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Thanks @gator1

@gator1 I scaled the width of the step at about .500 from your picture and you listed it as .025X.725. Could you confirm the width please?

I've been thinking of doing that to a fin ever since the HO S2 came out. I just never got around to it. Sounds like I'll be making one tomorrow.

I’ve never heard of this unwritten rule but I’m not in the loop. Evidently Jeff, who has been at it for 25 years, and the officials had not heard of it either. Dave should have been granted a warm-up pass.

Aye!

I’ve been thinking for years that Freddy may be the best athlete on the planet. What he and a handful of other jumpers can do demands the utmost respect from any sports enthusiast.

@OB 9301 votes short of 1st which was Life Saving. Sumo was 2nd. What Regina is doing right now is more impressive than all the others put together but it was only a popularity vote...

Check with Tom Asher.

I thought MS didn’t like open bows.

@thager Your ski may have a twist in it. If the ski is twisted, it will give low numbers until you apply enough pressure to make all four contact points touch.

Is that a 1977 SN?

Thanks for the informative video @marcusbrown Very well done.

There’s a lot of info on this forum about how to get your hips up or stacked as it is often referred to here. I think you should start there to solve your 2,4,6 problems. It’s really hard to get positive results with the off side when the hips are over the back foot.

The boarding platform could be a water ballistic tank that could be filled and drained remotely using the same technology from the wakeboarding boats. The bottom of this ballast would have to be slightly above the bottom of the hull. The exhaust would have to be dealt with but weight that far back would push the transom down substantially, creating a larger wake.

@Horton Is that lake 4-6 feet deep? That’s what I read on another thread.

Chuck Norris once tried the course wrong foot forward and picked up 3 buoys!

I was skiing at sunset in late December on a N/S lake with clouds to the south and the reflection of the sunset on the water was the same bright orange of the old Overton’s turn buoys. They were invisible. I’d not seen that before nor since.

@kindly What you’re describing is the target, the jump. Thank goodness they didn't put gates before the jump 50 years ago. That may have killed jumping altogether by now.

PTM is the best out there.

Slalom course skiing is a race course. It’s about accelerating, decelerating, and turning. The slalom course is not a field with boundaries. Boundaries could be added to add yet another impossible thing to judge though. “He got too wide at 3 ball and they pulled it”.

Great Video @MarcusBrown Thanks for promoting the sport!

For those who think “making the gates” is such a wonderful part of slalom course skiing, I have a great idea for the jump event (not really). We need to put gates in the jump course for the jumpers. Why should slalom skiers have all the fun? Who doesn’t want to travel all the way to the Masters, see Freddy cut and blast off the ramp 230 feet only to find out his score is zero because he missed these gates. Look at all the extra cost and effort judges and tournament officials would get to do. Think of the joy the officials would get from “pulling” Freddy’s gates. “Severs him right for trying to cheat” they would say. Would both skis have to be totally inside the gates or could one be in and one be out? Could one ski go over the centerline of a gate with the other one in? Heck, this could put slalom course gate judging to shame. Of course putting gates in the jump course is preposterous and thank goodness the “powers that be” way back when did not put them in as part of the jump event like they did slalom. It’s time to give the tournament organizers and officials a break from trying to perform the impossible task of consistently/fairly judging gates and let those 6 buoys determine the winner.

I was reading where Chet was proposing to leave the course like it is and make the skier cut from left to right anytime after the pre-gates. On the exit he was proposing that the skier could miss the exit gates to the right and it still count. Keeping the ski in a turn at 6 would be safer than turning part of the way then bringing the ski back underneath you to make the exit gates as we do now. Trying to stop the last part of a late, fast, hard turn can vault the skier over into the line and handle. Turning kills speed so turning all the way back into the wakes would be safer than trying to stop the turn and go straight out the gates. I have been for giving the skier 134.5’ for a full 6 just like the other 5 but on buoys 1-5 there is no continuation when you do that so that would be big change. You could give the skier 6 and no continuation if they miss the exit gates to the left but make it to the wakes, .25/.5 if they fall at the buoy, and 6 with continuation if the make or go right of the exit gates.

Great to hear of someone new coming into the sport. I remember my first pull behind a 1975 MC and all I knew was my I/O was going away and it did.

To test his resourcefulness, he once successfully made a parachute with the clothes he was wearing, after jumping from the plane.