Award Skills
Cutting Edge takes you through learning to water ski and wakeboard progressively. The participation and bronze awards are generic to all disciplines and provide you with all the basic knowledge and skills required to be confident behind a boat or on a cable. Silver and Gold awards are discipline specific and focus on the skills and tricks needed to reach competition level within the sport.
The table below shows the skill level you will reach when you have completed each level;
Barefoot | Boat Wakeboard | Cable Wakeboard | Kneeboard | Tournament | |
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Participation | Getting on the water | ||||
Bronze | Complete 5 minutes or 2 laps of safe skiing or riding | ||||
Silver | Cross wakes on both sides on long line & shoe skis | Ollie backside 180 | 720 back to back | 5 consecutive deep water starts on 1 ski Complete 1 lap of the lake on 1 ski |
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Gold | Ski one handed/one footed on long line & barefoot | Heelside/toeside two-wake jump with grab | Heelside frontside grab 180 | Slalom - run full course at 16mph on a 23 line Trick - Air front & back |
Slalom - run the course at any speed with gates Trick - 360's in both directions Jump - 3 consecutive successful jumps |
Platinum | Heelside air raley | Roll to revert or half cab roll | COMING SOON |