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JordanOz

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  1. @chrislandy bugger, that’s no good. I have heard of that happening. I may well get a new EGR cooler at 100k km as a precaution.
  2. @AR06FAB I’ve sent you PM.
  3. Agree with @rockdog. The message I get out of it is if you want to be the best and succeed, it has to be on their terms. Who do they think they are to play god with people’s goals and dreams? Oh, wait..... I’m almost embarrassed now to have a Nautique. You can hear the emotion in her voice, the betrayal has cut deep. It appears to me this sport is doing everything it possibly can to kill itself. Chin up Rabbit. No female jumper is going to even come close for at least a decade. You’ve left your mark. Probably the best female jumper there will ever be.
  4. They did this for every skier I saw, and updated every shortening.
  5. Apart from the great people who have enriched my life through skiing, some of which have the same interests as me outside of skiing (creating fantastic friendships), I met my life partner at our club. She was one of the first people I met and we just hit it off. Skiing and going away on ski trips together as friends for 2 years and built the best base for our relationship possible. So yeah, definitely for the better.
  6. @tmolinaro and @alanc there are 2 2021 Prostars listed on Boatsales at the moment for $127k AUD right now. No mention of any options. A lot of coin for a ski boat. I’ll stick with my 200 I reckon.
  7. @BlueSki I use a Vector Boa rear boot behind a Vapor front boot, I like it.
  8. I tow my 200 265kms almost every weekend from October to April (just over 130kms each way). So what’s that, roughly 7,000kms a season? Have been doing so for 4 seasons with this boat. I usually tow with the boat’s fuel tank close to empty. Check the stuff Bulldog mentioned and if you’re loading the boat up with lots of gear, heavy stuff in front of the axles. Towing that distance or more regularly is the norm in Vic, Aus.
  9. @skier2788 I'm not sure about that. I'll be there tomorrow just after lunch, and anything I have to pass on I will post here. ?
  10. Latrobe has an international tournament this weekend. We are hosting the Oceanias.
  11. I have an XT so can't speak for the new model, but mine has never let me down. It does a great job. So yes, it is a good choice.
  12. Can't tell you about the shakiness, but it doesn't need cell service. I use an old iPhone 5 with no SIM card in it, and it works fine.
  13. Love my Stokes Evo 2. Floats me well (240lbs) and had 2 OTF's in it, and no rib complaints at all.
  14. I'm not 100% sure (I'm hoping really...) but maybe any Radar binding that has an aluminium plate will work. I have a Vapor front boot, and an HRT with aluminium plate, and the sequence plate mount holes look the same as the holes on the aluminium plates. I hope my setup (boot and HRT) will fit onto the sequence plate. Maybe the Profile boot can fit too? @brooks I would think any with the feather frame won't work.
  15. I have a size 12 foot and HRT aluminium plate. Start 2 feet in, but take my back foot out at each end. Can put it back in while dropped in the water no problem with a bit of a kick, I would think kicking in when up would be even easier. I reckon it's great, will probably not go back to a normal rear kicker.
  16. Great video, looked like a great event. One of the highlights of @MarcusBrown's videos is the music for me as well. Does anyone know the second song on this video? Other than MB of course....
  17. @Horton yeah sorry, didn't think that one through did I. Didn't think it was a secret, I just feel uncomfortable dropping names that's all. Side note, he got one of our club members onto a KD trick ski, and she loves it and has never tricked better.
  18. KD is now owned by the same fella who owns Jobe Watersports Aus (independant importer who is also the Aus distributor for Mapple). I'm not sure about naming him here, but he is well known in the tournament scene and his son is one of the best trickers going around.
  19. @KRoundy what sort of handle are you using? Is it a rubber/tacky handle? If not and you're using a handle with the foam or padding on it, forget it with clinchers. You shouldn't have a problem hanging on. I'm 240lbs and I skied today in 8 degree Celsius water and had no trouble hanging on using a Masterline rubber handle and Radar Vice gloves, and I could barely feel my hands because of the cold. I also start 2 feet in. We had a guy come new to our club and was trying to get out of the water on a single ski. He had clinchers, but a foam/EVA handle. He couldn't hang on either, and when we tested it on land, the handle would come out of his hands with someone just pulling the rope. Gave him a rubber handle, and the gloves stuck to it and out of the water he came. I'd be looking at your handle possibly.
  20. Just checked the link, and the good news it the trailer has been found with all the gear inside it. Great news for those involved with the adaptive skiers.
  21. I have the green one which I currently use, and I have the silver and black previous years. The silver and black was not overly robust in the tip (for 69" Senates) which I thought odd as Radar skis have pointy tips, and the stitching has come apart where the tip is. However the new green one has additional material up there on the top side and bottom side of the cover for the tip, and I can't see a pointy tip going through it. Mind you, I'm on the new Vapor now and it isn't as pointy as the 15/16 Senates. :) See pics. One thing that is great I think about being able to remove the fin protector is that I can also use the fin protector by itself when I want to have the ski in a single padded ski bag. When the ski is in the ski locker of the 200 I have it in the neo sock, but if my boat isn't being used, sometimes I use a ski bag and the fin protector can be used. Handy.
  22. Larkin has moved here to Melbourne, and is running his motorcycle parts business. Still skis a few times a week.
  23. @blinddog I too have always been curious about this, so back at Easter I did a short test run with my Garmin activity tracker watch. I was free skiing -15 @ 32mph, and it said the fastest I went was 72.8km/h, which is 46.5mph. No doubt this would have been across the wake. It also mapped it as it has GPS, so I have a map of red zig-zaggy lines on the water part of the map. I intend to do it again through the course when our season starts again.
  24. @Stillskiing Moomba this year had 19 women for slalom and 35 men - almost double. Hardly just as many women as men. By that logic, the prizemoney should have been just over half that of the Men's, but it was more like 75%. Another scenario perhaps would be if a tournament was on and 20 male skiers turn up and 4 female, is it fair that the women get the same prize money, having not skied to the same speed/line length and there was only 4 entry fees paid as opposed to 20 for the prize pool? Don't get me wrong, I'm not chauvinistic or sexist despite how this is coming across and I think women accomplish amazing things in their own right as well in all fields - not just sports, but as a person in general, if I don't perform the exact same job with the exact same outcome as another person - female or male, should I expect to be paid the same? This is a dangerous subject with a lot of moving parts, but I disagree with an argument of balancing their career to have children - that is a life choice. It is irrelevant. There is a perception sometimes that some people have a sense of entitlement because they decided to bring another life into world. I see it in the corporate world a bit. If someone wants to get to the top of their chosen field, by all means go out and get there, but if you don't get what you want or where you want to be, don't use having had kids as a reason. It's unfair on the kids.
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