will skiing ever go away? what do you do?

[h2oskeefreek]

Let's take a poll:

while MANY people on here do wakeboard, who thinks that skiing is going away? who never skis anymore?

[gotwake]

Couldn't really vote...
I wakeboard, don't own a ski, but know a lot of people that ski, and I enjoy watching them. I usually stuck around for slalom day at the INT events. IMO, slalom should've been an Olympic event years ago. Easy to judge - no "artistict" aspect, just did they make it around the bouy. I think that the decrease in slalom is due to higher boat traffic and a lack of public courses (and the kids dig air).

[BIGMAC]

Yep I wakeboard too. Never liked sking that much though.

[morfoot]

I have an ancient HO ski from the mid 80's that I pull out, blow the dust off of and go for a quick ride. A 10 minute slalom is about all I'm good for. Not to mention an extra 600 pounds in the boat doesn't make for a smooth wake.

[slob02]

I like hitting the course first, then load up the nautique second and wakeboard, and when the lake gets rough, we pull out the sky ski. Jet skis and tubers cant make enough wake to stop that thing.

[NCH2oSki]

I am a skier, but do own a wakeboard, not sure where its at now, but there is one somewhere in my garage. My wife is a skier also, and refuses to even try a wakeboard. I also think there is a kneeboard somehere in the storage area, it must be covered up with the tube.......

[AbunDiga909]

I can't vote either. Lemme explain. I started slaloming when I was 8. I got into it immediately and got a used HO VTX. I wason that ski until I grew out of it just last yr and started using my friends HO something. At the time, skiing was just a once in a while thing. This year, I hope to make it half of what I do on the water, the other half being hydrofoiling. Maybe I will get my own ski again... who knows.

To answer your question, skiing will not die, at least not for a long long time. One of the thing CC is most famous for is their 196 and its hull. There are many people out there like my uncle, who thinks all other water sports suck compared to slaloming. I think wakeboarding is getting more popular, but the slalom skiing popularity is staying the same, it just seems less.

[NautiqueChick]

I wakeboard. I have tried skiing a couple of times, I didn't really enjoy it that much. My dad skis though.

[Hollywood]

I'm a skier, and refuse to call myself a "wakeboarder" even though I do it sometimes. Skiing is always priority with my crew. The board is only for when it's too rough to ski.

[yellowdog]

Speaking for the wife. She didn't learn to ski until she was 28. She is one of those that still think wakeboards are a passing fancy and that everyone will regain their senses and start skiing again. She and one of her girlfriends are ready and waiting (for me) at 5:30 every morning during the season. They'll keep at it so far into the fall that I am afraid the water intake will start sucking ice. Die-Hard Skiers! I keep thinking that she is getting senile but since she still lets me live with her, I accept it. As for me, it was 'ski til you die', but that was before a bunch of knee surgeries and a loaner kidney.

[VinRLX]

Don't own a board, sorry. My lake is too small for throwing big wakes. As it is, some residents get ticked at the tubing wakes. I had to vote hardcore slalom, though I did start barefooting last season. . .

[h2oskeefreek]

TTT

[waketime]

I think ppl will wakeboard before they ski if they have never tried either of them. I learned to ski when I was 5 and ski in comps and it became boring. I picked up a wakeboard 5 years ago and will never ski agian. Its easier to learn to get up but was alot harder to learn the right cutting. I now comp in small local tournaments and they are a blast to go to. In short, I think rec skiing will disappear
do to the way the boat market is today by pushing wakeboarding, but you will still have some of the hardcore slalom ski guys.

[h2oskeefreek]

well, it doesn't freakin' matter to me anymore, the boat i've been trying to buy for a freakin' month, the a-hole just emailed me and the deal is off.

[MARK-S]

I have a 2003 206 I can sell you asap.

[skitime]

We are the "jack of all trades..masters of none family"
can adapt to any water conditions barefoot, ski, wakeboard, kneeboard, airchair. Even been know to pull the old tube around :shock: .Also skurfers, sleds and discus (round plywood circle). Anybody remember those? And just about anything else...if it floats we've probably tried to ride it :wink:

[h2oskeefreek]

haha, i'd love to have that, but unless you are prepared to let it go for around 10K, it won't be happening.

[Nautiqueman]

I will always slalom- God willing... been doing it 27 years! I am going to do better on the course this year in '04 than ever!

[footinfool]

have been a diehard skier and barefooter for years...about 27 to be exact. a few years ago i tried that wakeboard thing......well its pretty awesome. learning curve seems shorter, much easier to learn tricks plus when the age and a few pounds start adding on its a little more easier on the body. a little easier on a older overweight guy like me than slalom or footin. skiing and boarding will never die. its just more power to the sport!!!