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  1. When in Playa you're approximately a short hour drive from Scott's Waterski cancun. (In Cancun obviously). Make sure to double confirm with him that he'll be there!! Otherwise, Kitesurfing, diving, dolphin swimming etc etc ;)
  2. There is another very interesting side to mid-loops that we have not discussed here: They can come in very handy whenever you're pulling someone who is "mentally" struggling, over one given line length. You can fool them into thinking they are still skiing at one length when you actually shortened it a little without telling them, and without them noticing it, and you wouldn't believe how much people perform when they don't know the rope is shorter ;) We've all heard a story about a guy who mistakenly ran a line because the guy in the boat messed up and shortend it too much ;) well mid loops are kind of doing this intentionally :) Obviously this also applies to "normal" loops, but then, the gap is bigger, they might notice it / feel it .
  3. I've been using it as a way to "ease" into my sets and I actually think it is a very valuable training tool. of course, for those who compete, as you get close to tournaments you might want to go back to "normal" lengths, but for those who don't or for those who are just really trying to get to the next line, IMO it is what makes more sense. I must confess I don't get the "this is not a real line, you'd better slow the boat down" argument, as, IMO, one could answer "that's not a real speed, you might better shorten just a bit" ;) ? (No offense intended, sincerely) Last year I used to tweak with the boat's speed between 32-33-34 mph, and was less consistant than this year, I now only ski 34mph, start longer (22 or even 15 off if i'm really tired), but consistently go 15 - 18.5 - 22 - 25 - 28 - 30.5off, and good days 32off. The true difference with tweaking with the speed is, as others have said it, you keep the same rythm/timing. Now for rope reviews, I've been using the masterline progressor, which is good but the mid loops seem to "undo" after a while as they are just pieces of rope "inserted" inside the initial rope, they come out after a while, I'll post a pic as soon as I can take one.
  4. I'm no Goode Expert, and let along XT expert, but just yesterday, on the site where i ski here in Paris, a guy came back so pissed to the dock, his 1-year old XT just cracked in between both bindings. He cannot recall dropping it, or getting it hit / shocked / whatever. Simply skiing. It really cracked on a ball 1 as the tip of the ski "bit" into the water to start carving, thus slowing down and it snapped and it looked like the tail just kinda went "past" the tip, a weird thing to see really. At first we couldn't figure out why he had fallen, until he came back to the dock.. I have no idea wether this is common or an isolated case, but just letting you know. For the rest, I wouldn't be able to tell, so i'll let the guys who know better ;)
  5. Great thank you very much! Will get in touch :)
  6. Hey guys! I'll have to go to Dallas for a week or so in early October. I've downloaded the google earth file and have seen a couple ski sites around the area, but thought i'd ask the experts for some advice? is that season skiable? Worth it? Also, any good ski shops around the area? Last but not least, any ballers there? Any input greatly appreciated! All the best Romain
  7. I believe watching this guy is probably the best way to learn about skiing ;). @twhisper
  8. hahahahah well that's embarrassing!!!! That friend thought it was an MC, I assumed he was right (again, hadn't seen the boat in a couple years), and dugg out these pics ;) Well i'll ask him what kind of boat it is, and i'll check what it is made of etc , then i'll have it audited by my club's mechanic and decide what to do with it ;) Will keep you posted!
  9. Thank you for your help guys! Actually I'm actually even starting to doubt it's an MC? I had it as a given but now that I think of it, the only elements I have are the attached photos, anyone recognize which boat is that? My friend told me it was an MC 86, might as well be something else, haven't seen that boat in 4+ years, couldn't really tell?
