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tips need slight repair, very light carbon weave, good for kids

Only one tournament pulled, with optional quiet mufflers, and heater, factory tower available. Boat kept near the MasterCraft factory in a private boat house. Will have about 150 hours at the end of the season, has both Perfect Pass stargazer and Zero Off...break even at $39,980 chris 865-755-5588 or chriscarter@iol24.com

It is still for sale, i am at chriscarter@iol24.com or 865-755-5588 thanks, chris carterÂÂÂ

John, glad we got 4 of them for the girls and me. We love 'em. Brie has been into 38 a handful of times this year using your carbon fin and no wing. Great effort, sorry to see it go.

Only 1 full season, no holes great shape. perfect for up an coming kids. $450

62" 9700 with no holes, skied two seasons. great ski, she just outgrew it. $450 chris carterÂÂÂ

Believe it or not, I am back on an old Jobe zip up, oversized so I can fit it with an orthotic. Since I am a rear toe guy, and have had multiple surgeries on my front knee (from another injury), I am going back to rubber for familiarity. Just makes me feel safer. I need to know that I can come out in an OTF. Otherwise, the RS-1 is an amazing design and should work well for the hybrid that it is. I skied Powershells before, but the above issue still comes up in my mind every time on the swim platform, a bit daunting. Fit tightly, the RS 1 should edge like a hard shell. It does have a slick heel section so you come out with the liner on your foot. It may be designed a bit better for double boots, but Andy showed it to me as a RTP option.

My daughter (G2 and 32 off skie0, is on an RCX just coming off a Goode 9700. After lots of video analysis of the 2 skis she is staying with the RCX for turns and consistency, although not as fast, it stays in the water a little easier and not as nose high as the Goode. Also a bit more forgiving.....we will see how tournaments go.

New Radar RS-1 front with carbon plate. I am a rear toe guy and was afraid to sinch up the boot too much for a good release since I am RTP, ie either 2 in or 2 out on a fall.  You can easily order a rear RS-1 boot and just screw it on or a rubber boot of choice as the plate has lots of pre-drilled holes. $150 for boot, liner and plate, (about half price)

Some of the notes may shed some light, but not sure if you want to post them; maybe selectively. However, your article turned out real nice deliniating the characteristics of each ski. It was a great week for Brie and me.

Rossi can take what you have and will work with you in a long set, with some good explanations, but......he is hard to get anymore. I have enjoyed the time skiing with him in the past. John, when are you going to Rini's? Brie and I are headed that way this spring.

John, One possible way to give readers more information is to publish the "raw comments" on this website. It would sure bring out the "independent" aspect of it. Also, testers could simply rank their top 3 with a few reasons why, yet not have a full numerical comparrisson as in last year's test.  I think in this years reviews, the data is there in comments, but not enough room to publish in the mag.....none the less, it was a great test and quite independent.  chris carter

The 08 Nomad is the same ski we tested in the 65" length only. D3 had retooled the mold smoothing out what they call the "V" or the back rocker point. All lenghts are supposed to be re-done. I suppose they did it over the winter and renamed it the RCX.

I have tried both, CBR and the slot fin. Currently I am using the mini wing on the CBR as I felt the mini wing was the major part of the slot fin's difference. So far, in very cold water, i feel comfortable and it will likely stay thru next spring. 32's are smoother, and getting a littel better starts at 35. I am on a new X5.

my daughter and i just tried a 106 on a D3 today, be it cold water, 55 deg, it did tighten the turn, even mine....she skied hers with no wing and I tried mine with the Schnitz mini wing, which is about half the surface area of a regular D3 wing and 1/3 of a Goode wing. I skied into some 35 off and it felt like there were more buoys for me, the water just got cold....good excuse.  There was a bit of forgiveness in the turn, ....I wonder if one could run the fin a little deeper or more length for tracking/turning, or would that be counterproductive?...is no wing the way to go with a carbon fin?

I re-visited looking at the shore, ie (turning my head in the turn) with the wakes in my periphial vision as I did many years ago. Jeff Rogers, Jody Johnson, Jennifer Leachman, Deena Mapple are some skiers who do the same. If you couple that as an "early counter-rotation" for the preturn and turn, it may work quite well. I am experimenting with it, but it is old school type of skiing except the counter in the turn which definitely works well for me...... if you can keep your hips from dragging during the head turn, it does tend to help you ski out ahead of the buoy with some decent carry out and tightens up the offside turn especially.  This may work if you tend to ski to the buoy instead of ahead of it. It also lends to back arm pressure, but hey, Jeff Rogers can run 41 doing that, so why cant' I?1?.............. Each person is different, but the bottom line is what body movements make the ski do what it is supposed to do. I coach from the ski up, not the other way. Have someone in the boat just look at your ski at each phase of skiing: gates, preturn or transition, carry out, and acceleration phase and see what body movements affect the ski/water interface watching spray, movement, rhythm, and angle.

Ski weight should primarily affect only the turns. Ski tip/tail weight, not the middle or primary part of a ski, might help a bit as the ski changes direction, which is called the "moment of inertia". We put ourselves and heavy bindings in the middle of the ski, so losing a few pounds in that area will have almost no change in speed or acceleration, only the swing weight in the turn, which I think, has minimal affect. How high or deep a ski rides is much more significant on how easily it accelerates. Ease of gaining speed is what people feel that a ski is "fast or slow".