Pine Mountain, GA (May 24, 2014) %E2%80%93 The 55th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament%C2%AE lined the shores with thousands of watersports enthusiasts and beautiful weather as the professional athletes competed for a spot in Sunday's finals. USA's Regina Jaquess, for the third year in a row, broke the slalom course record taking top seed while Team Nautique's Natallia Berdnikava set a new jump course record that she set in 2011.
In Women's Tricks semifinal, world record holder Erika Lang scored 9,390 points earning top seed followed by fellow Team Nautique skiers Natallia Berdnikava, Whitney McClintock and Clementine Lucine. In Men's Tricks Aliaksei Zharnasek tricked 11,870 points moving on to the finals along with Jimmy Siemers, Josh Briant, and Pierre Ballon.
Congratulations to Junior Masters slalom champion Brando Caruso who competed in the junior head-to-head exhibition against Eamon Van Der Merwe, earning a scholarship courtesy of O'Brien.
Defending Women's Slalom champion Regina Jacquess ran 3.5@39-off and will be last off the dock followed by Team Nautique skier Whitney McClintock, Nicole Arthur and April Coble-Eller. In Men’s Slalom semifinal, Jon Travers, a previous Masters Champion and Team Nautique skier, earned top seed followed by Aaron Larkin, Thomas Degasperi, and Will Asher.
In the Men’s Wakeskate semifinal the all-new Super Air Nautique G21 towed its first Masters event on Robin Lake. In Heat #1 James Balzer scored 81 points followed by Danny Hampson who did not have the best run but qualified after Christobal Mendez had uncharacteristic falls. The second heat was not a surprising semifinal for the two roommates Brian Grubb and Brandon Thomas, both had stand up runs and Grubb the defending Masters Champion put up the highest score of 90.67 points.
In other events, women’s wakeboarding Dallas Friday and Amber Wing advanced on from Heat #1. Nautique Wake Games champion Meagan Ethell who was injured last year earned a spot in the finals followed by Bec Gange in Heat #2. The Men’s Wakeboard semifinal with a stacked heat, Phil Soven put up a score of 92 points followed by Harley Clifford on his heels scoring 90 points while Shota Tezuka rode great but it just wasn’t enough to advance on. In the second heat defending Masters Champion Rusty Malinoski earned top seed along with Dean Smith who’s been riding great since his win at Nautique Wake Games.
The Jump semifinals rounded out the day with Natallia Berdnikava setting a new course record that she previously held earning top seed in the finals. Team Nautique skiers Jacinta Carroll and Marion Mathieu along with Finland’s Jutta Lammi will advance to the finals. Germany’s Bojan Schipner jumped 223 feet securing the Men’s Jump leader position for Sunday’s final followed by Freddy Krueger, Ryan Dood and Team Nautique’s Zack Worden.
The Opening Ceremonies of the 55th Masters Finals will begin tomorrow at 10:00AM with the Parade of Champions followed by the final rounds at 10:30AM. For complete up-to-date scores of the 55th Masters, please visit 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. To view the 2014 criteria please visit the Masters website. This tournament is sanctioned by IWWF/USA Water Ski and WWA. Watch all of the 55th Masters action live on Sunday May 25th starting at 10:00AM EST, please visit masterswaterski.com.
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For the first time ever, the Masters featured a final four head-to-head competition of the top finalists from the 2013 Nautique Big Dawg World Tour. The 2013 champion Jeremy Newby-Ricci edged out Harald Hintringer by half a buoy while Jay Leach skied a quarter of a buoy more than Dave Miller to advance on to the final head-to-head round that will take place on Sunday right after the Pro Men Slalom.
Anna Gay for the second year in a row claimed the Junior Women’s Trick title with a score of 7,330 points followed by Brooke Baldwin and Alice Bagnoli. In the Junior Men’s Trick final, Danylo Filchenko from Ukraine finished with 8,970 points securing his first Junior Men’s Trick title, followed by Gianmarco Pajni and Santiago Robledo in second and third place.
