What's so great about skiing

I wouldn't try to make a case for skiing being better or worse than wakeboarding, but it is fun as hell.  It is just the evolution of things, similar to how boards have taken over the ski slopes in winter.  Now snow boards I have a real problem with as they get in a slalom skier's way both on the lift and going down the hill.  More importantly however is their unpredictability and complete inability to stop in a hurry.  This endangers everyone around them.  On the water, wakeboarders only endanger themselves but they do tear up smooth water.  However, they have no problem with using rough water where a slalom skier will only want to ski on the smooth stuff.  Honestly it is usually the ridiculous stereo hanging off the tower that bothers me the most.  I HATE having to listen to other people's music when I am out on the water.

My 9 year old has zero fear on the slopes.  If he skis half that hard, I will be one proud Papa.  I have a big framed picture of me dragging a shoulder at the river.  He is gonna have a pretty high bar to clear, but I think he will be able to do it if he chooses to take up a ski instead of a board.  I am not going to buy a $40,000 boat to go slow in however.  Not now, not ever.

Once I get my post fixed up (headers will melt rope right now, need a higher connect, one of those that bolts onto the back of the motor I think) I'll pull any of you fellows behind my boat

I'd actually love to try and get up on a single ski, maybe I'll have to try that this summer (it's been sooooo many years)

They got better things to do like smoke pot and play video games, kids just arent what they use to be with all this technology and really poteint weed

Ray, grab your balls back from whoever's purse they're in and come to the river ya big pussy

i dont know about kids but, my 50 some thing year old wife will be strapping her ski's on this weekend at big river for the 3rd  time in her life. she is trying damn hard to learn how to ski.....

last year at mead my 84 year old grandpa strapped on some skis and kicked some ass!! it was awesome..

he keeps saying how everyone is such pussies now. lol. people with 24ft boats and smaller are scared to go to catalina. he was like we used to ski there on a 18ft flatbottom. lol.

its different times now.

He's right!  I grew up at the beach.  I would either ride my bike or my mom would just drop me off for a day of surfing since I was like 12.  I had a friend who used to sail a little Hobie Cat or a skiff between Seal beach and Avalon almost every weekend when he was in 7th grade.  This would have been early 70's.

Well I'm 24 and grow up skiing... Yes wakeboarding is fun, but it's a different animal. But I'd rather be going fast than upside down. When I first was learning it was all I wanted to do, and we had a rule that you can't do anything but hold the flag until you ski! One day I hope to ski as well as my father. He skis hard and fast, and doesn't give up till he eats shit.
I personally love skiing, one of the biggest things I was looking forward to was the day I skied behind my own boat with my Dad pulling me. And it was better than planning because it happened it be perfect glass, and I pulled him also. And he hadn't skied in a couple years...


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What's so great about skiing

Exactly, texting and video games are much better for kids. 

I feel bad for kids these days. Gone are the days where there were 4 gas cans in the boat cause we were on it all day. We didn't really have a choice cause we were sandbar camping. When there's no AC you gotta be on the water all day. Now all we do is hang out in coves and drink and tell lies all day. I see the kids and the teenagers are either sitting in the boat bored out of their mind, or they're drinking with everyone else. I didn't even know a cove existed until I was 16 lol.