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I learnt to ride a trick ski at a cable park. Not great for correct technique the upwards pull temps to you put to much weight on the back foot, but bonus is you only need one person to ski being yourself. Once you can do a complete lap I used to try any tricks (not many) close to the start so if I fell off I didn't have to walk back to far.

Have fun let us know how you get on

I believe you made the right choice

So that makes Three for TRA my sone has been on one since 7 and running the full course. Going to get me little girl a lyric same length because she like the graphics better. Rather they have a ski they want to ski on.

Pokemon Go, yoyos, Loom bands, vinyl records to CD to vinyl again. The trend is your friend. I think for the really talented and the beginner it doesn't matter but for middle ground each could help you overcome a weakness

PS double boots look cool but you can't beach start unless you are in a RTP and that looks cooler

All about the fun. Get her to shadow the course to get used to where the bouys are. Then look to get her to shadow the course an get six ball. Then once she has got that mastered get her to get one ball shadow the course and still get six. Gradually aiming to get additional bouys. Mix up the rope length between fifteen off and full length.

Focus on tummy up and hands down

Lastly both mine have loved getting professional coaching. I don't know why but they always come back smiling afterwards

Have fun and it's not all about the PB or balls

$$$ sign actually means something in the Jump setting, can't remember what it is though. I am sure some of the jumpers could tell you

I have a T-Factor on a ski, I can't wear it for long as it is too tight across the arch of my foot.

1) Can they be adjusted to be made looser,

2) if so how do I go about it

If buying new don't you just go to a website (sponsors of course example) and order a package if you need a lot of start up gear?

When we started out we brought a lot of second hand gear and as time went past this became the guest skiers equipment and our new stuff was ours alone to use.

Fan of Radar Awesomeness though a small lyric will probably see her out for the next four or five years. In part I think that if they love the ski they will more likely want to ski on it and look after it. My son who is now eight is running the full course 31km on the 18m line on the Awesomeness and loves that ski. We are thinking a year old Lyric for our six year old because she loves the graphics and we know its the same mould as the Awesomeness. These ski will have to last them for at least five years.

At low speeds there is enough ski to keep them on top of the water and plenty of capacity when the speed increase.

This whole thing drives me nuts! The issue for me is that there is an expectation that to be a "competitive" slalom skier there is a requirement for a ZO boat and that the boat is a current; Nautique, Mastercraft, Malibu or maybe a Centurion.

Think you want or need a ZO boat then spend $45k-$85k AUS for a second hand boat or new boat so half to all my gross salary tied up in a boat.

What encourages a outsider (lake skier) to take up slalom. The cost of social skiing is lower a couple of 20 year olds can get into a ski boat for $10k-$15k AUS ski, wakeboard, barefoot and tow tubes for the weekend. Brilliant family fun.

Slalom skiing is not easy to get into and this just makes it seem harder to the outsider especially when some software thing that only really only matters to elite athletes cost $800 or ~1% of my gross income and takes up three pages of this forum and is not even a fun purchase like a ski, rope or jacket.

So $800 buys my son 3 or 4 slots of coaching and is far more important than the software and we will ski behind a 2001 model boat with a not well sorted stargazer and only ski ZO in tournaments.

The problem is that the expectation is ZO not any capable speed control system.

Whoops sorry of topic now I read the title of the thread

Some tips in no particular order

1) handle into the hips

2) boat rope skier all in a straight line as possible

3) always look up at top of Bimini

4) go deeper rather than shallower while learning

5) you can start on a tight rope with boat stationary

We don't we take an arm length of rope and hook over little finger, call in gear and let boat idle out, when the loop is pulled from the hand call hit it ( boat take of not much faster than a deep water start.

5) stand with ski tip out of water you can rest back of ski on ground while waiting lean back a bit

6) GLIDE do not step the boat will take you

2001 response knocked off for the night