Mario sets new Peruvian Jump national record

Mario Andres Mustafa sets a new Peruvian National Jump Record at Lake Grew in Lakeland Florida last weekend of 34.4 meters and Mario also set a new parsonal best of 4buoys @ 13 meters (32off) two out of three rounds and 2.5@ 13 in the third, very consistent and great competing.






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Sam's new training PB

Sam Fisher runs a new Personal Best Score today in training, 3buoys@16meters (22off).
Well done Sam, great skiing!


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PB and new PB

Congratulations to Sam Fisher for setting a great personal best score of 2@30mph (49kph) in his first event. Also congrats to Mario Andres for improving his personal best tournament score by 15 buoys up to 2@32off (13 meters).
Great skiing boys!
Sam and Mario with new Tournament PB's!





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Going Full Circle

What a strange but cool feeling to be down on the dock with other parents that have kids competing in the event and who were all great young skiers when I started competing many years ago. You can say it has gone full circle for all of us and this is how how parents would have felt when they took us along to our first water ski competitions.



Brenda Baldwin had her two girls competing in Girls 1, Kristen & Brooke Baldwin.
Sergio Font from Mexico had his two boys competing Patricio & Diego Font.
Matt Rini had his two girls at the event, but I believe only Paige was competing.
It is so cool to be at the start dock with our kids and be there for them when they are starting out in the sport.



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Sam Fisher's first ever Tournament

Sam Fisher is excited but nervous to be skiing in his first ever slalom competition Saturday morning May 15th 2010. Sam is 11 years old, which is the same age I was when I entered my first tournament. We were all so excited to go and support him. Mario Andres will also be skiing his first tournament since he has been training with us. Mario has worked very hard over the past three months to change his technique and he is far more comfortable and consistent on his ski. We wish the boys a great competition, good luck fella's



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Father & Son together for the weekend

Mario senior is in town to spend the weekend with his boy, Mario Andres has been staying with us now for 4 months and his skiing has come a long way since arriving.
Also Nacho Gomez from Mexico stayed with us for 2.5 school years and has come back again for a 10 day training visit.



Nacho is laughing now, but 15 minutes before I took this shot he was not laughing after the velcro tape released and his bindings came off of his slalom when crossing the wakes and he landed at around 60 miles a hour butt first!


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Great day training for Mario, Nacho & Chantal

Chantal Singer from Canada, Nacho Gomez from Mexico and Mario Andres from Peru all had a great day training today, slalom, tricks and jumping all went well.






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Lobsters from friends

A huge thank you to Bill Kiley and family for sending Nicola & I 6 amazing Maine Lobsters, we boiled 4 of them and BBQ'd 2 in a lovely garlic lemon butter marinade made by Nicola. Wow!


Amazing food, we are fans of amazing food!

Billy's Back

Billy Gooch is back on his slalom
Skiing and back in the course after one year out for back problems, he is starting easy and building steadily so far so good!
Great to see you back on the water Buddy






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The boys go longer with their ski in the pursuit to jump further!

Mario jumps on to Nacho's 86" jump skis and Nacho jumps on to Gerard's 90" skis. Mario has improved a great deal from only having jumped pinky a few times prior to arriving in Orlando. Mario is definitely ready for longer skis and he jumped his best around 32 meters. Nacho also ready for longer skis now as he is 6' tall and still growing, although he has not jumped for a year since he was training with us last. He looks great on the 90's though!

Is that Freddy Freuger on the back of the MasterCraft!





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Nacho's back jumping and tricking

Nacho has been back in school in Cancun Mexico for the past year, the windy conditions there over the past year have prevented Nacho from being able the continue his jump training and also not having anyone to release for his toehold tricks has meant a long period of time without training these events. It'll be interesting to see how much muscle memory he has kept and how much technique he can remember. Stay tuned for up dates in his training over the next 10 days.










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Nacho Gomez is back!

It's fantastic to have Nacho Gomez back staying and training with us for the next 10 days. Nacho first came to stay and train with us for a full school year, learn English and train in all 3 events after school. Nacho ended up actually staying with us for two and a half school years and his skiing really improved.






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