31st August 2004 Starting tomorrow are the World University Water Ski Championships 2004. After the sucess of the 2002 event in Tianjin, China, which saw 19 countries taking part the 2004 event will take place at Balakovo in Russia over the 1st to the 6th September. With many of the worlds top skiers eligible to compete, this event will be one to watch. Click on the logo for the event web site. 30th August 2004 Wow, what a week end!! Now we look forward to the next stop of the World Cup from Thorpe Park in London, The British Open. This years event is slalom only and The Mapple Machine will be there to run his final UK slalom pass in front of a huge crowd that will pack the famous banks. You can again get pass by pass live up dates through PlanetWaterSki.com on Saturday with the usual reports and photos. Also the best youngsters will be at the World Junior Championships from Sunset Lakes Groveland, Florida. 30th August 2004 The Princes Open. Mapple wins head to head from Will Asher. Click on the logo for the event web site. Clink here for report on Saturday and photos. Clink here for report on Sunday. 29th August 2004 The Princes Open. Mapple wins head to head from Will Asher. 29th August 2004 Curtis Sheers wins the night jump from Jason Seels. 29th August 2004 Today the 29th August some of the best jumpers in the world are at the London International Night Jump. This event will give you 2 rounds of day light jumping followed by the final at night. With crowds expected to top the 5000 mark, this year will certainly be the spectacular it has been billed as. Curtis Sheers is here to defend his title and so are PlanetWaterSki to give you live updates as it happens. Click here or the logo for the event site with live updates or click here to download the event poster. 29th August 2004 The Princes Open. Second Pro round completed with Chris Parrish still leading with 4.00 @ 10.25m. Click on the logo for the event web site. Clink here for report on Saturday and photos. Clink here for 2nd round results. 23rd August 2004 The Princes Open. This event brings the worlds top slalom skiers to the UK for the firsts of 2 major events. Fresh from his World Cup win and last weekends Cirencester Grand Prix Glenn Campbell has to be favourite for the 2 events in front of his home crowd. 22nd August 2004 Also on this week end was the EAME under 21 Championships from Fagersta in Sweden. Click here for event report. Click here for all the results. 21st August 2004 The Cirencester Grand Prix. Jason Seels took 3rd place in the run off leaving Glenn Campbell and Jodi Fisher to battle it out for the top prize money at 7pm on a Saturday evening. Jodi chose to go out first setting 3 on the 10.75m line. Glenn after recovering from a bad two on the 11.25m line went out and skied a perfect 10.75m in a displays that shows he is worthy of a top ranking place. Click here for results posted after each round. 21st August 2004 The Cirencester Grand Prix. Flat water for the semi finals of the GYRO head to head. First out Jodi Fisher against Aaron Larkin, both very smooth through 13m and 12m. Jodi made a struggle of 11.25m and Aaron failed to make the pass scoring 4.50. Second pairing saw two Brits Glenn Campbell against Jason Seels, again both sailed easily through to 12m and fairly steady on 11.25m. Jason got buoy one wrong and scored 1.50 @ 10.75m This left an easy final place for Glenn who just took 3.50 buoys. Click here for results posted after each round. 21st August 2004 The Cirencester Grand Prix. Head to head under way with the top eight skiers completed the first set. 21st August 2004 The Cirencester Grand Prix. The wind dropped for the second round allowing the Russian World Cup stop winner Glenn Campbell to take over the lead with 3.50 @ 10.25m from Jodi Fisher with 1.00 @ 10.25m. A good 2nd round score from Aaron Larkin with 4.00 @ 10.75m puts him in third spot with the head to head finals to come later in the afternoon taking the top eight from the prelims. 21st August 2004 The Cirencester Grand Prix. Strong tail wind on the opening pass caught out many of the earlier skiers. Leader after the first of 2 rounds is Jodi Fisher scoring 5.00 @ 10.75m into the strong head wind. Second place is Glenn Campbell with 3.50 from Jez Newby-Ricci and Steve Cockeram both on 3. 20th August 2004 Tomorrow sees the Cirencester Grand Prix form England with many of the pro slalom skiers are booked in for first of 3 major slalom events in the UK. Updates throughout the day will be available here on PlanetWaterSki. Click here for results. 16th August 2004 The MasterCraft Pro WaterSki Championship. Jump results have now been posted on the official site with 67.2m (220 feet) from Freddy Krueger to take the win from young Ryan Dodd only 20cm behind. Jimmy didn't ski in the final due to the injury he picked up earlier leaving Jaret Llewellyn in third place with 214 feet from Curtis with 211 Click on the logo for the dedicated web pages for the event or here for the full score sheet. 16th August 2004 Just to let you all know that the British Open at Thorpe in definatly on, but with only men and ladies slalom. 