How Do Water Skis Work?
Video Transcript How Do Water Skis Work? I’m Jodi Fisher with Jodi’s Ski School in Orlando, Florida, and for Expert Village I’m going to talk to you about the mechanics of water skis. Here we have high end advanced ski; this is a ski that is a specific shape okay to create a good turns, good speed, very good stability at the same time so that you could have control over these high speed and fast turns. It got a slightly concave bottom: this helps the ski to roll on to the edge and still maintain contact with the water. It has a rocker, which is the shape of the ski from tip to toe, which helps the ski to carve a smooth turn. We have a aluminum fin on the tail: this helps again to keep you stable in the water when it is up on the edge. Then we have the binding on the top. These particular bindings are constructed by using a neoprene and a rubber. They come in various different sizes. We also have a hard shell binding which is very much like a roller blade boot or a snow ski boot, which
