a store in seoul bought A TON of goode merchandise.

dont know who he is until now. Hes darn tall and handsome and represents Goode

I already use similar liners and i still get blisters. Ive changes the way i hold the rope more towarda the fingers and its reducex them.

When my technique was atrocious my legs, back between the shoulder blades would be shredded, my the callus pads on my hands needed to be cut off, and my left knee would be weak. Now that my technique is a lot better (I use one hand now!) and I dont use my back leg to initiate the turn the most pained part of my body is the calluses and blisters on my hands, even with the gloves I got blisters on top of blisters.

What I learned today: Freeskiing IS more fun than course skiing. I get more cuts and I get my money's worth. Freeskiing poorly is not fun and is a result of not being aggressive. To free ski better I need to try to run the course just four passes, it doesn't matter if I don't run a full pass I just need to try it. After I'll learn to be more aggressive in my pull and technique tightens up a lot more. When my technique is good my body is in a good rhythm on the water, I'm very consistent with the distance I get away from the boat and more importantly I look cool. The pull away left and then towards the first buoy need to be very aggressive as it sets the tone for the next 5 buoys. My pulls between buoys are only as strong as my initial pull.

I did my first ass over head front hand spring today and I was ok. Later an older guy did the same thing and he was dazed and confused. I asked him 15 minutes later in my limited Korean, if his head was ok he shook his head no. It got me thinking though. How prevelant are concussions in skiing? I did 8 consecutive passes on the course two weeks ago and fell 6 times. On the bike ride back home I felt light headed and a little disconnected. Has anyone else experience a concussion skiing or is it an issue in the sport?

I think the distance between the buoys emphasizes enough quickness and pull. Height and reach i cant comment on.

Good stuff MattP. If its not RTM then what is it and how is it different?

@skimech @skibug but whats the scientific method for customizing the right ski the first time and not doing trial and error on 50 different skis? The myth seems to be that skis get better every year, but they aren't microprocessors. Its all material made into a shape and the ski only improves when the material (or combination and order of materials) changes for the better or the shape clearly changes for the better and never goes back to what it was (ie, a flat bottomed ski). I saw a commercial for Brandon Parker's wakeboard. He said the rocker was less emphasized and flatter (I forget why) than last year's model, then I thought to myself "Sucka, I bet the board was flatter the year before that and they were talking up the more pronounced rocker." Its all seems to be a matter of personal preference. I dont know exactly how skis are shaped, whether it be from a carved piece of wood or CAD (as mentioned in the video) and a 3D printer (those are cool), but the end result appears to me to be trial and error on the course. There's no equivalent to a wind tunnel or a mechanical swing hitting golf balls, so the idea of a custom ski seems to be only reserved for the sponsored pros until a controlled method is developed to give a custom ski on the first try. Until that happens the vast majority of us will just buy skis developed for the pros, which isnt a bad thing as @skijay similarly said that almost any ski out there is a good one.

Jordan, eleeski and Scarlot Arrow know what Im saying. Sixam675 answered the question more accurately than I could have hoped, although I have no way of verifying the truth to his statements. Horton an Shane H dont know what Im saying. In fact the relentless "Im probably wrong" wording and per-apologetic statements was to appease you guys, yet you still rail. Hey Im just being skeptical. @ral "Although we had plenty of resources in our previous company, we did not get along with management, so we started this and hope to make a stick that will ski decently and will not break too much?" Yes that will do just fine but I'd change it to this: "Although we had plenty of resources in our previous company, we did not get along with management, so we went independent and hope to make a stick using some of the things we learned in the last few years in ski design, production, distribution and customer relations to bring you, the high end enthusiast skier, a ski that likely rides as good as any other high end model from the major producers, at a competitive price"

Id put money on me not knowing what im talking about. Im sure theyll make a quality ski. The comment in the video caught my attention immediatly the first time watching it. Immediately after that quote andy said that there was a financial element to working with other companies that he didnt like so i wonder how can storied ski companies not have the resources on hand to help the sports former top athlete to make a ski. This isnt a question of AM skis being good or bad its a question of why they werent able to make the skis they wanted at another company. From a business standpoint it seems really smart for the two to be teaming up and going independent.

How were the buoy distances decided? Distance from the center of the course and vertical distance (not the hypotenus) to the plane of next and previous buoy. I'm curious because i noticed when I shorten the line for free skiing I dont go out nearly as far and I tend to play the angle of the rope more than the distance from the center.