Additionally, in the Junior Women’s Slalom final, Samantha Dumala ran 2@38-off followed by Geneva Roach and Allie Nicholson to claim her first Junior Women’s Slalom title. The Junior Men’s Slalom final was a nail biter with Brando Caruso from Italy and Eamon Van Der Merwe from Republic of South Africa each tying the longstanding course record of 2@39-off for a run-off for the championship. Tying a second time, a second run-off began and Caruso came out on top with a score of 2.5@39-off> to capture the Junior Men’s Slalom title.
In the Junior Women’s Jump final Mara Salmina from Austria jumped 139 feet claiming her first Junior Masters title followed by Abbi Grathwohl and Valentia Gonzalez. Additionally, in the Junior Men’s Jump final, Austria’s Dorien Llewellyn jumped 175 feet claiming his second Junior Men’s Jump title followed by Nick Lang and Taylor Garcia.
Competing in all three events and scoring consistently earned Brooke Baldwin the Junior Masters Women’s Overall title with a score of 2,845 points and junior men skier, Dorien Llewellyn earned his second Junior Masters Men’s Overall title with a score of 2,910 points.
During the Junior Men’s Wakeboarding semifinal, Jason Soven and Parker Siegele moved on from Heat 1 while Cory Teunissen and Joey Buss advanced from Heat 2 to the finals. In the final round Teunissen rode big and clean linking together a toeside 900 followed by a heelside 900 to finish his first pass claiming the Junior Men’s Wakeboarding title followed by Siegele and Soven.
For complete up-to-date scores of the 22nd Junior Masters, please visit 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. To view the 2014 criteria please visit theMasters website. This tournament is sanctioned by IWWF/USA Water Ski and WWA.
Watch all of 55th Masters action live on Saturday May 24th starting at 8:00AM EST, please visit masterswaterski.com.
Orlando, FLA (For the tenth year straight year Nautique will provide full live web coverage of the esteemed Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournamentvia www.masterswaterski.com.This event is held at beautiful Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia (just outside Atlanta) over the Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25.
New for this year, the event will feature a live roaming interview camera giving audiences a new perspective of the world’s most anticipated watersports event. Watch all of the live action including interviews with key industry representatives, wakesurfing exhibition with the innovative Nautique Surf System, head-to-head exhibition with slalom’s up and coming junior skiers presented by O’Brien, and much more. The 55th Masters live coverage will beginFriday morning at 7:30 am EST with the Nautique Big Dawg World Tour Final Four head-to-head followed by the 22nd Junior Masters.
Additionally, Nautique will provide periodic live event coverage of the tournament via its Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts (@NautiqueBoats). Follow Nautique to catch all of the latest updates during the 55th Masters weekend.
“Our team is thrilled to offer live coverage for the tenth year in a row of the Masters to watersports fanatics globally who are unable to attend,” stated Nautique’s President/CEO Bill Yeargin. “This year’s webcast will be the best yet with the addition of the roaming interview camera that will showcase this family-oriented event,” added Yeargin.
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. To view the 2014 criteria please visit the Masters website. This tournament is sanctioned by IWWF/USA Water Ski and WWA. To watch all of 55th Masters action live please visit masterswaterski.com.
@Kavan asks " when conditions are less than ideal and it windy what some of the thoughts or adjustments you make to your skiing in both cross winds head tail.>
This is a great question and worthy of a winning title! I see a lot of skiers struggle when the conditions become less than ideal and feel that most of the problems arise from not having the right game plan. Here are my thoughts on each of the different wind conditions and how to take the most advantage of them.
