mwetskier

i begin my relationship with a new ski by softly saying to it ' now, we're not hurt each other, are we?"

fwiw, for years chet raley has coached the body position of ' chin over belt buckle '. interestingly, that fails to address the skier's knees and / or ankles at all.

@Than_Bogan -actually, they do discus finding ways to seal the inert gas into the neoprene foam in future progressions of the idea - 5th paragraph from the bottom.

 

That said, i think the best improvement Camaro could make to their full body suit would be to incorporate some kind of ' cod piece ' technology that would reduce the uncomfortable tendency it has of turning an outie into an innie in the nether regions -if yo know what i mean... and i think you do.

forget the ' straighten your legs ' advice -not because its not good advice but because its not why your sitting in a chair. if it was why your sitting in a chair terry winter and sacha descuns would be sitting in a chair every pass cuz they ski with very bent knees and *never* straighten their legs.

 

but what they *do* do is drive their bent knees forward by bending their ankles forward also, which brings their hips up as needed, and both are world class skiers. develop a habit of bending your ankles forward when you bend your knees and your hips will come forward and up too. as always, imo.

 

' You’re right Shane @BoneHead I’ve been dropping inside shoulder since the 80’s!'

 

Suppose someone convinced you you've reached the maximum result you ever can without drastically changing your skiing, would you devote yourself to making that change or would you choose to live out your ski life with no change -having discovered your glass ceiling?

 

when you drop your inside shoulder into the turn you establish that shoulder as the 'pivot point ' for your turn, which is a pretty big radius turn. it also separates the ski quite a distance from the handle which make the ski slow down as well.

 

if you could instead learn to establish your inside hip as the pivot point for the turn you would have a much tighter turn *and* your ski would naturally maintain more speed through the turn, meaning you wouldn't have to pull yourself out of the hole you dig when you drop your head and shoulder into the turn.

 

as always, just imo -and don't shoot he messenger.

 

@Horton -journalist or not, anonymous sources are not in *any* way ' proof ', and unproven reports gathered *only* from anonymous sources are no better than flat out rumors. that said even flat out rumors deserve their place in the public dialog. as always, imo.

 

@BrennanKMN -you can check the muffler for leaks and if all you have to do is replace a steering cable you *might* be able to do that without pulling the tank by undoing the sleeve nut and the connection bolt. but i can tell you from experience on the 2001 theres no way you can address the rudder itself and the speedos without pulling the tank. unless you are a very little person with very skinny arms and tiny hands, the the opening left under tank and around the exhaust is far to small to do all that. it would be exactly like trying to perform throat surgery on someone by going in through their butt hole (all due respect).

on the 2001 you have no choice but to pull the gas tank. you can also pull out the center board in front of the tank, which will greatly increase your elbow room down in that black, god forsaken hole. on the plus side it will also give you a great opportunity to clean out the 17 years of accumulated crud in the bottom of your tank.

@keithh2oskier -personally i'm having trouble accepting the so-called ' pristine bullet buoy ' theory.

i was thinking about trying the cg fin... until i heard the price. $149 for fin only, plus shipping with no mounting block and no wing! too rich for my blood (and wallet). that said the very minute i hear about nate smith running 43 off with one i'll probably fly down to south carolina in person to get mine :smile:

i believe the world record in cable slalom is at 44' off.

fake news. thats a still shot from the new james bond movie they're filming -according to the script the boat was supposed to fly *over* the island and land in the water on the other side. i would assume they fired the stunt coordinator...

the most important thing a rear binding can do is keep your back leg from flopping around and dragging in the turn, so it looks like her set up will work just fine.

@JackQ -you mentioned that many rff skiers have developed an off side turn thats better than their on side. personally i think thats because they practice their off side turns at least 30% more often than their on side turns. this theory is based on the fact that neither the gate turn in nor the 6 ball are ' real ' turns. not saying they aren't important to get right, just saying they're technically very different from the rest of the course.

 

also, the first ' real ' turn any skier makes at any line length is the 1 ball so even in a failed pass a rff skier is typically getting more practice on his off side turn. as always, imo.

@MISkier -that type of handle failure can be *extra* painful because it rips the handle out of/through your hands from one end. in the process you'll be very lucky if you don't break a finger or thumb. i wasn't very lucky.

@thager -nicely done.

 

in my day you got a beginner skier up on two skis first. then when the day came they wanted to progress to one ski you taught them how to shift their weight to one ski and ski for as long as possible on that ski while lifting the other ski off the water. finally, you had them switch and ski on the other ski while holding the first ski up for as along as possible.

 

whichever ski they were more stable on -and the difference would be quite apparent every time -was the foot we had them ski on while they dropped the other ski. obviously that would also be the foot they put in front.

@teammalibu -i'd be careful, or -you know -no soup for you!

 

personally, the worst coaching -in my opinion -is where the coach spends any amount of time dwelling on what you're doing wrong. my reasoning is this: the odds are the thing you're doing wrong is not a conscious action its an automatic reaction to whats happening in the moment. typically this mistake can't be corrected by simply pointing it out without a positive action being coached to correct it. So why not just focus on coaching the correct action instead?

 

for example, instead of coaching ' you're separating from the handle too early", why not coach 'keep that handle as close to your hip as possible until you've passed the white water on the other side '? Providing a positive mark or goal to reach for is almost always far easier for the skier to envision and therefore embrace. again, imo.

@tjm -*my* pappy used to say ' he who hesitates is lost '. just sayin'

i missed the caption too but knew it was parrish from the beginning because hes the only one i see doing his gate pull out with both hands on top instead of using a baseball bat grip.

start with a new factory replacement, splash off a glass mold, cast a replacement out of glass or graphite composite, never look back.

 

the thing i would most like in a boat is one that would get me through two more rope shortenings. *that* would be worth almost any amount of $ and i bet i'm not the only to think that.

@Dacon62 -when you talk about ' the pendulum ' swinging, can we assume thats *not* a euphemism?

' I cannot chance that anymore with having someone walk by and see me looking at softcore porn at work. '

 

he thinks women in bikinis is ' soft core porn '. that's cute.