Jul/091
First Day Back At Sioux Falls Water Ski Club
Two Man Heli
I’m finally back to doing what I love. Today was my first day back at the Sioux Falls Water Ski Club, aka Catfish Bay. Unfortunately the practice was called off early due to severe weather in the area. However, I did happen to get a jump set in. This is definitely my all time top favorite stunt to perform in the show ski world. It has been two years since I’ve been able to hit the jump and surprisingly things went quite well. After successfully landing two ride overs on the jump, I decided to go for the heli (a wrapped 360). Lo and behold those two years of rust did not phase me and I landed the first one. I got two more chances to try again, and only failed at one (but two out of three ain’t bad). To give you an idea of what this looks like I pulled an old photo from a few years back out of my facebook photos. In the future I hope to post video footage of the kind of stunts I perform as well as what some of the other amazing performers at the bay have to offer. I also have posted another photo of me in the barefoot line from about the same time period. This is probably one of my favorite pictures ever captured of a barefoot line. Looks
pretty rough, which it really is. I typically enjoy being on the outside of such a stunt, since a face full of water while going 40 mph is not typically comfortable.