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Legendary and renowned skiers lined the shores of Robin Lake on May 23-25, yet there were some new faces to Callaway Garden that stood out amongst the throng of athletes competing at the 55th Masters Water Ski and Wakeboard tournament.
Three junior girls skiers, two hailing from Canada and the other from U.S., were among some who appeared for their first time at the Masters. Though newcomers to Robin Lake, Geneva Roach, Paige Rini and Abbi Grathwohl were forces to reckon with, each making their own impact respectively in slalom, trick and jump.
Early Friday morning, the junior girls prepared for the slalom event. Excitement surged through the crowd watching from the pavilion as each girl had the ability to post a score that would advance them into the finals.
“I have never been to a tournament where you’re standing on the dock with only 10 girls and everyone knows they have a chance to win,” Roach said. “It gave a very exciting and hopeful atmosphere because everyone there wanted that win so bad. I had to post a big score right out of the gate.”
Though seeded fourth, Roach was not soon forgotten as she obtained a massive 1.5 buoys at 38 off in the preliminary round, securing her a second place spot into the finals.
In the finals, Roach captured the silver medal with 4 buoys at 35 off. Her impressive finish also achieved an invite to compete against Samantha Dumala in the Obrien head to head, a crowd pleasing event that was showcased before the elite finals.
“Getting to ski right before the pros on Sunday was an incredible experience,” Roach said. “The crowd was absolutely incredible. I had never really skied with an audience so it made me feel like a pro in the making.”
Roach finished runner-up in the Obrien head-to-head.
Later that afternoon, Rini, a 13 year old with average scores of over 6,000 points, appeared for the first time on the trick dock. Before her debut ride at the Masters, Rini prepared by physically visualizing her runs.
“Before I skied, I practiced my runs on land,” Rini said. “One of my goals was to trick 6,000 points. I was very nervous, but when I got out on the water, suddenly, nothing made me nervous.”
Beginning with her toe pass, Rini gracefully spun her way down Robin Lake with a smooth run. However, Robin Lake’s notoriously moving and inconsistent water can take down even the best skiers, and unfortunately, Rini fell early in her hand pass.
Despite falling prematurely in her second run, Rini displayed a worthy example by remaining positive throughout her first Masters experience.
“Just being at the Masters was an amazing feeling,” Rini said. “I will remember being on the dock with my best friends all cheering each other on, hoping we all do well.”
As the tricks event concluded, Grathwohl soaped up her Wiley bindings and strapped on her Schiek sling for jump. Though skiing all three events at the Masters, Grathwohl shined the brightest on her Goodmans.
While Robin Lake is infamously known to be a difficult lake for jumping, Grathwohl was well prepared to take on the challenging conditions.
“I had heard that jump is tricky at Robin Lake,” Grathwohl said. “My wonderful coaches helped prepare me for the quicker set up by turning earlier at the end of the lake. I think this helped keep my confidence up during training and competition.”
Grathwohl conquered the tough water and booted a beautiful jump of 123 ft., a personal best and her first time over the 120 mark, in the preliminary round.
“I was so excited when I went over 120 for the first time,” Grathwohl said. “When the boat judge told me my distance I started hopping around on my skis because I was so happy. Getting a personal best at the Masters was so exciting!”
In the finals, Grathwohl soared to second place with a 120 foot jump, an outstanding finish for her first Masters.
“I am so thankful to everyone who helped me reach my goals. I could not have done it without God, my family, friends, and wonderful coaches.”
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This weekend's tournament at Cedar Ridge Lakes in Canton, Miss., was a record breaking one for Team GOODE as a world and four national records were set by GOODE skiers.
Chet Raley scored 4 buoys at 41-feet off to set a pending Men’s 5 U.S. National record. If approved, the record would best the existing one of 3 buoys at that line length co-held by Chet (2012) and fellow GOODE skier Tim Huston (2013).
Brooke Baldwin rounded 6 buoys at 38-feet off to set a pending Girls 2 national record. Her mark tops the current record of 5 at 38 set by GOODE skier Ruth McCreary in 2012.
