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This one is in Canada. https://www.facebook.com/share/D6uM4dyBpY8XWH38/?mibextid=79PoIi

So i took Horton up on his ultra cheap video coaching. the process was super easy, just drag and drop your video file into the conversation box, pay your 10 bucks and you're done. He responded very quickly, and as I expected the feedback was excellent. I came out of it knowing exactly what to work on and why. What I liked most is that without me telling him, he addressed an issue that i've known to be my major issue for a long time, but I've never had a fix for it or understood why I couldn't seem to eliminate it from my skiing . So it feels really good to have him shed some light on it and to have some direction in how to fix it. If you haven't had coaching before. Get a video, and send it in. You won't regret it.

This is so good.

@scoke thanks. It’s good to have info like this as a reference. Our water is still in the 40’s here and it just doesn’t feel good right now.

@scoke Which way are are the boots going as the water warms?

From an old BOS thread I think @santangelo may have been the developer?

This app is still workfing with no issues on my iPhone ios17.3.1. @Horton it’s a useful app you can save multiple skis and all your settings and settings history with notes. It also included a fin share option that could share your settings with other users. So you can see what others are using

I messed around a fair bit with this last year to try and get a feel for binding placement, mostly for my own reference. I summarized it by how the ski felt thru the wakes. From what I felt, too far forward the ski felt like it was a lot of work, was harder to maintain connection, it began to feel like I was hitting cement curbs crossing the wakes, and I just could not make space before the buoy. I tried back and liked it. For some reason I had it in my head that most skiers were going forward, I thought I must be doing something wrong. So I started this thread to discuss.

@Horton I think this is spot on. I’m just trying dial in -32 with hopes to get deeper into-35. Boot forward is breaking me and I’m seperated after CL. It’s a little easier to manage with my boots back a little.

@jjackkrash Somehow i missed that episode. around the 15 minute mark explains pretty much exactly what I'm feeling. Thanks for sharing.

In reading about how to adjust bindings /fin most all of the info refers to tuning for turns, but there’s not much talk about how the ski moves/feels thru the wakes. I like the way my ski turns with binding forward but I’ve found that if my front boot gets too far forward it becomes really heavy feeling at the wakes and takes a more direct path to the buoy. Moving binding back, the ski feels lighter, faster and creates more space. It turns both sides well enough that I never really think about turning. In reading on this site most people are pushing bindings forward. This has never worked for me. On multiple skis my favoured binding position has been 1/8 to 1/4 back of stock with stock fin settings. So I’m curious if I’m missing out on some magic. I know it’s personal preference for each individual style I’m just looking to better understand things.

@scoke wth are you even talking about? He is no where near the whitewash. Sure that day was an older Malibu. I can assure you it looks exactly the same behind his 2023 prostar.

@Horton I’m as astonished as you are. But the skier In the photos I uploaded runs into -38 at every tournament, and probably every day. I have to think he knows what he is doing.

@Horton This isn't me. He's a pretty good skier. He is gliding and the boat has just cleared the 55's. pass is -32@34. This is interesting to me. like you I watch the red balls as soon as I move left. I would have guessed the boat is much deeper when I begin my glide.

Well I thought for sure mastercrafter was crazy. But watching some drone footage of myself, the boat is certainly still going through the greens as I begin to stand up into my glide. I have never paid attention to that before.