Appreciate the kind words John (should have asked the name before I shot the video 😂)! Let me know how the bumping up the speed goes and would love to hear if you can make some progress on getting a little more comfortable on the faster speeds!

Hey George and Sara, so your biggest issue seems to be the wake problem. So going slower is going to make the wake bigger but give you more time before the bouy to recover. So essentially going slower will (I imagine) be a little bit or a band aid for your wake crossing, wether your going flat through the wakes, losing angle or pulling long I would say to work on that part and make sure you are being confident by driving your position and ski angle into the wakes and making sure you are staying on edge into first wake before you start your edge change. Going flat before first wake will make it very tough to carry direction through your edge change and cause you to be fast and narrow at the bouy (at 32mph you will get away with this easier). Again this is just my best guess on what you have said but instead of worrying too much about speed or line length, make sure no matter what pass it is your still working on those wake crossings and carrying a good line your edge change and too the bouy. Hope this helps!

@@RobHazelwood Thank you for your insight and comments. Best wishes and enjoy your videos.

Hey Lee, I’ve never heard of shadowing bouys on purpose as you start to move into shortenings other than when first learning to run the course. I would agree free skiing with the purpose of being bouy width but not being rushed by the course could be useful as you are getting a sense of the increased load, pull and swing. But intentionally shadowing probably isn’t going get you used to the new line length as you are never getting to full width and learning the different view (and most importantly swing) of the line length. As you mention the timing part as well, I would say this would be true for moving up speeds but the hardest bit about going shorter is (in my opinion) learning to swing up on the side of the boat, so stopping this swing early would make it tougher to feel this. Always fun to hear of new methods of trying line lengths though and as I’ve never tried this, all my thoughts are just thoughts! Interested to know from your experience how your students find making the change from shadowing to going round the bouys? Does it usually take a few passes of adjustment to the extra swing needed or usually ends up a pretty seamless change.