Get the Kids out on the water.

Congratulations Blake and Reanna! Great job!

-Keith

2010 New England INT League Championships


Blake - mini outlaw 1st overall
Reanna - junoir entro 2nd overall

Excellent form and stability for her second run.

My daughter, 13, who learned to ski the first summer we had our Nautique (she was 10) declared over the winter she was going to learn how to slalom this summer. I promised to buy her a new slalom ski if she did it.

First time out this year she says, "OK Dad, I want to try and drop one. after about 3 or 4 tries, she stays up and skis about 200 feet. By that point her arms hurt and she wanted a break. As it turned out, she never ended up trying again that day but a promise is a promise.....I bought her a new HO slalom ski. She was one proud 13 year old.

Next time out on the lake a couple weeks later, She saddles up the new ski along with one of the combo skis on the other foot. Gets up, drops the combo, ans skied all over the lake that day.

This video is the first run on the new slalom ski. A VERY proud day for papa!

Megan Delivers

Yes that worked fine thanks Keith and Monty.

on the mom and your daugther

Any tips for Facebook video???

How about get those granparents out of the rocking chair and up skiing.

Here are a few pics of MOM @ 61 yr old throwing it down on 2. She was going to try to slalom ski but she was a little worried about how it might effect the arm she broke a while back.   Mom was on a ski team and skied tournaments in the late 60's. Saddly my step dad is fighting cancer and it has kept them off the water the last 2 yrs.

Once you have the YouTube URL, you put it in between the 'tube' BBcodes, just like an image.

It would look like this:
(tube)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBfgy-LIcE(/tube)

In the example above, replace the ( with [ and the ) with ]

-Keith

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LakeBoy wrote: my videos are posted on youtube.com, and I can either cut and paste the link like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBfgy-LIcE and you can cut and paste this link into your "browser" window, or I can insert the above link into a "hyperlink" which is tougher to explain how to use. It is that symbol where you type in responses like this. It is a world with a paper clip next to it, just to the left of the smiley icon.

You can also embed YouTube using the Tube BBcode

I know how to post pictures but how do you get videos here.

Keith, check your link on "Noah" it's just reloading this page. Great pictures & video of Evelyn. You just cannot beat the smiles on their faces.

Roy, great video of your family!

Necessity breeds alternatives. Not having a small fishing boat to get our daughter started behind, we had no alternative to the Whaler and deep water starts. And go figure, they don't make barefoot booms for Whalers! We started by having me in the water w/ our daughter to help her keep her skis straight, manage the rope and verbally coach her. As she became more adept I did less and less for her. This summer, I moved back into the boat and she's done very well on her own. We never push her to do more than she wants. This summer my 11 yo nephew from Kansas came to visit and I used the same technique with him, using a pair of 59" trainers. Within 10 pulls I was back in the boat w/ everyone else and he spent the afternoon lapping the dam end of the lake.   

8122pbrainard wrote: I've mentioned it before but found with our kids a large boat can be intimidating. The menthod we used (and actually myself) is to use a small fishing boat and then yes out of real shallow water. Both kids had ne problem with the little Alumacraft with the 15 on it.

Agree 100% 12 foot fishing boat withe 15 hp. The kids think its a special treat cuse none of the grown ups can do it.
And as stated its not as scary.

Nothing like getting the kids up on skis. The skills and having fun on the water will be with them the rest of their lives. Not sure who gets the most enjoyment the adult teacher or the kids. Keith great pictures Evelyn looks to be having a ball.

I've mentioned it before but found with our kids a large boat can be intimidating. The menthod we used (and actually myself) is to use a small fishing boat and then yes out of real shallow water. Both kids had ne problem with the little Alumacraft with the 15 on it.