Slalom Mythbusters

[BensonWdby]

This is a quote from Gordon:

Dave,

Seth [Stisher?] ran all 6 buoys on a one by 4 with slightly rounded edges. It's not that tough to do. Starting is the toughest part. You need to do a beach start or a deep water start holding the ski with one hand and the rope in the other and once the boat is in gear and pressure is on the ski the ski will stay in place. You can do it on any ski with no bindings first and then a plank later,

Adios,

GR

[BensonWdby]

I have expanded the myths to bust at the beginning of this thread. Take a look.

[Sled491]

The Obrien drug scandle as I recall it was not while at Obrien but at HO sports. Was while crossing the Canadian border. He left HO after that and went on to his next project. Just how I remember it.

I'm RFF and find it a disadvantage because if not set up right will be unrecoverable at the second ball.

Speed across wake was worked out by math at another time and I think I remember speeds close to 70 or double on the cut.

3 k for a carbon ski with boots no probs. Saw it a month ago in orlando. Aksed my wife if I could buy it....was followed with a slap to the back of my head.

[jmvotto]

benson, hope seth had tweezers for the splinters ... ouch

[BensonWdby]

Regarding 10. -- Hitting the boat. I contacted Waterski magazine looking for the photo.

After the info from Todd shown below, here is the photo:



Here is the response from Todd:

From: "Todd Ristorcelli" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]"
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:16:46 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: Other

Hi Dave,
Yes, you’re correct. The image was in one of our issue a few years ago. Don’t remember which one exactly. Sorry!

His name is Aaron Larkin. He's from New Zealand. The image was taken at the Moomba Masters in Australia. He was at 38 off.

Best,
Todd Ristorcelli

[sandm]

5. O'Brien drug scandal - Herb O'Brien allegedly left Obrien water skis after drugs were found in his ski boxes. If true, I am sure Herb had nothing to do with this personally. Mid-Late 1970's. AMF bought them (bowling balls, camping gear, and water skis?)


don't forget about them owning harley during the same time period. here's a parent company that fed 2 lifestyles- 1 spending large amounts of time on the water and one spending large amounts of time away from water.

[BensonWdby]

So did you see the photo I re-posted a couple days ago? Scroll up.....

[Sled491]

That would have been worth seeing live that's for sure.

Hey do you know anyone with some Medium clinchers in stock? I guess there not making them this year.

[BensonWdby]

Check with Doug at http://theliquidedge.com/

They are in Farmer City, Ill.

Doug is also having a Wade Cox day on his private lake - so you can ask him about that at the same time.

One caution about Clinchers - I love mine, but you need to mix them up with your regular gloves. I used mine exclusively until the very end of the year. I had to stop because I was having some very severe forearm pain - I think it was like Carpel Tunnel. I will continue to use mine, but intermittently.

[Canuckle Head]

#5 - O'Brien Drug Scandal:

Herb O'Brien lost his first company O'Brien Skiis 33 years ago when he was convicted of cocaine smuggling.

He and a handful of associates pleaded guilty to involvement in one of the largest cocaine smuggling operations the Northwest had seen. More charges were filed in 1977. The conspiracy involved more than 200 pounds of cocaine, worth about $3 million at the time. The cocaine was smuggled from Chile, stuffed into O'Brien skis and false-bottom suitcases.

I figured with a name like Herb, he would have been smuggling the green...