I'd like to start by stating the ideal edge change location because it will be referenced as the baseline for each of the wind condition variables. If there is no wind and the skier is able to generate sufficient speed in their cut, the centerline or directly behind the boat is the ideal place to have the ski transitioning from edge to edge. Meaning, that the skier has made their hardest cut before this point and has released the ski from it's cutting edge to its turning edge. As the ski transitions from edge to edge, there is a moment where the ski is flat. As stated above, this is where your ski would be at at the centerline if you had ideal line and speed. The reason most skiers like a head wind is that this transition happens later for them and thus they carry extra speed with less than ideal direction into the buoy. A head wind helps to make the later transition feel correct and for that condition, is the correct change. Head Wind - A headwind adds considerable drag to the body and robs the skier of the very speed they worked so hard to establish. The correction to stay on the ideal line is to focus on a slightly later edge change than centerline and make sure to keep the body moving outward after the edge change. To keep moving outward, the skier must not over load the line so they do not get pulled to the inside after the edge change and keep the handle close to the body in the preturn. For the gate pull out, I delay my starting point to edge out to take into account the added drag in the glide that I will incur. My glide will be shorter, but I will be at the appropriate speed/width to turn in due to the head wind. Tail Wind - A tailwind reduces drag to the body and allows the skier maintain more speed after the centerline. The correction to stay on the ideal line is to focus on a slightly earlier edge change than centerline and focus on maintaining line pressure out toward the buoy line. The biggest problem I see with skiers in a tail wind is their fear of speed. They tend to correct by going easier in their cut. This seems logical except that by going easier, the edge change is delayed past centerline and without the head wind, there is insufficient drag to slow the skier down before the turn. The end result is slack, a delayed acceleration out of the buoy, and another late edge change into the following buoy (this is also called "chasing" and does not feel good). Focus on a strong cut that ends earlier than centerline and stay connected to the handle in the preturn to maintain ideal direction into the buoy. For the gates, I start my pull out slightly earlier than normal and set an aggressive edge that I can come up out of slightly earlier than normal. Then I focus on maintaining line tension out to the apex of my glide. Another big problem I see skiers do is they pull out early and easy in a tail wind which basically sets up the "chasing" effect mentioned above. Cross Wind - a cross wind is both a head wind and tail wind in the same pass. When going into the cross wind, the skier must focus on the headwind strategy and then at the completion of that turn, must shift focus to tail wind strategy. This condition is probably the toughest overall and will show the skier how well they have mastered each of the headwind and tail wind strategies. I have been lucky throughout the years and have had the opportunity to practice in each of these conditions extensively. As a rule when I was training at a facility that had multiple lakes, I chose the windier lake 85% of the time. My thinking was that everyone can ski at their top level when it is calm, but the ones who can ski with it windy would separate themselves from the pack. My one word of caution is to evaluate conditions for safety. When the water gets too rough, you are putting yourself at greater risk of falling and thus injury. I have been injured in a strong headwind where when I edge changed, the ski blew away from me more than I expected and I landed on my ear at top speed. Ouch. I have also been injured in a strong crosswind where the waves being blown cross course caused my ski to skip out right at apex. Another ouch. Ski all conditions so that you are experienced for anything that is thrown at you at your next big tournament!@TravisNW asks "It seems an important factor of running short line passes, 38 and beyond, is to establish width sooner. A new concept I've recently been introduced to goes on to say that instead of trying to maintain max angle after the wakes one should ski directly at the Bouy. This goes against a lot of what people have been trying to do for so long but actually makes great sense because a shorter path will save time and space. Thoughts, agree, disagree? I can explain more but have a feeling you might already be with me here."
