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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outboard

Sports; Water skiing

A boat that has its engine on the outside of the boat (as opposed to an Inboard). The engine is located a at the back of the boat.

bow rider

Sports; Water skiing

This is an area in the front of a boat that is open and has a place to allow passengers to sit. Can be used as a descriptive term when referring to a boat that has this open area.

bridle

Sports; Water skiing

This is that part of the ski rope that attaches to the ski handle. It is the Y shape part of the rope.

buoy

Sports; Water skiing

This is a type of marker that sits on top of the water and is used to mark out the course that the boat and skier must follow. They serve the same function as gates in downhill snow skiing. Buoys are ...

concave

Sports; Water skiing

This is a shape on the underside of a slalom ski. This concave shape on the bottom of the ski is designed to improve control and stability when doing high speed turns.

cut

Sports; Water skiing

This refers to shortening the tow rope for slalom skiing events. A tow rope can be shortened up to three times and each of these decreases in the rope length have a name. They are called the first, ...