MillerTime38

Any updates on this, getting settled into the area and looking for a good place to ski, don’t mind open water either for now

Moving back from Japan in November looking for anything within an hour drive. Have an older Nautique just need to find somewhere to get it wet.

@Jmoski if 99% of America has no clue who you are, you cannot be the greatest athlete ever If I made a list I will probably get to a waterskier around 150 to 200

Wow unbelievably sad news ? Mongo was an amazing skier and even a more amazing person. Always had a smile on his face a positive attitude and an entire roll of athletic tape on his hands. I was fortunate enough to get to know Mongo while skiing in Dallas for 10 years and I am heart broken after reading this as I am sure everyone else that ever met him is feeling the same. @sbink so sorry for everyone at Deans lake especially Terry please give her a big hug from Jess and I.

@Bruce_Butterfield I hear ya not wanting to beat a dead horse but think about it, we need background checks to protect our kids from sexual predators but we will knowingly allow a sexual predator to compete in the sport. WTF!! No thanks! when we return from our overseas tour our family will still enjoy waterskiing but it will purely be as a recreational activity

So when they run a background check on Nate are they going to still let him ski being a women hitter and sending in appropriate sexual messages to young girls? If so, what’s the point of background checks? As @Bruce_Butterfield pointed out what exactly are they looking for in these background checks? What would disqualify someone from being a judge or driver or dock starter? Nobody has attempted to answer that question so sounds like they are just doing this to check a box just like the SS training. They are requiring all these things from skiers that have done nothing wrong while they still let the guy that brought all this negative attention to our sport compete. Things that make you go hmmmmm??

Is there any actual data to show that requiring all members to have safe sport training reducing the risk of children being assaulted? Since it’s been successfully implemented in other sports. Or is it just another knee jerk reaction to a couple bad apples

@ETskier the lake was in the Osceola national forest so it was through the forest service

@BS74 we did have a permit for the course that we got through the forest service. I moved to Japan and @mjump moved to Orlando area. No one gave us any trouble about the course, obviously we would have some balls missing or small course damage from boat traffic but nothing major The lake was a good site, surrounded by big trees there was always a good shoreline for open water skiing when course was blown out. Weekends got fairly busy but early morning and weekdays we had the lake to ourselves pretty much

@klindy is there actually any proof that safe sport training reduces the risk of child predators running around within an organization? It’s weird this is a very popular thread but I haven’t seen any actual data, how effective is safe sport training? How many child predators were caught due to safe sport training? The reason why I left cooperate america is because I was tired of the CYA (cover your ass) but it seems that this is exactly what this requirement is for people that just want to compete in a waterski tournament, what’s next if I go play a round of golf I have to be safe sport trained because their might be an adolescent on the same golf course.

So Safe Sport has convinced people that if they take this short training video they will help prevent predators from taking advantage of vulnerable adolescence….or has safe sport convinced companies that if they require this training video for all participants that it will reduce their exposure to lawsuits when this does occur within their sport. Considering that the top male athlete within the sport was accused of being a sexual predator which I am sure sent a shock wave through the community and then coincidentally within a year or two this requirement comes down to participate in tournaments… sorry not a believer in coincidences. I haven’t been a member since 2019 since PCSing to Japan but if this is the world I am coming back to in a couple years count me out As a parent of twin 3 year olds I don’t ever plan on putting my kids on travel teams it’s all just weird to me. Play sports within your school and community it helps out everyone. This world has become every kid can be a professional athlete if parents spend enough money when in reality the parents were just conned by a “coach” that sold them a pipe dream.

It’s a sad situation for his family but it’s even sadder to think that some very dangerous criminals got to walk out of prison because of his actions. Prisons are full of innocent people if you listen to what they say

@The_MS yep sticky situation, in an environment where nobody trusts police officers and a DEA agent gets popped for multiple felonies and we wonder why people don’t trust the police?? Unfortunately it’s cases like this that make it more dangerous for honest cops to do their job.

My brother died of cancer at the age of 12 from leukemia, he battled cancer for seven years and our family would make frequent trips to St Jude to take him for treatments and he had many long stays there. Our family didn’t have money and like advertised St Jude doesn’t charge anything for patient care: You can’t put into words what it is like, I was young so I didn’t understand when I had made friends the previous visit and the next time down those friends were “gone” I just figured they got better and left but as I later learned they were gone to a better place without suffering. If you can make any donation to St Jude please do I can tell you first hand they gave my family a lot more time with my brother than we would have had and I am so thankful for them

I have learned so much from this thread, apparently engines can learn and it’s easier to ski when there is more expensive gas dumped into the tank, how did the folks ever ski back in the day before all this “knowledge” came to light. Anyone else feel like this whole thread is just click bait? I am kind of embarrassed that I got sucked into it @chrislandy thanks for letting us know when we can complain ?