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    WASHINGTON -- Before Santa loads his sleigh Christmas Eve, he'll be putting on a free show at National Harbor.
    Make that, "on" National Harbor.
    Claus is hosting the 25th annual Waterskiing Santa tradition, and tells WTOP you can expect to see Mrs. Claus, the jet-skiing Grinch, flipping wake-boarding elves, Frosty the Snowman in a dinghy and hydrofoil sky-skis that can do inverted flips.
     
     
    The best viewing for the show is from one of the two docks flanking the show at National Harbor, Claus says. The performers are nationally-ranked water skiers and wake boarders who participate -- and prefer to stay anonymous -- as a way to give back to the community.
    The region is expecting cold clear weather for the performance. This will be the 25th year the free show has gone on rain, snow or shine, Claus says.
    Show time is 1 p.m. Dec. 24 at National Harbor in Prince George's County, on the Maryland side of the Potomac River just south of the Interstate 95 Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
     
    source http://www.wtop.com/?sid=2211098&nid=25
    September 2010 EZFT / BallOfSpray Intergalactic Cash Prize Slalom Challengehttp://www.ballofspray.com/images/stories/Bailey2.JPG
    Skiing 4.67 balls above her 2010 USAWA Average, Bailey crushed us all.
    Special Thanks to EZ Fin Tool
    Final Rank Skier Handicap Score OverUnder 1 Bailey Austin 81.33 86 4.67 2 David Wolters 88.25 92 3.75 3 Matthew McCuddy 100.67 104 3.33 4 Mark Shaffer 85.17 88 2.83 5 Shane Hill 86.5 87.5 1 6 Emily Darwin 91.33 91.5 0.17 7 Brad Miller 104.83 105 0.17 8 The_Krista 92 92 0 9 Horton 100 100 0 10 michael erb 94.33 94 -0.33 11 Kim Schneewind 63.75 63 -0.75 12 Ward McLain 110.33 109.5 -0.83 13 Richard Doane 104.33 103.5 -0.83 14 James Little 98 97 -1 15 Joe Darwin 99.67 98 -1.67 16 Terry Bandel 71.33 69.25 -2.08 17 David Satterfield 101 98 -3 18 Lydia Heard 77 4.5 -72.5
    Name Country   Categ. Priliminary Final       1 Dodd Ryan CAN   Ope M 62,7m 66,1m       2 Krueger Freddy USA   Ope M 68,6m 64,6m       3 Sharman Damien GBR   Ope M 59,9m 64,6m       4 Morozov Igor RUS   Ope M 62,9m 64,5m       5 Seels Jason GBR   Ope M 66,1m 63,9m       6 Magnowski Kole CAN   Ope M 60,6m 61,9m       7 Ryanzin Vladimir RUS   Ope M 59,9m 61,1m       8 Ballon Pierre FRA   Ope M 51,2m 51,6m         Name Country   Categ. Priliminary Final       1 Parsons Nick USA   Ope M 5,00/58/10.75 4,50/58/10.75       2 Degasperi Thomas ITA   Ope M 5,00/58/10.75 4,00/58/10.75       3 Travers Jonathan USA   Ope M 1,50/58/10.75 3,50/58/10.75       4 Rossi Christopher USA   Ope M 5,00/58/11.25 3,00/58/10.75       5 Asher William GBR   Ope M 0,00/58/10.25 2,50/58/10.75       6 Larkin Aaron NZL   Ope M 4,00/58/11.25 2,00/58/10.75       7 Campbell Glenn GBR   Ope M 5,00/58/11.25 3,00/58/11.25       8 Susi Billy USA   Ope M 4,00/58/11.25 2,50/58/11.25       9 Faisy Jean Baptiste FRA   Ope M 3,50/58/11.25         10 Morozov Igor RUS   Ope M 1,00/58/11.25         11 Allais Carlo ITA   Ope M 0,50/58/11.25         12 Seels Jason GBR   Ope M 4,50/58/12.00           Name Country   Categ. Priliminary Final       1 Beliakou Herman BLR   Ope M 10510 11490       2 Le Forestier Nicolas FRA   Ope M 10470 11450       3 Poteau Alexandre FRA   Ope M 10770 11420       4 Zharnasek Aliaksei BLR   Ope M 11720 10220       5 Ballon Pierre FRA   Ope M 8690 10220       6 Fortamps Olivier BEL   Ope M 10910 10050       7 Dodd Ryan CAN   Ope M 9160 9740       8 Desboyaux Franck FRA   Ope M 7600 8200       More http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/competition.php?cc=T-10UKR10&page=women_slalom_results

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    2011 Connelly V

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    Compared to top of the line skis that cost 3 times as much, the V is stable and predictable.  Compared to other skis in the same price range, the V is remarkably high performance.  The V does a great job filling the gap between ultra high end skis and lower level skis. With a MSRP of only $349 (blank), I think the V is the best ski for the money that I have ever ridden.

