How to ski a slalom course
Hello again today iI am going to write about how to ski in a slalom course. Basically all the tips I wrote about on my blogs are now going to pay off in the big run. The objective of a slalom course is to clear 6 orange colored buoys, in order to do this perfectly use strategic timing for each one. First off start off get yourself out of the water, warm up a bit by making a few maneuverments get use to the course, once you are comfortable and ready to go simply signal the driver by doing a thumbs up gesture so the driver knows it is ready to go. Once the boat reaches proper comfortable speed prepare yourself for buoy number one. Remember use strategy in order to clear the buyoys perfect and clean. Make your swing to the left do a hard cut clear the buoy, then right away swing as fats as you can to the other side and make another hard cut to clear that buoy. Once you have cleared a couple of buoys the course usualy lets off about an extra 50 feet why they do that is so you can resist on your acceleration and return to a comfortable position. Once you have passed that get ready for some more fun, do the same routine but next few passes will have more buoys so you train of thought must be on the money. Focus on the course glimpse ahead of yourself a bit get an idea how you will use your staregie. Finaly after you completed the course let go of the rop gilde on the shore and their shuld be all your friends waiting for you along with a nice cold beer with your name on it.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Water ski fights
Water ski fights are for advamced water skiers. I dont recomend this for youngsters just starting off. As you all seen In the video this is a beginers water ski fight that can cuase severe injury to unexperienced water skiers. However when you are in a match of water skiing keep your head up. Why because first off you can see if their are any oncoming waves from other boats which can throw you off unexpectingly, that ends the fight and makes you the loser that looks bad and is a hilarious for the guys watching. Based on some real life experiences I have had some brutal fights and pain, see theirs a difference between this video and our bright ideas for fights. Instead of noodles we use our skies, yes our skies it may sound funny but this is how its done. We simply get up on two skies and once we are up we remove one ski off our foot and ski with one, that leaves the ski we took off our weapons. To make things even more interesting we also pick up excess sea weed and drift wood that remains and use them to throw at each another.. It may sound hard and painfull but realy it is not half the time we miss, number one thing is just focusing on keeping your head up and use your surroundings to your advantage. And of course never back down!
Water ski fights are for advamced water skiers. I dont recomend this for youngsters just starting off. As you all seen In the video this is a beginers water ski fight that can cuase severe injury to unexperienced water skiers. However when you are in a match of water skiing keep your head up. Why because first off you can see if their are any oncoming waves from other boats which can throw you off unexpectingly, that ends the fight and makes you the loser that looks bad and is a hilarious for the guys watching. Based on some real life experiences I have had some brutal fights and pain, see theirs a difference between this video and our bright ideas for fights. Instead of noodles we use our skies, yes our skies it may sound funny but this is how its done. We simply get up on two skies and once we are up we remove one ski off our foot and ski with one, that leaves the ski we took off our weapons. To make things even more interesting we also pick up excess sea weed and drift wood that remains and use them to throw at each another.. It may sound hard and painfull but realy it is not half the time we miss, number one thing is just focusing on keeping your head up and use your surroundings to your advantage. And of course never back down!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
What weather you water ski in
A few tips when to start waterskiing. Through my years of waterskiing I only ski In early summer when the water is about 67 degrees and late summer when the water is 78degrees. Now a lot of people get anxious and want to start water skiing right away when it is still cold out. I have bad experiences of being to anxious however me and 3 of my friends got fed up and impatient, so we decide to go out water skiing on a cloudy day when the weather was not at top notch. At this time it was around April 25th when we found out the water was around 45degrees. We figured the water is nice so we would have no problem going out, well we found out soon enough when it was time to get inside of the water. As soon as I jumped into the water my body was in and out so quick it was insane. It was pretty cold none of us could stand the cold temperature of the water; your body would go completely numb in the matter of seconds. So never get to anxious because there is lots of time to water ski in the summer time when the water temperature is nice and warm. July and August is prime time for water skiing no earlier no later.