  10. @6balls exactly my idea! ;) All, thank you for all of your inputs, again, this friend is seling the house and living in an appartment downtown, has absolutely no place to ski, and married and got kids, not into skiing anymore (not judging ;) just analysing!) So I guess I'll take it and have it "audited" by my club's mechanic. if it has wood in it, (m&aybe it's older than 86? don't know), or if it needs >5k, will in turn give it away or just dump it, if not, will try to keep it for recreational, spare boat. I'll try to find a pic to show you guys which model it is By the way, is there anywhere online a library of all mastercraft models with techs spechs and stuff like that? Didn't quite find anything? maybe not looking in the right place? Many thanks again romain
  11. Hey Guys, Just reaching out for some advice from the pros ! A friend of mine just sold his house by the countryside, it had an access to a river with an 86' MasterCraft which gave us many good runs a couple years ago but hasn't really been used for the past 4 years approx. I have a place i can actually park it, and can figure a use to it, it wouldn't become my slalom boat as we ski in clubs here, but could be a boat to share with friends. I'll look into details of insurance, cost for parking year-round etc etc, but just out of curiosity, is that boat a keeper? Something one should stay away from? i'm not really looking into buying a boat, but this friend is actually either gonna give it to me or just give it away to whoever shows up first! the idea would be to invest a couple '000€ to get it up and running (, make sure the engine is OK, fix whatever is needed, new upholstery and stuff like that, it already has a tower) and use it as a recreational boat to wakeboard / tube / trick / freeski if it reaches 36mph... Any inputs greatly appreciated! Thanks for your help! Romain ps: not even sure it's 1986, but somewhere in that area...
  12. Anywhere between 32 and 34, most of the time it varies throughout my set. Starting at 32-ish (thanks ZeroOff) and bumping up to 33 and 34 towards the end of the set. My goal is to ski only 34 this season, work in progress ;)
  13. I travel with this Construction pipe (30$) inside a Dakine rollbag (that I can also use for snowskiing) And my ski has never been hurt. I did the exact same thing (Dakine bag + construction pipe) for my sister, and her Goode Maikai is all well in spite of a HUGE crack on the pipe (probably fell from the plane while loading or something ran it over...go figure). Downside to it: kinda heavy, probably around 15 pounds empty. Upside: It is versatile. Once on location I can take the pipe out and only use de much lighter ski bag for moving around to and from the lake etc..
  14. Hi there! I'm not sure if the question is Software or Hardware? As you mention both? Anyways Chrome Software on both Mac And PC Lenovo hardwares and never had any troube appart from my login not being remembered sometimes, so I have to log back in but no real trouble.
  15. Roughly 1500€ here in France. (1880$) It is mainly a club activity here so this includes: Annual Membership Fee (roughly 500€) 2-slalomed lake Small club facilities, tiny tiny beach, longchair, sofas, small restaurant / foodtruck (additionnal meal is roughly 15$), shower, lockerroom, bar... Depending on the season 5-7 hours of real ski time, sold by the hour (roughly 150€ / hour) Approximately...50-60 members / regular skiers? (ball park figure) Typicaly one hour will give you 5 sets of 6 passes. So that total is for one season of 45 passes approximately, with gas, membership, insurance, boat depreciation, eventual coaching from the local instructor (coach guest stars are to be added of course whenever they show up at the lake), and for whoever doesn't have it's own: Gear (skis, jacket, wetsuits...) So basically it comes down to 1500/45 = 33€ / set (40$ more or less). Obviously the more you ski, the less each given set costs, with an imaginary low limit of 36$ if you skied all day long, all season long.
  16. Awesome Video and beautiful place! I actually was in Portland last Summer, for a week of work, and I had written to the contact eMail at Warman Lake in order to know if I could get a few passes, but never got an answer. Anybody here ski over there? I will probably be heading back to Portland for work once or twice a year, would be great to sneack in some sets if possible!
