Crazy water tricks

ApS · 12-12-2009, 07:57 AM

After the first occasion, I never much cared for the "multi-skiers thing". There was never really anywhere to go after getting ski-borne. You could pull up on your towline and switch places with others, but to avoid collsions with each other, that was it.

(Except it was kind of fun to all go one direction, panicking the boat's operator!)

My single-best specialty was being towed by my teeth! Alas, without my glasses, I couldn't tell that my friends never saw that one performance—and my gums got to aching afterwards.

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Originally Posted by sa meredith

"...I love reading stuff like this...things we all did "back in the day". It was good fun, although highly irresponsible, and possibly dangerous..."

A missing stop sign is a definite "no-no" but it's been apologized for.

After reading this—which followed the reading of Pineneedles' account:

Quote:

"...Dad does his best to stop the blood and the boat. If it wasn't for his injury, 5 stitches, it would have been comical to watch..."

These comments had me do an "inventory-count" of my bodily scars, stitches and broken bones. (Bruises DO go away).

I accounted for ladders, staircases, bicycles, attics and automobile hand tools, but I can't trace a single one to stunts on the Lake.

Have I stumbled onto the elusive definition of "Using Common Sense on the Lake", or is this Forum's collective scarrings a good source for the "grist-mill"?

BroadHopper · 12-12-2009, 10:10 AM

Taking off from the dock or beach, coming on to the beach, barefoot skiing. on and on. laws are outlawing the fun we had.

I even talk to a the folks who's daughter is the world champion wakeboarder. They move from the Wolfeboro area to Lake Norman NC. They move just because of the laws. It is very difficult to train under the current laws. There is a championsip waterskier on Rocky Pond in Belmont. They say the MP is rarely on the pond and he can practice his tricks without worrying about breaking the laws. I guess there will never be a champion from lake Winni anymore

12-12-2009, 10:10 AM	#2
BroadHopper Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Laconia NH Posts: 5,594 Thanks: 3,236 Thanked 1,111 Times in 798 Posts	The old days. Taking off from the dock or beach, coming on to the beach, barefoot skiing. on and on. laws are outlawing the fun we had. I even talk to a the folks who's daughter is the world champion wakeboarder. They move from the Wolfeboro area to Lake Norman NC. They move just because of the laws. It is very difficult to train under the current laws. There is a championsip waterskier on Rocky Pond in Belmont. They say the MP is rarely on the pond and he can practice his tricks without worrying about breaking the laws. I guess there will never be a champion from lake Winni anymore __________________ Someday may never be an actual day.