BraceMaker

That it does, and people put on weight... Time for a 67" me thinks.

@Horton - Better not be bad - It was purchased after reading the waterski mag ski tests of that year - so you know who'd be to blame if that review was biased.

I've been a big proponent of D3's products since going from my 9100 to a Nomad. I'm not a great skier, and the Nomad is very consistant. Now that I've had it for several years I will probably consider demoing an X7 and a Fusion during the next summer.

@MattP - exactly - I would definately drop a few hundred up front to "prebuy" sets at princes, at the least if they could ensure some private owner could pull some sets on the lakes, I would consider that an investment. In ways I am surprised more US waterskiers don't form "travel co-ops" organized to hit a group of ski sites in an area such as London, prearranged so you'd have boats/drivers/beds/lunch. I'd sell the gf on that for a vacation.

Sell "sets" at the club to individuals world wide, to be redeemable at future date. In this way most people who buy a set will never use it, but some will, and atleast in theory you raise some money Private groupon.

A magazine bent into a U and taped makes a good arm splint.

Did you have rear boot rotation on your old bindings?

Never have seen a rear binding position published, I use the corresponding size wiley's binding ankle to ankle distance as my litmus test for issues in binding placement. So if the Wiley's ankle to ankle are 1/2" closer than your current, then you obviously have some drawbacks. Perhaps on a single sequence plate you might cant the rear bindings toe out and slide them closer?

Boss.

Lots of the same talk in re: goodes a few years back. Think the top to side angle is real clean. Skis are fibers glued to resin into that adhesion is not 100%. Some resins in my industry are claiming to etch carbon fiber for adhesion.

I had a pair of syndicate gloves.. they had huge bumps sewn into the fingertips and were super precurved in the fingers. Tore out the palm quick though for some reason. Good grip though. Almost like clinchers.

Be aware he is sitting way high in the water, I suspect from the combination of vest/drysuit/insulation layers. If you are in a suit and a comp vest, you start way lower in. But the move is very similar. He's in the second group. His knees are flexed between his arms but he's not balled up, and he has his ski out in front of him, not below him.

To me if you aren't into "slalom skiing" you're probably going to be purchasing your ski gear through either: Marina Pro Shop Local sporting equipment shop Barts/Overtons. As such your ski will probably be Obrien or HO, as these two are represented at those veendors, and Radar to a certain extent, particularly at places like mastercraft dealerships. You just won't see many high end slalom skis at these places, atleast not from all the mfgs. And particularly the high end 1000+ blank skis, which just won't get that many sales. Hence this being an HO ski not a Syndicate ski probably puts it on more shelves than most other high end skis.

@ski38 - all of those things are excellent if you have a small group of people who can cover the entire costs of lake ownership/upkeep. If you need more than say 2-4 people to afford the lake, then it gets statistically harder to find a group of like minded people that does not include a few wakeboard boats, and a few surfers etc to contend with.

@otisg - very tough to get them onto lifts? I know when we bought our first inboard I had to source a bunch of U bolts and tubing to raise the bunks above the lift, and slide the lift a bit deeper into the lakes. Would the infinity require more lift clearance to get the prop over the bunks?

Svfara msrp was stupid money.

http://www.ballofspray.com/2012-ski-test/537-the-2010-ho-coefficient-x I was reading up on it a bit as well, more as a course ski than a open-water ski. My question really comes down to, at which point does this ski taper out? Is this ski appropriate up till people are running 38's or at 36 mph? When should a skier not consider this ski?

I've always found there to be two acceptable deep water techniques, the first is the one utilized by the foot dragger crowd, it is essentially keeping the ski tip pointed forwards, the tail shallow under the butt, and trying to keep the shoulders up over the front boot right away. This system seems to work, but I think is less tolerant if your drivers vary, I see this with some of my relatives who get pulled out the front if the driver is aggressive, and tend to sink under if the pull comes on slowly. This group tends to look down and take the wave over their heads during the pull. The other group is the stand proud technique which is how I get up, which is a both feet in maneuver. I've found that if I flex my front knee too much my hands get pulled towards the binding, so I keep my front knee more extended, and the back more flexed. On pull I keep my head up and hold my hips in place so the pull very early on pops my head and shoulders clear and then I just wait for the boat to finish the work. To me this is the better way, but I have found that persons who break position mid-pull are less likely to succeed, and prefer to do more of a balled up position like the first.

What is the story @auskier ? Fast boat times?

PS190's were the ones going off lakes, they added a fin to the rudder then hooked the hulls. Not sure which years. And I hadn't heard warped molds.

@OB - I think he could ski pretty well, he wasn't a bad skier really, just that being able to put down 39 and something at 41 in training versus at a tournament are different. I suspect in an effort to ensure the win he competed on a rigged course, not that he needed to, but that it ensured the win. Real question is, are there really any more scandals?

I do not believe it was a publicity stunt. No one would willingly go from being published in magazines, and holding records at the state level - starting to compete nationally, to a ban from the sport and complete removal of their records.

I thought the step through transom was kinda neat although not needed. The V-Drive engine lay out was kinda slick, and the underfloor fuel tank the same. I assume it was a nice short line boat for the year.

@wish - I don't think I could tell you the appropriate positioning of jump and trick course balls in relation to a slalom course. Doubt many people who slalom ski can.

Thing is it is very difficult to see distance between centerline and turn balls on open water with out a reference point. That's why when you install courses it helps to have survey equipment to spot the angles as you can always do some trig. The Iconic images are still on waterskimag.com http://waterskimag.com/features/2005/06/09/malibu-open-scandal-photographic-evidence-of-buoygate/ Fact is, with out the extra bouys placed for a three event tournament, it is damned difficult to reference the motion of bouys, particularly if done slowly. http://waterskimag.com/files//2009/09/wpid-drj-afterbuoys-368x250.jpg http://waterskimag.com/files//2009/09/wpid-drj-beforebuoys-368x250.jpg