A few tips when to start waterskiing. Through my years of waterskiing I only ski In early summer when the water is about 67 degrees and late summer when the water is 78degrees. Now a lot of people get anxious and want to start water skiing right away when it is still cold out. I have bad experiences of being to anxious however me and 3 of my friends got fed up and impatient, so we decide to go out water skiing on a cloudy day when the weather was not at top notch. At this time it was around April 25th when we found out the water was around 45degrees. We figured the water is nice so we would have no problem going out, well we found out soon enough when it was time to get inside of the water. As soon as I jumped into the water my body was in and out so quick it was insane. It was pretty cold none of us could stand the cold temperature of the water; your body would go completely numb in the matter of seconds. So never get to anxious because there is lots of time to water ski in the summer time when the water temperature is nice and warm. July and August is prime time for water skiing no earlier no later.
The pain of wiping out
Hello again blogers I am going to discuss a little bit about the pain of wiping out on the water. Now most reasons why people wipe out on skies is because they do not wear their ski tight enough which causes them to slip out of the rubber boot not expecting, or people have the wrong footing placement what I mean by that is if you are left dominant have your left foot in the back because that foot is stronger and will be able to push the water better and manoeuver much easier. Now same thing if you are right side dominant have your right foot in the back for the same reason. Another thing people do wrong to is they don’t use the proper speed while driving the skier because when they use slower speed the skier sinks more into the water which cause the skier to work harder and use more strength because he or she is pushing more water because their more deeper into the water, also the deeper you are the harder it is to turn stay up. Why because the water has more chance of caching the front of the ski and causing you to go under or falling face first.
Hello again blogers I am going to discuss a little bit about the pain of wiping out on the water. Now most reasons why people wipe out on skies is because they do not wear their ski tight enough which causes them to slip out of the rubber boot not expecting, or people have the wrong footing placement what I mean by that is if you are left dominant have your left foot in the back because that foot is stronger and will be able to push the water better and manoeuver much easier. Now same thing if you are right side dominant have your right foot in the back for the same reason. Another thing people do wrong to is they don’t use the proper speed while driving the skier because when they use slower speed the skier sinks more into the water which cause the skier to work harder and use more strength because he or she is pushing more water because their more deeper into the water, also the deeper you are the harder it is to turn stay up. Why because the water has more chance of caching the front of the ski and causing you to go under or falling face first.
Monday, November 16, 2009
History of water skiing
My next blog will talk about the history of water skiing. Well years ago back in the 1970s they used to use water skis made out of wood and were used differently than today, how? Because back in the day the skis made first off did not have back fins, the advantage of back fins are the greatest thing since sliced bread because thanks to back fins you can control yourself where you are going. The olden days water skies again never had back fins so when you are water skiing you had no control over anything; where you are going when your move is being made. The olden days water skis always had a very minimal bend to them at the front and now days have a big bend at the front. Why are their more bend to the skis now days because the older wooden skis caused a lot of people to wipe out unreasonably because the front caught the water a lot easier on smaller waves, let alone big waves with those things. I personally do not care for wooden water skis because through experience had bad wipe outs over such small waves. Whenever you use them against rough water you are just kidding yourself. Today we use synthetic water skies coated with carbon fiber plate with slick designs rather than finished planks of wood. My mod ow towards old water skies is "wood no good" go synthetic or go home. I say that for many reasons. Also I will mention to is on newer water skis their are curved surfaces for more control and takes waves better as in plows through water nicer than wooden. Last thing I will mention is the diameter difference between olden day skis and today's skis; olden days skis are thinner less thick of a board which makes it harder to get up on because your ski is cutting through water rather than pushing the water to get up. Today's skis have wider surfaces for easy getting up and more shock absorbent towards waves, their also wider for a reason that reason is for people wide feet because back in the day wide feet hung over the ski which caused people to fall so instead they have improved them by making the plank wider so the foot fits comfortably. That my friends is a little bit of history of back then and now.
