Articles from July 2009



Timing before Practice Day

The week of the water ski Eastern Regional Championships have arrived.  I will have spend some time backtracking all of the work that went in to make it all come together. I don’t think I have ever pulled down that driveway without seeing Jim working on something, and the site looks clean and ready for [...]

Skier Album – Mike Knittle

Logo submissions

We need a logo.  While I enjoy graphical design and editing, I am slower than I used to be in Photoshop and Illustrator these days.  If anybody is interested in submitting some ideas for a new logo, or would entertain digitizing my napkin sketches into something useful, let us know. The tri-color boxes on the [...]

Video Review System

There have been some large advancements in the sport of water skiing over the past 5 to 10 years. We have GPS based speed control systems for boats, giving us an impressive tolerance for consistent speed. We have water skis designed with such precision that 1mm of movement on a fin can completely change the [...]

the Forums are up

After messing around with Forum plugins this morning, I finally have something up and in place. The most prominent forum plug-in for wordpress was WP-Forum, but they seemed to have dropped the ball on keeping it up to date. They are too busy bitching about Vast HTML who took where WP-Forum left off and made [...]

The search for Competitor Bags

One thing still needed for the regionals waterski tournament next week are the competitor bags. It seems like a simple item, but with almost 200 skiers signed up it equates to a significant cost for the event coordinators to purchase decent plastic bags to hand to the competitors. Jim has been able to get about [...]

Juniors Clinic at Hidden Pass

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 [...]

Hidden Pass tournament this weekend

This site is always a great place to ski! Little nervous about it because I’m not skiing at the level I was last year at this time, I will definitely take advantage of the practice rounds on Friday. I am sure Steve will be around with his camera so we will post some pics as [...]

We’re Back

The Morning Glass is back.  Tune in to catch up on the latest in area skiing, covering mostly Rochester and NY state.  But we will expand our coverage to all areas of skiing, from the professional tour to equipment reviews and sometimes just our own opinions.

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