And Cooper Tate’s annihilation of the Boys 1 record book continued this weekend as he set a new pending mark of 1 buoy at 38-feet off. Cooper entered the 2014 season focused on beating the national record of 3 buoys at 35-feet co-held by Brian Detrick (1999), Tyler Scott (2002) and Zane Nicholson (2004). In his first tournament of the year he broke it with 4 buoys at 35-feet off, and has preceded to up it a few more times with plenty of summer left to take it even further.
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This past weekend I had the opportunity to ski in a very unique event. It was the Hard Day Night Tournament at Redwood Shores. At a quick glance in the regional guide it looked like a normal 2 round slalom class C tournament; but there was a twist. There was also a class F night tournament. Centurion Boats and Omniglow Glow Sticks sponsored the night event. This event was orchestrated by Tony Ambrose, the developer of Redwood Shores.
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http://briandetrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10389276_10203342852243923_162151237928418249_n-300x200.jpgThe event kicked off around 8:50pm where there was still a little light for the first couple of skiers but it quickly got dark. The rules for the event were: 4 pass max, if you fell on your first pass you received a mulligan and they were recommending you go 2mph slower than you usually do. The juniors were out first and they were impressive! Most of them ran two to three passes and some almost ran their fourth. I went out at 35mph 32off and went up the line. I ran all four of my passes as I ran 39off. I had a blast skiing in the dark. I think every skier needs to experience skiing in the dark at least once!! We were fortunate to have a few photographers present who were able to capture awesome photos from the boat and the shores (see more pictures below by Holly Daley and Suzanne Schroeder). Stadium nor construction lights were used. It was pitch black and the only lights at the lake were from the buoys and the boat. I think our sport and tournament organizers should incorporate more fun events likes this for skiers of all levels.
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Pacific Slalom is offering free ski rides on the newest addition to our product line-up: " radar waterskis>
Pacific Slalom is stoked to offer free demos on the new 2014 Radar Waterski with the Wilson Brothers on the weekend of June 27-29. Just bring your bindings (or not) and we'll mount you up on a brand new Radar and give you a free coaching set from Brooks or KC while ripping down the lake behind the all new Mastercraft Pro Star.
We’ll be at Creekside Lakes, Bakersfield, California on Friday June 27 where we’ll be pulling the first 20 lucky skiers to have this awesome experience – on us! We’ll complete the day with Pacific Slalom hosting a lakeside BBQ for all the skiers and we’re counting on having a whole lot of fun with Brooks and KC.
The following day, the Wilson Brothers will be heading over to Lake Nacimiento in Paso Robles, California for the next two days of hanging out on the dock and demo’ing skis and equipment with the Farwest Waterski Club while making open water turns all weekend long.
Come join us! Pacific Slalom looks forward to you joining us for an awesome experience with Team Radar. To sign up for this free clinic, please go to our website at www.pacificslalom.com and send us an email with your contact info, ski site preference, and date, and we'll take the first 20 skiers for a day of fun with the Wilson Brothers. If you purchase a Radar Waterski during the clinic, you will receive a promotional discount on the ski and receive a complimentary Radar Neo sleeve.
Thank you for your continued support!
Team Pacific Slalom
Merced, CA June 4th, 2014; Centurion's Forth Worth, Texas dealer, Freedom Powersports, will set up a boat display and support the 2014 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on June 7 at Possum Kingdom lake in the heart of Texas. Attendees are encouraged to take a free boat demo test ride in one of the new 2014 Centurion Enzo's.
The Red Bull Cliff Diving Series is seven-city tour that started last week in Havana, Cuba. The series goes through Texas this weekend and will end in Rio de Janiero on October 19, 2014. The Ft. Worth stop is the only U.S. city on the tour. Other cities include Bilboa, Spain and Kragero, Norway among others.
The kick-off competition in Havana, Cuba saw no fewer than five new dives %E2%80%93 among them a never-before-seen feat by the brilliant Brit Gary Hunt, a new face on top of the podium who increased in the average degree of difficulty significantly. As the season has only just started and the divers used Stop 1 in order to find their rhythm and comfort after the long off-season, a lot can be expected from those who did not make it onto the first podium.
