THE 18TH JUNIOR MASTERS
Pine Mountain, GA (May 28, 2010) – The 18th Junior Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament® began today at beautiful Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, GA. Three records marked today’s prestigious competition; Erika Lang of USA broke the course record in the Junior Women’s Tricks Finals with 8,320 points, Martin Kolman of Czech Republic set a new course record in the Junior Men’s Tricks Finals with a score of 10,210 and Australian Junior Women’s Jumper Jacinta Carroll broke the course record soaring 153 feet!
In the semifinals of Junior Women’s Tricks, Nicole Naser who earned a spot through last weekend’s last chance qualifier, earned top seed in the finals and finished second while Erika Lang exploded with an amazing run, setting a new course record and claiming her first Junior Masters title.
In the Junior Wakeboard and Tricks Finals, Steel Lafferty and Martin Kolman finished strong with first place wins. Steel Lafferty with two standup passes also landed a Backside 7 on his double up with a score of 80.00 to defend his 50th Junior Masters title from Nick Galotifore and Daniel Powers. Martin Kolman took first place in the Junior Men’s Tricks Finals and set a new course record behind the Ski Nautique 200, while James Earl and Rodrigo Chapoy finished second and third.
The third course record of the day, set by Jacinta Carroll during the Junior Women’s Jump semifinals, jumped her last jump at 153 feet and then proceeded to jump a second 153 feet in the finals, receiving her first Junior Masters title, followed by Lauren Morgan and Maria Pajni. Junior Men’s Jump champion, Daniel Efverstrom from Sweden rocketed to 183 feet followed by Martin Kolman and Alejandro Robledo rounding out the podium.
Additionally, in Junior Women’s Slalom, Camille Poulain in her first appearance won slalom with a run of 2@35-off(12m) while Gabriella Viljoen came second with a score of 1.5 bouys on 12m and Brie Carter placed and third with 2.5 o 13m. In the Junior Men’s Slalom event, Sacha Descuns ran 1.5@39-off(10.75) in the semifinals and finals earning a Junior Masters title followed by Benjamin Stadlbaur(2.5 at 11.25m)and James Earl(4.5 on 12m)
Competing in all three events and scoring consistently earned Lauren Morgan and Martin Kolman the prestigious Junior Masters Overall titles!
For complete up-to-date scores of the 18th Junior Masters, please click here
Gabi Get's Invitation to US Masters
The field for the 51st Running of the Worlds most prestigious Waterski event, the US Masters has been announced and can be viewed on www.masterswaterski.com. The Masters is known throughout the world as the most prestigious watersports tournament. The event began in 1959 at Callaway Gardens and is held annually during the Memorial Day weekend.
The Robin Lake site at Callaway, built specifically for the Masters, boasts an expansive pavilion with covered stadium seating, judges' tower and media area. The action can be seen clearly from the beach and picnic areas. The immaculately maintained gardens, lakes, resort and attractions at Callaway provide a tournament venue like no other in the world.
An invitation to compete in the Masters is universally considered an honour and an acknowledgement of achievement for reaching the pinnacle in a given watersports discipline - only the world's most elite athletes compete at the Masters! This tournament is IWWF/USA Water Ski and WWA sanctioned.
The 18th Junior Masters Tournament features the world's finest junior waterskiing and wakeboarding athletes. A tournament where qualification for an invitation means that a skier has to either be in the
top 5 on the IWSF Standings list, or the reigning World Champion in aan event, or the reigning World Overall Champion or the reigning US Masters Champion. The US Masters hosted by Correct Craft will again be run on Robin Lake at Callaway Gardens in Georgia from the 28-30 May and can also be viewed live on webcast TV. Gabi Viljoen will be making her second appearance at the US Masters and is hard at work training to win this event in her last tournament as a Junior, before switching to Open Woman on the US circuit in June. The competition will be tough but having been there before and having won an event such as the Moomba Masters in the past and again having placed second in 2010 Gabi is confident of beating the best in the world.”
New Women's World Record of 9080 Approved
At the last tournament of the 2009 season, Natalia Berdnikova of Belarus became the first woman ever to trick over 9000 points scoring 9080 for a new world record.
Berdnikova came very close to the existing record in the first round scoring 8800. However,in the second round she picked up the pace and fit 3 extra tricks into her passes to break the 9000 point mark. What makes this achievement even more remarkable is the fact that she is only one year out from major knee surgery and a hard road to recovery.
Today, The IWWF Tournament Council approved Natalia Berdnikova's score of 9080 as the new World Record in Women's tricks. Below: Natalia's World Record Run
Freddy wins Rocketman Jump
At the SplashEye Rocketman Record at Fluid Ski & Sports in Central Florida, the seemingly impossible happened!
As part of the record competition, the skiers were entitled to a 4th jump to see how far they could go on a single cut with some serious money on the line to break nearly 52m or 170ft. The current Ski Fly Single Cut Record stood at 164ft set by Kyle Eade at the 2008 competition. After the first round even this record seemed like it wouldn’t be broken with the top jump being 161ft by Freddy Krueger, Damien Sharman was in second and Eade 3rd. Click here for more
Chris Parrish's Videos of his 2nd World Record run from "before-unseen" Offical Boat Camera
October 7th, 2009 OGDEN, UT - Chris Parrish joined Team GOODE on September 4, 2009. He tied the Men’s World Slalom Record of 1-1/2 buoys at 43′ off / 19.75 m line length on September 5th and then again on September 6th at Ski Ranch, in Covington, LA.
In this Video, Chris describes his feelings about joining Team GOODE and his impressions of his new GOODE 9900SL Water Ski. The video also shows, until now, the “before-unseen” Official’s Boat Camera from his September 6, 2009 World Record run.
During Chris’s interview section of the video, Dave Goode’s GOODE Ski Lake is featured, along with the new GOODE PowerBuoy.
Chris Parrish & Regina Jaquess World Records on the same day
Krueger & Berdnikova take gold in China
This was the 28th Stop of the Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup series of the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF). It was staged for the first time in this South West Monsoon region of China – a major car manufacturing and tourist area. This was no ordinary experience. Few World Cup Stops have ever been provided with such an array of high quality features. There were even two wedding ceremonies on two XStar MasterCrafts – our World Cup boat sponsors ! The site sound-system was as good as its gets, generous food was provided throughout in a riverside restaurant for all involved, TV, Photography and Press coverage was outstanding. Read more