I haven't seen an above ground pool without a deck and we are just dabbling with the 08 but ...
The comment from the handbook
The requirement for bonding perimeter surfaces now applies to paved and unpaved surfaces. An example of an unpaved perimeter surface would be the lawn surrounding a permanently installed aboveground swimming pool.
So it looks like an 8ga copper, tied to the pool shell 4 places equally spaced around the pool.