weights. GIves me much more stamina, my muscles are less likely to tear apart. Also I can do 16 passes a day if I wanted to. However the way I grip the dumbell is not the way one should grip a ski handle, so the balls of my hands are blistered and bruised from being pinched for the last month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_UuUISRpDU at :50 Adam (I believe his name is) said he and Andy "...wanted to take things to a whole other level and in order to do that the best way to go was with our own company" What do you mean? You business partner is the best skier in history, has dominated the sport for 20 years and hold marketing power. Like working with Obrien didnt give you enough freedom or testing resources when designing skis? What about he other companies? Didnt you shop them around or didnt they contact you for a better deal? Granted my eye isn't trained very well and I'm still pretty numb in feeling when riding a ski but looking at the bottom of a Sixam and a Elite there isn't much difference. What AM skis seems to offer is a RTM ski (like Reflex, Sans Rival, and Elite). What they offer thats different is molding a custom ski in 2 hours, and testing it 5 minutes away. My point is them making starting their own company does not mean a big improvement in design as there are a half dozen other companies, with pros of their own, striving for the same thing, so by starting their own business is not to make a better ski, but to be more in control of the profits (which is totally fine) with a leaner company and it seems the only differentiating benefit is that they can mold a new ski in two hours for a customer on the site. I wrote this quickly and Im sure it will receive criticism. Please correct me if Im missing anything or that does not line up with the reality of the situation.

#1 I ski and turn a lot differently when I have buoys to go around. Also, when I free ski at 28 off I dont get nearly as wide as I should. #2 I ski great at 15 off, I had so much time before buoys 2-5 today that I asked my spotter "Did that look cool?" before the next turn, but Im not consistent at it and the amount of slack I leave gives me trouble. #3 Falling on my right side is most prone to knocking the wind out of me. Its embarassing every time. #4 Thinking about women will cause me to miss the entire course. #5 Y'all werent lying about inboards and zero off. When I pull the boat slows from 34 to 30. #6 Y'all werent lying about shortening the rope being 10 times harder. Every time I've missed at 15 off since the first time I've said "Pssht I can do this" at after 2 times at 22 off Im not so sure. #7 skiing the course A LOT will cause me to build muscle memory and close the gap between the way I free ski and course ski.

Running it felt good but not as good as I thought. What made me want to do it again is when I failed to run it a second time. The slow speed was really good because it allowed my brain and muscles to process what was going on and once the speed went up I had as much trouble as I did the first time. As I do it over and over muscle memory will take over and my body will feel whats wrong and adjust instead of relying on vision first and trying to correct everything at once. When someone tells me what to do to improve I know for sure that I wont be able to do it because Im too busy focusing on other things, but running the course demands consistency whereas free skiing is too loose to give me change. The downside is, and Im sure I've said this about 10 times already, is that I only get 4 passes for $25. There's no option, like if it were my own boat, to do it again and again until my stamina cuts out, so the improvement rate is stunted. The first 4 passes were really easy on the body and Im in good enough shape to do 10 (*at 15 off and 30mph*). I want to free ski for the value I get out of it (twice as many turns), and I love wipping around at 28 off but the consistency is not there, not even close. A chronic problem I've had is pulling back and hard (see fist picture) and then buckling under the pressure (second picture), part of it is not leaning back enough, part of its is leaning back too hard, part of it is just being a pansy and not wanting to face plant in the wake and the last part is just plain laziness and not wanting to put my body under the pressure. Free skiing I'd maybe get 3 or so real good cuts and pulls that felt consistent all the way though, most of the time I make a good cut but I dont follow through to the otherside with aggression. Course skiing (when I run it) I get at least 4 good cuts and pulls across the wake correctly, though Im sure video would say otherwise.

i did it really slow and cheated on the opening gate but i dont care. It went by really fast and validated a lot of what i though. One, i ski without rythm. Two i dont pull after the turn at all. Three i can definately do this. I increased very fast. The first time missed the opening buoy second i did ok third time i got it and fourth time i fell. Fifth time and second round out i got it and increased the speed. Missed my first pass at 32 and got it the second time although i clipped a buoubuoy. Almost got it again at 32 but fell just before the last turn. Yes i cheat on the opening gate but im more concerned with doing the other 5 turns right and let exposure and practice let the opening gate come naturally.

I think your best bet is to strap it on your back like in the picture.

Bad day: The spray isnt very big and/or I ski on my face. Good day: cut like a butcher, pull like an ox and of course the big spray.

I'll tell you a quick story. My dad puts up with a lot of crap from my mom. WAY more than the average man. WAY MORE! Overall the relationship was full of compromises and ultimately both sides found a way to get their way, but I lost respect for the man when my mom said "Come up here and _______ or you arent getting any" I've never seen that fatass get up the stairs so fast in my life, and that guilty smile on his face. Listen man, I like women and have put A LOT time and energy into understanding them, but dont be beholden to this woman if you're like a rolling stone and absolutely need some "satisfaction" then you should probably take things into your own hands.

I cant believe youre beholden to your wife like that. Listen, you're the effin man here. Cowboy up and go without sex for a little while. Besides she'll just spend money shopping anyway. Im told by Korean women (who love designer clothing and $1000+ handbags and collect them like Pokemon) that handbags are 30% cheaper in Italy. Lay down the law. Your ski comes! You do your damn skiing! You skiing does not interfere with her day. Why should you ever compromise on what you want to do so long as it doesnt interfere with anyone else?