SchnitzSkis.com
Title
SCHNITZSKIS HOME PAGE
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- I started skiing at the age of 13 on the Long Island Sound, a salty body of water in between Long Island and New York, Connecticut, etc.. I skied for three summers until I passed my driving test at which point, the automobile and auto racing took over my life. For ten years I stayed away from water-skiing until in the fall of 1987 my girlfriend’s dad took me over to McGinnis’s ski lake in Ft. Lauderdale where in a rented vest and gloves and on a rented ski, I managed to make the slalom course my first set ever being on one three out of 6 tries at 28 MPH, long line (75 feet of rope). As I climbed out of the water and onto the dock, I said, “I am going to run 38’ off”! This was a brave statement back then as the World Record was held by Bob LaPoint at 5 @ 38’. Here I was, a young (26) novice making a brash statement. I was addicted! I soon purchased a new ski, vest and gloves and started making daily trips to Ft Lauderdale from West Palm Beach, picking up plenty of speeding tickets along the way. On my daily commutes I would fly (on the road) down to Lauderdale and basically drive the speed limit home after 4 or 5 sets on the water, my hands burning from all the passes and sets.
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