On July 21st Peter Davies will be taking on the challenge of swimming 6.5 km (4 miles) unassisted (no wetsuits) across the Bosphorus in Istanbul with a 2 hour time limit. He will be raising money for both Motor Neurone Disease Association and British Tournament Water Skiing – funds split equally. Please show your support by visiting his crowdfunding page, any amount is gratefully received!! Good Luck Pete!!! ?♂️
Bosphorus Swim – Just Giving Page
Bulletin 3 for the upcoming World U21 Championships has been published and can be found on the following link.
The May draw of the Friends of Tournament 200 Club took place at the Bluebird Deaf Waterski Club last weekend during their Rankings List Competition. With 115 balls in the bag the total prize money was £862. 50. First prize of £431.25 went to Robert Rowlands no 36. Second prize of £287.50 went to David Frost no 24 and the third prize of £143. 75 was won by Viv Brown no £143.75. Congratulations to our winners and thank you for your continued support. The draw can be viewed on the link below. 200 Club May 2019 Prize Draw
2019 U21 GB Team to attend the World Championships in Canada announced! Congratulations and best of luck ??
We are also incredibly proud to share that Friends of Tournament will be sending £600 to each skier to assist with their costs- funds raised through our 200 Club!
We now have a downloadable posters for the FoT 200 Club that we hope all Affiliated Clubs will display in their Clubhouses. The five recent Development Days jointly funded by FoT and BWSW have been a great success and we want to do more of these. We are already getting new requests from clubs that have not hosted one of these. But we can only do it if we continue to raise money through initiatives like the 200 Club. We have 118 ticket holders in June raising almost £3,000 each month. 32.5% of this goes out in prizes and the rest will support our Skiers going to World and European Championships and Development initiatives such as the Development Days. Why not get your Club to join in and get a lottery ticket? Who knows, you might win a prize to boost club funds and you will definitely by helping our sport to future success.
This week we are featuring Driver and Coach, Nathan McGarry, in our series of Officials and Volunteers profiles. Nathan is A National 1 three event driver who is on the pathway to become an International Driver.
The first results of the season from the Hazelwoods May Comp are now available to be seen through the Latest Results page and can also to reached through the following link:
May 2019
The World Rulebook 2019v2 has been published with some minor updates. It is available on our Resources page or through the link below
As well as profiling our Officials and Volunteers we will also be sharing the stories of some of our skiers.
We are starting with Ben & Harry Sullivan from Cotswold Waterski Club who as you will see have taken a path through participating in the Cutting Edge Programme and FoT Development Days, and this year hope to compete at the National Championships at Hazelwoods Ski World.
After a brilliant event in 2017 the Mapple ProAm is back on the Thorpe Lakes Arena on 12th – 14th July. (Not the dates in the photo of Andy which is from the 2017 event) An event not to be missed that culminates in a Pro’s Head to Head final on the Sunday afternoon. With four skier teams plus a pro with the added excitement of a handicap system to level the playing field it is Slalom at its very best. To find out more click on the link below.
Mapple ProAm 2019