I received an email from site member Billy Martyn a few weeks ago saying that he had been to Corey Humburg's east coast ski school, Peace, Love & Waterskiing and that he thought it would be cool to do an interview with Corey for Fifteenoff.com. After heartily agreement from that an inteview with Corey would be awesome for our site, Billy worked out all of the questions and filmed the...Read more
So here we are at the end of the first week in October and the water is still warm enough to ski without a wetsuit! We had 80 degree weather this Saturday and were the only moving boat on the water all morning. It was so nice that I even took a barefoot run across the lake to start things off.
My course skiing felt a bit off this morning but I still took a video of this weekend's skiing (3.7 MB...Read more
Another great day at ski school. I'm going to make this brief as severe weather is closing in on us very quickly. Last night we experienced a storm that just about made me have to change my shorts, and it just keeps coming. Luckily the weather has more or less stayed at bay during the day and just tormented us at night. I'm currently on the deck of our cottage looking at the radar using my laptop...Read more
What I'm about to tell you is what I feel is the absolute key to slalom skiing. I only need two words to describe it: "tight" and "line". This is not some revolutionary advice that I came up with on my own. In fact, just about every pro skier that has seen me ski has mentioned it, and after a quick search on our forum I found dozens of references to this concept. Here are just a sampling of the...Read more