@TravisNW you are right on the mark with this question. Another worthy winner! This answer probably won't be that long, but the concept is something every skier must wrap their head around to be successful at their shortest passes, especially 38, 39, 41, & 43 off. The biggest hang up is the desire of the skier to get wide/early for the buoy because they know from past results, their turns are better when they get more time to set it up. There is a fundamental flaw with this approach as the rope starts to get shorter than the buoy line and that is the handle can't physically go that early/wide. The only way to understand this is to set up a pylon in your yard and measure a buoy out at 90 degrees from the pylon at its exact recommended width (Jamie Beauchesne taught me this at least 5 years ago!). Then hook up your rope to the pylon and walk the path of the tight rope for each line length. At line lengths 32 off and longer, there is plenty of width/space capable in the preturn, but as the rope is pulled in shorter, the ideal handle path becomes much later and narrower. There is a flaw to this test in that in actual skiing, the pylon is moving down the course, but when the line gets crazy short (43 off), the skier will have to be at 90 degrees just to get around the buoy when at full extension. This validates the test in my eyes. So back to the concept at hand, at 43off, your ski will not get to buoy width until just a few feet before you reach 90 degrees to the boat and are fully extended. Most skiers never will get to 43off but can progress their skiing by recognizing that they have a flawed approach to skiing at whatever line length they are stuck at. What you hear these days is about "tight rope" skiing and the basis for this style skiing is to be on the ideal path where the line stays tight always (like when we set up the pylon and buoy in our yard as recommended above). Yes some of you will say that the current record holder skies with a loose line sometimes. I recognize this and that just shows that we do not need to be perfect to run 2.5 @ 43. BUT, to run the next line lengths, a tight line will be necessary. If this is what it takes to ski the best, we all should be striving to do the same. Good luck in your journey. There is a lot of information out there on how to ski with a tight line, but I think you will learn a tremendous amount from the dry land test mentioned above.
U.S. water ski athlete Erika Lang (Gilbert, Ariz.) set pending women's world tricks records of 10,360 points and 10,460 points at the 2014 Crystal Point Record tournament, May 10-11, in Gilbert, Ariz.
If the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation's Tournament Council ratifies either record score, it will surpass the current world record of 10,180 points set by Lang in October 2013.
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Team GOODE’s Freddie Winter scored a massive 5-1/4 buoys at 41 feet off to earn his first career Masters appearance and win today’s Masters Last Chance Qualifier at Sunset Lakes in Groveland, Fla.
Freddie will be joined in the Open Men’s slalom field by his fellow GOODE teammates Thomas Degasperi and Chris Parrish.
Additional GOODE skiers slated to compete at the Masters include:
Women’s Slalom: Clementine Lucine (FRA); April Coble-Eller (USA); Regina Jaquess (USA); Karen Truelove (USA) not expected to compete
Master Men’s Slalom: Jeremy Newby-Ricci (GBR); Jay Leach (USA); Dave Miller (CAN)
Junior Men’s Slalom: Daniel Di Pol (USA); Nick Lang (USA); Dorien Llewellyn (US/AUS/CAN); Brando Caruso (ITA); Eamon Van Der Merwe (RSA)
Junior Women’s Slalom: Brooke Baldwin (USA); Ruth McCreary (USA); Bailey Austin (USA); Abbi Grathwohl (USA)
Visit the Masters’ website at www.masterswaterski.com.
ORLANDO, FLA (May 15, 2014) %E2%80%93 As part of its continued support for the growth of towed watersports globally, Nautique announced today they have entered into a long-term agreement with Liquid Leisure Waterski & Wakeboard Park as the exclusive official towboat of the London Night Jump and Extreme Sports Event.
The London Night Jump is the World's premier night jump event and is held annually in London, England. This event is viewed by thousands of spectators each year during the several day event and is considered by many to be one of the watersports industry's top events.
The competitors will jump exclusively behind the record breaking Ski Nautique 200. The Ski Nautique 200 has towed athletes to fifteen world records along with numerous National records and innumerable personal bests since its inception setting it apart in a league of its own.
"To have great a partner like Nautique is huge and is sure to make the upcoming London Night Jump and Extreme Sports Event the best ever. The Ski Nautique has clearly set itself apart and is an important part of the reason why this year the London Night Jump will be the most coveted jump title in the world," commented Liquid Leisure Waterski & Wakeboard Park President and Tournament Director Stuart Marston.
