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  • clapchap
    Member
    • Feb 2002
    • 71
    #1

    stilt skiin

    I was thinkin about pond skimming on stilts, anyone have experience there? I was thinkin about attaching the stilts to the skis by welding metal columns (holders?) to the skis so the stilts could slide in and out so i can use them normally too. The skis were $10, so no worries there. what do ya think?
    -Eric
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    • Lynneski
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2000
      • 370
      #2
      I think social Darwinism works.

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        • Pyromancer
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2002
          • 248
          #3
          I think you'll make a fair chance to win a Darwin Award with such an incredible original trick! Just go on with it! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

          Darwin Awards web page

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            • Stretch
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2001
              • 611
              #4
              It's been done with snow skies. Don't know about water skis. Would be hard on the knees. Hard on everything if you tumble. Suggest you concider a sperm bank to foil Darwin. Neoprene pants reccomended to circumvent that "bloated feeling".

              Just a note, steel doesn't float well, but if you are young and immortal, what the heck? Is your medical insurance paid up?


              If you do it, send me some pics for the guest gallery at

              web page

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                • Prof Willie B
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2000
                  • 174
                  #5
                  Some years ago there was a clown who skied at the Aust Waterskiing Titles with a stilt under a single slalom ski. It was a pole about 4ft long with a smaller than usual trick ski attached to the bottom which acted like a hydrofoil. At low speed he looked like any other skier but when the boat accelerated the hydrofoil blade would kick in and lift the skier (and his main ski) out of the water. He could do a few tricks but also had regular spectacular crashes.
                  No, it definitely wasn't Rumple.

                  [ 03-20-2003: Message edited by: Prof Willie B ]</p>

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                    • Clapchap
                      Member
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 71
                      #6
                      I'm familiar with the darwin awards, but point taken [img]wink.gif[/img] . To clear things up, i'm pond skimming, skiing down snow, then over a small body of water, and back onto snow (hopefully). I've got wood skis, and there are people with lifesavers on hand so no worries drowning. .....youth and immortality are pretty cool though.
                      -eric

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                        • Stretch
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2001
                          • 611
                          #7
                          What you describe has been done in Colorado, but I don't know any details. I remember seeing a photo some years back. Good luck!
                          And don't forget the photos!

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