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Bumping my price range a little. A lot better options with a few more bucks thrown at it. Kinda liking the looks of this one. 2010 Ram 2500 HD Laramie

If and when I get a new one, it will be a few years old current version Pro-Star.

HaHa! @Wish , that is great! I knew they waterskied a lot, and saw old K2 waterskis stuffed in an area under the lifts at White Pass where I worked for my pass in the summer as a kid. Though I have met Phil and Steve many times over the years, wouldn't say I knew them. I was a young grom at the time and they were off on their quest by then. I did know the family, who lived on the hill as Spike, the dad, was the mountain manager, and my boss for that summer pass earning gig. That is cool they battle Bob. I will watch that. Interestingly, at least to me, I have had the pleasure of being a starter for Bob at a local benefit race for the SV ski team that happens each spring. He is usually on a team participating. It was fun to get to tell him how he inspired me when I was really trying to learn how to ski. Now I have to see how that waterski challenge turns out.

The other way to get out of control in the moguls is to overcorrect forward and "taco" over the front. You can chip a tooth that way, on your knee. I just happen to know that. ;) Usually there is a loss of fore aft balance to the rear to correct from first. What the kids in the mogul comps do is really different from what many very accomplished formerly competitive, or just expert, mogul skiers do in real moguls that have not been dug in with a shovel. And the line skied is often different. Rather than in the rut, over the tops, opposite of the ruts, banking on the sides, etc. The move forward down the run needs to be an extension square to the slope of the hill and as @andjules points out, is hard to do, especially if you are going over the back side of a bump which can make it even steeper than the overall slope of the hill. one needs to train both extension moves, from the knees with limited opening of the ankles keeping a good grip in the boots, and/or a retraction move bring the feet back in relation to the body. For me, usually a blend but not always. WRT the athlete in question here, or any waterskier, the skier on a waterski still controls relationship of the body and center of mass to the base of support (where to stand on ski) but also has to resist the boat. And of course that is different from leaning back fore/relative to aft on the ski. So yeah, different. I don't know if Bode waterskis, but I bet he could figure it out pretty fast. I used to pull Paul Mahre (Phil and Steve's little brother and also a World Cup contender before severe hip injury) behind our old outboard boat back in the day. He could pull that thing to a near stop. He had not learned about being lighter on the line. But really not many of us had at that point, except maybe Andy. :)

Hmm. Bring a mountain bike for riding, stay in Auburn (where there is a lot of riding right from town), and ski nearby at Liquidzone is an idea. I sampled a little of that in early October last year and want to go back. You can maybe catch Terry at Liquidzone too. There are also a couple other ski lakes in the area, and wine country, and good breweries.

Collingsworth was awful! By the end, I had to pull for the Iggles. Congrats to them on a hard fought game!

I don't really care who wins. But I liked how Foles brought the ball in, and Brady dropped his. Off his hands and clearly catchable.

No. But I really wish there was a reasonably priced one nearby I could join.

Interesting question. I have been in rubber my whole life. Wiley's for years, then Leverages, now T-factors. I will not presume to give advice as though I know boots in snow world, I have no expertise here. I will say that in snow world, other than top racers on bullet proof courses, the trend for high end skiing has been toward stiff and responsive laterally, but progressive and not overly stiff in forward flexion, allowing for smooth extension and flexion of the ankles. Also, footbeds, that used to be solid in the high end models, now have flex so that there can be articulation in the boots. Having the foot absolutely locked in one position is no longer desired. For my own waterskiing, I like my front boot snug, and the rear (now t-factor) to be a little looser to allow a little movement. I never knew why, I just did. My former leverages were tighter in the front, and ripped to hell in the rear. But that rear got pretty bad and had to be replaced. I like the side to side responsiveness I feel in the T-factors. Shared for anecdotal comparison only in light of what some have said above about front and rear.

What @eleeski said. Depends on the shell fit for your foot. IMO.

Nate Smith has been crushing it with scores never dreamed of before, and has been dominant for a long time now. CP is coming back, Terry is in the mix, there are others I am missing. And of course the women's side is strong, with Regina leading the way. I think the level of competition is great. Probably historical. I continue to be inspired by it, and in fact entered my first tourney last summer. I did see some good energy among both the young and old at that tourney, but a small percentage overall. Hopefully it will grow. That said, if we have that level of competition going on, and so few people view it in person and via webcast, as noted by Marcus in his podcast with Luzz, I do not see how competition waterskiing alone saves the sport. It is a part of the mix, certainly, and I love it. But it is not the entire story by a long shot. Access to quality slalom is another huge piece, and all the other stuff you can do behind a boat plays a role too. Just my opinion.

Princess Di on a nice boat. Great old photo!

