On Location Tour Continues

Following our On Location Tour in Tallahassee, we drove another 200 mile west to Ski Watch in Milton Florida for another clinic on Sunday and Monday, it was time to cook a hearty breakfast to keep us going for the day!
Eggy in a basket with scrambled eggs and ham! Emmmmmm!


It was a pleasure to meet skiers from all around the Pensacola area, Dan White from Ski Watch did a great job for pulling a fine group of skiers together.


Dan on the left, Lisa Harber from the neighborhood learnt to make the slalom course back to back and Carrie was ripping through the course with her new stance on her ski!


Dan White made huge steps forward with his skiing at the clinic, he is now in control and ready to rock the short lines!
Dan was looking right at home on his brand new 2011 Radar Strada with Strada bindings.



Diego needed to build a shin guard for when he is tricking, the Jodi's Ski Skool Gift Card worked a real gift for Diego's leg!


Skiers hanging out the new Tournament start dock at Ski Watch, this dock is very cool to hangout on!


What a beautiful lake to ski!

Location:Ski Watch in Milton Florida

On Location Tour Continues

Our great friends in Tallahassee asked us if we could return on our way back out of Texas, Tony Bidwell and crew ski between tow sites Lake Bradford and Lake Jackson. Lake Jackson is probably one of the most interesting sites I have ever been to coach or ski on. The Lake dried up some years ago because of a sink hole that appeared overnight. Apparently it was just like someone had pulled the plug and left a huge drain hole in the bottom of the lake, it took hundreds of truck loads of dirt to fill the hole. The lake was dry for two years and in that time the grass and weeds became at home on the dry lake bed. As soon as they put the water in they have plenty to achieve. It was like driving out into the fields and making tracks!


We filed the local skiers through the narrow channels to get out to the ski course, what an experience!



The narrow channel took a few turns left and right before the lake opened up a little and the course appeared. Keith Allbritton skis out here all the time.


A beautiful site for sore eyes !


Tony, Gar, David and the rest of the group are all hanging out checking our dinner.


Lack Jackson is a pretty large lake in the region of 1000 acres and the course is a good 15 minute boat ride from across the lake. The group would head out for at least the morning session and hangout on a dock that was built many years ago.


The boat Launch ramp was also where we had a great lunch, the Oyster bar was a little lunch place and was packed for the day!



Inside the Oyster bar was very cool!


Keith Allbritton has skied this site for over 10 years now, even before the drought! Keith has this huge rake set up and ready to go when he needs to move a little grass in the course!
Keith also has to take the skier buoys off the course at night, because the Gators eat them!


Kelly Breeden has also trained at this site for a few years now and has had a great season, running her PB last weekend of 2@ 35off at 32mph. Great skiing Kelly, she has come along way since she spent a week training with us in Orlando for spring break.

The On Location Tour Team has just spent 3 days back at base in Orlando, Jodi's Ski Skool. It has been fantastic to spend three days with my family at home, the kids have grown so much!

We have one more leg of the Tour left for the 2010 season and we are ready to head out again for 10 more days on the road. After 15,000 miles on the previous leg, we will have covered over 17,000 miles by the time we are complete with the 2010 Tour. We have clinics in Tallahassee, Pensacola, Covington, Dallas, Houston & Austin along with Collegiate National Championships at Aqua Plex


The Tour Rig has been cleaned and serviced and is ready for business again, if you are interested in having the On Location Tour come to your Site or Club in 2011, please contact us on Jodi@jodifisher.com

We will have a tentative schedule by December 31st and a confirmed schedule by February 28th. We are looking forward to skiing with you!

On Location Tour Continues

We stayed the night at Whitestone Estates and awoke to a fresh Autumn morning with an air temp in the 50's,f (10c) the early morning run around the lake was brisk but beautiful!



Whitestone has a very unusual layout with the housing lots available on it's property, they are laid out up in a high hillside over looking the lake and set back in tall tree coverage. Very cool!


There are a few lots still available and if you live in the Talking Rock area and looking for a unique place to live, this would be your place!


It was a pleasure to meet Andy Rose - one of the lot owners out at Whitestone, Andy joined us bright and early for some coaching sets on and off the water. I very much enjoyed my set on this beautiful man-made Water ski site in a very natural setting.


The On Location Tour Rig left Whitestone mid afternoon and headed south to Duluth a north west suburb of Atlanta, this is the location of Lotus Cars USA where we had a meeting set up with Arne Johnson the CEO.




