Ski West Village To Host 2024 Goode Water Ski Nationals

[rico]

https://www.usawaterski.org/news/2023/august/16/ski-west-village-to-host-2024-goode-water-ski-nationals

USA Water Ski & Wake Sports and the American Water Ski Association are pleased to announce the 82nd Goode Water Ski National Championships will be held August, 2024 at Ski West Village in Arvin, Calif. The nation’s top water ski athletes will compete for titles in slalom, tricks, jump and overall.

 

Ski West Village previously hosted the Nationals in 2006 and 2007, which marked the last time the world’s largest three-event water ski tournament was held in California. Ski West Village is a three-lake site outside of Bakersfield offering world-record capability conditions.

 

Advancement to the world’s largest three-event water ski tournament is primarily earned through placement on the national rankings list. Athletes also can qualify by placing in the top-five in the previous year’s event or at respective 2023 regional championships.

 

The first national championships was held in 1939 at Jones Beach in Long Island, N.Y. Except for three years during World War II (1942-1944), the Nationals has been held every year since 1939.

 

The agreement between the American Water Ski Association and Ski West Village is for the Nationals to be held at Ski West Village in 2024 and 2025. Ski West Village is located at 28311 Millux Road, Arvin, CA 93203.

 

Tournament information will be posted as it becomes available at www.waterskinationals.com.

Edited August 16, 2023 by rico

[jcamp]

Going back to Cali. Awesome!

[rico]

We are doing a lot of work now to get ready. If you have some good ideas or insightful dos and don't, we would love to hear it now. You can post here or PM me.

[Bulldog]

Ski west is a paradise!!!

[ColeGiacopuzzi]

Stoked to have you a lot of you guys out here for 2 years! @rico and @charlieskiwest are already working there tails off to get the already great site better.  

[MattP]

Awesome that @rico , @charlieskiwest and the rest of Ski West are hosting this event! This is some what a joke and somewhat serious. How many of those amazing lakes in a row in Arvin + close by will be available for practice? I know organizing the dozens of owners can and is a hard task not to mention boats, but would be cool for the greater Arvin ski community if they somehow all opened their doors to the nation to stop in for practice or demo lakes for ski brands. Hell I might come for the week if I knew I could ski a hand full and still help with the tournament some. 

[ColeGiacopuzzi]

@MattPI know there will be practice at the end of each day at Ski west. As far as other lakes doing practice/demos it is early on, but some lakes might do it! Hopefully we can make something work at my lake for demos. Let’s call it in the works we’ll see. Nothing set in stone.

[Mateo_Vargas]

@rico how are the ducks at Ski West?

[jcamp]

Thanks for all the hard work you guys are going to put in @rico. Can't wait!

[rico]

@Mateo_Vargas Ski West will have no ducks, rain, wind.

shame there was no ducks in sight for my 38… 😂

[rico]

@jcamp it’s definitely a lot of work and it takes a village, but we are really excited!

[rico]

@MattP it will be dry compared to  Okeeheele but hot, so we may elect to start early, finish early and run practice on all 3 lakes. 

Practice is a good share of our income and we will not have any official practice on other lakes.

All lakes around are private and you would need to connect with an owner to get a ride.

If you want to come early and help out we will definitely hook you up!

[Luv2Ski]

I agree with @MattP  It would be great if there was an option for visitors to ski who aren't competing in nationals.  Maybe some of the owners on the lakes that aren't being used will pull skiers?  My son will be competing and if I come there to watch in person, I sure would love to get a set (or 2 or 3) in while I'm there!  Happy to pay for gas or work in exchange for ski pulls. :-) 

[disland]

Please, Please, Please, do online practice booking, like they did in Wichita, 1000% better than the clip board fiasco the last time we were in Bako

[ColeGiacopuzzi]

@rico I think said they will do online practice but he'll chime in and confirm. 

 

[Horton]

Do we really trust a French guy?

