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    Chris
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  1. Do not change this simple thought: "Think PULL during the transition and into the preturn" That is it. If you are confused or don't understand, you are making it something it is not. My idea and coaching ADD NOTHING TO THIS THOUGHT: "Think PULL during the transition and into the preturn" That is it. That is one thought and only one simple thought...... No matter your style or technique, this shows you how to add power to handle control like the pros so you can get it. This makes you control the handle and NOT give it back to the boat. It adds width, control and power. If you are convinced this can't work, It probably won't, for you. YOU, YES YOU can see the difference and how amazing it is. I learned this area as my weakness skiing with Jamie. He had a more difficult technique and way of applying. Just follow one thought: "Think PULL during the transition and into the preturn" That is it. Give it a try, Good Luck
  2. @Horton I told you, LIGHT BULBS............... All this time and I have foud a way to make it easy to feel and understand the difference with one simple thought...... "PULL" Credit would be appreciated for being right after all of the fighting and showing you how it should be done. Thinking "pull" makes you apply power there, no matter what your style. You are weak there, obviously because you have never done it correctly. Yes, forces are greater (mostly) and the time to apply is less as the line shortens. Patience... You just started doing it Right!!!! ***********That is the main reason, for a skier like you, to only work on this part of your skiing. Plus everything else is pretty easy for you and you are good everywhere else. With a proper, powerful transition and preturn, you are set in the best position you can be for the turn. So everything else becomes easy and natural. For MOST skiers at your level, this is where the weak link is. Thanks would be nice, too
  3. Thanks for the feedback on how to improve the hardest thing to do, handle control!!!!!! Quotes: "I am learning to control this move…it’s amazing…." "Just wanted to let you know I've been trying what you told Horton to do. I'm skiing better than I have in a long time. Way better connection!!! Thanks!!" "Clearly not staying one with the rope, and not keeping the line tight on 2,4 side. Thanks again! PULL!"
  4. I can't work on 7 things at once in anything. I need to focus on the main problem. This works, especially for someone like you. Good luck, you will be fine. You can, just try it.
  5. @Horton I kid around and can't help it. The goal is to be better after the second wake. It is exactly what most everyone says. All advice is on the same thing. My advice has you get stronger there no matter what your technique. It is only 1 thought. I begged you to try it. You have nothing to lose. Think "pull" during the transition, it is a split second. That thought will add connection to the rope and better handle control. If you do nothing there or you do work on it, that thought will make you stronger in your transition and preturn. Because it is so difficult to "get it", if you listen and try it you will see what happens when you are stonger there and the light bulb will turn on. It is the difference, hard to explain and even harder to apply if you are thinking anything else. In this thread, I said clearly I did not get it when Jamie was trying to explain it to me. It took a coulpe of months to find a way to do it. This is the easy way: Try it! Just think "PULL" during the transition.
  6. This is the key: This is really really really HARD. "think pull in the transition" I cannot understand it for you. It is really scary, too, apparently. So many so sure? Well OK I have been thanked TODAY already....... HA!!!!!!!!!! I KNOW I AM RIGHT
  7. Hey Than, Seems most everyone agrees handle control out is the biggest difference between most top pros and the amateur. Tell someone to do it. That is the problem. How can you tell a skier who has done nothing their entire life what to do. Keep elbows to the vest. That never worked for me to "GET IT" Jamie let me read his notes on skiing. What he does and Will used to do is not realistic for us. "two hands to the front arms straight" Maximum leverage and results NOT realistic for the average skier, it is very robotic and too much for us. It took me several months to understand and figure out how to do it and do something I had never done before I believe Jamie and Will are the only skiers who made up their minds, learned it and could do that So what should I do? I want to advance on the boat in control..... I think to pull during the transition. That is all I do It gives me the handle control with 2 hands into the buoy and everything changes I think you saw me ski at a tournament in N Fl when I was applying like Jamie and you asked about it. Too much for us Apparently no one has tried it. I don't get it...... What are you folks afraid of? A little is better then nothing, the more the better, power that is Good luck Don't be afraid Think pull in the transition.... Thats it let me know
  8. Adam, I NEVER, EVER said pull in your arms. I said: "think pull during the transition" That is all Horton should work on, I am not very smart so I guess I confused many Most of us who can run 35 & 38 do most things how they do 'em and work on things. Horton has been skiing his entire life. I did not mean to offend so many trying to wake up Mr Horton Mr Horton I feel terrible ruining your skiing Adjust your fin and stand a different way instead on your approach Watch Nate, he pulls so hard there, he rocks his upper body away from the boat.
