Baller Luzz Posted January 4, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 4, 2016 The International World Games Association is accepting votes for IWGA Athlete of the Year, and water skiing is represented with Regina! Let's all vote and make sure she gets this :) Ski coach at Jolly Ski, Organizer of the San Gervasio Pro Am (2023 Promo and others), Co-Organizer of the Jolly Clinics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 4, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 4, 2016 Voted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Texas6 Posted January 4, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 4, 2016 Done. The glider pilot threw me off as an international sport? The vid didn't help. I'm sure one of you pilots can straighten me out on the subject Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller igkya Posted January 4, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 4, 2016 Done. I was afraid to watch the video of men's Fistball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller chris55 Posted January 4, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 4, 2016 Done too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 4, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 4, 2016 I remember she was up for the same thing back in 2013, does anyone remember how she did? I want to say she got second, but I didn't find it in google. How much harder do we need to try?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Chef23 Posted January 5, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2016 I have never heard of fistball. It looks kind of like volleyball but you can only use one hand, it is played on a large grass field and the ball can hit the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Bulldog Posted January 5, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2016 Done "Do Better..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Bill22 Posted January 5, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2016 Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 6balls Posted January 5, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2016 Done...it's pretty easy to do...won't take you a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller skiep Posted January 5, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2016 Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Luzz Posted January 5, 2016 Author Baller Share Posted January 5, 2016 Nice! Remember Ballers, you can vote everyday! Ski coach at Jolly Ski, Organizer of the San Gervasio Pro Am (2023 Promo and others), Co-Organizer of the Jolly Clinics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller colo_skier Posted January 5, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2016 Voted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 6, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 6, 2016 Voted again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller A_B Posted January 6, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 6, 2016 Could only imagine what she would do if she was 100% paid professional athlete without running a business! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member Than_Bogan Posted January 7, 2016 Supporting Member Share Posted January 7, 2016 I just took a minute to check some of the videos of the various athletes/teams. I don't want to assume that their accomplishments are lame, but many of the videos are pretty lame. Regina's video might be objectively the best. (Whatever "objectively" could possibly mean in this context.) Also weird that there are two more sports that are basically basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller igkya Posted January 8, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 8, 2016 And remember you can vote once/day/per device... so vote again and again and again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 8, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 8, 2016 Yup, like @igkya said! I've voted 7 or 8 times now! Also, I found the results from 2013. Regina was in 3rd place. The top 4 standings were: Marcel Hassemeier/Germany (Life Saving) - 21871 Votes Naranbat Gankhuyag/Mongolia (Sumo) - 12744 Votes Regina Jaquess/USA (Water Skiing) - 12570 Votes Matthias Kyburz/Switzerland (Orienterring) - 7121 Votes So she was nearly second place, but still about 9,000 votes away from first place (reference is here). Seems very doable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member Than_Bogan Posted January 8, 2016 Supporting Member Share Posted January 8, 2016 Is there any way to see the current vote totals? (If I were running that voting, I wouldn't offer that, because it can cause people to give up, but if they DO offer it, I'll definitely look!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPT Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Edbrazil Posted January 10, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 10, 2016 I voted and added some comments. Some of those sports sure sound strange, to say the least. Because competition water skiing is a bit of an obscure sport these days, Regina sure needs plenty of support from all of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member Than_Bogan Posted January 11, 2016 Supporting Member Share Posted January 11, 2016 If the comments section means anything, the entire nation of Malawi is voting hard for their rep. (Click sort by Newest to see recent comments.) But that's only about 16M people. We can take 'em! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller liquid d Posted January 12, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 12, 2016 hmmm , I don't know....that Korfballer was pretty awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Stathis Ventouris Posted January 12, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 12, 2016 done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 12, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 12, 2016 I'm up to 4 votes a day! Home, work, cellphone, and wife's cellphone. If you have kids and spouses, don't be afraid to steal their phones for a few minutes to vote! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 14, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 14, 2016 Hmmmm.....any ways to can raise awareness in the water skiing community to help us out here? BoS is a good avenue, but there's gotta be something else we can do. I'm getting absentminded these days so I forgot to vote yesterday, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Waternut Posted January 17, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 17, 2016 I voted but it does make me go hmmmmm when things like waterskiing, rock climbing, and surfing are being compared to a lot of those other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Edbrazil Posted January 19, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 19, 2016 Should be 2 different categories: regular sports, and sports that you can get seriously injured or killed in. Water skiing would be in the 2nd category, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller GWaterski Posted January 20, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 20, 2016 Wow! What an amazing video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Stathis Ventouris Posted January 22, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 22, 2016 We can vote everyday which is what I have done fior the last 3 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Edbrazil Posted January 26, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 26, 2016 The website is now showing vote totals. The netball player has nearly 10x the votes that Regina has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Edbrazil Posted January 26, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 26, 2016 The website is now showing vote totals. The netball player has nearly 10x the votes that Regina has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 28, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 28, 2016 I didn't bother putting names and sport, but here are the current number of votes for each placement as of this moment. Regina is currently sitting in 6th place. 5th place is easy pickings and then up to 2nd place seems doable. 1. 15041 2. 6125 3. 5783 4. 3441 5. 1630 6. 1487 (Regina) 7. 1179 8. 1113 9. 910 10. 751 11. 593 12. 558 13. 370 14. 344 15. 332 16. 227 17. 122 18. 32 We're really slacking this year. In 2013 we were able to get Regina 12570 votes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller dchristman Posted January 28, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 28, 2016 Copy of the voting link to make it easier now that this thread is on page 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DefectiveDave Posted January 29, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 29, 2016 Over the last 2 days we've lost ground against every other top 9 candidate: 1. 16632 2. 7206 3. 7042 4. 4759 5. 1749 6. 1531 (Regina) 7. 1435 8. 1165 9. 1153 10. 781 11. 596 12. 575 13. 407 14. 347 15. 345 16. 268 17. 124 18. 34 Should we try to play the patriotic angle in the Americas? It seems to be working well for Malawi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Edbrazil Posted January 31, 2016 Baller Share Posted January 31, 2016 Voting has ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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