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Thanks @Brooks!

Started skiing on the 2018 Vapor Carbitex boots about a month ago, coming off of RS-1's I've been on for 5 or 6 years. Had Boa laces as tight as they'd go, and upper bungee laces just barely snug. Skied right over 5 ball yesterday and went OTF. However, in the crash, both my front boot and rear boot BOA cables snapped. Furthermore, my liners didn't completely come out of the shell, which has me a little worried. I've never had a problem coming out of the RS-1's. Maybe I had the lower cable laces too tight. Has anyone experienced those cables breaking? I've heard BOA has lifetime warranty on them, so I'm assuming I'll just need to install new cables. If anyone has experience with this let me know.

@skibrain I've been on three D3's and all of them size 66". I believe you're typically better off with the smallest ski that you can make work for you. If the 66" ARC-S works for you I think that's where you'd land with the NRG as well. Of course with D3's demo program it'd be easy to try the 67" as well before you commit. Good luck

I like a slight ripple for the feel of the water, but since that typically is accompanied by some wind, I'll take glass!

@sunvalleylaw I was on the ARC-S right before my NRG. Was on the ARC-S for one year, up until this last labor day weekend when I tried the NRG. Both are 66" and I'm 5'10" and weigh 150. To me the biggest difference in feel, is that the NRG was more responsive when I needed it to be, yet still as smooth as I wanted to make it. The ARC-S was always super smooth for me. I still think that's a great ski for my body weight. I have found the NRG to be smooth when I want it to be and when I want to get aggressive it is right there with me. At the end of the day, what I care about is having fun and competing against myself. My bouy count has been consistently better on the NRG and I'm loving the feel of the ski.

@DanE I'm on the 66 with following settings: 2.47 6.96 .74 29.5" and wing at 7

I highly recommend Foundation Training found online at www.foundationtraining.com. After suffering from lower back pain for about 4 months earlier this year and trying multiple chiropractors, cryotherapy, massage, and a professional stretcher, Foundation Training did the trick for me. Best part is it only takes a few minutes a couple of times a week to keep things in check now.

I demo'd the NRG about a week ago. Tied my personal best (3 balls at -35 and 34MPH) right out of the box on my first set, using Paul Crawford's recommended fin settings. Skied into -35 the next day on it. The third day on it I got a personal best with 5 balls at -35. Love the ski and obviously bought it. Coming off of an ARC-S. The NRG is always there when I need it.

Horton, I got a flip cam (720p) for father's day this year. The quality and zoom capability is great for filming a skier from the boat. However, I took it to a tournament last weekend to film my kids and the quality was not so good. The issue is the image stabalization when zooming in on objects at a decent distance. So, my take is that if you only want it for filming your sets with the footage taken by an observe in the boat, it will work great. I can post a sample vid tonight if you want it.Â