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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.

Thanks guys, i have to laugh at my self, spent a good part of this summer working on back arm presure just the wrong back arm.

“Back arm pressure† Clarification- I have been working on or thought I have ben working on amongst other things, taking more of the pull through my back arm and getting my hips up through my off side wake crossing. On one of my sets last weekend my boat driver and fellow skier mentioned he was working on keeping his inside elbow tight to his vest. I gave it a shot and it really help me to stay open to the boat and brought my hips up and forward. Back at the dock somebody said applying that back arm pressure really helps. My comment was no that’s my front arm, my back arm would be my shoulder furthest from the boat right? Why do we use the term back arm pressure when trailing arm would make more sense?

I am not an engineer, can’t even spell it, but I do own several laser that we use for construction application. It would be great to have indicators with lights or arrows on the dash that could assist the driver with staying centered. Lasers would be one solution but I don’t believe they would be a practical one.  Seems to me that a wire pulled down the center line, under water could be made to work. A sensor bar mounted in the boat (below the pylon) should be able pick up the wire and relay the boats relation to the wire. If I can put a sensor bar on my TV so I can Wii bowl, how hard can it be to put a senor in a boat?J

My Eagle (Bird of Prey) finally arrived last week . Great vest fits like a glove, no need for a rash guard anymore. I also was concerned about ordering a large when I normally wear a medium. I have to suck my gut in to get the zipper started, once zipped up it’s a very comfortable. Thanks Tadd for the help ordering

Maybe i hve not been lurking enough, what is Jager's fin program?

I have a Nikon D 70 DSLR for stills, great camera. I am looking for a video camera for training purposes. Shoot a set and go back and see the ugly truth in between sets. I also have an older trakker somewhere it would be nice if it would work with it also. I have not done any research at all on the new Video cameras. I have heard some of the new high Tec formats or anti vibration systems don’t work very well in a boat.

Looking to pick up a new Video camera so I can start filming my sets. I read somewhere that some of the video cameras with the anti vibration features do not work well from the boat. Any suggestion out there on which video cameras might work well.

Great info, thanks guys – Ed like the idea of keeping a word file to reference back on. It’s been told to me more than once that if you’re not skiing into at 32 off you should talk your wing off. After reading this post it seems to me that the wing actually may benefit the longer line skiers (assuming they can carry enough speed to the ball) just as much if not more because of the stability it adds to the ski. Stability is a good thing when you’re working on body position and technique.

Eric that’s my point the wing is rarely talked about when it comes to adjusting or tuning a ski. I see post were people are fine tuning there fin settings a couple thousands at a time. But when wing angle is stated it’s always a common #, no 6 ½ or 7 ½ settings.Can some of the attributes that a wing offers also be accomplished by a fin adjustment instead?

I known wings help slow a ski down and change the way a ski finishes the turn. But how do they actually effect a ski. Dose the tail of a ski ride deeper in the water with a wing? If half way through your pass the wing feel off your ski how would the ski react different. Would it feel like the same ski, a ski with more tip added or just a ski that’s harder to slow down? Not sure if what I am asking makes any sense, but it just seems like running a ski with or with out a wing should have a big effect on our fin #s.