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  1. HDPE, High Density Poly Eurethane comes in quarter inch. it is also cheap, light, and easy to cut and grind to custom fit your boots, ski and hole patterns
  2. @BLOCK I was a life long RTPer. I changed several years ago and started having some rear hip pain. What do you guys think, related or not? Absolutely, it has been known for quite a number of years that a stationary heel IS going to create some hip problems in EVERY double boot skier to SOME extent. Not only hip but knee issues can be created or compounded by the forces trying to move out, and up over the ski in the edge change. I also believe that there is NO coincidence in why these boys Fore-mentioned are all at the top of the podium. Hard work, LOTS of knowledge and time put into figuring out what works best for them but also how the ski reacts and your positions over it. i would say that 95% of advanced skiers in a rear boot DONT get enough weight on their front foot through the edge change (wanna ski like nate or will? you can't with a double boot. (hardshell or other)) it is a heel lifting up no more than it is a push down with the ball of the back foot and the toes. the move in the edge change is to keep you tall and over the CENTER of the ski right over top of the "sweet spot" in an athletic manner. simply lifting your heel is not athletic and thinking in that manner is a dangerous way of working on a RTP but if used correctly, you WILL feel the ski doing things you didn't even know it was made to do simply by the freedom in ROM.
  3. There is Payette Lake there in downtown McCall, it is a beautiful lake but it is big and choppy in the afternoons and it does not have a course. lake Cascade is about 20 minutes down the road from McCall and is half the lake, half the looks and half the people. unfortunately nobody has a course there either :( there are a couple of private sites a little over 100 miles down the road in Caldwell though, you are always welcome for a pull through the course if you can make it into town!
  4. i heard it was John Shealy. but thats just the news in cold ole' Idaho. it snowed here today :(
  5. i skiid double boots for about ten years, from both rubber to both hardshell and eventually on to the "hybrid" RS1. while in Mexico last winter i made the decision to go back to a RTP and within 3 sets i was back in the course feeling parts of the ski i hadn't felt in years. it was THE best thing i have done for my skiing in a number of years. Not only did it increase the tip pressure, but the knee pain from the rear boot holding the back heel down to the ski was gone. so i was having MORE fun skiing, and feeling better and healthier after and during it. However i did not trust the RS1 to release as i had not come out of them in a little over 4 years, so i got a reflex setup and have been VERY happy about the current setup. still haven't knocked my shins in an OTF and looking at that picture above i am hoping i never do anything like that!
  6. Freddy's world record jump of 247 was behind his Nightmare at McCormick's a few years back. It is very common in the top level for all three events with sponsor incentives in WR situations
  7. WOW!! this is getting to be a lot to think about in a turn that is over in one second give or take. there are many good things here in this thread of how to OVERthink a turn. in the world of ZO the only way that a skier advances down the course/rope is by working with the boat. Counter rotation can be simplified so much more! Its purpose is to keep the rope "tight" through your pre turn and apex so you know when it is time to make your move back in. normally when i first see someone "thinking about countering" they are actually doing it too much. most of what happens in the turn should actually feel pretty natural. the ski was made to turn, some better than others but the main point is our place of "work" is directly behind the boat. what 99% of top skiers and coaches are going to tell you to be is "down the line" or "moving with the boat" in some sort of way. it could be by being "open," looking at the pylon in the boat with your shoulders facing it the entire way across or "closed," by having the leading shoulder a little lower and "away" from the boat. either way you you NATURALLY ski you should be "tuned in" to where the boat is at all times. in the turn the only way you know where that boat is, is by "feeling" it IN the rope. So, only counter enough to feel the rope. the more you move your shoulders out the more you have to move them back in, and in my experience any extra movement outside can be translated to bad movement. if you have to turn your shoulders 90 degrees to the boat to feel the rope through the turn then you would most definitely be "out of the pull zone" so you HAVE to turn your shoulders too much, break your core connecting, move to the back heel through the back hip, get tip rise, slack and a $100 chiropractor bill to follow that new $1500 ski :) so like i said above all of the things that i have read here are GREAT things to know and play with, they will all help you to understand what helps you be the best skier you can be, having the most fun of your life in the process. but when any or all of these become the main focus, just remember how you get out to the turn in the first place.
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