It was a pleasure to see the brand new Lotus Evora lined up in the lobby of LCU, a great looking and handling lifestyle car.


And then of course there was the Exige Super Charged, now this is a serious car for the serious driving enthusiast! To much fun on the track or the road!


Check out www.LotusCars.com for the current and latest line of new cars coming to a dealer near you over the next five year period, they have really step up to the plate!

Location:Whitestone Estates Talking Rock Georgia

On Location Tour Continues

We arrived is Jasper at 1.00am, after fixing the fuel leak and 3 hours later than planned. It was time for some sleep!

We woke early at 7.00am in order to have time to clear the boat before heading out to Whitestone Estates for the Southern Regional Collage Championships. I opened the curtains on the front of the Rig and the sun rising was a beautiful site for sore eyes!



After jet washing our MasterCraft back to an acceptable clean condition it was 9.00am and time to head out the Whitestone to watch same jumping!



The Fall weather had already taken hold in Georgia and let me tell you, it was quite fresh for jumping! It was even fresh to jump out of bed, never mind water ski jumping! All the College kids were wrapped up in their blankets and sleeping bags at the lake!


The cold weather is one way to bring a Team together!



Many of the skiers were also using their three event bags to keep warm in, smart kids!



It was great to see an identical World Tournament Team MasterCraft Pro Star 197 pulling the Jump event!



I had been wanting to catch up with Mario Mustafa my previous live-in student from Peru, Mario had spent 7 months living as part of my family and I wanted to see him compete.


It was also great to see Jody Seels at the event after he and his family had moved from Orlando to Panama City two years ago.



Whitestone Estates is in a beautiful hillside setting in the Georgia Hill of Jasper 45 minutes North of Atlanta, two man-made lakes with lots and houses built up on the hillside overlooking the water. Wow what a view!

Location:WhiteStone Estates Talking Rock Georgia

The joys of breaking down on the road! We had worked out the mileage we would get with the last tank of diesel purchased, we should have had enough to get to Atlanta, but the fuel gage was dropping quicker than normal for the miles we had traveled.

When we pulled over to fuel up, I realized that we were spraying diesel out the back of the coach and all over the boat! You should have seen my brand new white MasterCraft! I'll take a picture in the daylight and post tomorrow. We had blown a fuel line and loosing diesel badly!

Of course the Flying J truck stop we were stopped at did not have any fuel hose and it was a struggle to find any metal tubing we could line the inside of the split fuel hose with. We first tried cutting up a tire pressure gauge for the tube, but the thin Aluminum would not hold and seal. I then found my trusted plastic pen that I had been using to write my coaching notes with in the boat, it just happened to be the perfect diameter to slide inside the hose. We bought a couple of jubilee hose clamps and we were fixed and back to the races!




Unfortunately Gar was a little soiled and need a scrub down at the RV dump outside the gas station, we got some pretty strange stares as he stripped off and went to town on the clean up!


Break down number 10 on the Tour so far fixed by ourselves, I hope our luck doesn't run out!

On Location Tour Continues

We arose at 5.00am this morning and headed East across Interstate 10 toward Tallahassee. The sun was rising with a beautiful red tint to the horizon, what a sight to wake up to!


Tony Bidwell, Joe Miller and David Smith - a bunch of Doctors and Dentist who have been to my Skool may times before. Tony had also won the bid for my coaching sets donated to Kyle Eade's rehabilitation fund earlier in the year, I have been wanting to drop into Tony's site for some time now and this was the perfect time. We arrived on site at 9.30am ready to hit the water!


Far Bradley sporting a pair of new Smith Eyewear from our Pro Shot on board the Tour Rig, let us know if you are looking for new Eyewear and we can ship Smith or SunCloud to your door!


David Smith any your the ride more when following his ski across and through the course!


Lake Bradford is a beautiful natural lake with a very thick surrounding of Cypress Trees around it, there are many old shacks as well as high flying properties surrounding this lake including a shack that featured on an Album Cover of one of the Allman Brothers Band Albums after they stayed on the lake for some time.


Florida State University also have their water sports activity building located on the Lake Bradford shoreline. They used to have a very active Waterski program at this school and Tony and the boys are working on reviving this program, Jodi's Ski Skool will be helping them with this! Stay tuned for our progress on the program!

Location:Lake Bradford Tallahassee Florida