Word: waterski
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Games legitimize the pursuits of disaffected suburban youth. But not the truly disenfranchised. You have to be pretty tight with someone who owns a boat to learn to barefoot-waterski-jump, or have some serious spare cash to go up in a plane to sky-surf. These are the kinds of recreational activities that spring up when a nation hasn't been off to war in a long time...
...becoming to water skiing what snowboarding has become to downhill. A relatively new development, wakeboards account for 20% of the water-ski market, a sizable chunk considering that there are 30 million water skiers worldwide. Most regard Arizona as the Alps of water skiing. In a recent survey of WaterSki magazine readers, the Grand Canyon State claimed three of the top five destinations: Lakes Powell, Mead and Havasu...