We feel like the luckiest skiers in the planet Chris. Driving out to SunTen listening to Spraymakers all summer showing up on the dock to see you and your family there making it happen, clarifying, coaching... Thank you! I trust there are a few lucky folks in Texas too, so thank you Trent.
Ideas: Handle safety. Andy spoke to me about this and I’m happy to share what he showed me. Simple to show, not easy for me to explain. Hearing about these accidents is frightening.
Seeing Brooke Baldwin ski over her rope at 6 ball at the Travers Grand Prix was also terrifying. More perspective on what’s going on when these things happen may help us avoid tragedy. I still don’t understand what she did & I watched it several times. Glad she walked away uninjured.
Binding tech: Chris I know you know about Dynafit and super high tech backcountry snow ski bindings. MOB, Reflex, Radar, HO, Rubber bindings, effective but seemingly primitive in comparison. Until now? I ask because both of my sons have had hard waterski falls where bindings have failed. Working through those falls is tough. Both are big mountain snow ski chargers. Never a snow ski binding problem.
Training tool / brining slalom back to the masses? A couple of Euro guys finally developed a truly portable big water slalom course experience that shoots paintballs from co2 cartridges mounted to the wind shield. The paintball splash simulates buoys. I forget what it’s called but it’s in BOS somewhere. It looks super fun to be out on a big lake on a calm day and just rip until cartridges are empty. An evaluation or better yet, an acquisition could be exciting for the sport.
These guys seem to be on a pretty thin budget a long way away from perhaps their largest market but they must be engineering freaks to pull this off.
It seems like pro shops should buy some and rent them out to folks traveling to big water.