Whether you’re a crafty vet on the water looking to take your skills to the next level or a recreational rider interested in doing some eye-opening tricks for fun, Water Skiing and Wakeboarding is your guide to tearing up the water.
Ben Favret’s 25 years of competitive experience have produced numerous gold medals at all levels of competition. In Water Skiing and Wakeboarding, Favret teaches you how to perfect the skills and turn some heads—and do it safely. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn
•how to select and fit your equipment,
•conditioning both on land and in the water,
•skills for mastering the slalom course,
•essential techniques for wakeboarding,
•the secrets to tricks and jumps used by the pros, and
•how to compete and win.
Hit the water and ride like the pros. Most important, have fun while doing it. Let Water Skiing and Wakeboarding be your one-stop resource to endless fun and an exhilarating experience on the water!
USA Water Ski is pleased to announce that it will hold the inaugural USA Water Ski GrassRoots National Championships on Saturday, September 18, 2010 at Lake Grew in Polk City, Florida. Lake Grew, a world-record capability water ski venue, is adjacent to the American Water Ski Educational Foundation’s Water Ski Hall of Fame and USA Water Ski headquarters. Any water ski (slalom and tricks) athlete or barefoot (slalom and tricks) water ski athlete who has participated in a GrassRoots Series event in 2010 is eligible to compete in the event. A GrassRoots Fun Day, in which participants will have the opportunity to ski with a professional water ski athlete will be held at the same site on Sunday, Sept. 19.
ORLANDO, FLA (August 31, 2010)—For the fifth year in a row, Nautique is the recipient of the NMMA’s prestigious CSI award. This award recognizes Nautique’s excellence in customer satisfaction in the Inboard Watersports Boats category, as part of the 2010 Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) program.
The CSI is an independently-measured standard for accurately assessing customer satisfaction. For 2010, the Marine Industry CSI Award program surveyed over 40,000 boat buyers regarding satisfaction with the boats and engines they purchased between April 2009 and March 2010. Participating manufacturers were required to survey all new boat buyers during this given period. In order to receive the prominent CSI award, recipients had to consistently uphold marks of 90 percent or higher in customer satisfaction during the last year.
Who says all surfers are gnarly? A University of California at San Diego engineering graduate student (and amateur surfer) is using his two loves -- science and surfing -- to figure out what makes the perfect board. According to Wired, Benjamin Thompson equipped a surfboard with eight sensors and a microprocessor that gathers data, like water velocity, and relays it back to an onshore laptop. Thompson and his team want to figure out what makes for optimal flexibility -- the point at which a board bends perfectly for a surfer on a wave.
In the surfing community, there are two schools of thought; some prefer a rigid board and others like a more flexible one. But, the problem is, there's no system informed by hard data that can let surfers know whether or not a board will meet their standards before buying it. Thompson wants to change that by correlating the hard data his surfboard collects with a rider's reported experience. This, he hopes, will provide surfers with a foolproof way to rank boards. In his next trial, Thompson will attach 50 sensors, accelerometers, strain transducers and gyroscopic instruments to a surfboard, which will then store the data on an attached flash drive, in order to get a better idea of what makes the "perfect surfboard."
Thompson should be careful about bringing science to this zen hobby, though. If his experiment is a success, people might start taking surfers more seriously, and the slacker image that surfers have (barely) worked to cultivate since the '60s could be destroyed.
Whether you’re a crafty vet on the water looking to take your skills to the next level or a recreational rider interested in doing some eye-opening tricks for fun, Water Skiing and Wakeboarding is your guide to tearing up the water.
USA Water Ski is pleased to announce that it will hold the inaugural USA Water Ski GrassRoots National Championships on Saturday, September 18, 2010 at Lake Grew in Polk City, Florida. Lake Grew, a world-record capability water ski venue, is adjacent to the American Water Ski Educational Foundation’s Water Ski Hall of Fame and USA Water Ski headquarters. Any water ski (slalom and tricks) athlete or barefoot (slalom and tricks) water ski athlete who has participated in a GrassRoots Series event in 2010 is eligible to compete in the event. A GrassRoots Fun Day, in which participants will have the opportunity to ski with a professional water ski athlete will be held at the same site on Sunday, Sept. 19. 
ORLANDO, FLA (August 31, 2010)—For the fifth year in a row, Nautique is the recipient of the NMMA’s prestigious CSI award. This award recognizes Nautique’s excellence in customer satisfaction in the Inboard Watersports Boats category, as part of the 2010 Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) program.
