Officials Corner

Question Time There is always something in all sports that we may be unsure of or we are unsure if we are interpreting it correctly. Barefoot Waterskiing is no different. This applies from beginners through to experienced skiers and officials. This part of the website is designed for you to have any queries you have answered. All you need to do is email your questions to the address below and within a week the answer to your question will be emailed to you and it will also appear on the website so as others can benefit and learn from it. These questions will be answered by experienced officials and if they do not have the answers they will go to the World Barefoot Council for further clarification. In this way we can all learn together. So send your questions to:- claire.w@clear.net.nz Online Exams For those of you who are wanting to further your knowledge and expertise, shortly the WBC will have available "online exams" which you can take. There will be exams for Drivers, Judges, Homologators, Scorers and Chief Judges and anyone will be able to take any of these and get their score. We will let yet know as soon as these are available but it shouldn't be too long as they are being trialled right now. Just some reminders from the current Rulebook The Barefoot Water-ski Technical Rules can be downloaded from the WBC site. (See World Barefoot Council)

• Jump - there is no speed tolerance above 72 kph/44.7 mph - this is the maximum speed. ( Rule 1404 - A)
• Jump - there is only 3 calls for path - wide, split and close ( Rule 1404 - B)
• Slalom - for scoring when both passes are in the same direction and score needs to be rounded, 2 decimal points are now being used. (Rule 1502 - B)
• Tricks - one foot surface/wake turns - "If a skier fails to satisfy the lifted-foot requirements during the rotation of a one-foot turn or before BSP has been recognised at the end of the trick but relifts the foot to one-foot BSP before moving on to the next trick then the trick will be judged as an imperfect one-foot turn and it shall incur a 100 point penalty. Should the skier fail to relift the foot to one-foot BSP, the turn shall not score."( Rule 1610 - D2).