Program Overview

Official entry and registration forms

Please complete and return your Official Entry and Registration Forms with payment to the Event Management Office by 23 February 2007.

Official Entry Form

Registration Form

Outline of Competitive Disabled Water Skiing

The categories for “Ski Able’ water skiing are:

• Sit Skiers. This includes Paraplegics, Quadriplegics, Double Leg Amputees, and others who are unable to ski upright.
• Single Leg Amputees. Skiing upright, some skiers ski on their one leg, others ski with their prosthesis (false leg).
• Skiers with an arm Disability: Many of these skiers have a paralysed arm from speed skiing accidents
• Vision Impaired Skiers. Some of these skiers are totally blind, some have slight vision.
• Arm/Leg Impairment. This is a relatively new category for skiers who have significant impairment of an arm and a leg. This includes arm & leg amputees and people who have had strokes, resulting in one side of the body being significantly weaker than the other. These skiers ski upright for slalom and may stand or sit for other events.

Skiers with a Disability Compete in the Three Standard Water Ski Events:

1. Slalom. Sit skiers use an inner course which is a narrow slalom course and can use the full slalom course as well; visual impaired skiers use an angular measurement device on the ski line that gives a sound when the skier is simulating the full size slalom course. The skier is then judged on how many buoys they have achieved. All other skiers use the standard slalom course for able bodied skiers.
2. Tricks. Skiers have 20 seconds to perform as many tricks as possible. The rules are the same as those applied for able bodied skiers.
3. Jump. This is the same as for able bodied skiers but skiers with a disability can choose to have the jump ramp lowered slightly.