This season's goals

[Hollywood]

What are your guy's water sports goals for this year in terms of boarding/skiing/footing/etc.?

Saloming:
We really only do freeskiing slaloming, but I hope I improve my form enough to be skiing full speed through the course come fall.

Barefooting:
Grasshopper, deep backs, front to backs off 5' section, and overrall rough water endurance

Boarding: (i don't know the trick terminology)
Knee: front flip (not much time devoted here)
Wake: backroll, front flip, W2W 360

More importantly though, all my buddies are getting serious about learning to foot after watching me last year, so I'd rather get them going long line so we can all get dragged across the lake at 40+ mph at the same time. I've never seen or even heard of more than 3 at a time on our lake before.

I thought this might help all of achieve new tricks this year with some guys being experienced in different areas.

[skinautique]

Slalom - deep 35 off and/or into 38 off
Jump - 50-60 feet (only jumped 8 times so far)
Trick- around 700 (Don't trick that often)

[Hollywood]

My best jump last year was like 50-55 ft. I've been off the ramp right around a dozen time, it's a blast! You should make that 60 no problem with another 8 jumps.

I also forgot about that darn trick ski. I can get around on a back flip with the skylon on our '88, but not even close in "tournament" trim behind a Response.

[Daryl]

I have bought some new slalom gear and am looking to get through 32 off and to run 35 would be AWSOME!

I don't trick or fly! so I'll stay glued to the H2O

[AbunDiga909]

This year I'm really hoping to get all six at 15' off at least. I better, because thats the only reason we got a 216 oppose to a 210!

As for hydrofoiling, I kind of dropped that to slalom. My goal for the last two years was to get a gainer down. That never happened. I still hope to do it this year, but I still wouldn't consider it a real "goal."

I've seen a lot of barefooting. Looks interesting!

[BigBald]

Main goal is to learn all the terminology used in the above posts.... :lol:

Seriously though, I have some personal boarding, barefooting, and slalom goals, but it mainly deals with getting in better shape physically. I am going to really concentrate on getting more experience as a driver. I will be pulling foks at different skill levels and with different interests. The goal is to be safe and allow them to enjoy the experience. Will work to make sure that the driver is not a source of frustration...

[Rick]

Two years I pulled a hamstring so badly my foot went numb for 2 days As a result my Goals are a little more conserative. I would like to get back up on my Kidder Redline and make it back to the course However at 52 Most people my age are just cruising.

[pj]

I'm just going to hope that none of the items listed on the warning label of my new slalom ski actaully happen to me. Severe injury and/or death, seriously. God bless the legal department.

[NautiqueChick]

Wakeboarding- Get bigger air on my HS w2w jumps, work on TS w2w jumps, get better at riding switch, work on my w2w 180s, maybe learn to do a 3 or an invert.

[skinautique]

Main goal is to learn all the terminology used in the above posts.... :lol:

Seriously though, I have some personal boarding, barefooting, and slalom goals, but it mainly deals with getting in better shape physically. I am going to really concentrate on getting more experience as a driver. I will be pulling foks at different skill levels and with different interests. The goal is to be safe and allow them to enjoy the experience. Will work to make sure that the driver is not a source of frustration...

What all do you want to learn?

[BigBald]

I am assuming that you are referring to "terminology"?....I am still getting aquainted with the various teminology of experienced skiers, barefooters, and boarders. Things like "deep 35 off and/or into 38 off"...don't got a clue what that means.

As far as "pulling" experience. I have great opportunities to pull with some very experienced folks in the boat with me. I spent a whole week in a boat with a retired pro wakeboarder last year. He taught students and me at the same time. Because of that, I feel fairly confident that I won't cause frustration for a wakeboarder. But I have only had limited time pulling experienced Barefooters and Slalom skiers. So, I am looking forward to some more opportunties to pull folks with no experience or mid-level experience with an experienced driver in the boat with me....does that make sense?

[skinautique]

The standard slalom rope is 75 feet. Anytime you hear 35 off or 38 off or any other "off" you subtract that number from 75 and that is the total length of the rope. The bouys are about 38 feet away from the center of the course if you were to be perfectly perpendicular with the pylon. When someone says deep into a certain line length, they mean they want to be running 4 or 5 bouys at that line length. If someone says I want to be into a certain line length they mean that they hope to be getting one or two or maybe 3 bouys at that line length.
Hope that helps!

[DRAGON88]

lets see, Tantrum, Tantrum to blind, Roll to revert, 540, and maybe try some wirlybirds.

[Rick]

Dragon are you talking about your 2 year old in the marked after he can't have candy? Thats what my son used to do but now he's a skier and much better.

[DRAGON88]

Dragon are you talking about your 2 year old in the marked after he can't have candy? Thats what my son used to do but now he's a skier and much better.

:lol: I'm 15 and dont intend on haveing kids of my own for atleast another 12-15 years.

tanrum:A heelside backflip - Invented by Eric Perez.
tantrum 2 blind:A heelside backflip with a backside 180 rotation.