Beginner Waterskiing Tips

From your About.com Guide, learn how to take into consideration your height, weight, and skiing speed before choosing a slalom ski.

From your About.com Guide, an outline of the proper way to cross the wakes with confidence and success.

From your About.com Guide, prevent confusion and communicate effectively with your skiers on the water by using these signals.

There are so many activities you can do behind a boat, and each works best at different boat speeds. Use this feature to determine how fast the boat should be traveling.

Here's how to get up on two water skis doing a deepwater start.

Here's how to get up on a slalom ski in the water with the front foot in the ski boot and the rear foot dragging behind.

Here's how to get up on a slalom ski in the water with both the front and rear feet already in the ski boots.

From your About.com Guide, tips for keeping your waterski ropes in top-notch condition.

From your About.com Guide, slalom towropes are sectioned to different lengths for difficulty levels. Let me tell you how to read the ropes.

From your About.com Guide, instructions on teaching a child to ski, and a list of suggested combo skis to get them started.

The Deep-V slalom water ski rope handle is an excellent tool in teaching someone how to complete a slalom deepwater start.

At what temperature should you wear a wetsuit or drysuit? Here's a chart to help you decide.

Use this as a guide to decide which foot to put in your front boot.

From your About.com Guide, a review of the book. This is an excellent book for those new to the waterskiing world.

Before taking that new slalom ski for its first pass, you should take it to the cleaners. Tip from WaterSki magazine.

Why you get it, how to handle it. Tip from utoronto.com.

Learn to waterski by watching stick figure movies simulating the mechanics of water-skier motion, from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. Movies are 1-3 megabytes so some patience is required.