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How To Throw A 20-Foot Wall

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Big spray is the signature of our sport. It’s what attracted me to skiing as a kid, and I remember working like crazy to improve it. After 20 years of practice, I think I’ve got the answers. In this water ski how to, learn the secrets to carving massive walls of water. — Glen Campbell

Pick The Right Line

Longer rope lengths tend to make it more difficult to roll your ski on edge because you’re so far away from the boat. If you normally ski 15 off in the open water, now is a good time to give 28 off a go!

Bigger Isn’t Always Better

It’s all about your speed, weight and power. Trick skis displace a lot of water, but you don’t get the height that slalom skis throw out. Choose your weapon wisely.

Speed Is Your Friend

The more speed you can take off the second wake, the more aggressive you can be with your edge change and turn.

Jam Your Back Foot

This is the last thing a good coach would tell a student, but if you want to produce a big spray, a tail push will certainly help. Your biggest payoff in extra spray height from the tail push is at the finish of the turn.

Slam It

The slam dunk turn works wonders if you can pull it off. Approach the turn with enough speed that you can quickly change your direction with enough aggression that your inside hip (sometimes your whole body) rebounds off the water out of the turn.

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14 Responses to “How To Throw A 20-Foot Wall”

  1. John Creel says:

    As an avid water skier for almost 40 years, I was a little disappointed in this article. I wonder why more thought has not been given towards developing a good recreational ski that shoots big spray. I would start off with a flat bottom so that the spray shoots higher and maybe add some rail grooves for better holding. It's also been my experience that rounded bevels as opposed to cut bevels shoot a better spray.

  2. I use to have a massive spray when I skied on a 2001 mapple,
    and even tho I have put on 25 pounds of body weight since then (cheap beer ) I am unable to mount the same impressive wall of water since I now ski on a high end Nadar ski,with tennis shoes as binders, and on occasion I get rattled on the finish of the turn, and throw up a broken sprinkler spray.

  3. Rick says:

    I think you're dreaming about skiing on the flat bottom wooden Cypress Gardens Mendoza ski. :)

  4. RPG says:

    time to get my old Connelly Hook out. I could throw a 20 foot wall with that thing……but barely make it around 1.

  5. Rev. F says:

    Look, you wimps. Spray is all about weight. Body mass and body density.

    Ever see Parrish go through the course? Big wall with a smooth style.

    Why? Weight.

    Now man up and hit the gymnasium.

    Or, get loaded every night on PBR, blow up and become unable to ski.

    Great for me…less freaks on the water.

    De Oppresso Liber.

  6. Pierre says:

    One of the best skis for that was the "Li'l Monster manufactured by Cypress Garden Skis between the late sixties & early seventies.

    Pierre
    San Juan, Puerto Rico

  7. Norm H. says:

    I still ski on a Jobe professional purchased in 1977 and I can still produce a 20' spray. The difference between now and then is the length of time I can spray. In 1977 all day, now maybe 10 minutes. I have tried alot of skies pushing 600 to 800 dollars in cost and nothing compares to my
    67" Jobe with wore out bindings.

  8. SyndicateA1 says:

    ‘El Diablo’ was the grooved Cypress Gardens ski. You could cut pretty well with it, but a minuscule 3 foot ‘wall’ of water was about all you could put up. I used it as a kick off ski in the 70’s and 80’s.

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