Steve, another plug hear for Chris Walker, he's doing a lot with the NWL in the midwest, he posts online often, I'm sure we'll hear from him on your question. USA Water Ski/ NWL have great organization and have historically been focused on 3-event skiing. However the structure and support is there to do an awful lot with the NWL. I ran my first event last year under the NWL. It’s pretty hard to pull the trained USA Water 3-event guys away from a local, state, regional or national 3-event, competition to support wakeboarding. I did contact another local club and borrowed some gear for my event last year. From what I can see the 3-event guys are very organized and pretty hardcore, more in to their sport than most wakeboarders. Wakeboarders seem much more laid back and less likely to find out what needs to be done and put together a complete event. I’m working to build up a local core of trained drivers, judges and so on for my events. You need trained people so you can assure safety and meet event insurance requirements, that’s one of the key things you get from any sanctioning body. Chris is working to help event organizers like myself build up the resources needed to run good events. Chris opened up his nationals event, inviting me to add wakesurfing to NWL Nationals, how cool is that!
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