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"jamesgangnc" wrote in message m... http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZjamesgangnc Thanks for looking. Heh. I haven't skied in .... lemmie think.... about 35 years or so. I wonder if I could even "get up", and if so, how many horsepower on the back of a boat it would take. At one time (as kids) we used to ski behind my 12' Sears aluminum boat with a 5 hp Johnson engine. Not easy, but we did it. Eisboch |
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
... "jamesgangnc" wrote in message m... http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZjamesgangnc Thanks for looking. Heh. I haven't skied in .... lemmie think.... about 35 years or so. I wonder if I could even "get up", and if so, how many horsepower on the back of a boat it would take. At one time (as kids) we used to ski behind my 12' Sears aluminum boat with a 5 hp Johnson engine. Not easy, but we did it. Eisboch For the younger crowd just "muscling up" works. But it is pretty easy for anyone to get up if you follow the right technique. Put both feet in the ski and sit your butt back on top of the end of the ski. Arms fully extended. This is the hardest part, resist the temptation to straighten your legs when the boat takes off. Instead just stay squatted on the back of the ski and let the boat pull you. Stay down until the boat picks up some speed and the ski starts to plan out then stand up slowly. If the ski tip goes vertical when you stand up then you stood up too early. Strength is not a factor if you do it this way. |
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"jamesgangnc" wrote in message ... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "jamesgangnc" wrote in message m... http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZjamesgangnc Thanks for looking. Heh. I haven't skied in .... lemmie think.... about 35 years or so. I wonder if I could even "get up", and if so, how many horsepower on the back of a boat it would take. At one time (as kids) we used to ski behind my 12' Sears aluminum boat with a 5 hp Johnson engine. Not easy, but we did it. Eisboch For the younger crowd just "muscling up" works. But it is pretty easy for anyone to get up if you follow the right technique. Put both feet in the ski and sit your butt back on top of the end of the ski. Arms fully extended. This is the hardest part, resist the temptation to straighten your legs when the boat takes off. Instead just stay squatted on the back of the ski and let the boat pull you. Stay down until the boat picks up some speed and the ski starts to plan out then stand up slowly. If the ski tip goes vertical when you stand up then you stood up too early. Strength is not a factor if you do it this way. My problem is the wife. She puts the throttle to the stops. And the boat accelerates a lot faster than the old body can hold on for. |
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Eisboch wrote:
"jamesgangnc" wrote in message m... http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZjamesgangnc Thanks for looking. Heh. I haven't skied in .... lemmie think.... about 35 years or so. I wonder if I could even "get up", and if so, how many horsepower on the back of a boat it would take. At one time (as kids) we used to ski behind my 12' Sears aluminum boat with a 5 hp Johnson engine. Not easy, but we did it. Eisboch I learned to slalom behind a 9.9 (dropping the ski). That was many years and lbs. ago. |
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On Aug 6, 8:14*pm, DK wrote:
Eisboch wrote: "jamesgangnc" wrote in message om... http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZjamesgangnc Thanks for looking. Heh. *I haven't skied in .... lemmie think.... about 35 years or so. * *I wonder if I could even "get up", and if so, how many horsepower on the back of a boat it would take. At one time (as kids) *we used to ski behind my 12' Sears aluminum boat with a 5 hp Johnson engine. Not easy, but we did it. Eisboch I learned to slalom behind a 9.9 (dropping the ski). *That was many years and lbs. ago.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Harry will be here anytime telling everyone how he skied behind his dad's runabout trans-Atlantic and came back to a fireboat welcome in NYC..... |
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