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nicktoryous

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  • Preferred boat
    (sadly not my own) Ski Nautique
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    McClintock's/Pierre Plouffe Tremblant
  • Real Name
    Nick Tory
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    Syndicate Alpha w/ Reflex/rtp
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    Ontario, Canada
  • Tournament PB
    no official tourneys but have run 16m @55

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  1. I'm selling an In Tow radial handle and Radar Vice gloves on SIA Handle - asking $65 Gloves - asking $45
  2. In Tow radial handle and Radar Vice gloves for sale. Great combo for easing the body back into skiing or a trip south after limited training... Handle Gloves
  3. @BG1 awesome thanks! I think my uncle has a copy, will have to track it down.
  4. Definitely an interesting discussion and extension of the parallels with a sport like snow skiing (albeit with the caveat they are still extremely different sports) not always being given full consideration when applied to the adoption/development of water ski equipment, technique etc. It's all well and good to borrow the notion that a rigid boot with strategic flex points can better transfer the inputs required to edge a ski but it shouldn't stop there, particularly when it was originally designed to sit on a rollerblade chassis. Even as a now ex ski racer with no intention of touching another gate it still took a season and a half of repeat visits to a boot fitter to get my current boots dialled, while the generally accepted steps to switch to a completely new (to me) system in a water ski binding entailed only a few screw turns and 5 minutes of a liner in the oven (which a few sets of getting wet proved would have been better spent broiling the other side of my toast)... point being we can be quick to make certain equipment changes we think will make us better - especially when we see them in the upper level of the sport - without doing the full due diligence and understanding the principles/variables behind them. But we can also spend hours adjusting fins within .001" without necessarily understanding that too... Not to suggest something like switching to a hardshell can't be beneficial anyways (I've felt it has been), or that fin settings aren't important (and I certainly won't claim to have a full understanding of those underlying principles) but with so many variables no piece of equipment can ever be plug and play and expected to be optimized for everyone, including the best binding setup. It's interesting to hear ideas/modifications (canting, custom footbeds, trimming cuffs etc.) and it is positive that the discussion is taking place here but the sport could definitely benefit from greater emphasis on equipment fitting more generally, particularly as it is already so prevalent with fin tuning. All that to say I guess I should probably take my Reflex to my boot fitter...
  5. First real post - been lurking a while absorbing the (generally) wisdom but going out on a limb to see if any Ballers may be able to pull something out of the www ether... I was doing some deep diving on free skiing and remembered reading an old Waterski Mag feature (which I did manage to find: waterskimag.com/features/2008/05/01/open-water-discovery#page-4) but wondered if anyone knows of any footage of the skiing written about: To break up the monotony of his training, he had been skiing with a 150-foot, zero-stretch spectra line and wanted to share the buzz that is comparable to giant slalom. With the boat dialed in at 38 mph, Brown, Asher, Trent Finlayson and Terry Winter took turns figuring out the timing and movements required to link turns of sizable proportions. It's pre-drone/GoPro era so odds might be slim but would be awesome to see!
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