"The Nautique team is thrilled to partner with Liquid Leisure in support of the London Night Jump. It is only right that Nautique should provide the world's best ski boat for the world's largest jump event," stated Nautique President/CEO Bill Yeargin. "The London Night Jump is an amazing event and will present an opportunity for more people in the United Kingdom and all over the globe to understand why most people in the industry consider the Ski Nautique 200 the best ski boat ever," Yeargin added.
The London Night Jump and Extreme Sports Event has thousands of spectators annually witness this prestigious event during the two-day London extreme sports event just outside of downtown London, England. The London Night Jump will be held on August 24th, 2014. For more information on the London Night Jump and Extreme Sports Event, please visitwww.liquidleisure.com.
Celebrating 89 years of excellence in the marine industry, Correct Craft is the owner of Nautique Boat Company, Inc. and Aktion Parks (owner of Orlando Watersports Complex and Miami Watersports Complex). Nautique manufactures the highest quality, most innovative ski and wake-sports boats available worldwide and provides exceptional customer service experiences. To learn more about Nautique and its complete product line, visit www.nautique.com. To learn more about Aktion Parks visitwww.aktionparks.com.
Erika Lang sets new Pending World Trick Record. 10360 and or 10460
USA Water Ski is proud to announce its support of the 2014 Pan American Olympic Festival, USA Water Ski will invite the top athletes in each event in order to fill the maximum number of five allotted athletes. At least one of those five must compete in overall. Any combination of water ski athlete and wakeboard rider can be made in order to fill the other four available positions. A maximum of one wakeboard rider per gender, or two total riders, may be used to fill two of the four available spots.The Pan American Sports Organization will cover the travel expenses of each athlete who accepts to participate in this event. This includes airfare to and from the event, and housing and meals through the duration of the event.
Individual athletes will be invited by USA Water Ski based on current world rankings' lists and other qualification procedures decided upon by the American Water Ski Association’s International Activities Committee. The deadline for roster submission isJune 15; therefore invitations will be administered on a rolling basis until all spots are filled. For More information, email Matt Stone at mstone@usawaterski.org.
The 2014 Pan American Olympic Festival will include 23 sports – all of which will be included in the XVII Pan American Games in Toronto in July 2015 – and an estimated 3,000 athletes. According to PASO, the objective is to provide elite athletes an opportunity to participate in a high level competition of their specific sport with the objective of improving their preparation for the XVII Pan American Games.
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http://www.goode.com/images/Parrish14.jpgFour-time world record holder Chris Parrish is back on Team GOODE and already feeling the difference after just a handful of sets on his GOODE.
“My 39s are feeling like 32s again,” said Chris, who posted a score of 4 buoys at 41-feet off in his very first tournament back on his ski. “With the ski’s efficiency and how light I feel on it, everything just feels easy again.”
Chris experienced considerable success during his previous stint on GOODE, setting and tying world records multiple times and holding No. 1 world ranking from October 2009 to April 2011.
“We are very excited to have Chris back on the team because he has already proven how good he can be on our skis,” said Dave Goode, founder and president of GOODE Skis. “He skied extremely well for a number of years with us and in just the short time back on it he’s already putting up big scores. Watch out for Chris this upcoming season.”
Chris says he made the move because after an off-season of hard work in the gym, he wanted to put himself in the best position for his fifth world record.
“I put so much energy and grind into my offseason, getting my strength up and my weight at 198 pounds, that I just saw things lining up naturally,” said Chris. “At the end of the day, yes, I want my record back. I have a lot of confidence in GOODEs because I ran 22 41 offs in record tournaments on them over a two year period. I know they can get me there again.”
Chris’ return was welcomed by his fellow GOODE teammates, including two-time world champion Thomas Degasperi and current world No. 5 Freddie Winter.
“I like Chris a lot and he’s an amazing skier, so it’s great to have him back on the team,” said Thomas. “I hope that we’ll be able to ski and hang out with each other a lot more this year.”
“Chris is a great skier and he’ll be on a great ski,” added Freddie. “It’s going to be fun skiing with, and against, him this year.”
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