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This was the closest option to my approach to my gates. As the line gets shorter I may pull out slightly later, but the main thing that I try to change is the intensity of my pull out. I try to add about 10% more than the previous line length. I just don’t need to be as far up on the boat at 28’ as I do at 38’. In my humble opinion there’s no right or wrong way to time your pull out. As long as the end result is that you’re wide on the boat and don’t drift in before you start your turn, then it’s all good.

The driver is definitely on the wrong side of the boat too...

2006 HO Monza - I've got it hanging up on the wall in my garage. You can actually get a good look at it in my profile picture.

"Yes sir" and "Yes ma'am" I have on occasion used "Let's burn it down" in tournaments before a more difficult pass.

Holy poop! It's a good thing that you had the boat cover on when that happened!

My girlfriend and I have a little pond in Graniteville, SC that we lease from the land owners for $300 a year. Currently we're the only two people that ski there. The landowner even built me a turn island one year with his backhoe to help with the setup. Now that I've typed that out I feel a little guilty...

It's been a slow week at the office so I'm going to take a quick set during my lunch break today. I really can't claim to be tough as the current air temp is 72 and the water is 64.

In my experience it’s a good thing to explain to your doctor what exactly you mean when you ask when you’ll be safely allowed to waterski again. A lot of doctors probably think we’re going to be gently pulled down the river on two skis. I hurt my knee skiing a couple years ago and asked the doctor when it would be safe to get back on the water. He told me that he didn’t see a problem in going out the following weekend. So I pulled up a video for him on YouTube to be sure that we were on the same page. His immediate response was, “Ooh. No, you don’t want to do that for a couple months.”

One.....maaaaaaybe two. But probably zero.

I grew up skiing in a cove that was nestled in the back of Lake Thurmond, SC. Eventually we got tired of fisherman puncturing our buoys and started looking for a pond somewhere in SC that we could lease from the land owner. That's where I am today.

Not gonna lie, I gave Natural Light (or as I call them Natty DeLights) very high marks. However, after reading the previous comments, I feel I may get booted from the site.

Congrats again to Corey! He's one of the nicest people I've ever heard of, let alone met.

I agree with @brody, the stability that an intermediate ski offers a 15' off level skier is immeasurable in my humble opinion. I know that when I'm in my glide before turning in for my gates my ski will give a little "shimmy" from side to side. High end skis like to be on one edge or the other and are less forgiving than something like a Radar Senate if you're not nice and stacked over your front foot.