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This is a list of U.S. National Water Ski Championships champions. Year Location Slalom Trick Jump Overall 1939 Jones Beach, New York Bruce Parker Bruce Parker
Year Place Open Formula 2 Junior Team 1979 United Kingdom Wayne Richie, Australia Bronwyn Wright Australia 1981 Italy Danny Bertels, Belgium Liz Hobbs United Kingdom
Keith is a two-time World Barefoot Champion, winning Overall titles in 2006 and 2008. Keith learned to barefoot water ski on Lake Umbagog in New Hampshire at the age of nine with instruction from Mike Seipel, a two-time World Barefoot Champion. [2] He entered his first barefoot tournament at age ten in the Eastern Region. [3]
Mike Seipel (born Mike Seipel) is a retired American competitive barefoot water skier.He was considered to be one of the greatest barefoot water skiers in the world. He was a member of the United States Barefoot Team and was a two-time overall world champion in 1984-85 [1] and 1986–87.
Barefoot skiing is water skiing behind a motorboat without the use of water skis, commonly referred to as "barefooting". Barefooting requires the skier to travel at higher speeds (30–45 mph/48–72 km/h) than conventional water skiing (20–35 miles per hour/32–56 km/h).
The Water Ski World Championships is a bi-annual water ski competition that has taken place since 1949. Held near the end of the competition season, the World Championships are one of the sport's oldest major championships along with the Masters Water Ski Tournament (since 1959) and the U.S. National Water Ski Championships (since 1939).
The Masters Water Ski Tournament is an annual invitational water ski competition, taking place each year on Memorial Day weekend at Callaway Gardens, just outside of Pine Mountain, Georgia. The inaugural tournament took place in 1959, with Joe Cash and Nancie Rideout winning the overall event.
The U.S. Open is a professional water ski tournament that ran regularly from 1987 to 2007. Since then it has experienced brief comebacks running for three years from 2014 to 2016, and most recently in 2021.