Water skiing

Water skiing

Water Skiing is a sport were a person is typically pulled behind a boat or cable ski installation on a body of water. The sport requires the skier to be pulled at high speeds in order to maintain their position above the surface.

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fin

Sports; Water skiing

On the bottom of most skies and wake-boards are Fins. Fins help the skier to steer their ski in a direction they so choose and keep it going in that direction. Without a fin the ski or wake-board is ...

flex

Sports; Water skiing

A description of the stiffness or firmness of a ski or wake-board. There are three basic degrees of stiffness, soft, medium or firm. As a general rule for a ski, the softer the flex the more the ski ...

flip

Sports; Water skiing

This is when a skier or wake-boarder is able to do a flip taking their ski or wake-board end over end. Wake-boarders can do this with the aid of the wake, skiers usually need the use of a jump or ...

flying beachie

Sports; Water skiing

A barefoot start from dry land with the skier running to the waters edge and jumping into the water.

gassing

Sports; Water skiing

This happens right before a skier is about to move onto the jump, the skier will be pulling hard on the tow rope in order to make their cut to the jump. The boat needs to accelerate to make up for ...