To add to the festivities, Freedom Powersports will have 2014 Centurion Enzos on the water including the FX44 for families and crews to demo at no charge. Everyone is encouraged to stop by the Freedom Powersports/Centurion Boats exhibit.
Centurion VP of marketing, Todd Gaughan said, "We are so excited that Freedom Powersports is branching out from traditional events in an attempt to drive new customers to the sport of boating. Our industry needs more creative out of the box thinking like this and we salute them for making this happen."
Cliff divers leap aesthetically from almost three times the Olympic height and hit the water at speeds of 85kph, protected only by their concentration, skill and physical control. Since 2009, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series has featured the biggest talents, the most promising newcomers, and since 2013 has also provided a platform for women. Seven tough competitions for the men, three challenges for the women %E2%80%93 in its sixth season this jaw-dropping sport will hit new as well as proven ground in the Caribbean, the continents of North and South America and Europe between May and October to determine a new champion for both men and women.
For more information about the Red Bull Cliff Diving series, please visit www.redbullcliffdiving.com and for more information on Centurion Boats please visit www.CenturionBoats.com.
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About Centurion: Centurion Boats is most recognized as the first boat company to produce a dedicated wakesurfing boat and with its new Enzo FX44 model, Centurion remains at the top-of-the-class in this space. In addition to world-class wakeboarding and slalom ski boats, Centurion has been a pioneer in watersports towboat technology. Centurion held the first World Wake Surfing Championship in 1995, an event that has grown to become the world’s largest, annual, premier wake surfing event. For more information please contact Centurion Boats at 209-384-0255 or visit www.centurionboats.com.
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Are you a fan of water skiing? Could you use $5,000? Then the GOODE Virtual Water Ski Bracket ChallengeTM is for you!
The Bracket Challenge is back and bigger than ever in 2014, with an expanded field and a greatly enhanced, March Madness-style online bracket that fans can use to make their picks, follow the action, track their competition and win prizes, including $5,000 in cash for a perfect bracket. Fill out and submit your bracket here.
After debuting last year with eight skiers, the 2014 Bracket Challenge field features 32 of many of the world’s top Men’s and Women’s 34 mph skiers, including defending champion and Women’s world record holder Regina Jaquess, veteran pro April Coble-Eller, and Big Dawg champions Jeremy Newby-Ricci, Dave Miller, Chad Scott, Kyle Tate, and Jay Leach. For the complete competitors list and Round 1 match ups, see below.
Don’t miss out on your chance to win great prizes like $5,000, a new Nano OneXT and other GOODE gear. Fill out your bracket today at goode.com/bracket.
The deadline to enter the bracket contest is June 17th.
HOW IT WORKS
The GOODE Bracket Challenge has five rounds: 32, 16, 8, 4 and 2 competitors. In each round higher seeds will face off against lower seeds in head-to-head bracketed match ups. For example, in the first round match ups will include seed No. 1 vs. No. 32, No. 2 vs. No. 31 and so on.
It’s “virtual” because the first three rounds will use scores from any nationally (any country) sanctioned tournaments competitors ski in during the months of June (round 1), July (round 2) and August (round 3). At the end of each month, the skier that has the single highest score will win that bracket and advance. In other words, during the first three rounds skiers won’t ski head-to-head at the same tournament, we’ll just use their top single score from that month – any location, any sanctioning classification – to determine the winner. If there is a tie we go to each skier’s second-highest score.
While the first three rounds will each take place virtually over three months, the final two rounds, the Final Four, will be a live head-to-head face off at a record-capability tournament we are hosting on Sept. 9 and 10, at GOODE Ski Lake in Ogden, Utah.
Last year’s Bracket Challenge started with a field of eight and was won by Regina Jaquess, who edged top seeded Todd Ristorcelli in the championship round.
June 7-8 at Bullneck Lake near Little Rock, Ark. To view the field of competitors, click here (PDF).Some of the world's top junior water ski athletes will compete for titles in slalom, tricks, jumping and overall at the event.
