ESPN.com Ranks Waterskiing a Lowly #46 as a Tough Sport
The panel rated sports in the combined challenges of endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination, and something called analytic aptitude. Waterskiing apparently doesn't require much agility or nerve. Tell that to Chris Parrish ripping through a slalom course at speeds high enough to make his face cheeks slide closer to his ears.
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Comments
Absolutly appalled with 46 for skiing. Perhaps recreational yes. But when I go all out slalom skiing and reach a point were my biceps lock up and my hands can’t hold the rope anymore, what do you call that?
Where is wakeboarding…?
Obvioulsy the guys who came up with this list have never tried many of the sports listed in here.I would like to take them bull riding with me and then let them redo this list and see how it comes out then.
I’d like to see any one of them try some trick skiing or even try to get up on a slalom. But most of all, I’d like to see all of them try the jump at 35mph!
They obviously have never been to see, much less participate in waterskiing as a sport! Having played tennis, baseball, football, ice hockey, and golf growing up, I can tell you that competetive slalom waterskiing is BY FAR the most difficult sport I have ever been involved in! The panelists were obviously making their decision based on the two weekends they got up on two skis and road behind the boat across their public lake!