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27th February 2002 This year there will not be a US Pro Tour like last year, but a single event, The MasterCraft Pro will be held at Trophy Lakes in Charleston, South Carolina, May 3-5. The event will feature the top athletes in mens ski jumping and mens and womens slalom with mens wakeboarding. Click here to see the whole story. 26th February 2002 The 43rd US Masters will take this year over the weekend of May 24, 25, and 26 at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Ga. The elite athletes by invitation and will compete in slalom, ski fly, tricks and wakeboarding for a share of the record-breaking $160,000-plus in cash and prizes, making this the richest purse ever for waterskiing or wakeboarding. Click here to see the whole story. 26th February 2002 Waterskiing legends Bruce and Toni Neville announce their retirement from professional competitive waterskiing. Bruce, is a 3-time World Record Holder; 1995 World Jump Champion; 9-time Australian/Moomba Masters Champion; and a list of championship titles from around the globe too numerous to list here. Toni Neville, the first female to ever jump over 200 feet, is also a 4-time World Women Jump Record Holder; Co-Holder of the World Women Ski Fly Record; 1997 Co-World Women Slalom Record Holder; 1999 World Women Jump Record Holder; Current Masters Women Slalom Champion. Click here to see the whole story. 25th February 2002 The first event of the year, the 2002 Australand Moomba Masters starts Friday 8 until Monday 11 March 2002 on the Yarra River. Click on the logo for the official web site. 18th February 2002 The Virtual Slalom League. The first prize consists of one week of unlimited water skiing (five days) at Escola de Ski de Lisboa - Palmela in Portugal with Carlos Relvas. Click here for full details. 17th February 2002 We have been talking with another well respected ski school about sponsorship for The Virtual Slalom League. As soon as all the details have been confirmed we will anounce the info. 14th February 2002 The IWSF World Rankings List now on line. Click here to view 5th February 2002 Top prizes for the virtual leagues for 2002!! A weeks skiing with Jack Travers at Sunset Lakes and the new slalom training video. Click on the links above to read all about the prizes and to register your teams. 28th January 2002 USA Water Ski has announced that the 2002 US Open Water Ski Championships will be held over the week end of August 17th and 18th at Lago Santa Fe in Texas. Click here for full details. 28th January 2002 The Junior and Senior World Barefoot Championships. There originally wasn't going to be any World Championship skiing on Sunday, but due to high winds the finals in the Trick event were postponed until Sunday morning. Certainly the tension was very high because the Senior Men's Overall was so close as a computer was required to calculate who was in the lead between William Farrell and John Stekelenburg. Going into this event there was less than one-tenth of a point difference between the 2 skiers with (by my calculations) "West Coast Willie" in the lead. With William Farrell posting the better score in the semi finals he was in the driver seat because John would have to ski first. The skier who improved their score the most over the previous round would be the winner. However, between water conditions and "the pressure" John only came up with 5150 and William skied a 7730 to win his first Overall World Championship by 0.09 points. Congratulations to both men and all the winners, for a well fought battle. click here for event updates and here for barefoot news. 23rd January 2002 The Junior and Senior World Barefoot Championships is under way in Forest Lakes, Otaki, New Zealand with the first complete day skiing finished. At this point in time the event is definitely shaping up to a close battle between the Australians and the Americans with a battle between John Stekelenburg AUS and William Farrell USA. This will probably decide which Senior Team will take home the Gold Medal. But as you know this is a team event and all the members will have to contribute for Gold Medal winners. click here for event updates and here for barefoot news. 21st January 2002 The Planet Water Ski virtual slalom league is back!! This year we are going to run a jump league as well. Next to the news icon above you will see buttons for both leagues. We are still looking for sponsors for both leagues, so if you know any businesses willing to provide some prizes, then let us know. Good luck. 20th January 2002 Here are a couple of links to give you easy access to Planet Water Ski. Make Planet Water Ski your home page Add Planet Water Ski to you favorites/bookmark 12th January 2002 Big New Year wakeboard and ski sale, click here for details. 11th January 2002 Happy New Year to all of you. First of the news for 2002 is a summary of some of the emails I have received over the holiday. A new Ski School opening up this summer by Rick Scarborough, click for details. Also WaterSki magazine have just launched a new site that is much more funtional than the old one. Check it out here. Finally, Issue 3 of Splash Magazine is now available for download! click here. 
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