Water Skiing
Local contact
Balderhead Water Ski Club
Balderhead Reservoir
Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 8AA
Telephone: 01833 650310
National contact
British Water Ski & Wakeboard
The Forum
Hanworth Lane
Chertsey
Surrey
KT16 9JX
Telephone: 01932 560 007
Email: development@bwsf.co.uk
Website: www.britishwaterski.org.uk
Find a club
To find a water skiing club near you, use the North East Club Finder
Find a course
To find water skiing courses in the region, please seach on North East Course Finder
About Us
British Water Ski and Wakeboard (BWSW) is the recognised body that represents water skiing in the UK and are recognised as such by Sport England and UK Sport. BWSW invest in developing and protecting water skiing throughout Britain from grassroots through to elite.
BWSW actively encourages newcomers to the sport, promotes good practice and safety, works to enhance and improve standards of coaching and driving, and provides active competition programmes in all divisions of the sport. BWSW cover a number of disciplines; Tournament, Wakeboarding, Kneeboarding, Ski Racing, Barefoot, Disabled.
About the Sport
Water skiing and wakeboarding are surface water sports where an individual is pulled behind a motor boat or cable tow. It is both a recreational activity and a competitive sport although most people ride for fun and to keep fit.
You can participate by skiing on two skis, one ski, riding a wakeboard or a kneeboard, barefoot, or on a disc or other means of keeping afloat! You don't even need to own a speed boat to take part, as many facilities have club boats or cable tows, making participation in this sport much more affordable.
Whole Sport Plan
Sport England funds national governing bodies to deliver their three outcomes - grow, sustain and excel and provides additional support to help them achieve this. Each sport has developed a Whole Sport Plan that explains how it plans to achieve these targets. This summary also helps partners identify possible opportunities to work together.
The Water Skiing Whole Sport Plan will be available soon.
Useful Links
Website: http://www.britishwaterski.org.uk/UKSki/DesktopDefault.aspx
Club finder link: http://www.britishwaterski.org.uk/UKSki/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=43
Coaching qualifications: http://www.britishwaterski.org.uk/UKSki/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=276