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Just got word I am going there for business in July...because companies like to get cheap hotel rooms :) Any ski schools around the area I can get a little coaching in between meetings?

Question for Tony...you were totally trying to bait Rini into saying something nice about the Goode ski, right? :) Tony: That Goode ski looks like it sticks to the water no matter what Matt: Regina is a great skier!

I love that I can watch such great content on waterskiing. I love that you are continually trying to improve and take risks. I thought some of the camera angles shows just how fast the speeds really are. Would still love to see a boat drivers perspective view to get an appreciation of that it's like to drive someone at short line. Couple quibbles: As some one who gets sea sick on dry land, the drone was a bit much. This one is going to be the hardest....with the same competitors year after year, how do you keep the commentary fresh? Allie is light, Regina is a compound pharmacist, Nate....nm. You get the point. I don't know the answer because at this point it's like watching Tom Brady...hey Tom, ummm...what haven't we asked you in the last 40 years you have been winning super bowls?

Couldn't resist :smile:

@Horton Is it Radar?

@Garn I will Will Smith you for such heresy!

@Horton Ya, I am going to Santa Barbara myself soon. I will be in the STATE with great ski schools and not really near any of them. But at least the ocean is cold this time of year. Joy. At least I will get an In n out burger.

I have some friends who absolutely love freeskiing with these (public lake) and I can't find them anywhere. Anyone else?

@NikolG my alma mater:)

With all the talk about older prostars lately...I am curious, what was your favorite?

@ALPJr and with any luck we will also be using zbox this season :)

This one in Oklahoma city was not great.

Is there a list? My son is starting to consider colleges and might want to ski at school. Bonus if there is snow skiing nearby too :)

Bring Ibuprofen, tape your hands.

Beyond amazing. i have had some issues with my zbox, sent the whole unit up after the year. They tested and found a small issue. Rather than sending it back and forth trying to see if it was fixed, they replaced the circuit board, updated the gps, updated the flash and sent it on it's way. Gotta love Canadian hospitality.

Pro-tip...don't put the make a donation button so close to the Safe Sport certification completed button. There isn't much more frustrating than answering all the pretest questions correctly, sitting through a video, then playing simon says with the buttons, only to THEN ANSWER THE SAME QUESTIONS CORRECTLY AGAIN! USA Waterski owes me a bourbon...and not one of those crappy ones that @ Horton drinks...a good one!

@JeffSurdej I would like to just go ski....but I am only on module 3. That is actually not even a joke we were going to do a New Year's Day ski in New England and one of the boats broke I said I could do it but I just need to go do my certification first only to find out there was no way it could be done in a reasonable amount of time

I should mention, I came into this with a pretty open mind. My kids are all in waterskiing and other sports so I thought...oh, this could be pretty worthwhile...bring attention to the issues, heighten awareness, etc. I am 30 minutes in and thinking...so wait, the USOC screwed up so bad for so many years that now WE have to pay the price for it?!? Massive over correction.

@Mastercrafter I would say I am 30 minutes in with no end in sight.

Is this where we bitch about safe sport? I started yesterday and will be lucky if I finish by spring. That is BRUTAL.

I have the 2017...LOVE the 22.

Raised some money for charity this weekend...38 and 39...not very close to the 100 degree index :) Pulled the perfect pass from the boat and sending it to Canada this week for testing (the GPS keeps cutting out with the zbox attached)

https://spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcester/news/2021/12/05/2nd-annual-swaterski-fundraiser?cid=share_fb?cid=share_clip Pretty awesome to have the news there!

Last bump!

@rfa Thank you very much! It was the metric comments that 'docked' me the donation, right? :) @Mastercrafter We put the docks in thinking they just had to hang out for a week and there was no boat traffic, so we didn't anchor them into the ground that much. Then a wind storm came. @Ali It isn't going to feel pleasant :)