It is a very melancholy day. 93 is a great run, but his passing saddens me. He was a huge influence in my life. Probably only behind my own father, in terms of skiing. Went to the Pantages in Tacoma every November to get the stoke. I recall in one movie, he said, "So quit your job and move to a ski town. Or you will be one year older when you do." I didn't exactly "quit" my job, but moved it over to a small ski town where I would likely be less financially wealthy, but wealthy in so many other ways. That was years ago. So glad I did. And so glad he spent his life spreading his love for his sport. He loved skiing, and just wanted to share that with everyone. His movies were a little campy sometimes, but very accessible to the regular folks. He had a very human touch. Thanks, Warren.

As I cannot afford a brand new boat, I have a 1998 Malibu Response LX. As @MISkier said, the hull was the same for many years from 1998 on. I do not have the "trunk" but I don't miss that myself. Coming off small outboard boats for most of my life prior to this boat, the low Malibu wake had always been my favorite of the older boats I had tried. Though I would not discount those here who are stronger/better skiers and know those other older wakes better than I. My 1998 is fuel injected. I think all the LS's after that point were, at least in the States. But of course you should check when you are shopping on whatever boat you are looking at. The nice thing about the Malibu when I was shopping was there were a lot of them around with the hull I wanted, and I could find something in my budget (which was small), and choose between boats that had been used and treated differently. The only negative for me is it would be a big deal to add Zero Off, now that I am getting more into course skiing. I am adding Perfect Pass with Z-box, but that is not exactly the same. But Probably close enough for me. At the course I ski mostly when I practice, I just ski behind their newer 2013-2017 Malibu boats, depending on who is driving. I think you need to get up to 2007 or so to be able to add Zero Off. There are threads around on the site to confirm that. I think it is a mechanical vs. electric throttle thing, if memory serves. The slow wake/long wake on mine is not quite as amazing as a brand new ProStar. I had the chance to ski behind a few of those this last summer. But still pretty good. So, if that is more your budget, and there are more used Malibu's around for you to choose from, based on my lower end skier experience, you would be fine.

If I could afford to buy a brand new boat, I would buy the new prostar. I am so impressed with the slow speed wakes. and the room inside and functionality is nice.

@bigskieridaho , they have skijourn in Hailey late each winter. I have never participated but it is not far from home. :smiley:

@Buoyhead69 , I feel your pain. I skied a few sets in California only a couple months or maybe even a month and a half after things shut down where I ski, and I felt like I skied not nearly to my capability. I am glad for what @Chef23 posted, as I definitely developed a lot this last summer, but did not have it together for those passes. (Also, I was coming off a mountain bike crash, but that is not excuse.) ;) Point is, I discovered that I really need to start out slowly and develop rhythm when I haven't skied. It will be interesting to start things up again this coming season.

I also have enjoyed video training, in person training, and member Q&A with Terry. Worth more than every penny in my book.

One other point. I fully recognize that a lot of folks who are PSIA members treat stuff like this as some sort of bible and memorize a bunch of stuff and treat it too rigidly. I view things such as these as tools to use in developing understanding, and moving toward more efficient stance and movement to maintain efficiency. The USSA has a ton of drills and progressions that are also good tools for development. And some people desire more verbal understanding than others. Others are visual only. Point is, anything like this is just a tool. In my view anyway.

With regard to looking for a list of fundamental aspects of good skiing, I view it as an aid to viewing good skiing, and understanding properly what I am seeing. Understanding the forces, the bio-mechanics, and efficiency. Then updating my own visualizations. This is all to be done well off the water, and thinking about defined fundamentals lessens for me as understanding is improved and I can move just more into visualization. None of this analysis and thought would happen on the water. Or even the dock. This level of thought is for well before hand. Then my intent would be to let that go and keep it simple when it is time to ski. Same in snow skiing. Out on the snow, keep it simple. It is one reason clinics, where people want to talk and debate on the side of the run, can be "challenging" or even frustrating. Talk inside, or if you really have to talk about something much, on the chair. On the snow, time to develop awareness and feel, and to ski and enjoy. EDIT: and to me, this has to be even more simplified and let go of in slalom waterskiing, particularly passes in the course. I suppose one could spend a bit more time playing with a concept in a free run. Passes are over way too quick to be in your head much. @Luzz talks about this in his podcast with Marcus. Just to be clear that I don't want to complicate things on the water. It is the understanding before hand well off the water I was interested in, and if a set of agreed fundamentals existed.

I personally liked the content of the recent mags. They just came too infrequently. I particularly liked the article where the young woman talked about growing up in her Dad's outboard family skiing and discussed what skiing had become.

Well, @Jody_Seal , I don't know that that is a technical fundamental of good skiing. But, it is good advice. I buried the tip off the wake in 2012 (headed into three ball after not maintaining stack off my offside on 2 ball) after I got a new ski and was trying to get back into it. That was not fun. I was skiing way too fast for my ability level re-entering the course at that time. The boat was a zero-off equipped nautique. Not that the brand of boath had anything to do with my fall. More trying to do too much on a zero-off boat without understanding what was necessary and how to stay within my limits.

That was a good listen.

Bummer. I had a subscription to that for a long, long time. I still remember the cover of the first one I owned, ages ago. Hazelwood jumping on the cover.

Beautiful!