WaterSki Magazine

In honor of National Safe Boating Week, we decided to give you a look at some of the best U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jackets of 2013. Here are five ways to stay safe, whether you'll be wakeboarding, wakesurfing, or skiing behind your boat this summer and still look good while doing it!

Snoqualmie, WA – HO Sports is off to a great start in 2013.  The world leader in waterski equipment and vision is looking forward to a fresh start in their new digs, with the completion of a new 135,000 square foot office/distribution center located about 20 miles east of Seattle in Snoqualmie, Washington...

His first pro event on the Syndicate A3  Nick Adams on new Syndicate A3 Syndicate’s Nicholas Adams, aka Noodleba, continued his hot-streak this past weekend by winning the 2013 Australian Masters held in Bridgewater, Victoria and also scored 5@39...

HO designed the Apex boot to be light-weight and offer great lateral support, while putting the skier's foot as close to the ski as possible in a baseless frame for enhanced control. See it in action here!

Bob LaPoint is like a big ole bear. In fact, I often imagine him wrapping his massive arms around a tree trunk and ripping it from the earth. The five-time world slalom champion is known for disfi guring pylons and yanking boats out of the course. But he’s also a thinking man, and on and off for the past 30 years he’s been applying that brainpower to designing skis.

Frankie Panno is a hard working man that goes above and beyond the call of duty to gain more exposure for the sport of kneeboarding. The summer of 2012 has been a busy one for Panno. Between traveling to ideal riding destinations for video and photo shoots and doing exhibitions for the PWT and Centurion boats, he managed to help HO design "The Agent" which is his brand-new pro model kneeboard for 2013...

Just because you don’t ski for a living doesn’t mean you can’t have support from your water ski boot. That was the thinking behind the all new 2012 HO Basis boot.

Check out the intelligence behind the world’s first 100% water ski-specific releasable binding system by HO Sports.

The first to develop women-specific skis, HO Sports started off with the Muse and Couture.

If you're trying to maximize performance out of your 10-year old shred stick, you owe it to yourself to ride the all-new, completely redesigned 2012 HO Triumph, which uses Step Concave technology, over sized shape and Syndicate thoroughbred linage to create the highest performance-shaped ski in its class.

Will Asher, Jon Travers and Marcus Brown ski 36mph, while Bob LaPoint, Greg Badal and Karina Nowlan ski 34mph, but they all like winning tournaments. Meet the all-new 2012 HO Syndicate S2.

HO Skis announces the launch of the “HO Skis” mobile app for iPhone and Android users, including the latest technical features of their entire water ski line.

As long as water-ski manufacturers continue to bring new innovations and technology to the forefront of ski design, they’ll always have a customer. We’re an easy sell. We’ll give anything for one more buoy...

Overview: The ski design team at HO Sports took its best-performing high-end slalom ski ever, and with some help from Will Asher, made it even better. The A2 is the next evolutionary iteration of the A1...

Overview: Since the majority of tournament skiers compete below 36 mph and struggle to maintain their outward direction and glide off the second wake into the turn, HO Sports modified the bevels (by making them smaller) and concave design (it’s shallower now) of the highly successful A1...