WaterSki Magazine

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 bests...

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...

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 get you through the course more efficiently...

If you’re an avid waterskier at the tournament level — or you aspire to be — and you want to practice behind the same ski boats used in competitions, your next ski boat is on this list. These five ski boats — the Centurion Carbon Pro, Malibu Response TXi, MasterCraft ProStar 214v, Moomba Outback, and Ski Nautique 200...

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.

Ski Boat Review At just over 20 feet, Moomba’s nimble Outback has been holding down the three-event title in the company’s line for a long time, and for good reason. With four standard speakers, a new ergonomic driver’s seat, a center-mounted pylon and an Oz foldable tower, the Outback is Moomba’s ever-reliable workhorse that has pulled countless skiers, from novice to advanced levels...

Ski Boat Review Centurion’s premier ski boat is the sleek, sports-carlike Carbon Pro. From the ground up, this boat is purpose-built to be a three-event tow boat with miniscule wakes, tons of power, and reliable pulls time after time...

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...

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.

"I had a great start at 43, my best ever," Asher says. "I finally got the ski on edge long enough to have some time to finish 1; then I laid the hammer to get to 2."

There’s lots to report from this year’s Malibu Open, which was held at Veterans Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. First off, the conditions were significantly better than the previous two years: There was no wind, the water level was low (no rollers), and as Nate Smith says, “The water was slow and soft, which is exactly how I like it...

Moomba’s Outback continues to deliver stellar skiing performance for a value price.

Five years after launching their much-heralded redesigned Response LXi hull, the crew at Malibu Boats decided to take their R&D team to task yet again. Enter the 2012 Malibu TXi.