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Horton last won the day on January 7 2023

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  • Preferred boat
    MasterCraft ProStar
  • Home Ski Site
    Somewhere in NorCal
  • Location
    Hollister CA
  • Real Name
    John Horton
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    What ever
  • State
    CA
  • Tournament PB
    3@39 55k
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    700000410

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  1. @ColeGiacopuzzi Yeah man! It is Joel's stance and leg power at the centerline that originally caught my attention in this video.
  2. @MISkier If you go back to Freddie’s 39 in the finals at Moomba and watch 1 ball you will see something similar. Freddie seems to do this at 1 semi-frequently. I was in the boat when he was at 41 last year and he did the same thing. When I showed him the video of the 1 ball @ 41 ( that I thought was bad ) he said it was good. I was puzzled but did not get an explanation. I think it was @twhisper who explained it to me. It is something like …. Mortals like you and I feel the need to keep our tip down make angle from wide. At 39 or 41 it is ok or maybe preferable to let the boat move down the lake a little and stall before making load. At super short rope if you load from too wide you may create too much load by center line. I have also heard that at least in the past Joel runs a HUGE long deep fin. That could also be a part of what you are seeing.
  3. @VONMAN I will spare you the panda if you will just check the date on the first post in this thread. 🙂
  4. I think most USAWS members would agree with the following Protecting women and children should always be a priority. What happened in Olympic Gymnastics with Larry Nassar is tragic and evil. Bad things happen in all sports and this is something none of us should accept. Abuse of women and children is a real problem. The environment of water skiing is generally less conducive to abuse than most other sports but even water skiing has some tragic skeletons in its closet. The mission of SafeSport is a good mission. The execution of the SafeSport mission is laughable. The one-size-fits-all all implementation of SafeSport training is ridiculous and does not fit with the culture of water skiing. USAWS did not seek out SafeSport. It was forced on us. No one in water skiing has a practical alternative to SafeSport and currently it is just the world we live in. Complaining about it is almost a textbook example of beating a dead horse.
  5. @skiboyny Good eye. That is not what I was trying to point out but there are certainly some interesting conversations to be had about that.
  6. @VONMAN If you are saying great minds think alike I am cool with that. If you are saying I copied your idea then I owe you some Pandas. 🙂
  7. @Drago I'm 2/3 of the way through that first episode. For anybody who's interested in the sporting goods industry, this podcast is super fascinating. Thank you, Drago
  8. @Mateo_Vargas when I skied with "Kevin the Person" the other day I told him what a rat bastard you were for shortening to 35 and just smoking it back to back while I'm still obsessing about 32 off perfection.
  9. The first set today was in trunks. Second, I wimped out and wore a 3/4 suit. 106 total balls in 2 rides. Might be a personal record. Might have to shorten a loop soon.
  10. Since this subject reemerged in the last week, I have thought about it a lot. Part of the problem with any approach to slalom skiing but especially the traditional 6 passes starting with an easy opening pass and progressing to a pass that you cannot run, is a lack of constructive repetition. Consider this scenario: Your opening pass is quite easy, mainly serving as a warm-up for your muscles. The subsequent passes, up to the third or fourth, are at an intermediate level that you run with confidence. There might even be a back-to-back pass in there. Your final two or three passes are at a level where you struggle to complete or cannot run them at all. The first 6 balls are warm-up. Maybe important but it is unlikely that you are learning anything or reinforcing any good habits. The next 12 to 18 balls you are in the zone where “if” you execute technically or not, you will feel the difference. This is the time when you should be aware of mistakes and learn from them. This is where foundational skills are put into muscle memory. For the last 12 balls you are likely hair on fire and mostly try to survive to achieve a score you are proud of. In this scenario 1/6 of the ride was a throwaway 1/3 or 1/2 has the potential to be building good foundational habits 1/3 or 1/2 are likely enforcing bad habits Does this look like a plan for building foundational skills and getting ready for a successful tournament season? Don’t get me wrong – tournament sets are critical in season. You have to invest a portion of your season banging at your hardest pass. You have to balance this with the fact that missing passes or running them late and narrow is literally practicing skiing poorly.
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