[rico]

@disland we are doing online practice only. No tickets can be purchased onsite. Slots will be available online, where skiers will have to pick a lake, and a time slot. We will have slots for different ramp heights and boats....

Getting practice boats is really challenging, and we are working on it to get the best possible boats. 

 

[jcamp]

@rico Great news. Online registration is way better.

[TLE]

Camping on site for 2024?  Starting to look at plans for Nationals.  Any idea if there will be camping on site?

[rico]

@TLE We will have RV spaces available but there is no camping available onsite. There is a lot adjacent to  Ski West that may offer camping. We are confirming in the next few weeks.

 

[rico]

Our Ski West Nationals Warm Up tournament is officially full as of today. I don't think this ever happened to us in January before. Hopefully a good sign for a great Nationals.

 

[TLE]

Thanks for reply on camping.  We really like to stay on site when possible.

[rico]

If you are talking about renting an RV / Trailer and have it dropped off and picked up at Ski West, this will be available. If you just want to put your tent on the grass, we are trying to organize now.

[rico]

https://gofund.me/5e0c52e3

[kc]

On 1/16/2024 at 3:23 PM, rico said:

@disland we are doing online practice only. No tickets can be purchased onsite. Slots will be available online, where skiers will have to pick a lake, and a time slot. We will have slots for different ramp heights and boats....

Getting practice boats is really challenging, and we are working on it to get the best possible boats. 

 

@ricoNationals information says a link to schedule practice will be posted the week of July 29. I’ve been keeping an eye out for it. Any idea when this will post? TIA!

[rico]

Hi it will be available this week before Friday.

we will not open all the slots while we confirm tournament skiers numbers.

i have been working really hard to get current boats but there maybe some rides with older ZO boats.

we should have all 3 current boats on Monday.

[kc]

29 minutes ago, rico said:

Hi it will be available this week before Friday.

we will not open all the slots while we confirm tournament skiers numbers.

i have been working really hard to get current boats but there maybe some rides with older ZO boats.

we should have all 3 current boats on Monday.

Thanks for the quick response, and for everyone’s efforts!

[Horton]

Ski West is skiing so good right now. Just had my best practice ride of the year with @rico

[Horton]

[rico]

Hey Ballers, Practice link is up on https://www.usawaterski.org/goode-water-ski-national-championships

We will open more slots as we get closer to the event.

Looking forward to seeing you guys here!!!

[rico]

Practice is getting pretty full so we will open more slots today and tomorrow.

[Mateo_Vargas]

Oops, I accidentally signed up for the Kneeboard Nationals 

[liquid d]

WHAT? IS AN EARTHQUAKE RERIDE POSSIBLE?  WE COULD HAVE A FIRST NEXT WEEK!

[Horton]

Earthquakes in Bakersfield are about as dangerous as the Gators at Okeeheelee.

[Ulmskier]

Is the online practice site available for booking? I have been trying for several days to click through it. Today was the first time I was able to open a calendar day, but times start at 4:00pm and are all greyed out. 

[rawly]

3 hours ago, liquid d said:

WHAT? IS AN EARTHQUAKE RERIDE POSSIBLE?  WE COULD HAVE A FIRST NEXT WEEK!

Only ripples on the water were near the islands ……no reride called by boat judge. 🤣 Hope Rico’s gate cameras survived. That was probably his only worry. 

[ColeGiacopuzzi]

@Ulmskier there isn’t a dedicated practice lake, so practice starts at the conclusion of the events each day which is basically around 4pm. I know slots filled up very quick so it could just be full. I’ll nudge @rico to chime in. 

[rico]

I am going through the wait list. I will open additional slots on Monday morning. Practice is on all 3 lakes after the event so we need to get a skier count for Nationals to know exactly what time we can start practice.

You would never guess how late people enter!

[rico]

https://www.turnto23.com/news/in-your-neighborhood/arvin-lamont/the-82nd-goode-water-ski-national-championships-are-kicking-off-on-tuesday