I hate 5 ball!

[Horton]

I hate 5 ball!

 

Score 1 and you are just not thinking

Score 2 and you are over your head or just not in it.

Score 3 and you are getting a piece of it but not really ½ way to 6

Score 4 and you are in it and have what it takes to get all 6

Score 5 and you can do it, you are in it but are just too freaking stupid to get 6

Score 6 and start all over again.

[skidawg]

Thus is the quandry of the never ending cycle of slalom, some what of a drug like addiction,  I think I may take barefooting back up, no new skis to purchase!

[Horton]

I miss surfing

[Old MS Accout]

And then you start over at 1 ball at 39 and deal with it all over again. 

[Horton]

I miss jumping

[skidawg]

Even a short jump w/ little float and speed beats a five ball SNAFU!!!!!

[Horton]

I almost miss tricking

[tsixam]

You can´t be serious! can you?  I have been on trick skis once in a competition, got 180 points or so but was No 3 overall!

Tsixam

[Horton]

Overall . . . at least all you have to do is ski solid in 3 events . . . better then that 5 ball. I am ok with someone else skiing better then me but when that freaking 5 ball . . .

[skidawg]

I definately miss trick jousting, trick horse and the king of all sports, TRICK SLALOM

[Horton]

I am the KING of Trick Slalom!

[Old MS Accout]

I set the CR7 up with my front binding at 29.25" from the tail.   Measured the fin and wing – 6.8185 long – 2.5035 deep - .822 from the tail

That is from schnitzes 2003 ski test. Those were the factory numbers.

[skidawg]

Come on out here JTH, I will show you who rules the finless slalom event!  Stinky is the Trick slalom driving machine

[tsixam]

Thanks MS, 

He hasn’t been skiing for 4-5 years but used to ski in to 38 at 36. Now he started again at 34 and has problems with 28. I think he needs a bigger ski. His weight is about 215, (no fat) and he says it feels like he has to work really hard to get out to the balls even at 22 off.

 

 

Tsixam

 

[tsixam]

With my trick skiing,  solid in slalom and jump is not good enough. 180 point is my pb, which I never will beat.

Tsixam

[eleeski]

What ever happened to the nudie bar sponsor for the trick slalom event?

[skidawg]

JTH was afraid he would lose his pants!!!

[Horton]

I wanted to see the event . . . just did not want to put my name on it. This is a family sport (most of the time)

[Old MS Accout]

Back to the I hate 5 ball gig. JTH, if you make it around 5 ball there is no excuse not to make 6. I thought that was a rule.

[skidawg]

Speaking from personal experience (at 38), it is very difficult to turn 5 and get to 6 with both hands around your neck  a.k.a.  Choke!!!!

[Horton]

For me it is matter of being early at 3 and then throwing it way by patting myself on the back

[mopowpow]

Last night I did my famous good early pass until 5 ball, look at the ball & go down...  boy that pisses me off.

 

 

[Horton]

I hear you man . . . I went out last night and flat forget how to ski.Think I ran my opener once and that was all.

[skidawg]

Why does that happen?  One day you're the man, killin it, the next day you ski like a turd.  Happens to me more often than not.  How does one ski consistent day in and day out?  Professor, anyone, bueller, anyone?

[skidawg]

Even nat'l champ skippy has the same disease.  I'll call it the SHANKS!

[Horton]

Don't know. I was feeling just a tad under the weather and could not ski. Luck it only happens to me a few days a year

[tsixam]

I have the same problem, but I have noticed that there is a pattern. At least in my case. If I ski very well one day, I often ski badly the day after. I think the reason is that I have too high expectation on my self and want to ski even better than the day before. Self 1? I think we are back to The Inner Game of Tennis…..Want to much….try too hard…not relaxed….

 

Tsixam

[thager]

Not sure about everyone else but as I get older (51) my body takes a longer time to recover. I have some of my best days after a 4-5 day layoff. If I relax and just ski ( don't think), my muscle memory takes over and I ski well. The quote "less is more" definitely applies here. When tired, I ask my body to do things it's not ready to do and then force things to compensate for mistakes which then keep compounding!!