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sunvalleylaw

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  • Preferred boat
    '98 Malibu Response LX
  • Home Ski Site
    Redfish Lake, Alturas Lake, Magic Reservoir, Idaho
  • Real Name
    Steve Thompson
  • Ski
    D3 ARC
  • State
    Idaho
  • Tournament PB
    3 at 15 off, 32 mph after running 28 and 30.
  • USAWS Member # or other IWWF Federation #
    900178694

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  1. Talking to TW about it, and will explore with some training this year as I get back into it. Will start on my Yellow ARC and get back on my ski, and then try the new skis. Thinking I will stay within the D3 line for sure after talking to Terry. I don’t want to go for one of the other wider bodies.
  2. Also interested in this. Life long skier, nearly life long Kidder (Redline) through D3 era Denny Kidder owning skier, and was considering selling my ARC (yellow) for the NRGR2, as I love and am so used to that D3 ski feel, but also wondered about the Senate or Syndicate, given what friends use. Looking like they are very different feeling skis from the remarks. Hmm.
  3. Hey, I’m back! Haven’t posted in a long while. Hopefully gonna ski more this year. Was looking at swapping out my yellow 67” ARC for this NRG R2. Partly as it is described as wider. I am older, don’t get a ton of course time, and figure it might be helpful. Might be worth a test ski anyway. I was up past middle a bit of the weight range for my 67” on the ARC, and I guess the same for the NRG R2. I have pretty much always been a Kidder through D3 guy and just love the feel, and would love to stay on a D3 rather than move to some other wider body ski. Thoughts?
  4. Yes. And agree with all that @skibumm said and have had similar experience as a snow ski pro.
  5. I skied behind one of those in the early 90's, down at Shasta, and loved it. First boat to make me fall in love with a Malibu wake.
  6. This whole thing is a bummer. I hope good investigation and process takes place and all concerned get any assistance and justice that they need.
  7. So, apparently, did the 90's. But we know that already from the Captain Marvel movie. https://patents.google.com/?q=water&q=skiing&q=training&q=device&oq=water+skiing+training+device Reading the goals, and descriptions of 90s skiing this one is trying to reproduce is pretty interesting. A lot has changed. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496239A/en?q=water&q=skiing&q=training&q=device&oq=water+skiing+training+device Collecting some ideas here.
  8. @ShererSkier , that presumes more boat time than I have. Trying to find alternatives as boat time is limited for me.
  9. @Than_Bogan , yep. Agreed. And when I can get on the water, I was going to start out this year after warming up with some whip drills. Haven't looked up Seth's vids on that again, but will. Hoping that step by step, some dryland drill work, leading to on water drill work, leading to practice in turns, etc. will produce some progress.
  10. @skibug , makes sense. But I need to practice the position statically also before I can work maintaining stack and balance through transition. In snow skiing, we would call that finding static balance, and learning to maintain dynamic balance. But I need to work on my posture/position/stack before I can really move it. Gotta stand in balance before you can move in balance. And I will add for waterskiing, and with managing load/pull of the boat/line tension. We don't have to deal with that on the snow, and I need to revise what I do on the water. The static thing is just a tool, or step on a path, not a cure all.
  11. Dragging this thread up again, as I am getting set to build myself a "perfect pull" substitute. I am looking for the dimensions of the device that used to be sold, made out of metal with long legs that went out on the dock at an angle, with a metal plate angled like a slalom ski on edge to stand against, and the handle going over a rubber "pulley" sort of thing down to be secured at the base. The handle line folded over the pulley pretty low. At one point, I had a line on a used one, but shipping made it prohibitive to obtain. So, will build my own out of wood, secured against posts supporting my carport, once I can figure out the correct edge angle, anchor point for the line, distance between edge of the "ski" and the actual handle, and height at which point the line will go out to the handle. I will try to figure out a way to mimic the rubber pulley to give it some give. EDIT: After reading through the rest of the thread, I am going to see if I can figure out a way to make the angle "across the wake" in relation to the pull of line adjustable so it is not 90 degrees across as was the case with the Perfect Pull. My goal in doing this is to make something where I can experiment with and find a taller, more leg extended lean (not pull) away from the boat, with my balance stacked better over my feet. I do not plan on spending hours on it statically, but just as an aid in finding some physical feedback in my feet and body so I can then take that out on the water and do some whip drills and other things to work on it out there. Getting a better posture without separation between hips and handle, and more efficient lean using that better posture, is my primary goal this year.. Though I will not achieve this goal fully on dry land, I think for a guy with limited water time, it at least can be a tool on the path. If anyone has a Perfect Pull and can give me some measurements, let me know. It is a starting point.
  12. I am not a golfer, and don't understand golf handicaps. But I like ideas like that and/or @ELR 's variation to support "tournament on demand" sort of thing. Along with something that supports more social bragging rights "beer league" nights, which maybe could also fit into the handicap or scoring some way. I don't really care that much about my ranking as, I am just a schmo who wants to improve, and not worried about qualifying for nationals or anything. So if some "protections" need to happen to make the people that care much more about that happy, that seems fine. With regard to the "beer league" social tournaments, seems to me the biggest thing is access to water and courses where they could be held.
  13. @scottyspin , nice! Mine had quite a few hours on it when I got it, but had been treated very well by an owner in the industry that cared about upkeep.
  14. @scottyspin Perfect! I purchased a 98 Response LX a couple years ago for 11k and it has been great! And it looks an awful lot like yours. I was thinking a near turn of the century Response LX would come up and be right for the job. Congrats!
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