  9. This thread i s for Horton and alikes, My respect for you guys running 39 cannot be overstated. Matt just add there some. Matt, You do it, and you always have, you are stong there so it is natural. You can still gain by adding there. Horton, like myself never just got it, I had to learn it. When I figured out the difference, I had to switch to a toe plate because I was pullig up the velcro and then ripping screws out of the ski rear binding in the back from such a powerfull move. I finally was able to take the winter off and pick it right back up, just like th pros. No more long sets with better feel and results. 4 or 5 pass sets 3 times a week. Please stick to what I said. Think PULL during the transition with 2 hands I never said pull in on the handle. Think PULL during the transition Instead of doing almost nothing on a loose line into the turn, You advance on the boat and gain the control with the connection to the boat This is done with strength and power. It is NOT a result or what just happens. It is POWER during the transition/preturn A typical great skier smooths everythig out. It won't be so obvious like Jamie. Think of the connection this way, pulling up on the side of the boat at the end of the lake. Mr Quick to dismiss, you could not be more wrong with speed control Zero off is PERFECT. My dream throttle GOES WHEN I GO, Releases when I do. I will never forget the first time riding in the boat and hearing the power being Perfectly applied, even on the pull out for the gates..... How did they make it Exactly as I dreamed and the way I drove it?? I should get royalties, I thought of it first, well done Andy, it is PERFECT Perfect pass was terrible, ALWAYS too late. I used a slalom switch set to a high # of 30 or so. Trying to make Zero off before Zero off. Especially the GPS version, how could it be any worse??? Dunno, Just keep changing that crap, for me, a very unhappy marrige for me but the only choice during that era I moved away from skiing beginning with my divorce in 2010 or so, Nothing at all in it for me then, and now. Like most amateurs, I suppose. Pretty much quit skiing in 2014, probably skied a dozen or so sets in 14 & 15, Perhaps a half dozen in 16. Not skiing I am a few @ 38 guy, only need 1 round. I have not skied since states in 2016, I skied far far less than anyone I have ever heard of. Why was it still just there? I saw the light see notes above, I believe, I believe Yes it happens faster and stonger as the rope shortens, even harder to spot then. I came so close to deleting the siple info with all the uproar, dismissal and shock. What do I gain by enlightening the the readers? absolutely nothing Don't overthink it, just think Pull at the transition. it is that simple. Horton, please let me know your reults
  10. RE-READ THIS PART: (you will find your vision, contol, position and precision like never before. Everything slows down) I am surprised by the quit without even trying It happens in the transition early as part of the outbound movement. Everyone is weighing in, They all say the same thing in different ways. EVERYTHING GREAT HAPPENS IN THE TRANSITION/EARLY EDGE CHANGE. Print it, read it, bring it with you on the boat. at least try, see the difference. Why can The better skiers run 39 and it looks so easy? Adam and Matt, Adam, as a crative thinker, I am surprised you don't see it for someone who is so smart. Andy, Jeff and Lucky prove it can be done in Horton style. Never running the impossible 41 @ 36 like Nate u are both far better skiers the myself. I never ran 39 in a tournament, only 4. I skied against Andy once at 34. I ran 2 @ 39, he ran 4 @ 43 in charleston. You MUST see it as someone who does not get it. I asked Jamie, "I run 38 at 34, you run 39 at 36. What is the difference?" Before confusing me with the truth, he said EVERYTHING!!!! It took a few months to undestand and visualize it for myself. This is how I explain it to myself. Horton needs the light bulb lit I am surprised you don't REALLY LOOK, Jamie was one of the strongest, he was a overskier and studied to apply physics to his technique Nate swings his back away from the boat when he applies it. It's there His quote as I remember from the notes "Jamie" "Two hands to the front, arms straight for maximum leverage" "almost like a double counter rotation"
  11. This is not his gate, see the spray fom the previous bouy. This does not happen by accident. Two hands to the front, arms straight to the front of the ski, the ultimate in leveraged handle control if you understand it, what and why. I am saying make a significant effort there, everything happens in the preturn, the turn and pull are automatic for most I told you those who do it don't understand how you just don't get it. In most cases, they downplay it but it is there, and you have never ridden the line out
  12. Without even tryin........ You tried everything else Change the thread name Matt has been doing it his whole life, you, NOTHING You don't even know how weak you are there. Everything else is fine. Matt said the same thing differently. Everything happens then, the rest is easy till 39 Try it fool, YOU HAVE TRIED EVERY OTHER DAMN THING What do you have to lose? I am saying it so you get it and have a holy shit moment of enlightenment It happens in a split second but changes everything Wach the videos, It is there Everyone disliked the truth about the mens world record never being broken, You'll see, it will never change. I was right then and I am right now too
  13. You have no handle control. The difference between you and most top pros is they advance on the boat and pull themselves up in the transition/preturn. Watch Nate carefully, from shore video is best. You can watch Terry, Dane, old videos of Asher when he was killin' it.... You MUST "keep the elbows/handle in to your vest in the transition and pre-turn. MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST What does that mean for a lifetime skier like you who has never focused on that completely??? It should be the only thing you work on or think about now. Skiers will not tell you this way, if they have always done it, it may be easy for them now because of their lifetime of applying this and you will need to work hard on it. Everything else is fine and no need to worry. Try this: think PULL on the handle as you transition and into the pre-turn. think PULL on the handle as you transition and into the pre-turn. as hard as you can.. as hard as you can.. as hard as you can.. you will find your vision, contol, position and precision like never before. Everything slows down you can practice on land or boat by doing pull ups from a leaning/pulling position up into the pre-turn with a handle. You have never really done it so it is a big change. It happens in a split second, watch videos of those skiers mentioned earlier. It is there if you pay attention it is clear It is the biggest difference from good amateurs to the top pros think of nothing else
  14. A huge effort in handle control for outbound direction, huge loss of power in poor stack, as stated by @matthewbrown
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