BraceMaker

@Downunder skis of course wear out. The carbon fiber is glued together with epoxy resin and that resin holds the bits together depending on materials, heat, UV exposure etc. they all have a certain properly of how many cycles they last under a certain load but assuming the load applied and the conditions they are subjected to stay within a certain zone of typical use then I think you can make an assumption that most all skis will very gradually wear out and become softer with cycles but what will really wear a ski out would be outside of bounds amount of heat, physical damage, or excessive spikes in forces. In regards to cores since all the cores start out as flat sheets of material I would encourage you to think of the core as a component of a sandwich like if it were an I-Beam the top and bottom sheets are connected by the core and that separates the material and makes the ski a composite structure where they act as one being bonded into a ski. Don't think of the core as a ski shaped piece of material like if you could take the cores out and were able to ski on them they'd both just be floppy flat foam planks. Its the property of the materials when glued up to the outer skin and laminate that makes it a shape and gives it the properties but how that core reacts is as part of the sandwich. Consider the few "hollow" skis which have no core they still have a shape and properties.

Spikes in rainfall events like this last winter have relatively little to do with replenishment of aquifers and cost of water. I'd bet they run a well nearly 24/7 to keep that lake full which is electrical cost. Electric is up, and they might also be taxed based on the water evaporation of the surface area in their area if they're pulling water from an aquifer even if its a well fed lake.

Sell the shirt.

The mussels have tiny tiny offspring they're like 100 microns. So "small hole" is relative. But hey are filter feeders and so they need water to move to bring them nutrients. You can fill PVC on shore from a hose and cap it or flood them in the lake and install a threaded cap. Even if the water inside had millions of offspring for zebra mussels they won't have the water flow to feed them. The outside of the pipe and ropes is a different matter.

Mine has a nice drawing though.

I would add to your thought process that you want to/need to bulletproof your start. Clearly some drivers are incompetent so I cannot help you if someone drowns you by pulling you at 1/8 throttle till you pop off or if someone hammers you on a slack rope and rips you out of your boots. But if you've practiced your starts and have a technique to deal with it both of those work. Go back to the butterknife and have your driver pull you crazy bad have them give you too firm and too soft starts. Figure out how to get up with both of them. Because sometimes you're going to be at an even and you'll have not pulled out hard enough and you'll drop too close to the gate and it will be a tail wind start and the wind will be blowing the boat towards the gates and if the only way you can deep water start is to ask for the driver to put it in gear well you're just getting closer and closer to the course and you're going to pull out late and had a tail wind and you're going to wave goodbye to 2 ball as you ski past the boat guides. And somewhere else there will be a head wind and the driver will put it in gear and you won't get the tension you want on the line and you'll fail a start. And at another event you'll say "ready?" and the driver will go because he thought you meant hit it. So you really should be able to deepwater start in all of those situations Heck throw on the butterknife and learn to get up one handed since its so easy.

Back foot in butthole Done properly and you can make a very early move to extend your hips "driving" your butt towards the handle. That's where the pocket comes from you move up over the ski.

Look down go down. I'm not sure about you but I instruct this way and it works. The number 1 thing is that your back heel is in your butt. We want the ski to be as angled towards flat in the water as possible. This means we're sitting there in the water arms straight back straight hips flexed knees flexed but our rear foot the heel is as up under our butt as possible. The front hip is flexed the front knee is flexed but that's less important we need the back knee and back hip flexed right up under our butt. This puts the ski relatively flat in the water and a lot of ski in the water. If you put your front leg where you normally do and play with the back you'll see that the ski goes vertical | as you straighten your back leg. So we are in our ball with our ski and back foot under our butt. And we have our back straight and arms straight knees sort of between them and we're comfy. So now we're looking down the rope at the boat. Look up at the spotter and drivers heads. Slack comes out. When you say hit it grip firmly on the handle and keep your eyes up there. As you start to move almost immediately there is enough support to start pushing on the ski. This isn't a look down and drag its a I'm holding on this and I am going to stand up on this ski. Do this by just pushing evenly on both feet. Almost just pushing your butt to your hands smootly. Too many people do this "tuck look down " thing and then you're reliant on the driver. If you follow the steps above and your driver goes early you can get up one handed.

Ya I think connelly will still special order the HC300 but that's more of a show ski flip ski type scenario than a distance jumper game. Maybe they stopped. But I would think this would push towards a prominence of D3 amongst the three event crowds. If you're training at a school that has a bunch of jumpers either there are a group of people buying D3 stuff for years and years and years and you have the ability to demo and use the equipment or not. Where as in the adult "slalom only" crowd I see a ton of Radar, HO, and Goode and fewer D3s

I would generally recommend to ignore the number of blades and just go off recommended for the boat, I just say this from the number of people who have bought 4 blade props expecting an upgrade when really the best prop recommendation for their use would be a modern 3 blade CNC. So if the best prop for your boat is 4 blades have at it. But if it isn't don't seek one out.

