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Like to get a little more speed from the ski. Curious if some were going to a longer ski. Going to take a degree off the wing and see what happens. For me I notice the wing in the follow through of the turn. Right now it seems restrictive there. Agree on some of the above points, KC Wolfeie,MC.

First year skiing 32 mph and first seemingly obvious question are most skiers using their same M6 ski or not and if so what are you doing to get more speed from your ski. Wing angle? Set up?

@Cnewbert that sounds great. Thank you for the offer. For the 3 weeks I'm there I'll be skiing at a couple ski schools and hope to connect up with a couple guys at Lake Miona. If we purchase the plan is to return next March, if ok I'd be interested in skiing with you out on Lake Weir sometime.

I tore my achilles in 2012 from not ejecting out of the Leverage with an OTF fall. Looked at all the choices. I prefer rubber with RTP. Chose the T-Factor. Has lasted well, maybe 2 years and it was the rubber tearing. Cords have held up. Feature I like is the bungee laces cords. You can snug it up and still get out. I snug it say medium pressure. Tighten crazy hard you may not get out. Highly recommend.

@VONMAN @Cnewbert thank you for the offers. I checked your you tube you have great technique. Ernie is that course skiing on Lake Weir, if so I would be interested in checking it out. Kinda looking for course skiing. My first week there I'm planning on skiing at Lapoints with the tournament on the weekend, following week at Jodie Fischer's tournament and maybe check out Travers if time.

Going to be spending 3 weeks at the Villages, Florida in November and was wondering if anyone knows if the club is active? I see some online presence but no website. A slalom course is advertised and they appear to have a barefoot Mastercraft. Will likely ski at one or two of the local ski schools, but I'm looking to buy a home there and it would be nice to have a local ski site

, Real glad to hear this conversation taking place. I run the New England Slalom Championship in Wolfeboro, NH, since 1988 and I have a background in competitive golf from back in high school. I brought the golf handicap format into our tournament years ago. I do 2 divisions which one is sort of an open AB division with a group of skiers that run into 35 off or higher and in golf terms, a gross score division or actual score. The rest of the skiers ski in the net division or handicap adjusted division. No more being the only one in your division. Like golf, handicapping makes it fun to ski against a large field, a chance for an actual prize or gift, no trophies for adults. I worked with Dave Allen to begin instituting a handicap system into WSTIMS. My partner Than B. constructed a spread sheet to pre-figure the handicap and make the adjustments and tally the scores during the tournament. We have our own parameters and formula to determine a fair baseline to figure the handicaps and it's proven to work very well with many years of data. I think all local C's should move to ABD's and make those tournaments more fun. I have heard and read about many interesting formats. It would be nice if everyone could put their heads together. Maybe a task force. We could potentially think about Handicap divisions at Nationals like Nastar which is wildly successful.

thanks for the great advice, all good

Mr Horton, I entered but don't know the area. Is there a tournament page with info about close local hotels? Order of events, practice, skier list etc thanks

Thanks Than and Mark for the kind words, but it's always been a club effort as Mark and I have been skiing here for some 40 years and Than half that time. It's a great public lake ski site. If you've driven down Route 90 or the Mass pike heading to Boston you've likely driven through our lake

I know it's strange but I live on the lake with the tunnel in the above picture. I can't get newer than a 2009. I want a change in boat look and color and it's to expensive to change the color and upholstery or not worth it if you can buy a new used boat for about the same as I can sell mine . I will have to keep this boat for the foreseeable future. So I thought I'd post this request for someone who is looking to sell their blue 08-09. I'm appealing to a small group of skiers

I live on a Massachusetts lake with a small triangular shaped tunnel that leads to the ski lake from my home and that cannot accommodate the width of the new Nautique nor the 200 so until they rebuild the tunnel I am stuck with a 196. My ideal boat is the above years 196 with a medium to light blue hull pattern. I"d like one with the entire hull blue and I've seen them even with the deck blue. I presently am selling my red 2008 to purchase a blue one that's in as mint condition as possible with a heater and ZO

If the talk on the dock is about retirement and when to take your social security

TRUE Story at Nationals. If your looking for your handle after you just got done skiing and I tell you it's around your neck, you might be in men 6

Horton do you have any openings?