Archive for August, 2008

History of Water Skiing

The concept of water skiing dates back to at least the mid-nineteenth century when a man from Sweden began the patenting process, but the concept never came to fruition. Very little is known about the true beginnings of the sport, though the term can be found in the Swedish dictionary dating back to […]

How Did Water Skiing Start?

It is debatable exactly when and where water skiing got its start, however we do know that a patient was given to a Swedish manufacturer in 1841. Whether or not it was constructed successfully is unclear, however we do know that the Swedish word for water skiing, vattenskida, appeared in the 1921 edition of the […]