EVENTS

WSO boasts some of the finest competition skiers in the world! Each season, our provincial team members and individual skiers compete in tournaments and other events across the country and even around the world!

Event Schedule

The full list of tournaments and all tournament registration is now managed through the IWWF EMS platform available here. This process does change fairly often, but the requirements to register for a tournament at this time are loosely as follows (order is not important)

  1. Get an IWWF EMS License by clicking here. This is the International Water-Ski Federation Event Management System. If you do not already have a login, you'll have to create one first.
  2. Get a WSWC Membership by clicking here. This is from the national governing body, Waterski Canada and membership here also confers provincial membership from whatever province you're registering from. This means that when you get a WSWC membership and you live in Ontario, you are also a provincial organization member with WSWO.
  3. Register for tournaments at the IWWF EMS site.

As noted, this process does change frequently. If you have any questions or concerns please contact of the Traditional Committee chairs listed here, or by emailing Daniel Hron directly.

Being new to tournament water-skiing can be a bit challenging at first - especially if you're a parent with no background in the sport who has a child who wants to participate. This section describes some terms and procedures etc that you may hear spoken around the dock and especially at waterski tournaments.

Sanctions

LTC
Learn to Compete (no WSWC ratings may be achieved)
C1
WSWC ratings may be achieved
RC/WRL
WSWC Ratings, Canadian Record Capable, World Ranking List
RC/WRC
WSWC Ratings, Canadian Record Capable, World Record Capable

A tournament may have many sanctions, and a competitor chooses the one in which they want to compete. Sanctions are granted by the national governing body, WSWC. Some tournaments only support 1 sanction while others support 2 or more. Note that "LTC" is not a 'real' sanction. WSWC is not involved in sanctioning these types of events, as it is intended for those new to the sport to gain tournament experience without the stress involved in the typical "fall once and your turn is over" nature of the sport.