    A desert skiing oasis

    NEWBERRY SPRINGS • In a barren corner of the High Desert, near the end of a lonely desert dirt road, a water sports oasis is home to the nation’s leading water skiing trainer.
    Dr. Jack “Doc” Horton first built Horton Lakes in the late 1960s because when he first moved to California to begin a career in medicine in the mid-’60s, he thought we was moving to a water skiing heaven.
    “Instead I learned it was the armpit of water skiing,” said Horton.
    Now, Newberry Springs, just east of Barstow, hosts 11 other water sport specific man-made lakes that use Horton’s design.
    Nearly 40 years later Horton can’t remember the exact reason why he selected Newberry Springs, but knows he looked through most of Southern California. He does know land cost played a big role. Through the years he learned certain parts of Newberry Springs also have a thicker base of clay, which limits leaking.
    As his medical practice grew he saved his money to begin building what he considered the perfect conditions for water skiing.
     
    In the 1970s he began using the lake as a water ski school, one of many ways he hoped to recoup the costs of building the lakes. During that time the school began heading straight to the top. It became the leading water ski school, which attracted movie stars, Olympians and champions from Australia, Mexico and Britain.
    The school became home to several national and world champions and world record holders. It also became the foundation of three generations of skiers. His son and now daughter-in-law met as students at the camp, and now three of his grandchildren are competing in this weekend’s national championships in Wilmington, Ill.
    Horton himself earned six national championships and set three different world records for his own skiing.
    “I once had an Olympic gold medalist wrestler sign up for a week,” Horton said. “I asked him why he wanted to learn to water ski. He said after four years of training he wanted to relax and try (an easy) sport.”
    So Horton ran him through a day’s worth of lessons.
    “At the end of the day I asked him how he felt. He said it’s the hardest he’s ever worked.”
    Horton now only works with just a few select skiers, and rents out his second lake. But the secret remains the same to building champions.
    “You have to start young and spend a lot of time on the little things. You have to be motivated and ready to spend a lot of money.”
     
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. -- 
    A 54-year-old Wisconsin man and his 18-year-old daughter have quite a story to tell after they walked away from a plane crash in a remote part of Rocky Mountain National Park and spent more than 18 hours, enduring a cold, stormy night waiting to be rescued.
    Jim Michaels and Tonie Michaels crashed their single-engine American Champion aircraft at about noon Thursday in Forest Canyon, according to Rocky Mountain National Park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson.
    The victims suffered minor injuries but weren't rescued until 6 a.m. Friday, Patterson said.
    The father and daughter told rangers they built a shelter from plane debris and trees to wait out a passing storm. They also built two signal fires, and when they saw a search plane overhead on Thursday night, they added airplane fuel and threw a plane tire onto one of the fires to create black smoke.
    Rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park were first notified of the crash when the Civil Air Patrol called and said they had received an emergency locator transmitter signal at 12:30 p.m. and another one at 4:24 p.m., from possibly a downed plane near Milner Pass, located on the Continental Divide.
    Michaels, a dentist, is an experienced pilot who has been flying since age 16, Patterson said. His daughter, Tonie, is also a pilot and had just gotten her license.
    They left Oconomowoc, Wis., Wednesday and stayed in Greeley that night. Their flight plan called for them to continue to Aspen, Telluride, Leadville and back to Oconomowoc.
    Their plane was manufactured in 2009, and owned by Michaels Air Service LLC of Oconomowoc. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the cause of the crash.
    UPDATE: below is a spy photo of the faulty equipment

    http://www.wisn.com/news/24198970/detail.html
    The International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation's Technical Committee has ratified U.S. water ski athlete Chris Parrish's pending men's world slalom record of 2 buoys at 43 feet off set on June 13 at the Ski Ranch June Tour 2 in Covington, La. The record surpasses the old world record of 1-1/2 buoys at 43 feet off that Parrish set in 2005.
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