15th August 2004 The MasterCraft Pro WaterSki Championship. The Mapple Machine continues on with a win in todays slalom final after a run off with Jamie Beauchesne with the two of them level on 2.00 @ 10.25m. Chris Rossi took the third slot with 1.00 @ 10.25m Ladies slalom saw Emma Sheers with 2.50 @ 10.75m win from Karen Truelove and Sarah Gatty Saunt Click on the logo for the dedicated web pages for the event. 15th August 2004 The MasterCraft Pro WaterSki Championship. Saturday saw the scores raised with Jamie Beauchesne now on top with 4.00 @ 10.25m from 3 skiers on 2.00 @ 10.25m Wade Cox, Jeff Rodgers and Chris Parrish. Will Asher the only other one to run 39 off scoring one. Jaret improved in jump leading now with 220 Feet from Freddy Krueger with 216 feet. Emma Sheers top qualifier for todays finals with 2.00 @ 10.75 from Karen Truelove and Natalie Hamrick. 14th August 2004 No results on the official site yet, but this is what we know so far. Top in slalom are Will Asher with 1.00 @ 10.25m (41 off) tied with Chris Rossi from Andy Mapple with 6.00 @ 10.75m (39 off) Karen Truelove is top of the ladies with 2.00 @ 10.75m Mens jump has Freddy Krueger in the lead with 65.2m (214 feet) from Jaret Llewellyn with (212 feet) and Jimmy Siemers and Jason Seels tied in third with (203 feet) 13th August 2004 The MasterCraft Pro WaterSki Championship, presented by Chevrolet and GM Vortec Engines is under way from Akron, Ohio at Emerald Lake. This World Publications event has all the pro athletes looking to boost their performances before their trip to the pro events in Europe over the next 4 weeks. 12th August 2004 An update on Clementine Lucines new Open Women World Overall record with her first round at the French Nationals scoring 1.00 @ 10.75m, 8110 point in tricks and 52.6m (173 feet) The scores include a French and European Trick record and a French jump record. This beats the current overall record by 64 points set by Elena Milakova at the European Championships in 2001 at Hazelwoods Ski World. 10th August 2004 Just been waiting to confirm this and it certainly does look like Clementine Lucine has set a new Open Women World Overall record with her first round at the French Nationals scoring 1.00 @ 10.75m, 8110 point in tricks and 52.6m (173 feet) Pretty sure this includes the French and European jump record as well. Well done Clementine watch out Regina. This beats the current record by 64 points set by Elena Milakova at the European Championships in 2001 at Hazelwoods Ski World 10th August 2004 Already supplying clothing to the much of the waterski industry; PlanetWaterSki welcomes Elegant Elements as their official clothing supplier. We are in the process of choosing a range of clothing to launch soon with the PlanetWaterSki name on it. 9th August 2004 Coming up over the next four weeks we have a host of pro events in the United Kingdom, starting with the Grand Prix at Cirencester (21 Aug), then the Princes Open, Pro Am Team Challenge the following week end for the slalom skiers and just down the road at Liquid Leisure is the London International Night Jump. Then again a few miles out of London to Thorpe Park and the next stop of the World Cup which at the moment is defiantly on for the slalom event with jump still to be confirmed. We will be at all these events to bring you reports throughout the day. 9th August 2004 The MasterCraft Pro WaterSki Championship, presented by Chevrolet and GM Vortec Engines starts this week on the 13th August from Akron, Ohio at Emerald Lake. This World Publications event will attract all the pro athletes looking to boost their performances before their trip to the pro events in Europe over the next 4 weeks. Click here for event details. 8th August 2004 Last week saw The Goode US Water Ski National Championships at Okeeheelee Park in West Palm Beach. Some great scores!! Click here for results or on the logo for the dedicated web pages for the event. 3rd August 2004 Last week I spent some time in Spain and went to the Spanish National Championships at the Sesena Training Centre near Toledo. This site is run by Ricardo Botas, one of the world's best tournament drivers. Having last visited the event 2 years ago I was amazed at the improvement of the Spanish youngsters. The event attracted big media interest, being televised locally and sponsored by Alfa Romeo and clothing manufacturer Torro Loco. The skiers had ideal conditions and prizes were presented by local government officials. The only disappointment was that the Spanish Federation failed to take any interest in the event. We done to all skiers particularly Ivan Morros winning the mens slalom with 4.00 @ 10.75m and Guiller Moreno winning the mens jump with 52.6m. Click on the logo for the web pages for the event with all the results or here for the full event report 2nd August 2004 Tomorrow sees the start of The Goode US Water Ski National Championships at Okeeheelee Park in West Palm Beach. This is the bigest 3 event competition lasting 6 days and with an entry list of close to 1000 competitors! 1st August 2004 British National Championships saw Jason Seels take the mens overall, but failed to retain his individual titles with the jump going to Damien Sharman. Worthy of a mention is up and coming junior skier Stephen Critchley who jumped 60.1m in the first round and Sarah Gatty Saunt winning slalom with 4.00 @ 11.25m. Click here for the full report on the BWS web site.