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...

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...

From 1966 to 1972, LaPoint and his famed Maha accomplished great things on the water, like winning five Masters titles, the first being in 1967 when he won the event by an amazing 16 buoys over his second-place competitor.

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.

Can the greatest slalom skier of all time hang with the world's best swervers of today? Andy Mapple, who just turned 50 at the end of last year, will compete against Thomas Degasperi, Will Asher, Chris Parrish and Nate Smith in mid-February at Gordon Rathbun's Ski Paradise in Acapulco, Mexico.

Is there one perfect line to run through the slalom course, one turning radius that places the skier on the ultimate path of least resistance to the next buoy? After watching hours of snow-ski racing this winter, I am inclined to think there may be.

The offseason can be downright depressing. Here's a quick-hit vid from a 2013 HO product shoot to help snap you out of the funk you're in and get you pumped about next season!

Part of the sport is dealing with adverse conditions and trying to figure out how to adapt in the short time that you’re on the water competing. It almost keeps things a little more exciting, because anything can happen, and it's fun to see which competitors have the focus and the never-surrender attitude when the conditions are less than ideal.

Will Asher ends the 2012 season at the top of the IWSF Elite Ranking List. Photo: John Mommer You just ran 2 at 43 off. How does it feel? If feels pretty unreal. I got it one time this summer at Travers ski school, and it just didn’t quite work out...

The 35th World Cup Stop of the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation in Palembang, Indonesia hosted athletes from 24 countries.

"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."

THINK SOME OF THOSE NFL HIT'S LOOK VIOLENT ON TV? They really are! Skiing has its fair share of body punishment as well, and that's why we've prepared this entertaining gallery of skiers on the brink of disaster.

Skiing can be violent sport as you probably know. The strains and stresses put on your body can definitely take its toll. Tired of the pain? How often do you complain about lower-back spasms? The time is now to ease your muscles. Crazy water ski crash shots included!

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.

HO Sports is proud to introduce their newest high-end tournament slalom ski to the market, the Syndicate A3. If team captain Will Asher's stellar performance at the 2012 Diablo Shores Pro Am in September is any indication of the ski's potential, we'd say it's going to be a hot selling item in 2013...