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scoke

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  • Birthday 04/01/1927

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    5 deep water starts!!! BOOYAH

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  1. I'm interested in September. Sounds interesting as we've been wanting to get to northen Itlay. Fly into Milan? Have airport pickup or need to rent a car? Looks like decent flights Miami-Milan. In your title you used the word "Free". Do you mean "Open" spots or it's a free trip to Ballers and just need to get there.?
  2. Ditto. All I see is FEARRRRRR. DON'T CRASH! The current path is of a very long journey of being a 15 off at 34 mph skier as an accomplishment. Then one day a break through and ending the journey as a mid-pack squat and puller with an average of 4@32 off on a good day. Why not learn and break it now? Upgrade the ski to something like a Senate-C, practice lean drills per the Britdudes videos linked below my post. Try, learn, take some spills and recognize you're not going to die. Repeat. Get over it.
  3. Pretty good skiing considering. unfortunately, 35 at 344 behind a zero off boat is going to be an Everest climb. 1) you’ve got the wrong Palm up. It’s detrimental to your hips being tucked under the handle and being worked outbound 2) even if you have the best position in the world “stacked” (archaic term) it doesn’t matte. Why? By your mental model of water skiing revolves around PULLING. The boat will always own you as you pull. read all my previous posts about “squat and pull”. You’re right in the heart of the bell curve. Results show too. but don’t let the tone of my post get you down. YOURE asking the right questions!!!
  4. Saturday i put my hands on this handle at the dock. Very interesting design and legit. It's obvious the thought is being put into it, passion and care. Very cool innovation as well as skiers solving problems "for us". inspriring. I could see this thing going somewhere as well as a handle we use in our boat.
  5. 15' @30 mph through 35 off, is about trying to go fast enough efficient enough. 38 off and beyond, is about trying to slow down enough, on time and efficient enough. Squat and pulling is exteremely counter productive to either of the two above but it will run you buoys. Kinda like calling dog paddling "swimming".
  6. Hi John, not speaking for the previous posters but it's sometimes not ideal to put words in when they weren't used nor assume meaning outside of the words. "LEAN HARDER" is 100% not the same as "PULL HARDER" a few posters are clearly referring to pulling, not leaning. Very different. If someone is paying attention to my posts, majority of the time I am saying "squat and PULL". These are the guys that are arm skiing, firing all their muslces and trying to be a "10" across the boat. They are tensed up, veins popping and usally exahusted. They'll also talk about how out of shape they are and gotta ski more, even though they have been skiing for 2 months, to get in ski shape. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. Which is why in my posts on the "what to do" perspective, I am constantly focusing on Loose and Lean, yes, lean deeper, more angle, roll the ski on a deeper edge. That's one of Adam Cords strengths. Props to him as it appears he's on the right trajectory. Our phsycial strength is NOT the power source, zero off is. We need to be using our strength to protect our postion and movement. Skiing is about holding postion and moving. Versus not pulling and trying to power across the boat and out around the buoys. Most skiers are pretty hard headed so it sure is fun to watch them fight to their failures and plateaus over their beliefs while they are not improving.
  7. Beautiful site from the pics and video. It looks like you might have dug out the lake a little bit on the far end? What's your length in the course as well as how are you handling the ends? Spin, dog-leg or straight in or other? From Okeeheelee, it looks like it's about 2 hours 24 minutes. Might be worth a drive over soon!
  8. I'm tryin to like or awesome the great post from January 4th 2023 but it's not letting me?
  9. This thread is inspiring! Don't let the haters slow you down. Keep going! To get the ski to engage and turn more in the tip, have you considered drilling a few "relief" holes in the forebody front deck? or even in the front side walls? That's a common solution to relieve pressure. It's 2024, all up is down and down is up now. Anything goes!!
  10. @skialex If you have any interest in coming down, day trip or other and skiing Okeeheelee for a day, let me know as you can ski our boat or potentially I can arrange a pull for you. We've got a 2019 200 with a 6.0L. The water has been around 70 right now and should be 70-74 by then. Most folks are just wearing tank tops under vests. We have an apartment you can stay in if you were overnighting, that one I have to check and make sure msscoke doesn't have someone else scheduled in it. Let me know. or Next trip!
  11. This has "THREAD OF THE YEAR POTENTIAL" and delivers! Too bad the OP won't be sharing video of what is to come. Unless he will?!
  12. Smells like lots of "junk buoys" being run in here. The opposite of modern business coaching, sports psychology and positive mental approaches pushing for the next level and honest personal accountability. Modern terms which could be read up on, deployed or other: Deliberate practice Clarity of execution Floor of performance Feedback loop evaluation process
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