You mentioned skiing is an art, not a science, but we talk about the science most of the time. I would be interested in hearing a podcast about the art of skiing and your take on that. Maybe it's been done and I missed it? Love what you guys are doing! Thanks for your passion and advice! Cheers
I have found the most useful gauge of where my weight is relative to the ski is degree of bend in the knee combined with pressure point on my feet. If I have my weight on the ball of my foot AND have my knee just covering the front toe of the binding, then my weight generally is in the right place. In other words it improves the probability that I'm positioned in an ideal place for load. Obviously the full stack to the top of your head matters.
I think he's saying you need to let the ski ski back toward the rope and the wake rather than turn at the buoy and try to accelerate from there. If you turn at the buoy and get the ski out ahead of the rope there, you stop and the boat pulls you down course. If you keep your speed through the turn and ski back towards the rope without a lot of load, you get farther behind the boat when you really hook up and accelerate out toward the buoy. How you actually do that I don't know. I never get that stacked position because I feel like I'm not back far enough to resist the pull of the boat.
You mentioned skiing is an art, not a science, but we talk about the science most of the time. I would be interested in hearing a podcast about the art of skiing and your take on that. Maybe it's been done and I missed it? Love what you guys are doing! Thanks for your passion and advice! Cheers
I have found the most useful gauge of where my weight is relative to the ski is degree of bend in the knee combined with pressure point on my feet. If I have my weight on the ball of my foot AND have my knee just covering the front toe of the binding, then my weight generally is in the right place. In other words it improves the probability that I'm positioned in an ideal place for load. Obviously the full stack to the top of your head matters.
I don't understand the feet and rope relationship. Is there a video to see this transition?
I think he's saying you need to let the ski ski back toward the rope and the wake rather than turn at the buoy and try to accelerate from there. If you turn at the buoy and get the ski out ahead of the rope there, you stop and the boat pulls you down course. If you keep your speed through the turn and ski back towards the rope without a lot of load, you get farther behind the boat when you really hook up and accelerate out toward the buoy.
How you actually do that I don't know. I never get that stacked position because I feel like I'm not back far enough to resist the pull of the boat.