  17. I can Hardly get my mind around these figures! 10 000.....!!!! :o I think in my 7 years skiing i've rounded... at MOST, 2000 buoys. This season was a "big" season... 450 Buoys approx, and I felt I was doing only that, skiing every week end and some week days! Vey very impressing! Just out of curiosity how much gear does that wear out? Gloves? Ropes? handles? Skis? Bindings? Boats? ;)
  18. Ok Cool! Well if i'm not mistaken, there was indeed a slight miscalculation. My result would be: [ 9*(Ac+Wc)/5 - 36]*1.667 Attached is the calculation written on my iPad, with Ac and Af Air in Celsius and Farenheit Wc abd Wf Water in clesius and farenheit And Basic formula : F = 9C/5 + 32
  19. Hey @MattP ! Well it does work since it provides something. Now that something is incorrect. For example, 15 deg Celsius is 59 F. 15 and 15 C in the BI Calculator will give -23 59 and 59 F in the BI Calculator will give 30. So the calculation behind it is not working ;) If someone gives me the formula for Farenheit i'll be more than happy to convert it to Celsius, or at least try ;)
  20. In deed, Baller index convertor does not seem to work Just out of curiosity, @horton, could you tell us the math behind the calculator? I'm all for helping converting it in Celsius for us metric weirdos ;)
  21. Hey Guys, just had a coooold set yesterday trying out my new wetsuit and it actually felt pretty warm, I would've thought it felt colder and was pretty pleased, my season might have just won a couple of weeks provided things don't go too bad weather wise ;). So i was wondering, what's your current baller index (for those that are still skiing, and in the northern hemisphere obviously!)
  22. Not that i am that good of a skier but here is my humble contribution to this interesting thread: Typically start 1 speed bump below (32mph) So it goes: 22/32 22/33 22/34 25/34 (I have a progressor rope) 28/34 On heavenly Days: 30/34 On miracle days: 32/34 Once in my life: 2@35@34 I find it pleasant to start "slow" in order to have time to set things right and then bump up the speed. i also love the progressor rope system, although I know it is nothing similar to tournaments, but I don't care much for tournaments, I ski for my own pleasure and prefer to stay in control and smooth at lower speeds / longer lenghts than looking for PB's on every set.
  23. ps: Forgot the conclusion, ;) , as you may see in the attached file, according to this model, it seems a skier covers more and more distance the shorter the rope, and needs to get to a greater average speed "around" the boat, as the rope shortens, therefore making it more difficult to run shorter ropes ;).
  24. Hey Guys, Just saw this thread and thought I should share a small calculation I had experimented a couple years ago. PLEASE, axcuse my "scientific english" as I studied in french and therefore might lack some vocabulary. Hope you understand it anyways. As every physical problem I guess you could solve it with the right amount of equations, but as scientists all know that tends to be un-doable in real life given there are so many equations and formulas to take into consideration. So we tend to work with "Models", which are simplifications of the initial problem. My model was pretty much the one described by John and others in this thread, I focused on the MAIN issue beeing the distance the skier has to cover AROUND the boat, or "in reference" to the boat, or I don't know how you should say it in English. Indeed, if you look at it from above, the skier draws the path of a circle (well, a fraction of a circle) around the pylon, so i thought I would just measure the distance the skier has to physically cover, by going from one buoy to the next, at different rope lengths, hoping to find something. I imagined the skier to be standing straight on his legs (obviously wrong) and with the handle perpendicularly above his bindings all the time (again, wrong in real life), and I also imagined the skier would go to the buoy and immediately change directions to the other buoy, as if there was no inertia no nothing. And for rope lengths underneath 38 Off, as we all know, the handle does not reach the buoy, so I said the skier had to "swing" around the handle for a distance that could cover the gap, (basically another fraction of a smaller circle, around the handle this time). (Again, very wrong in real life, but if we take these hypothesis and proceed with a consistant calculus, maybe we will see some trends? At least that's what I was exeprimenting at that time) Well please find attached a screen shot of my Excel file, as you may see, I measured rope length (in M and in ' Off), then the Angle (same as the one described in the picture posted by @Porkfight) in Radians, then the additional distance to actually GET to the buoy when skiing > 38Off, and the distance covered by the skier, in meters (sorry), to physically swing from one given buoy, to the next. (You could then say the slalom consists in 6 times such a swing more or less). I also measured the average speed "around" the boat, or in reference to the boat, meaning that same distance between two buoys divided by the time it took to get there (boat running 34mph, as this is my case). I also measured the incremental change to try to understand why some steps in rope change seem harder then others, as you can see not all "steps" are equally difficult. I hope this makes sense to some of you, and please take into consideration that I just tried this for my personal purpose and do not pretend to hold any greater slalom wisdom or whatsoever, I just thought it fitted the topic ;) Enjoy. Romain.
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