The Bullneck Lake Ski Club in Scott, Ark., annually hosts world record-capability three-event water ski tournaments and has previously hosted the Arkansas State Water Ski Championships. This will be the first time that the Junior U.S. Open Water Ski Championships will be held in Arkansas. It has previously been held in Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, Florida and Louisiana.
Hotel information for athletes and officials:
Hampton Inn Downtown River Market (Host Hotel)
www.littlerockdowntownsuites.hamptoninn.com
(501) 244-0603
Courtyard by Marriott Downtown River Market
www.courtyardlittlerock.com
(501) 975-9800
For additional information on the 2014 Junior U.S. Open, including qualifications and procedures as well as the skier refund policy, please view and download the Tournament Fact Sheet by clicking here (PDF).
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Master Men
Jay Leach 5.5@38
Chad Scott 6@38
Harald Hintringer 4.5@39
Kris LaPoint 4.5@39
Dave Miller 1.5@41
Jeremy Newby-Ricci 2@41
The Women took to the water for the Finals with Emma being the first woman to run 38. Whitney skied around 4@39' and Regina came within 1.5 buoys of her World Record with a 1.5@41 taking the Atlanta ProAm Title for the third year in a row!
Open Women Finals:
Clem 1@38
Samantha Dumala 2@38
Karina 3@38
Emma ½@39
Whitney 4@39
Regina 1.5@41
It was a tight grouping for the Top 5 Open Men with all 5 running 39'. The perfect conditions at Whitestone kept the Top 5 finishers all within 3 buoys of one another and Chris Parrish put in a little extra effort and barely got outside of 4 ball at 41' to take the quarter buoy lead and the win!
Open Men Finals
KC %C2%BD@41
Freddie 1.5@41
Matteo 2@41
Willy 3@41
CP 3 %C2%BC@41
The Amateur Skiers skied two qualifying rounds on Lake 2 getting to ski behind two Senior Drivers, Chad Scott and Jeff Gilbert, as well as Whitestone's own Regular Driver Adam Webb. Amateurs were competing against their personal 12 months AWSA average. To make the Finals the Top 4 skiers with scores closest to or over their average were ranked 1-4th and the Top 4 skiers with the highest cumulative score over both rounds compared to their average advanced ranked as 5-8th.
High amateur scores competing in the Prelims:
36mph was Paul O'Hara at 3@38
34mph was Eric Kolb and Brian Wisherd at 3@38
Amateurs Finals (Handicapped)
Graham Fizer
Brian Wisherd
Amanda Bryans
Curtis Kolb
Ricky Walters
Thanks to all of our sponsors who supported the event the 2014 MALIBU ProAm Presented by Eagle Sports!
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SCOREBOOK: http://www.usawaterski.org/rankings/scorebks/14S112CS.HTM
The original Nano One was a truly groundbreaking ski. It was not a particularly fast ski, and it was perhaps not the ski of choice when trying to ski as smooth as possible. What the original Nano One did was that it forgave the skier for committing otherwise unforgivable mistakes at the ball. Once the skier got to the apex of the turn, the Nano One was practically magic. The result was not the prettiest passes possible but scores beyond what was expected.
The Nano OneXT has the same shape as the original Nano One with changes to the rocker and to the bevels. The result of these seemingly small changes is a substantial change in speed and in smoothness, along with the effort required to get wide. With the right inputs, the XT can provide extremely smooth and flowing passes.
Off Side Turn & On Side Turns: The XT turns unusually symmetrically. On both sides, the ski works best when the skier is in a neutral stance and with understated movements. With refined technique, the ski will carve a tight fast arc at the ball line. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this ski is how much water speed can be maintained through the turn. With more aggressive/impatient skiing, the ski will change direction quickly but will lose water speed resulting in hard, frantic skiing.
This ski creates the right amount of cross course speed when the skier is centered and does not create extra load. Additional load is simply unnecessary, and with this ski, leads to less consistent results on the other side of the centerline. The skier needs to set angle, maintain stack and trust the ski. No more & no less.
