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Key facts
- Highest governing body
- International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation
- First performed
- 1922, United States
- Contact
- No
- Mixed sex
- No
- Type
- Aquatic
- Equipment
- Water skis motorboat towline
- Venue
- Body of water
- Olympic
- Demonstration sport , 1972 Summer Olympics
- World games
- 1981 – 2017
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Water skiers performing at Sea World on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on one or two skis. The sport requires sufficient area on a stretch of water, one or two skis, a tow boat with tow rope, two or three people (depending on local boating laws), and a personal flotation device. In addition, the skier must have adequate upper and lower body strength, muscular endurance, and good balance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “water skiing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.