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I love the geriatric course of this thread.  I finished high school in a small town on Lake Seminole in north Florida.   We had little to do but water ski and many of us high schoolers could barefoot once a rich kid got a 50 hp motor.  Before that 35 was the biggest and could pull us from a dead stop on the Slalom.    We even  had a ski jump  built for us by the Booster Club in town.  My first time over it was not pretty.   ski's hit the wetted wood and I was airborne.   I let go of the rope and was beating my arms to try to fly and not hit the water too hard, did not fly well and ate  the metal tip jump ski when I hit the water:    Loose teeth and a cut lip.    All the girls were really worried about me so it worked out