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@Chef23‌ I've learned a lot from http://chriskresser.com/ and http://robbwolf.com/.

I used to think it didn't exist either but this year I had no soreness after my first sets of the season. I chalk it up to heavy cleans and snatches for multiples and kipping pull ups. The receiving of the weight is just like loading up behind the boat. You get the exact same stretch and soreness in your traps and biceps. This is a very technical movement so you will need some coaching. Find an Olympic lifting gym or a crossfit box. Mix in some kipping pull ups and you will be golden. http://instagram.com/p/uKKxJLML0l/?modal=true This guy is a beast you don't need to do this at 300lbs for it to be effective. This is just an example of the movement.

What a great idea. I can't count how many times I've dove to the bottom of the lake trying to pull up a pair of sunglasses. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/westwood-sunglasses-affordable-wooden-shades

Rower, pull ups (I prefer kipping because it will get that hard stretch on the bicep that you get in skiing), but multiples of heavy hang cleans are by far the best for breaking in ski muscles (Trap, Biceps, even hands). I really didn't have any soreness to begin my season this year.

This tournament was a blast. Not to mention we had Rossi, Parsons, and Finlayson their. That's some pretty high level skiing 10 minutes from my house. Have I made you jealous yet?

I seriously don't get the negativity around this argument. If you don't think PED's can help your performance on a waterski then you don't understand PED's or waterskiing. Testing for PED's is not about "leveling the playing field" it's about not allowing someone to cheat. If you don't want to lose to Jim Michael's moving the buoys around then you don't want to lose to someone using PED's. Testing add's legitimacy to our sport at its highest levels.

I agree with the idea that a final event with less people could still lead to more participation in the process. Again I look to CrossFit (quite possibly the fastest growing sport right now). Their qualification process is HUGE. Tens of thousands of people pay $20 just to participate and have their name on the leaderboard. They could just as easily not pay and do the workouts and look at the leaderboard to see where they would be but they pay to participate with the community. This year I placed 610 out of 4421 people in my region. Not even close to being in the top 50 required to go to regionals but I loved it and I will probably participate for the rest of my life. I love the idea of going to a local tournament and competing against somebody across the country at their site for a spot to advance to the next level.

I'm a huge fan of this idea. The only change I would make is changing it from a state championship to an Open championship to make it more fair from state to state (in UT if 5 from each division go then almost everyone from UT makes it yet CA could be very difficult). An open, regional, worldwide event is how CrossFit does its qualification. The open (I would make a $10 entry fee to throw your hat in the ring) would be any score in a class C or higher tournament during a specified two week period. Then you take the top x number of scores to each regional. The disparity from region to region as far as it not being fair is something CrossFit just deals with. They are less concerned about who the bottom few are that make it as they are about making sure the best guys are there. I haven't been to nationals in about 8 years because it is just to financially burdensome for what the event is (even after winning regionals a few times).

@horton I understand that with the current skiing culture a handle throw might have been a bigger risk but my question is why is it? Shouldn't we be encouraging the use of this rule rather than encouraging skiers to just ski the mulligan pass and then hope for a re ride after.

The reason throwing the handle is important rather then waiving your arms and still entering the course and then asking for a re ride is your are effectively getting a Mulligan. Enter the course and ski if I make it no big deal if I miss I can always ask for the re ride. Not saying all that went through Jeff's head but that it why it's important to throw the handle and trust the judges will do the right thing. It's just more fair.

@fizer I understand you defending your guy but throwing out vague accusations at unnamed individuals is just weak. Anyone attacking Jeff personally is an idiot but I haven't seen much of that. Many people didn't like his decision to ask for the re-ride but that's ok for us to have differences of opinions on that. The thing with unwritten rules is sometimes they get broken and the only penalty is the being called out on it. I don't think you can blame people for being upset at what they see as an injustice.

Packing the wrong ski that is an epic failure. So glad team goode came through for you what a great experience.

because its awesome!

Amazing effort to get that .25 buoy.

I have no problem with a code of unwritten rules that @David Miller‌ is talking about. All sports have a code of unwritten rules baseball is famous for them. There might be a reason not to write the rule down. What if there is some lunatic with a laser on shore shining it in someone's eyes and the rule says no rerides that wouldn't be fair either. BTW it's not that crazy it happened in professional motocross.

@markchilcutt I hope you plan on never participating in a sport of any kind ever again. If there is competition there will always be controversy. There will always be poor sportsmanship because these guys are some of the fiercest competitors in the world (You don't get to that level without it). I love the controversy. It exists in all sports and is part of why we love it, they aren't always fair. Dave certainly got the raw end of a bad deal and it sounds like he took it pretty well, hell I yell at the umpires endlessly in old man softball if I feel like I got the bad end of a call. For what it's worth I've got 4 years until I get to slow down and I am even more excited about joining in on the big dawg fun. Bottom line is in professional sports, with professional referees, with centuries of history judgement calls still come up that make us say, "I've never seen that before." We will never get it right all the time and that is part of the beauty of it.

@RazorRoss3‌ That is a huge bench! I felt pretty good when I hit 250. Are you one of those dudes that can bench more then he squats or are you just all around crazy strong?

@jimbrake‌ Training during the ski season is tough I inevitably lose a few pounds on my lifts but I do still lift heavy 2-3x's a week on days when I'm not skiing. Less volume and intensity but still trying to maintain.

@jimbrake ^^^^ ha ha ha and I'm a huge fan of the Olympic lifts and every lift that goes with training them. They are lifts that require a tremendous amount of pulling strength, with speed, agility, flexibility, and balance. Almost sounds like waterskiing. Do some heavy triples of hang cleans without putting the bar down and some kipping pull ups and you won't even be sore on your first day of skiing after the winter.

I think you want to be at a similar angle that you are at the buoys. This means much higher as the line gets shorter. I don't think getting 12+ feet beyond the buoy line at 15 and 22 is doing you any favors.

Totally a "look at how awesome my little girl is" post but that's what kids are good for right?

My two year old loves to ride her EZ ski. We used to ride on it with her but now she insists on going by herself. Watching her have fun on this thing is just as good as running a 38.

@scotchipman was on fire yesterday. I wasn't happy that I didn't knock down a 38 yesterday but I haven't gotten a ton of skiing in this season.

It most definitely was. I just wanted to see how it would play out in a poll.

@chris_logan That was a given. We are just having fun speculating from the video we have.