Donski

With all joking aside it was interesting to see exactly were and at what place in the course your heels made more or less contact with the ski. Also noted that all three skiers had almost no mark or cap ring on their rear heal? All three skiers had a cap ring on their front heel, but the better skiers had less of a mark. The so called not so better skier “ME” had a more pronounced mark??

Caps are tied in with thread.

Being test rider number two and being the provider / manufacturer of said caps :) There does seem to be some positive feedback from trying this and in some cases may help the skier stay more centered over the top of the ski.

My daughter was 13 when she first started pulling me through the course. Don't tell the association.

Whats wrong with this picture? This a picture of the CP that was on display at the LA boat show last week. I think they need to added a few more screws to the seat hinge.http://static.cl1.vanilladev.com/ballofspray.vanillaforums.com/uploads/FileUpload/04/4b0d3229d755e58c04be54f6257e25.jpg

Whats wrong with this picture? This a picture of the CP that was on display at the LA boat show last week. I think they need to added a few more screws to the seat hinge.http://static.cl1.vanilladev.com/ballofspray.vanillaforums.com/uploads/FileUpload/04/4b0d3229d755e58c04be54f6257e25.jpg

Scoke, when I read your post I question the statement if your HR is over 145bpm during your "activity" and it involves fine motor skills and visual recognition, it's not a good thing! For a comparison I up loaded from my Garmin a mountain bike ride I took today. The trail was very technical and rocky with some cat 4 & 5 section. On the way up my average heart rate was 161 bpm with a few spikes in the 171 four beats from my max. What surprised me was my downhill heart rate averaged 138 bpm, I downhill pretty fast and fine motor skills and visual recognition is big. I checked several rides over the last year and the outcome was all similar. I would have to agree over 145 bpm is not a good thing when skiing.

ShaneH, i was told by two very good skiers that on some skis moving the front binding back can drop or engage the tip of the on the off side. When i asked is that backwards there reply was just try it. I tried it late sunday on my last set and for what ever reason the ski carved a tigther turn and finished better. Lost a little on the on side. Your moving the balance point theory makes sinse. I most have 5 copies of "your ski is a lever" around here but that info is not in there.

Can someone explain to me how moving your front binding backwards can help bring the front of your ski down on your off side turn?

Check out the Garmin 310xt if you want a do it all GPS with HRM. One of my mountain bike friend uses his for cross training and loves it. It would interesting to see what your Max speed was after a slalom set. http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2009/09/garmin-forerunner-310xt-in-depth-review.html

Thanks guy’s sounds like I should put my money into bindings that fit her and let her ski on one of my old skis. I have a D3 X5 66" just lying around. What do you think about the way the higher end skis like to hunt for an edge? Might seem intimating for a beginner coarse skier? Actually at 18 mph the ski would probably be pretty stable?

My 11 year old daughter finally decided slalom skiing is more fun than wakeboarding. I am looking for an entry level ski for her and it appears there are not a lot of options. Anybody have any experience with the junior skis and any recommendation?

roberto, if i didnt know better i would say you have been watching me ski. You hit one of my major problems right on the head. John said the same thing after watch me ski about 6 weeks ago and to figth a bit longer before you let the boat take the handle away. The only differance is knee bend makes thing worse. What happened to the Z7 is so forgiving and symettrical, its kickin my butt

Thanks guys, I will try to figure out how to post some Video. I just realized that I have been using the stock #’s for the Z7 ST and not the #’s for the Z7 as my base set up. the Z7 ST runs a little longer and deeper than the Z7. Shane I agree my technique needs work, spent the last 4 weekends working on handle control, getting hips up and forward more on my off side pull, staying more open and countered.  All issues that John has told me to work on. My frustration is last year with even worse technique my off side turn was not really an issue on my X5.

I am having a problem with my off side turn on my 65† 09 Z7. After watching video and frame by fame slow mo I can see that the ski has a tendency to finishes the turn behind me (Ski starts getting behind me at the apex point) and I don’t seem to get it back out in front of me. Now before video I would have said the ski has will some times bite hard at the end of the off side turns forcing me to break. So with that thought in mind I have been taking a little tip out trying to fix the turn. I am confused; I know that typically breaking at the waist is caused by to much tip or front of the ski biting in the water. Can breaking also accrue if the ski gets too far behind the skier in the turn? Say forcing the skier to than put to much weight on the front of the trailing ski? Left my ski log at the lake think my last settings were around 6.896 2.498 0.732 and 28 13/16†On side turn rocks.