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AmandaLR

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  1. I would really appreciate if you took some time to sign this petition, to help save my Iowa State Water Ski Club!! The link is below. https://chng.it/MqZwXnydHn
  2. I might be a little late to this, but Iowa State is an amazing school to consider. We have a private lake 20 minutes from campus that we are allowed to ski at. And snow skiing in Boone, IA, a small bunny hill (20 minutes away). Also, ISU takes a snow ski trip out west every winter for our off-season training.
  3. First I want to start by saying I love this app! I have only been using it for a couple of weeks, but have loved to see my progress. One suggestion would be to add different speeds, for me I sometimes train at like 33.9 instead of the exact 34.2. Another question is have you thought of adding information for jump or trick? I think that could also be beneficial. But overall great job! LOVE the app!!!
  4. I can't talk for all teams, but the Iowa State collegiate team has gotten to practice. I feel like for us this covid thing might have been more beneficial. My teammates have gotten time to practice on the water, without the stress of helping the team get more points. Recruiting was definitely hard this semester, just because there was not tournaments for them to experience and truly fall in love with the collegiate atmosphere. As for the more competitive skiers on the team, we made trips to different AWSA sanctioned events to ski and keep competing. But we are still hoping that the collegiate ski season will go back to normal next year!
  5. @6balls Kind of like my trick ski post, a few of us can run the slalom course fairly well, especially for Midwest collegiate teams. But as you point out, the way to rank higher as a team is for your 3rd and 4th skiers to ski a full pass. At any speed. This is what Wisconsin-LaCrosse does well. So I'm looking for a ski, or skis, to help the slower speed skiers get through the course. They want to borrow my slalom ski (D3 ARC) and of a couple other good skis which I don't mind, but I was thinking a wider flatter ski might be better and was looking for advice. Jumpers don't go so well. And it is a cut to the ego to use them instead of a slalom ski. I like @Kelvin's idea of two slalom skis and of the same size, but we aren't overflowing with money for the skiers interested but not dedicated to the results.
  6. @unksskis , @Horton A couple of skiers on our team can do a decent collegiate trick run. The next level of trick skiers can get up on a single trick ski and I had them practicing jumping wakes to get stable and balanced. But nearly nobody can successfully do a side-slide and reverse without falling. So I'm thinking I should just skip those and move to 180's or 360's and their reverses. But want to see if that seems like the right focus this Spring when we can get on the water. Nobody wants to do a trick run on 2 skis because that's not kewl. They see the better skiers on 1 make it look easy and think they should just hop up and do that. So peer pressure comes into play. I've thought about running a tournament set on 2 skis to get 660 pts and show my teammates this will place well. But not sure this will really change anyone's mind about 2 skis.
  7. Hey guys, I am a collegiate water skier at Iowa State and wanted to hear your opinion on the butter knife ski that Radar makes. What do you think is that fastest way for a girl to learn how to run the course, a lot of my teammates have been using the HO Syndicate and I think that ski is almost too good for it to beneficial at their skiing ability. Also some of my teammates use Connelly jump skis, but a lot of them struggle to actually go around buoys, as in they can't really turn that well. Are there any skis that you would recommend to beginner skiers that can help them run the course quickly? Also on another side topic, do you think it is easier to teach someone a side slide or a 360? For a 360 it's nice because there is no need to stop you just rotate around. But so many collegiate skiers are taught a side slide first, but should we really be teaching them this first if sometimes they don't get all the way to a 90 degree angle and therefore doesn't even get credit for it.
  8. Just listened to this podcast, good to hear from the Western Michigan team and especially hearing from Anj Werning and here teammates!
  9. Just listened to your recent Cincinnati podcast. Fun to hear how other collegiate teams are structured and operate. Keep up the interesting podcasts!
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