[Island Girl]

I grew up on a lake in MA. We had the homemade plywood surfboard, then the wooden skiis, and the round plywood disc. That disc is still at my mother's place on that lake. I towed my 55 year old brother on it last summer. He stands on it holding a ski tow line. Then the puts the front of the disk under the water and dives it down so that he is under the water up to his neck, still holding on the the line... then comes up again. I don't think anyone in the world does that. He started that before he was a teenager.

We did the ski jump thing a bit... We never started skiiing from the water, always from the dock or shore. My brother jumps off the dock with one ski. I was always too chicken to do that so I would stand in water just below the knee with the slaalom ski on the other foot raised above the water... with about 5-6 feet of slack, yell "Hit it!!!!" and the driver would go full blast and I leaped up and landed on the one ski on top of the water. I did not get wet or most importantly, get my hair wet... We did not have much of a beach so we landed in the water very close to shore... standing up.

Who made up all these new rules... it was so nice to ski that way. I was never very good at getting up deep in the water on one ski so the shore was great.

We also did the multiple (7) skiiers. That was not much fun as someone always fell. Three skiers was fun with three different length ropes, criss-crossing. So much fun!!!



I have not skiied in about 5 years... with sciatica I am thinking my skiing days are over... I sure would like another run though!!!

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