September 22nd-24th 2023 Groveland, Florida The Travers Grand Prix never disappoints and the 2023 edition was no exception. It gave us the highest scoring men’s round of skiing ever seen with the win decided on the 9.75m (43’ off) line for only the second time. In the women’s final no fewer than four skiers ran …
September 15th-16th 2023 Tuscaloosa, Alabama It is extremely rare to see the best ever competitive performance in a sport. It is infinitely rarer to see two go down in consecutive days and at the same venue. And yet that is what we saw at the Malibu Open as these records fell in women’s slalom and …
September 8th-9th 2023 Polk City, Florida In how many professional sports is it possible to point at a 48 year old that is still competitive? Or even competing. If there is such a list it would be a very short one. But at the top of it would be jump waterskiing. Why at the top? …
July 14th-16th 2023 Brescia, Italy It was back in 2014 that this site near Milan in Italy brought professional water skiing back to Europe with the first San Gervasio Pro Am. Other pro tournaments have since followed, leading to a resurgence in the sport on the continent. But at the weekend the original was …
July 8th-9th 2023 Kaiafas, Greece The penultimate stop of the European leg of the Waterski Pro Tour took place in Greece over the weekend and it was a return to Kaiafas for a second consecutive year. The organisers of the Kaiafas Battle lived up to their promise of laying on a show for competitors …
June 3rd-4th 2023 Quincy, Florida The fifth edition of the Lake 38 Pro Am saw some familiar faces in the top 3 in both the women’s and men’s slalom with 5 of the 6 skiers who made it onto the podium in 2022 repeating that feat in 2023. The competition at Keith and Karen Albritton’s …
May 7th, 2023 Clermont, Florida After all of the festivities of the King of Darkness, skiing moved to the Swiss Waterski Resort for their slalom tournament the very next morning. The tournament followed a similar format as the previous days’ competition with two rounds of qualifying skiing, followed by a cut down to the …
May 6th, 2023 Winter Garden, Florida The King of Darkness was a long tournament, with preliminary rounds starting Thursday morning, and the finals taking place on Saturday night. In the opening rounds, Nate Smith set the bar for the rest of the tournament being the only person to run 41off (10.25m) during the weekend. …
April 23rd, 2023 Clermont, Florida The 2023 Waterski Pro Tour launched in style on Sunday 23rd April with the best in the world competing at the first tricks-only competition to be organised under the WPT banner. The inaugural Swiss Pro Tricks, held at the Swiss Waterski Resort in Florida, was also the first pro event …
