School me on slalom

[nmriordan]

As you can see in this thread, there is almost an endless list of tips for slalom.... if I were to narrow it down to one good piece of advice it would be this: find a good and experienced slalom driver!!!!! Priceless....


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[JLG]

@bakes that's badazz man!!

Also some have probably seen it but watch this video of Nate smith at 1hr 18 min or so. Not behind a Tige but who cares as this guys skills are insane!! Frickin incredible what these guys can pull off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T7CPLwjd7s

[bsreid]

The driver makes a world of difference! I found that out the hard way...

[oldduke45]

It's been a long time since I was on a slalom ski, though we did have a few people up behind our 22v. With no ballast and about 28mph, it was decent. With a wake-oriented boat like your Z1 or my Z3, slalom is possible, just go into knowing it may be a challenge to do the hard back-and-forth carves -- it will be hard to get the wake flat. When you cross the wake, you'll want to really keep your knees bent to absorb the bump as much as possible to avoid popping up. I would agree, no ballast, try to keep the boat as flat and level as possible, taps to keep the rooster tail down yet not make the wake any bigger.

h20-ski's advice is good too -- I learned by getting up on two and then dropping a ski, you just point your toes and it will fall off. Just have to do it in an area that doesn't have traffic to run over your dropped ski. Deep water starts are tough for some people, the EZ up rope helps. I would tell the driver to hit it, take a deep breath, let it plow, and if I wobbled, let my back leg drag until I could come up enough to slide it in the ski.

X2 on letting your back leg drag. Takes all the work out og getting up!!

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