My next blog will talk about the history of water skiing. Well years ago back in the 1970s they used to use water skis made out of wood and were used differently than today, how? Because back in the day the skis made first off did not have back fins, the advantage of back fins are the greatest thing since sliced bread because thanks to back fins you can control yourself where you are going. The olden days water skies again never had back fins so when you are water skiing you had no control over anything; where you are going when your move is being made. The olden days water skis always had a very minimal bend to them at the front and now days have a big bend at the front. Why are their more bend to the skis now days because the older wooden skis caused a lot of people to wipe out unreasonably because the front caught the water a lot easier on smaller waves, let alone big waves with those things. I personally do not care for wooden water skis because through experience had bad wipe outs over such small waves. Whenever you use them against rough water you are just kidding yourself. Today we use synthetic water skies coated with carbon fiber plate with slick designs rather than finished planks of wood. My mod ow towards old water skies is "wood no good" go synthetic or go home. I say that for many reasons. Also I will mention to is on newer water skis their are curved surfaces for more control and takes waves better as in plows through water nicer than wooden. Last thing I will mention is the diameter difference between olden day skis and today's skis; olden days skis are thinner less thick of a board which makes it harder to get up on because your ski is cutting through water rather than pushing the water to get up. Today's skis have wider surfaces for easy getting up and more shock absorbent towards waves, their also wider for a reason that reason is for people wide feet because back in the day wide feet hung over the ski which caused people to fall so instead they have improved them by making the plank wider so the foot fits comfortably. That my friends is a little bit of history of back then and now.
How to not injure yourself
Another thing I would like to discuss is how can you hurt yourself. Well through experience I have wiped out and messed up many times and I have hurt myself sometimes because either I tried to much at once and thought I could do what the pros do, nope never happened until i built up enough confidence and strategy. It took many years for myself to learn how to make some maneuvers smoothly and make sure I can do them without falling.Notice though on the boats professionals use they have swing rope attachment bars; those are things that you tie your rope on to on the boat. The advantage of swinging rope bars and basic hooks on boats are a huge difference because the regular hooks on the boat are to close to the water so what happens is whenever you are in the middle of water skiing the rope can get caught underneath the water and cause slack to get to the rope which can injure you pretty bad and sucks for quick maneuverability. The advantage of the swinging rope bars has many good things actually because number one it stands high up on the boat far away from the water so it is pretty much impossible to get slack into the rope, number two is while making a maneuver as in sharp turns to the other side of the wake the bar swing with the way you are going and always keeps good solid tension on the rope. It also helps you to stay up at the same time therefore chances of injury are very minimal at that point but like they say never go beyond your limits unless you are confident enough.
Another thing I would like to discuss is how can you hurt yourself. Well through experience I have wiped out and messed up many times and I have hurt myself sometimes because either I tried to much at once and thought I could do what the pros do, nope never happened until i built up enough confidence and strategy. It took many years for myself to learn how to make some maneuvers smoothly and make sure I can do them without falling.Notice though on the boats professionals use they have swing rope attachment bars; those are things that you tie your rope on to on the boat. The advantage of swinging rope bars and basic hooks on boats are a huge difference because the regular hooks on the boat are to close to the water so what happens is whenever you are in the middle of water skiing the rope can get caught underneath the water and cause slack to get to the rope which can injure you pretty bad and sucks for quick maneuverability. The advantage of the swinging rope bars has many good things actually because number one it stands high up on the boat far away from the water so it is pretty much impossible to get slack into the rope, number two is while making a maneuver as in sharp turns to the other side of the wake the bar swing with the way you are going and always keeps good solid tension on the rope. It also helps you to stay up at the same time therefore chances of injury are very minimal at that point but like they say never go beyond your limits unless you are confident enough.
Friday, November 6, 2009
How to get Started off safely
How to use the proper equipment properly and what to use. There are many different things you have to use and do properly before water skiing so the skier behind you does not get hurt or badly injured and so the driver does not ruin the boat motor. first thing your going to want to do is to have the water skier put on a life jacket to prevent drowning. After the skier has all his safety gear on he will then jump in the water while the boat engin is off and put on his ski and have possession of the the rope, now the rope your skier will be using with be at least 75 feet or longer and the rope is attached to a swinging bar high up on the boat so the rope doesn’t get caught on the water which can cause the rope to get slack and injure the skier behind the boat.. The driver will then proceed slowly in gear to tighten up the rope so the skier can get ready for skiing. When the skier has the rope tightened and is ready to go he will yell out GO! The driver will hit the throttle all the way so the boat can pull up the skier quickly without dragging he or she. These are just some tips to help you get started if you guys ever want to try it out one day.
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