BraceMaker

The amazing bit is that it wan't visible until they dropped the extra bouys for jump and trick into the lake.

I'm opposite on that @GAJ0004 I go RFF and face spotter side, and do back foot first always.

On the other hand I don't like putting my phone number on a craigslist post - you email me your number, and I'll screen you before calling back.

@webbdawg99 - what's the motivation for this site? In terms of market share slalom skiing commands a rather small chunk of "althletic pursuits" - what motivates BOS? Luckily most of these teams have skiers who have parents that are skiers, and are atleast financially able to attend a university. I would wonder how much total scholarship money and funding goes to ULM, or the Mocs. Is the number available?

Was a little disappointing that the commentators couldn't give Purdue a Boiler Up!

Get a disc or a "skimmer"... seriously - I remember as a little kid getting up behind tiny outboards on plywood discs covered in spar varnish and sticky tape. This is something you can make and bring to camp if they won't buy one. A skim board is tied to the boat, two rubber toe hoops, and is shaped like two skis with a connected tip. Anyone can get up on that. After that you can go to combos and no problem pull the kids up.

What happened to your ankle? Depending on that injury you may consider one system or another, keep in mind your two ankles have their own range of motion, and one gets dorsiflexed more than the other in an OTF.

I was depressed that the webcast went down before the bikini contest, and also before the sat. afternoon Div. II coverage - I was hoping they would show more of that.

@Mr. Pretzel, I would be more inclined to run the 36 mph ski at lower speed with a longer ski, than the slower ski at its appropriate length fast, this assumes you plan on skiing 36 regularly. I would do the hands the "right" way to begin with, as most coaches will make you swap that before they do much else.

Suppose no one else had a video camera eh?

My boat has the recessed rear tow point, I like to put the handle in there before mounting the platform, so I can pick it up and hop it. I don't like being handed the handle, or having the rope in the water, or thrown to me, I like to get in with it.

Votes her way... BUT - I disapprove of her lack of liederhosen.

@jipster43 - all the intuition liners (RS-1/FM) are really quite toasty, nothing like 1/4" closed cell foam bootie to act like a wetsuit. If you add the top strap (like a downhill ski powerstrap) you can really seal the water out of the liners for warmth.

Heck I am making a winch just to save gas with all the pulls getting people(kids) started. A cable means you could take some sets on wake skis. Trick skis etc and have some fun instead of waitibg for your pull.

An here I thought they Tricked in Minnesota... Lots of slalom bashing out of the great northern states.

Wet models always look suspiciously hungry.

Before you get too crazy... How often has this boat been run lately? In some cases, moist environs, and lack of running time leads to moisture condensation in the blocks, you'll see this in boats stored on the water but not run frequently. Good solution is to change the oil and see if the problem goes away.

@razorskier1 - do you still dredge mud when you fall @ a the shallow side? Favorite thing on the IA river was all the little fish flopping in the skis spray.

To be fair RTM just means you assembled the dry parts in an expensive mold and pressed resin into the mold. Does it make a consistent product? Surely. Is it a cheap method? Nope. Will you want to retool every year for ski updates or make one ski for years?

That's probably true @Ed Johnson I am not sure of the inside's structure, just figure there needs to be something to maintain the structure of the top deck and running surface in alignment.

I agree on needing a site near IC, I always thought that low area around the Hawklot would work, or perhaps the park by mayflower.

@AB - I don't think you can make that conclusion. PVC vs. PU is a matter of having a ski with dimensionally identical cores, with laminated fiber product and resin wrapping it. In the hollow skis, there is still something inside. In the case of AM I think what they were doing is assembling a ski rather like a boat is made. Your boat has an outer hull, inner webbing "stringers" and then a top deck. I think the AM ski is an outer lay up forming the bottom "hull", a "stringer" system instead of a core, this stringer provides the mechanical/structural element, and the design of the "stringer" gives you most of the mechanical properties of the ski, and then a top deck. A foam core you have the same system, but the "stringer" is the core, and you cannot modify the performance of a solid foam core that is machined in the same way that you could a matrix of carbon. That is atleast how I think he is building the ski, until someone mails me a hollow AM to cut in half on my bandsaw.... Also I think if you take a chunk out of any modern ski, you probably don't want to patch it up with some bondo and take it back on the lake.

@6balls @razorross3 - when did Iowa move the course from up by the Marina to down by the bridge?

@6balls You mean the Iowa River 30 minutes north of Iowa City isn't prime ski territory and that owning something newer than a 1990's moomba outback might improve their training?

I had a concept, and really like my current Nomad - Many of the older D3 skis are pretty good values! I would actually strongly suggest http://www.d3skis.com/product-p/x7-fts-w-z7st-graph-(2011).htm Essentially D3's Blemish skis, you dont' get the warranty, but it is a great value, and available at 65" Also, I have been very impressed with durability in Connelly and D3 over the years.