@aussiemc The way it should work is like Archery with contingency money https://eastonarchery.com/contingency/. The brands put up money but it is on the competitors to use their product, go to events, register properly, and submit for payment. Means that as an amateur competitor you go to the event go to the brand's booth and register, you do the event wearing that brand's stuff using their gear and then you podium and afterwards submit for payment. Archery obviously has more money globally its extremely popular but also with hunters etc. There is just a much larger market. But what it does well is it gives the amateur the ability to know if they could money on a given weekend.

What other brand than D3 currently sells skis for all 3 events? Several make a trick ski - Radar, Goode, KD. Connelly has a jumper but I dont think that necessarily counts for this discussion.

How wide is the quarry? Cross lake cable system would be my choice if its not crazy wide. Those crossing cables can be tensioned to several hundred pounds holding the course dead nuts straight and then any work that needs to be done on the course just involves slacking the course at the cross cable anchors on shore.. A cheap pontoon or aluminum rowboat or even a swim raft and you pick the cable up and you can just pull yourself along the lake doing whatever work you need and never need to worry about working in 30 feet of water. When done you go back to shore and crank the cables tight. Problem with doing a portable course even one with super heavy anchors is that they're fine in shallower water but just like anchoring a boat you need to add length to the mainline to go deeper and at a certain point in 30-40 feet of water you end up needing a really long main anchor line to keep the anchor from moving. And at that point when you have the course, and 55m pregates on both ends and then another few hundred feet of rope both ends it gets hard to keep the course from bowing.

Outboards have a telltale for a reason, so long as there is flow coming out you know the pressure is high enough. You could also do this with an LED so I would say the surprise is we don't have a way to be alerted that the pressure from the inlet pump dropped off. Hot tubs have one of these, if the flow isn't sufficient they shut off power to the heater.

Waterski podcast I think its the second half of her interview, we don't have to guess at what she feels she laid it out.

@schafer Nailed it. Garn is saying no pro waterskier would sandbag to avoid pissing off their sponsor. But Jacinta is literally the example of someone pissing off their sponsor and being promptly shown the door. So is it a world where there are 3 tow boats but there's a really strong correlation between sponsorship and records with no underlying pressure. Or maybe is it that the pressure to not is high enough that skiers just usually aren't willing to piss off their sponsor?

See I need to consume more so that's an active leg extension pushing into the ski coming into the ball?

If I am consuming any of the flowpoint content correctly Terry isnt standing tall at that moment his ski is carrying out and he's extending based on his edge change as opposed to extending knees or pressing on the ski the ski is on a path that creates his standing tall. I could be off but thats my read.

Assuming the boat has Z-Box then yes the boat feeling you is going to respond to you so the sooner the boat feels you the more it will respond. But how do you respond to knowing the line is coming tight? Do you tense up and prepare for it more? Do you wait for it before loading? I would think the clearest option would be to stay with your current line and tweak the settings in PP. Tell it you are heavier than you are, pump up the KX, bump up the Zbx, bump up the ABC Adj. All of those things are going to give you more boat sooner on PP. Mechanically you could also tweak some things with the linkage like moving the linkage up on the throttle arm or adding another return spring, or repropping but those ones before are all non-invasive

Well simply because if someone else comes and bests him by 1/2 then he has to up his record by 1. No one will care if someone beats him by 1/2 and then he ties it. A record isn't like an event win you have the incentive to put it up anytime anywhere because it raises the bar. It is possible that Nate simply doesn't have the steam 10 years later, maybe an injury maybe not, and maybe busy taking flying lessons or what not. But that all indicates it will be harder for him to pop back on the scene to take down a future challenge. Where as if you are in your prime the incentive to move the chains down the field is always there.

Until someone spells out the terms of silver spray sport sponsorship I would also tend to agree. Action MC silver spray SN. Is silver spray really not a boat sponsorship?

Whats 6@41 no continuation? 120 balls right. So you just pull up scores of 120 and then check the event and who was running and then other scores from that event. I would find any score of 116 or 120 to indicate either 6 no continuation or a 0 at the next pass... but it could also be a drop at the dock.

I personally think the in tolerance will be expanded if automated driving removes friendly driving or at least we could trust a wider tolerance as not being favorable. My question about practice scores is based on if the world's best with their friendliest driver. If at their home sites they aren't cranking 4 at 43 then that's an answer to the question of where people can get I think automated driving will actually bring up the sport. To give youth skiers behind their mom on a weekday night the same pull as world class skiers get at a class R from childhood? Every pass automated to be as straight as possible? And then for the guys sitting in a boat on a 90 degrees day for 8 hours back and forth and back and forth running a school? How much less fatigue for the drivers? How about those guys who have a friend that can drive a boat... Ish. Who just cannot go straight down the course at speed while the current crop of skiers may see a shift what will the next generation look like when they've spent their life with every pass being super high quality record class sets every time they ski?

What's the highest practice score observed? You'd assume anyone who has a couple in tournament would have a couple more in practice. Always rumors Andy was going deeper in practice.