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The American Water Ski Association (AWSA) was founded in 1939 to organize the first U.S. National Water Ski Championships. [1] Today, AWSA is one of the nine sport disciplines that comprise USA Water Ski and Wake Sports. As of 2015, USA Water Ski was the largest water ski federation in the world with more than 600 clubs and 20,000 members. [2]
Water skiers performing at Sea World on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.
The participant straps into the hydrofoil ski and secures the safety straps on the seat tower and the foot bindings. After the deep water start, the skier can ski, jump, and attempt aerial tricks launching the hydrofoil off the water and off boat wake. Other variants include a wake surfboard with a foil attached to the back underneath the water.
The International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) is the world governing body for all towed water sports.Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1946, it is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the sole authority governing all towed water sports and has 91 affiliated member federations worldwide.
Held at Okeeheelee Park in West Palm Beach, the 81st annual Goode National Ski Championships featured over 600 athletes.
The first board made in the early 1990's was the Hyper lite board by the O’Brien company, [10] a water ski manufacturer who marketed the board as a “compression-molded neutral-buoyancy wake board.” [11] This was followed by a variety of boards that are curvier and more compact, creating a smoother ride. [11]
In 2002, the economic downturn resulted in the tour, rebranded as the MasterCraft PT02 Pro Wakeboard Tour, being downsized to six events, with five of the six events featuring wakeboarding only, and just one event, the inaugural MasterCraft Pro Water Ski Championships, including slalom or jump. [8]
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.