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@boarditup What specifically are you spraying?

How is the camaro sizing? I dug up a size chart online and I'd fit right about in the middle of the large range. Is the sizing about right or do you buy them a size up/down?

I picked up the liners that h20proshop sells but they're just basic kevlar liners I think. The price is within a dollar or so everywhere. http://www.h2oproshop.com/h2osmosis-sports-glove-liners.html For a while I was using the masterline & overtons pads. They were better than nothing at all but I'd still end up with a blister or 3 after almost every I skied.

Mine got much better when I started using some kevlar liners. Haven't had a new one yet since I started using them.

What size would be recommended for 6'2", 170# still working at 28-30mph? 66.5 I think is traditionally the right size. That should still hold up until I can get faster?

Thanks hadn't thought about something like that.

No matter how hard I try to remember certain things I need to work on, it's amazing how quickly I forget once I get in the water and let sets fly by. I've tried writing things down in various places but still seem to lose track of what I need to work on. So, I want to write it on my ski so it's right in my face when I'm doing a deep water start. I haven't tried anything yet, but anyone have experience on what will stay on the ski but still be removable? I thought about custom stickers but seems pricy when I'll need to be changing them. Pencil I'm not sure would show up. My ski is a 2010 strada so it's not black nor has a shiny finish. Sharpe has a liquid pencil I might try, or maybe some dry erase/wet erase makers would do the trick. Just wondering if anybody's already tried and found something that works.

@jhughes - I'm anxious to hear your thoughts as I'm sure other 15 off'ers would be as well. I don't have any immediate plans to compete so the rope being different than "standard" doesn't bother me. I've spent way too much on this sport as is though so if I can manage to hold off buying one until you can test yours it'd be great to know how much this will help at the longer lines or not. I'm sure the rope is pretty low on the list of things causing me to miss passes but hey, every little thing helps I guess.

@Wish thanks. I've watched that a number of times and tried to do the drill on a few occasions too. I can never seem to do it with any rhythm and always end up with way more slack than if I'm trying course passes for some reason (it also looks nowhere near as pretty/effortless). My course passes are ugly but feel downright graceful compared to when I try to free ski sometimes. More practice I suppose. It's hard to tell from the video but I imagine that I should try to still be at course width for these? I'll try to experiment with the speed/length.

@ShaneH - Thanks. Should I be doing those at 32/34 mph at 28 off? Or 15 off/28mph where I'm working on the course?

Hi guys, I had a couple of questions that span a few categories. Thanks for any help. 1 - Is there any trick to getting the rope through a 4' shock tube? I can only feed it so far and then have to try to fish it with a coat hanger or push it through with a long pole. This is ok as long as the rope stays in, but it occasionally finds its way down the tube one way or another and I have to do it again. I've seen some people feed theirs all the way through without a problem and can only imagine it's black magic. 2 - Re: comp vests. I know you competition or private lake guys use them. Are there certain ones you'd feel safe in skiing in a deep lake? I'm hesitant to move from anything but USCG, but none of them seem to fit well. Minor distraction I suppose but I'm just curious if the lower flotation vests are things you guys that use them would use and feel safe in more 'everyman' conditions or not. I'm a rail and if I had the wind knocked out of me would sink like a brick. Having a light, tight fitting vest would be great but I don't want to end up at the bottom of a lake on one unlucky fall. 3 - I'm a 15off/28mph kind of guy, but am very inconsistent. If I'm lucky I'll get one full pass out of a set, but probably every two sets. I know my leverage position is the #1 thing I need to work on, and I think I have a decent understanding (Thanks @Than and other resources) of what it should be like, and I think I do it pretty well while on land (or, at least waaaay better than my water position). What I don't know is how to work on it. Let's say I have two sets, how should I be appropriating my time in order to improve? Should I abandon the balls for now and only free ski until it gets better? Do some free skiiing in each set and fewer course passes while trying to think of only body position? I feel like my free skiing is very sloppy compared to my course passes (which are still sloppy); without the reference points I seem to end up even worse off sometimes. I feel like it's tough when my only pass is my hardest pass; if I'm not careful I feel like I go out there, forget everything and slip into old habits, and come away no better than when I started.