Waterskiing

In the sport of water skiing while being towed forward bent planks standing on a water surface. The drive is usually from a motor boat or a water ski lift on a water ski rope with a handle. To practice a stable support rod is attached directly to the boat, so that the exerciser run alongside the boat and talk to the coach part.

The water skiing are front bent upward and have a soft rubber grip, in which the feet rest stop. The management of water skiing is ensured by a small fin on the back of the bottom.

This water sport enjoys - especially with tourists - in the warm months extraordinary popularity and is popular by a very high number of water ski lifts in Germany and in contrast to the motorboat also relatively inexpensive.

As the inventor of the sport of water skiing applies the American Ralph Samuelson.

Driving

Water-skiing behind a motorboat usually starts out with a " deep water start" or from the web. The skier leans into a crouch so that the knees are bent. The arms are stretched out straight, the body leaning backwards as sitting in a chair. The ski tips pointing upwards, so that they protrude a little from the water. The pull cable is located between the skis or if only one ski is used right, if the left foot is forward, or the left when the right foot is forward. Furthermore, there are handles, one of which on both sides of the rails, a cable which is tapered starting after about one meter in a rope. The rope can be done centrally so as a start with two skis, the single ski protrudes through the loop from the water.

If the skier ready, the driver accelerates the boat to pull him from the water. At the time, it is important to stay in the squat position and wait until the boat has accelerated to the extent that sufficient force between it and the ski is. A common mistake is to get up too early to kink in the hip and bend your arms.

Except for the boaters and water skiers must be a third person to be an observer present, whose job it is to watch the skier and inform the driver if, for example, the skier falls into the water.

Speed ​​and length of the cable varies depending on ability or competition event.

The start of a water ski lift is almost exclusively from a dock. (Water starts are now banned on all German lifts for safety in normal operation. ) Posture is the water start very similar behind a motorboat, but the laying of the body weight is omitted backwards. A sufficient at the end of the web speed the transition to the water occurs smoothly.

Variations

As advanced variations of the water-skiing can be replaced by:

• Monoski (not to be confused with the mono-ski for snow) or slalom ski: it consists of only one ski with fin on the back of the bond is a single loop is attached for the second foot. The bottom of the monoski is curved in the middle of the length to the inside; we distinguish here three types: tunnel, Tunnelkonkav as a mixed form and concave. For competition purposes, sometimes a second binding is mounted at the back. The athlete is so from the beginning the water start in two bonds. The counterpart for the snow is a skwal.
• Jumping skis: Two longer and wider skis with Finn, the long jump with a jump.
• Trickski: A short wide board without fins, in which the straps are fitted in the front pointing in the direction of travel, the rear at an angle thereto.
• Teller: A round wooden disk without fin with two loops / ties for about shoulder-width stand ideal for learning all geslideten rotations.
• Wakeboard: similar to the snowboard in the winter sports, but the board is thick and strong bonds there are commonly used instead of loops. For tricks often the voltage of the traction cable for " inverts " the jump effect of a shaft or obstacles is ( obstacles ) are used. Obstacles can be jumps with or without kick, but also rails, tables, walls, FunBoxe, ...

All known elements from the BMX, snowboard, skateboard, ... range are possible.

• Wakeskate: similar to the wakeboard but without bonds. Driving is barefoot on Foam ( foam rubber) or with shoes on Griptape ( sandpaper). The trick comes in part from the skateboard area ( Shuvit, Kickflip, ...) and some from the wakeboarding area.
• Wakeski: similar to Twintips from winter sports, but wider, shorter and thicker as well as with bonds instead of loops equipped. They are bent at both ends to the top, which allows the reversing. Wakeski be used for the most part to perform tricks, with this guided by the tricks of wakeboards and also the alpine variant.
• Kneeboard: on the one kneels and is drawn sitting on his heels. It even screws Altos be achieved over jumps in competitions. In disability sport there are corresponding variations for Querschnittsgelämte or lower leg amputee athletes.
• Barefoot: this is omitted the skis and you go to the " bare " feet at high speed. If operated only by experienced water-skiers and requires a lot of training. In addition, a very quiet and clean water surface is required.

The classic water skiing consists of slalom, jumping and the running figure with a Trickski and the combination:

• When it comes to slalom round 6 buoys at high speed. If the runner has arrived sometime in 55/58 km / h and this speed is passes through the line gradually reduced from 18 to 16 to date 9, xx meters and then tried again with the right speed. And so the line is more and more reduced. The shorter the line, the harder it is to drive around the buoy. It is the last possible only with the outstretched arm, to achieve the necessary length to go around the buoy. This requires perfect timing, strength and technique. The extreme skew with appropriate spray effect in the orbit of buoys gives spectacular photos. The maximum speed in the slalom is set depending on gender and age category, a maximum of 55-58 km / h

• When "figure running " with a Trickski it comes to achieving the highest possible score. With a Trickski no ramps are partly used as wakeboarding, everything happens right on the water. Points for rotations or flips ( flips ) are from the German Waterski & Wakeboard Federation ( DWWV ) set. Rotations start easily, here we go with simple 90 - degree turns and ends with difficult twists in the air. Flips are also quite challenging, to build the pressure on Trickski by pressing the ski into the water and then jump off and turns. These spectacular leaps into the air to be rewarded with high scores.

In competition (2 * 20sec ) 20 times each or more tricks are shown here, which is for most viewers a zuschnelle sequence. The tricks begin cracked or geslidet with screws and end at the time when screws flips or one-legged parts with the second foot in a Fußhantel.

• In the discipline of " jumping" it's about to jump at high speed over a jump, in this discipline is not about the attitude but only the length of a jump. The width is measured with a special device. When jumping, pulling with special ski jump with the speed of the cable car or the boat to the hill to. Most of the jumps are very scarce because " it pulls Lair" very late for a long jump to the. Equipment: Professional Springer have a so-called impact protection that protects the back. In addition, a helmet is put on. There are helmets that are manufactured for this discipline. They can be compared with those from the Motocross often, but these are built much heavier and aerodynamically different. Of course, not everyone starts at Springer equal at 58 km / h ( top speed ). At higher speeds from 45 km / h, so-called " Sprunggurt " is usually applied. This belt goes once around the body, and has on the right side at the waist a loop for the right arm. It is designed to be not too much pulled forward at higher speeds and to hold the arm on the body.

For security reasons, the jumping is only allowed in training and competition, when a rescue boat in the area of ​​jump ski jump is ready for even for experienced jumpers are the most minor error momentary unconsciousness or dislocated shoulders and even hips (eg DM 200x in Kiefersfelden ) at jump distances of over 60 meters can not be excluded. 58 km / h top speed of the traction cable == speeds of over 100 km / h in the slalom and ski jump jump.

Similar sports

• The counterpart on snow is skijoring.
• Driven on a water roller or shaft stationary against water flow is at Canoe Rodeo
• Various forms of surfing on rolling or wave slopes