22nd September 2008 Diablo Shores. Karina Nowlan and Will Asher win at the MasterCraft Pro Water Ski Tour at Diablo Shores. Will beat Jeff Rodgers in the head to head final. High scores as many of the men scored 2.00 @ 10.25m during the event and Will achieving 5.00 @ 10.25m in the first round. But the biggest news of the week end was the performance by Karina Nowlan scoring 1.00 @ 10.25m. This score equals the world record for ladies. The record was first set some 12 years ago by Kristi Overton-Johnson. 14th September 2008 World Senior Trophy - Sunday. EAME team gold went to Great Britain from Germany and France. Massive jump of 56.5m from Genadi Guralia from Georgia in Senior Men 1 to take the gold and give him the overall title from Jean-Christophe Fortamps and Danny Budd. Senior Men 2 slalom saw a great battle. After his gold in the World Final, Andy Mapple set a score of 0.50 @ 10.25m from Thierry Malhomme to match. Thierry ran 12m then opted up to 10.75m and ran it struggling at every buoy. He then turned buoy one to take a well deserved gold. Click on the logo for all the World and EAME results. 13th September 2008 World Senior Trophy - Saturday. Olga Kashitsina took the overall in Senior Ladies 1 from Brenda Baldwin who jumped 40.8m for the jump title. Marc Shaw took gold in jump with 57.8m from Genadi Guralia who jumped just enough in 2nd place to give him the gold overall. Another amazing thing that happened on Saturday was Andy Mapple winning the gold medal in Senior Men 2 Trick event scoring 4980 points! In the team event, USA were the winners from United Kingdom and Germany. Sunday will see the EAME Championship finals. 11th September 2008 World Senior Trophy - Wednesday. Outstanding skiing from Gordon Rathbun to lead Mens Senior 3 Slalom with 1.00 @ 10.75m. Just behind were Steve Raphael with 4.00 @ 11.25m and Philip Hughes with 2.00 @ 11.25m Leader in Ladies Senior 3 was Leza Harrison with 2.00 @ 12.00m. The jump event was put off until Thursday afternoon due to light issues 10th September 2008 World Senior Trophy - Tuesday. Tuesday saw the start of a combined World Senior Trophy and the EAME Senior Championships from Sesena in Spain. So far conditions have been varied all week with rain one day and a steady to strong cross wind most of the week. We will try and give you an update on the skiing each day. If we get live results going the location will be posted here. First day action saw slalom from the Senior 2 group. Thierry Malhomme and Andy Mapple both scored 1.00 @ 10.25m to tie the lead with Mike Morgan in tirad with 5.00 @ 10.75m. Leading in the ladies Group is Mary Koenig scoring 4.00 @ 13m from Cristina Medem Segners with 3.00 @ 13m. 25th August 2008 London Night Jump at Liquid Leisure. The night jump final proved to be an incredible event with another new winner in Canadian Ryan Dodd. Conditions appeared to be perfect for jumping in the dark. There was very little wind and the arena was lit up just right. Ryan went out early in the final to set a bench mark 68.3m. This proved way too much for Jaret and Jason to match. Freddy Krueger, who has historically not had a great deal of success at this event, was last off the dock in the final. Freddys first jump was 68.2m making it look like it was going to be his event. Even with three quality jumps Freddy still could not catch Ryan. A truly worthy winner. Click here for the full results. 24th August 2008 The Ski Full Stretch Princes Pro-Am. With the Pro-Am first round on Saturday by far the best conditions, it produced the best results which saw Will Asher the leader from Chris Parish. Naturally the Head to Head final saw both Will and Chris progress to the final. Chris set the mark of 2.5 @ 10.75m and Will who was on form all week end ran the pass to take the title. Last years winner Nick Parsons went out to Jamie Beauchesne who had a spectacular crash which saw his double boot snap off and the ski go shooting towards the boat as he rounded buoy four. Click on the logo for head to head results of click here for the full three rounds results 24th August 2008 London Night Jump at Liquid Leisure. Confirmed today, the London Night Jump will be web cast live on Planetwaterski.com by WaterSkier Software. The live scoreboard will be available on the event website. Click on the logo for the web cast page. 15th August 2008 2008 EAME Championships. As expected Clementine Lucine has dominated the ladies slalom and trick event scoring 3.00 @ 11.25m in slalom and 8840 in tricks, 1500 points ahead of second place Natalia Berdnikova. Keen to keep her overall hopes alive Natalia Berdnikova leads the jump with 53.9m. In the mens slalom Will Asher finds himself at the top of the leaderboard with Adam Sedlmajer both scoring 3.00 @ 10.75m. A 12 way tie on 3.00 @ 11.25m saw exactly a quarter of the field take part in a run off for the remaining final places. Mens jump was a repeat of last year with British skiers taking all three top places and looking favourite for all three medals. Saturday will see the men trick prelims and finals along with the ladies Slalom and trick finals. Click here for all the scores and results. Click on the logo for event information. 13th August 2008 2008 EAME Championships. Belarus take the team title from France with Great Britain improving from last year to take the Bronze. Click here for all the team scores and results. 12th August 2008 2008 EAME Championships. Fagersta Västanfors Waterski Club will host the EAME championships from Fagersta, Sweden from the 13th until the 17th of August 2008. The event will kick off on Wednesday with the team event. 12th August 2008 The Ski Full Stretch Princes Pro-Am has now been running for 12 years. The competition is a three day, three round professional slalom waterski event differentiated from others by the inclusion of amateur skiers. Competitors are organised into teams, each of which is randomly allocated a professional skier. Scoring is calculated on a handicap basis, thus allowing teams with differing skier abilities an equal opportunity to win. The event starts on Friday the 22nd August with the pro head to head final on Sunday afternoon. Click on the logo for event information. 12th August 2008 2008 London Night Jump. On Sunday the 24th of August the worlds best waterski jumpers will be visiting Datchet, near Windsor pushing the boundries of extreme action in a battle on the water for the cash prize of $15,000 and the 2008 London Night Jump title. These guy's will approach a 6 foot ramp at speeds of up to 70mph, soaring through the air and landing amazing distances of around 70meters. Launching off a 6ft ramp at 70mph in broad daylight is one thing, but doing it at night is just EXTREME! The event will be web cast live. You can get access to the web cast on Planetwaterski on the day. Click on the logo for the event information. Click here for the event poster and click here for the event schedule. 11th August 2008 My apologies for the inactivity on these pages. As many of you know Planetwaterski is a hobby for me which I started messing with way back in 1999. Work commitments have prevented me from keeping it up dated recently. Normal service will now resume with some superb coverage of events over the next two months. First up will be the EAME Championships from Fagersta in Sweden, then the Pro-Am from Princess in London, evening updates of the pro rounds and then Sunday, live scores from the London Night Jump. Then in September, daily coverage from the World Senior Trophy from Sesena in Spain. Website hosted by WaterSkier Software Ltd. This site is all browser/screen/colour friendly Best viewed with IE5 800x600 high colour