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Moggie

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    HIT Club, Perth
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    James Mogridge
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    2013 Radar Strada 67"
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    5 / 22off / 36mph

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  1. SPECIAL OFFER!!! Order spray leg before Christmas and receive a free tampon! Call now… PANSY-555 ;)
  2. @6balls do you have a link to that video, I'd love to see it.
  3. Is there a way to put music to a ski video and upload it to YouTube/Vimeo etc without it breaching copyright laws? @TazyMike28 is putting a video together but has had past videos removed for copyright infringement. There are loads of videos with music and I can't believe they've all paid for licences.
  4. Australia is pretty big so it depends where you want to be. Don't discount Perth. Great beaches, loads of sun, two great ski clubs, one with 5 private lakes the other on the river next to the city. In season there's at least a dozen tournaments in the state.
  5. @TazyMike28 Get the blue Vapor so I can give it a demo. :smiley:
  6. I use an insert in my rear boot to lift my rear heel by a few millimetres. When I moved to double Vapor bindings I couldn’t get the bend in my ankle to move my back knee forward. A few mill in the heel made a big difference. I also tend to stand on my toes a little during the gate-glide. As soon as I’m under load both feet become firmly planted. No idea what I do at the buoy.
  7. Who says an 8 buoy course needs to be longer, if you use it just for practice and don’t use exit gates it can be the same length as a standard setup with pre-gates. With gates, it’ll need to be another 50ish metres long but that would allow you to run a 10 buoy course if you excluded the pre-gates. It’s an interesting idea…
  8. I’m exhausted just reading all that!
  9. The author’s understanding of physics is truly shocking. No question the technology has some potential but the article is just such an exaggeration.
  10. My two cents for what it’s worth…For me, gates at our level (15-28 off) are all about consistency. I break up the gate movement into the following steps when I ski: 1 – Point at which I pull out 2 – Distance boat travels for me to achieve desired width 3 – Distance boat travels for me to match boat speed 4 – Point at which I start my turn in 5 – Distance boat travels for me to ski through gates I use the distance the boat travels as a yardstick so if I change the intensity of a pull out, what I’ve done is change the distance boat travels for me to achieve desired width. This needs to be compensated for in one of the other 5 steps. My aim is to be as consistent as possible with steps 2-5 and simply adjust step 1 for different speeds. For different line lengths each point changes slightly, but being consistent allows you to learn what’s changed and how to compensate.
  11. @DmaxJC_ski, what you're describing isn't being too wide, its being too fast into the buoy. If you're still gaining on the boat at the buoy you're too fast which likely because you were taking your gates too aggressively. That's what causes the slack rope.
  12. I think what @jimbrake is referring to is that when you're wide at 15off you really do feel more acceleration out of the buoy than when you're narrow. Whether this gets you to the next buoy any earlier is debatable as you have to travel further. I've had passes at 15off 34mph where I've been a good 6 feet wider than the buoy line. You generate so much more speed as the angle of the rope is starting to pull you more inbound than down course. Running 15off wide gets you closer to the whip you start feeling at 22off.
  13. @richarddoane, if someone asked you what score are you capable of skiing, what would you tell them?
  14. While I can see why elite skiers may take this view I’ve always disagreed that practice doesn’t count. It may not matter to other people but it matters to me. Yesterday I ran 16m at 58kph for the first time and set a new practice PB of 3@14.25m. To achieve something I’d never done before was a huge rush. My tournament PB is only 5@18.25m@58kph, so when I eventually run it in a tournament it will be more relief than joy. If you’re comparing yourself to other skiers then I agree that only tournament scores really count, but practice scores are important to me because it tells me what I’m capable of achieving.
  15. Thanks for starting this thread @ozski. Almost everyone at my club is at the level of starting to shorten. I've been battling 58kph 18m for ages. For me I've started to have some success by forgetting 18m and 16m and I started working to get consistent at 14m 52kph. It’s helped me stay on the handle longer and improved my hook-up after the buoy. It’s also a lot more fun than 18m.
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