WaterSki Magazine

With the 2013 Malibu Open scheduled for June 21-22, we decided to tap the event’s towboat driver, Chad Scott, to find out how he pulls all those millimeter-perfect sets with the Malibu Response TXi. Follow these six tips and you’ll be pulling practice sets that are worthy of one of the year’s top pro tournaments. [...]

With summer right around the corner, it’s time to shake off the cobwebs with some skiing spring cleaning. We enlisted Malibu Boats skiers Will Asher, Thomas Degasperi and Regina Jaquess to share some things you can do right now to get your body, boat and gear ready for a summer full of fun and personal [...]

Your success at the next buoy all depends on how you set yourself up from the previous buoy to the first wake. If you haven’t done things right in this crucial part of the turn, it’s already too late. However, with a flawless transition from the turn to the first wake, most of your job [...]

The slalom course is the exact same size for everyone, so the goal is to create space or time to give yourself more options in each turn. The more swing and the more power you get in the turn, the more time, space and options you have at the end of the turn, which will [...]

Every skier has had a slack line and we all hate the feeling. Find out Will Asher’s five secrets to keep a tight line at all times behind the Malibu Response TXi.

Watch Malibu Boats‘ Thomas Degasperi ski the 2013 Malibu Response TXi, including some crazy helicopter footage. 2013 Malibu Boat Guide Get more Malibu with the 2013 Malibu Boat Guide. Explore Malibu’s 2013 ski boats, meet the Malibu Boats team, and see Malibu’s latest innovations through video, full-screen photo galleries and more. See Malibu Boats’ commitment [...]

Experience what it’s like to ski the record-setting Malibu Response TXi through the eyes of Thomas Degasperi. Watch the T Cut Diamond hull track on a rail and see for yourself why the Response TXi is responsible for towing multiple world records.

Whether free skiing or reaching for a world record, every skier wants to have the best possible set whenever he hits the water. Here are some of the things I do before I attack the course to make sure that every set I have behind the Response TXi is the best it can be.

With the new T Cut Diamond hull, Malibu’s Response TXi has become an even better training tool, with the flattest, softest wakes in all of skiing. Combine that with longer tracking fins, GPS-based speed control and the updated helm, and the Response TXi is ready to pull the perfect set right from the factory. Here’s how.

With a combined 24 world water ski records, Clementine Lucine, Regina Jaquess, and Natallia Berdnikava are laying claim to the sport with an unthinkable level of domination. Women’s tricks has seen an epic surge in performance in the last few years. It took more than 25 years for the world record to climb from 8,000 [...]