1997 Has Been Great!

       My 1997 season started in April when I first went skiing. My wife and eldest daughter also went skiing in April. Here is a recap of my skiing for this year:

1. April 3 -- first ski
2. May -- Ron Scarpa Ski School (first tumble turns, first three point, work on basic form, first three back-deep tries).
3. June/July -- work on barefoot form, three point and tumbles behind the boat, ski, ski and more skiing.
4. August 6 -- Mike Seipel Clinic (first back-deeps, one foots, wake crossings, work on tumbles).
5. August -- work on one foots on boom, hit more back-deeps, really start hitting wake crossings! Even the little one's start messing around on the boom!
6. September -- first one foots behind the boat
7. October -- hit six back-deeps in a row and started lowering the boom to simulate the rope height behind the boat

	Don, Mike and Walt front-deep!
Don has his feet on the rope, while Mike gets ready to plant and Walt three points just before standing.
Don, Mike and Walt ski down Bostwick Lake behind the Corvette.
	Don takes a turn all by himself. The best thing about pictures is that you learn from them. What two things am I doing wrong? Email me your thoughts. I don't do them as much anymore now that I have pictures to remind me.

     Thanks for stopping. And, thank you so much to my wonderful wife, our extra-special photographer. These pictures were taken in September 1997 skiing behind the 1997 Malibu Corvette Limited Edition Ski Boat.

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