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Making a whoosh on the water.
Byline: Aline McKenzie
DALLAS _ In the 1920s, a new sport was hatching _ a young man in Minnesota named Ralph Samuelson tried to ski on water using barrel staves. That didn't work, so he tried snow skis. No go. Finally, he took long boards and heated the tips to bend them.
Meanwhile, others were experimenting with skis that had ropes run through their tips and other designs.
Samuelson was a competitive and aggressive skier.
Decades later, the sport he invented is still giving people adrenaline rushes.
These days, people do straightforward water skiing, but there's also trick skiing, slalom skiing and the extreme form, wakeboarding. The Boy Scouts even offer a merit badge in water skiing, while the governing body that oversees competition sanctions more than 800 tournaments a year.
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