I grew up skiing the NorCal Delta behind my father's POC cuddy cabin with a small outboard. That thing put out a huge wake which back then was bad for skiing, and now we pump 3,000 lbs of water in our boats!, then at 17 years old, I bought my first of many many boats. Always singled skied and never used doubles as I couldn't control two skies. I still have my old wood Maja up in my garage storage. Had a Skurfer back in the late 80s and a knee board, but we only did those after a few good slalom runs.

Then in '03 I went down to my local boat shop to get new bindings for my HO Mach 1, I ended up buying;
  1. New Waterski
  2. Two wakeboards
  3. A brand new $65k Team Edition Air Natique


I figured that I had better learn to wakeboard, my reasoning was that my boys who were still quite young would want to wakeboard rather than ski and I figured I would need to learn to do it better so I could teach them.

Well after jumping the first wake I was hooked!! Haven't touched a slalom ski since.