gotta give him credit for creativity.

I hope you're not serious about that.....

This is a novel approach but not a new occurence of the problem in water skiing. I was an AWSA official, ranked skiier and a certified slalom course driver before becoming addicted to triathlon.

There is a private lake up in the northern part of PA where an unnatural number of records are achieved. The water on this guy's private lake is like water nowhere else. Skiiers describe different water characteristics as slow/fast, with slow water being greatly preferred. EVERYONE who skis on that lake breaks their own personal records, and during competitions national and state records are routinely set. The course was always certified by measuring out to proper length, but we all knew the guy did something to the water to make his ski lake the best.

The property that makes "slow" water so nice is that the ski really sticks to the water, as opposed to jittering around or riding high in the water colum. This allows the ski to turn smoothly and react more positively to the rider's commands, making a few extra bouys possible on that skiier's shortest line pass. Skiing on that lake was a shock during the first warm up pass, but during the tournament it was a dream.

He'd never admit it adding chemicals to the water, and we never really asked. But we all knew he did.

Not quite the same as using PEDs, but close!

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Elivis needs boats.

I wonder if this is the lake?

Google Earth

43'00'03.40" N

88'28'15.43" W

Unless they moved the state of PA west, nope.

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Elivis needs boats.

uh..the Wisconsin tourney sillypants.