How To Do Slalom Water Skiing

Hello guys. My name is Rob. I've been water skiing for roughly 14 years and currently, I'm number 4 in the world in slalom.

So in this video, we're going to talk to you about how to do slalom on the water ski. So we've got a water ski lake right there with the slalom course right over there. There are entry and exit gates at each end of the course, and there are six buoys to go around when you want to do the slalom.

So you do this on different speeds. So if you're a beginner, you start on maybe 40 k's and as you go around all six buoys an exit gate you speed up to 43. It always speeds up by three kilometres, so you go all the way up to 58 kilometers per hour.

For women, it's 55 and it always gets harder and harder the quicker you go. Once you get to 58 kilometers per hour, you're shortening the rope from standard 18 meters down to 16, 14, 13, 12, 11 meters, and down, all the way down to 9.75 which is the world record at the moment, 2 buoys at 9.

75. Okay, so you do water ski slalom on one ski, something like this because on two skis, it's a lot more difficult to get the angle around the buoys which is quite tight so you haven't got much time there you need to do quick turn, need to lean over, try to keep your line tight all the time and pull really hard across the wake is quite a big lean through the wake and around the buoys. So that's why you have only one ski and not two skis and that requires a lot more balance from your side as opposed to two skis, and that's a little advice how to do slalom on the water ski. .