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My usual winter goal was to become as strong as possible treating it as an off-season sport not off-season training. This year I set a stupid goal, build the exact same strength and not gain a pound in body weight, meaning any pound of athletic weight I gain, I have to drop a pound of in-athletic weight to do it. So far so good. I also largely stopped drinking in July, that made a big difference.

In the Minnesota winter I am in the gym 5-7 days a week and have been doing that for over a decade. 4 days weight room 3 days cardio. Staying active in the off-season helps my skiing. Added strength and endurance can’t hurt. Skiing doesn’t necessarily do a good job of strengthening ski muscles. Functional movements/lifts and other strength training can help you maintain form, stay in shape, and simply be more athletic on you ski.

However many passes you take before someone tells you to get out of the water... minimum 8

In terms of strength to weight ratio, the denominator is far more important than the numerator. If you can maintain your existing strength while reducing/eliminating unathletic weight (the beer belly for example) then you will ski better. I don't know what the math behind it is, but I would be willing to bet that the extra 5lbs of body weight turns into significantly more than 5lbs increased load when you are in your pull, so by dropping those 5 extra lbs around your middle I'd bet you see more improvement there than by trying to squat that extra 50lbs.

@The_MS I think you just need to learn how to ski better you big baby. Maybe @Thager would agree to give you some coaching in exchange for a few beers

Are you worried that as a result advertising your study as looking at mental toughness in waterskiing, that a male dominated sport will bias your results upward both from a subconscious desire to claim that waterskiers are better than non-waterskiers and from a bunch of dudes claiming to be the toughest mentally tough tough guy around?

There is a junior development clinic June 13th and 14th, looks like the site is undetermined at this point in the year based on the most recent MWSA news letter.

I’m thinking someone is sitting on a “you won” email in their spam folder and hasn’t responded yet

It's all about the hope.

@The_MS, I'm going to get ZO to add DEF, 456, -, ++, and -- for a total of 180 unique ZO settings one of these days just to piss you off ;)

I’m saying other sports are accepting of people who don’t look like them, ours could be too

Believe it or not, other collegiate and beyond sports allow trans athletes to compete so long as they are undergoing hormone therapy at a level that isn’t deemed to level the playing field. Our sport isn’t exactly in a place where it’s smart to turn people away at the door.

Yeah, ripping on a trans person for being trans, classy, real classy. When a sport is full of middle age white men and you exclude everyone else... and then you wonder why it’s shrinking. Props to @PUoldmaid

@Brady, you and @6balls can wish you were 26 years old with functional joints and backs all you want... it doesn't make it true.

So, one of the few things I've learned in this sport, is that if I make a mistake at the turn, I made a mistake in the pull. Can't set up a good turn if the pull was shit. With that, what should we be thinking about from width to CL that will help us to successfully implement what you are talking about from CL out to width?

Don't forget to mention the 2 lake site and current hull Master Craft

I use a spreadsheet for 2019 I'm at: 50 ski days 463 passes in the course 83 passes at 22off 296 passes at 28off 83 passes at 32off 1 pass at 35off 70% completion rate at 32, below my goal but a significant step back towards my 2016 season after a total slump in the 2018 season. Lifetime 35's up to 9 total, 4 in tournament 5 in practice. Season practice best of 1@38 Season tournament best of 4.5@35

Better question is how long were you skiing (years) before you started receiving high level coaching on a regular basis (ski partner or paid coach) For the best skiers out there, that number (years) is going to be much lower. Access to quality coaching will be a better predictor of scores than starting age.

It's not the starting age but the access to high quality coaching so you never learn bad habits. Many of the young skiers are fortunate because they have been receiving quality coaching from an early age which is a luxury skiers who start later in life do not have. Not saying youth doesn't help, not being sore, having some flexibility and all that... but the access to coaching resources is the difference maker.

@Horton, you say "procedural errors"... that's filing a piece of paper work late... one of the accusations from the article is "asking two drug dealers to lie in the trial of a third dealer to boost the chances of getting a conviction and of promising major sentence reductions for the two dealers if they did his bidding"... if true, that's not a procedural error, that's witness tampering which is illegal, it is assisting in perjury which is illegal. The article does not mention any instance where he personally benefitted financially however if fraudulent (I say fraudulent not false because there is no accusation of an innocent individual being incarcerated) convictions career then yes, he benefitted from the crimes of which he is accused. -subsequent paragraphs are a general comment, not directed to @Horton specifically but to all readers. I don't mean to pass any judgement against or in favor of Chad, the article posted reads with a bias to my eyes and it would be nice to see more information in order to come to a rational and informed conclusion. All I'm trying to point out is that the crimes Chad is charged with are not small, they are not procedural errors, if true they are a fraudulent and intentional manipulation and abuse of our criminal justice system which further endangers all law enforcement officers by eroding the already shaky faith their communities have in the justice system.

Still spots? Any locals able/willing to put up with me for a couple nights? Is there any practice on site? I’m up to 3 scores now with 0.5, 2.5, 2.5 at 35 so I qualify now. Getting to California is the hard part.

Tolerances exist because human error exists. Any intentional deviation from precision is explicit and intentional cheating. There is no discussion here. If you set up a course intentionally measuring to the easy side of tolerance, you are cheating.

It's funny, I've been running 32 consistently for about a month now (consistently meaning 90%+) but hadn't seen a piece of 4 ball at 35 this year. Yesterday I focused on keeping my hips pointed down course as I approached the 1/3/5 (this is my off side so my tendency is to let my hips point towards the pylon) and by pushing my inside/left hip forwards I was earlier and wider to 1/3/5 at every line I skied and presto, first set trying to ski like that I was up the line 22/28/32/35/1@38, second set 28/32/4@35, my two best scores practice or tournament of the season. Looking forward to continuing to play with that and hopefully increase the count of successful 35s into the double digits this season (need 1 more to make it 10).

@gregy yep, still on the 6.0, until I stop skiing well on it I don’t see a whole lot of reason to switch

Skadoosh Brings the lifetime total to 9 with 4 in tourney and 5 in practice. Second set I ran 4@35 so two back to back 100+ buoy sets.