Hidden Pass held a clinic this week here in Penfield, for junior water ski development. Todd Ristorcelli was on site to instruct for 3 days while juniors and adults around the area came in to get a little piece of advice on how to improve their time behind the boat.
Hidden Pass Junior Development Clinic
I stopped down to the clinic at Hidden Pass on Wednesday morning, which was the first morning of instruction. While I had hoped to return and spend quite a few days down there, I found the work around the house wasn’t going away and other obligations drew me back to the house.
I was actually hoping to talk with Todd, off the water, but his time was focused in the boat for a couple days. He did bring a new technique to coaching that I connected with rather immediately. After the first pass down the pond, Todd could be seen snapping a continuous stream of photos of the competitors to help visualize their positions to them. Todd also brought a bigger camera than me. (there is always a bigger camera)
Todd was wielding the Nikon D300 with a healthy lens I did not get the specs on. While holding par in quality to the D200 I was carrying, the D300 improves the number of focal areas, enables some ISO manipulation, and has a huge screen on the back to show off the pictures. It was a little easier to hear that he got the D200 he used to carry wet.
Todd is the editor for WaterSki Magazine, and his name can be seen next to a majority of the photos in the publication. Perhaps we will see some of our local skiers show up in an upcoming edition.
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