Slalom Mythbusters

[BensonWdby]

Been long enough - I ran across this thread in a Google search and started reading the list of "myths" and was going - hey this sounds like everything I have heard over time. Got all the way through the first post before I realized it was my thread - getting old ......

[zabooda]

Doing a 360 has been done in ski shows. The trick is to use a high pivot (performed before towers were common) on the boat and doing an "S" turn by the driver. The driver goes into a power turn and accelerates the skier and then does a power turn in the other direction and the boat goes behind the skier and resumes the original direction. I'm sure a 75' rope was used. That was the days of the wooden saucer with a small step ladder on it and the skier with the kite.


In the late 60's, the Cyprus Gardens El Diablo was the must have ski. It had two sets of grooves on each side of the ski that prevented lateral movement. The concave form came later and much better improvements when manufacturers went away from wood. I maintained my ski each year with waxing on a regular basis with carbana wax. Someday, I will hunt it down from the attic.

http://www.trademarkia.com/el-diablo...-72288009.html
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-water-sport/b...ationFlag=true

[viking]

Been long enough - I ran across this thread in a Google search and started reading the list of "myths" and was going - hey this sounds like everything I have heard over time. Got all the way through the first post before I realized it was my thread - getting old ......

Now that is funny stuff ^^
I learned to ski slalom on a wooden ski called the "Banana". It was big and buoyant. Then graduated to a smaller sports ski called the "Shark"
Cannot remember the manufacturers but do remember the models.
Also did the whole Wooden saucer and stool trick as well as home-made DiY ski-trainer with plywood & carpet for the younger cousins.

Damn I'm feeling old when I start to look and remember back!!

[BensonWdby]

Doing a 360 has been done in ski shows. The trick is to use a high pivot (performed before towers were common) on the boat and doing an "S" turn by the driver. The driver goes into a power turn and accelerates the skier and then does a power turn in the other direction and the boat goes behind the skier and resumes the original direction. I'm sure a 75' rope was used. That was the days of the wooden saucer with a small step ladder on it and the skier with the kite.



http://www.trademarkia.com/el-diablo...-72288009.html
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-water-sport/b...ationFlag=true

Actually accomplished the 360 this weekend. Not me personally but I was in the boat. Helped to have the tower and a skilled driver. Took 5 attempt to get it perfect.