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Hi guys, I had time to waste and asked GPT4 to make this iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/it/app/jump-lead/id6470515434?l=en-GB I don’t like how in jump tournaments live streams we can’t really tell how far an athlete has jumped. The app draws an augmented reality line on the water. Say the leader has jumped 223 feet, you insert that number and the app draws a line there so you can see how close the other jumpers are getting to that score. It’s designed to be used by people who want to stream jump events, or just people who don’t have a Splash Eye and want to have an idea of how far their athletes are jumping. It requires an “anchor image” of your choice that functions as reference point to render the augmented reality line. You can place it on a tripod in front of the iPhone. The coordinates of the “anchor image” relative to the ramp can be calculated with the app itself (it has an inbuilt “theodolite” that triangulates your position). If you are sitting on the shore at a jump event you can also just use the “theodolite” function of the app to know exactly where you are relative to the ramp. I’ll probably ask GPT4 to do a slalom related app as well. I was thinking of drawing lines on the water at specific width, to “prove” a score in training is legit and no long-rope/narrow-course/zigzag-driving was going on. It would place the line based on rope length and inputted skier’s reach.

I'll go with jumpers!

The platform was just launched guys! Go on worldwaterskiers.com and start competing!! ;)

Everyone’s welcome to join this new fun project! WorldWaterSkiers is launching a grassroots movement to change tournament waterskiing. To finally engage more people!

@chrisrossi you are absolutely right, the hardest part is getting out of the water!! it really doesn't come natural. I gave LFF a try for 8 sets when my back was fed up with normal skiing. It was incredibly interesting. When it comes to understanding water skiing technique, switching feet is a great thing. Nothing is automatic anymore. You have to think through every single move. I ended up running 4 at 35 off (34mph - at 36 I was barely able to run 32, it was very scary).

@thanbogan, the fact that people use more some numbers (not letters) than others is purely due to a major error in verbally explaining how the settings work. People think that the higher the number, the stronger and quicker the recovery of the boat will be (quicker, not sooner). Given that explaination and the skiers' fear of skiing with a "strong" boat, people are often reticent to ski with 3. The reality is that numbers are there in order to take away power from the boat when the skier pulls too much. Shocked? Well, I know I was when they explained it to me. Here's how they work: -3 limits the boat's response when the skier pulls x -2 limits the boat's response when the skier pulls y (less than x) -1 limits the boat's response when the skier pulls z (less than y) Let's take two skiers: Mark (60kg, pulls always less than z) Rick (80kg, pulls sometimes more than x) Mark will never reach ZO's target pulls (z,y,x), making the three numbers absolutely identical to him. Rick, on the other hand, is in a very different situation. He will always pull more than y, but only sometimes more than x. In order to have a consistent pull, he will choose to ski either with 1 or with 2. Rick will get the same pull as Mark only when he skis with 3 and never reaches limit x. But a mistake or an occasional hard pull might set his rythm off. The problem with ZO's numbers is that the values x,y and z are too close together, leaving normal sized people either with an inconsistent pull or a dumbed down version of what very light skiers are skiing behind. I really hope I made it comprehensible!!

I've listened to the man, he is surely the most civilized of the candidates. And I love the fact that his talking points don't revolve exclusively around oil, jesus and xenophobia. But I don't see him as the nominee: he's too far right on many issues (he wants a privatized CIA), he's not an in-your-face-christian enough, and he's too soft on pot.

ZO, as we have it right now, triggers long term reactions (sometimes longer than the skiers pull, if the load decelerates the boat more than a presetted value). That has changed dramatically how people "manage" their turns. Lets take two opposite sides of the spectrum: A) a 90° turn: it causes the boat to recover in a much longer time frame, leaving the skier with an open throttle all the way through the next buoy. B) a tip rise: (normally caused either by excessive tip pressure in the earlier stages of the turn or by excess of speed - or a combination of both) it will cause a much more gradual load that will make ZO friendlier. Most skiers, at their harder passes, are now leaning towards the latter, either consciously or unconsciously, while beginners do it unintentionally - I'm using too many adverbs. That's even because after rising the tip only once, the skier will initiate a downward spiral that makes tip rising much more likely in the next buoys: later pull, more speed after the wakes, excess of speed at the buoy, TIP RISE. JB skied those 2 buoys at 43 off behind PP, a system that is much more forgiving in case A) and much less forgiving in case B). Ciao!

You are smart enough, Horton! That was a good explanation.

Hi guys, this is my first comment. Jdarwin, the soccer World Cup is not all the times in Brazil, Italy and France... World Championships move around the world just as the title suggests. It's good for the sport, and Dubna is capable of providing over 30 000 spectators during the weekend! Good luck to all the skiers in Russia.