Aquaholic
World's Oldest Teenager
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- San Diego, CA.
There’s a line from a song by the Who, that goes “The music must change”.
Freestyle is a lot like music…There has to be change and progression, or things will get stale and boring. But, that's nothing new, right?
Some one posted up some comments, recently, about how the current generation of freestyle boats don’t require the same type of skillset that boats of the 80’s/90 did. That today’s crop of weaponry is more about power than skills.
One can argue for or against that.
We’ve been having this debate/argument/discussion for the last few years, at our lake...and, while I agree with the general concept that today’s skis tend to focus more on big air power moves, as opposed to the ballet/ gymnast/finesse moves that I grew up learning.
It’s inevitable, the progression of hardware and skillsets had/has to change, or things were/are going to hit a barrier and stagnate.
I think the day that Rick Roy did that first backflip in the waves, on the national tour (1998), in LA, someone started thinking “what if?” “What if something like that could be done off of flat water?” And, look where things went from there.
Personally, I’m looking forward to embracing the challenge of learning a whole new set of tricks that a modern freestyle boats can provide. Sure, I’m a bit bummed, that there is a whole library of tricks that I may never be able to do again. But…I’m still stoked none the less.
I thought I would open up a discussion on your thoughts regarding this.
“The music must change”.
Freestyle is a lot like music…There has to be change and progression, or things will get stale and boring. But, that's nothing new, right?
Some one posted up some comments, recently, about how the current generation of freestyle boats don’t require the same type of skillset that boats of the 80’s/90 did. That today’s crop of weaponry is more about power than skills.
One can argue for or against that.
We’ve been having this debate/argument/discussion for the last few years, at our lake...and, while I agree with the general concept that today’s skis tend to focus more on big air power moves, as opposed to the ballet/ gymnast/finesse moves that I grew up learning.
It’s inevitable, the progression of hardware and skillsets had/has to change, or things were/are going to hit a barrier and stagnate.
I think the day that Rick Roy did that first backflip in the waves, on the national tour (1998), in LA, someone started thinking “what if?” “What if something like that could be done off of flat water?” And, look where things went from there.
Personally, I’m looking forward to embracing the challenge of learning a whole new set of tricks that a modern freestyle boats can provide. Sure, I’m a bit bummed, that there is a whole library of tricks that I may never be able to do again. But…I’m still stoked none the less.
I thought I would open up a discussion on your thoughts regarding this.
“The music must change”.
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