From the wakes to the ball: To get the most from the XT, the skier must keep his or her shoulders level and weight centered when approaching the ball. If the skier can resist the temptation to move forward or backward of center on the way out of the ball, the ski will arc out and back with an amazing lack of drama.
Conclusion: More than any other ski reviewed to date, the XT holds speed from the wakes to the ball and back to the wakes. The result is less effort spent accelerating and decelerating. The possible downside is that excess speed created in a moment of panic is harder to bleed off. In terms of set up and skiing technique, the XT is finicky, but if you give this ski exactly what it requires, it is fantastic.
Pine Mountain, GA (May 25, 2014) %E2%80%93 Massive crowds lined the shore today as the 55th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament%C2%AE at Callaway Gardens concluded with four new Masters Champions including Women's Trick champion Erika Lang, Men's Trick champion Pierre Ballon, Men's Slalom champion Thomas Degasperi, and Wakeskate champion Danny Hampson plus a new course record in Women's Trick pulled by the Ski Nautique 200.
In Women's events, Team Nautique and world record holder Erika Lang was the only top seed out of nine disciplines that claimed a Masters title. Lang tricked 9,530 points setting a new course record and defeated Natallia Berdnikava by ten points followed by Whitney McClintock. Defending Women's Slalom champion, Regina Jaquess was no match for Team Nautique's Whitney McClintock who edged Jaquess out by one buoy and tied the course record set by Jaquess the day before. McClintock who is a three time Masters champion in Trick scored her first Masters Slalom title followed by Jaquess and April Coble-Eller. Defending her Masters Jump title, Team Nautique's Jacinta Carroll jumped 182 feet claiming her second title with Berdnikava and Jutta Lammi rounding out the podium.
In the Men's disciplines, Pierre Ballon from France tricked 11,590 points earning his first Masters Trick title followed by Aliaksei Zharnasek and Jimmy Siemers, respectively. Thomas Degaspri earned his first Masters title running 3@41-off followed by Team Nautique athlete Jon Travers and Aaron Larkin. Defending Masters Champion Freddy Krueger was no match for Canadian Ryan Dodd who jumped 223 feet claiming the Masters Jump title.
In the slalom head-to-head competition, Big Dawg World Tour Champion Jeremy Newby-Ricci was no match for Jay Leach who ran 6@38-off winning the first Masters Big Dawg Final Four head-to-head competition on Robin Lake.
Congratulations to Junior Masters slalom competitor Samantha Dumala who competed in the O’Brien head-to-head exhibition against Geneva Roach, earning a scholarship.
In the Wakeskate finals, Danny Hampson was second off the dock and came out on top with his first Masters win with a score of 86 points landing a Wake-to-Wake Bigger Spin and linking a technical run edging out Canadian James Balzer followed by Brian Grubb and Brandon Thomas respectively.
Returning to the top of the podium in Women’s Wakeboarding is Australia’s Amber Wing who put down a great run and finished off her pass with an Indy Tantrum to Blind followed by Dallas Friday who had two stand-up passes edging out Rebecca Gange who rode clean and landed a Crow Mobe but it wasn’t enough to beat out Friday.
There could not have been a better setup for the top four riders in the world. Dean Smith was first off the dock riding up to his perspective but then had a few unclean tricks which left the door open. Harley Clifford, riding like his typical self, amazed the crowd with his Double Indy Tantrum scoring a 94.00. Rusty Malinoski trying to defend his title went big but fell in his second pass and topped off his double up with the first ever Swtich Toeside Frontside 1080 in a Masters Tournament but it wasn’t enough to take down Phil Soven. Soven had two stand up passes, and then threw down a Switch Nose Crow Mobe 7 for his double up claiming another coveted Masters championship.
For complete up-to-date scores of the 55th Masters, please visit www.masterswaterski.com/standings/.
An invitation to compete in the Masters is universally considered an acknowledgement of achievement for reaching the pinnacle in a given watersports discipline - only the world's most elite athletes compete at the Masters. This tournament is IWWF/USA Water Ski and WWA sanctioned.
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