Water skiing in mainstream movies

MISkier

I'm not sure if there was already a thread on this, but I was thinking about how many movies (regular cinema) may have featured water skiing, albeit with usually disastrous results. I know that "The Great Outdoors" is often mentioned and I'm sure someone will post that clip here, but it would be interesting to see just how often if occurs. Fonzie jumping the shark is excluded here, since that was television. And, non-mainstream movies like "Edged in Water" are also excluded.

I'll start with this clip in 1973 from "Superdad", starring Bob Crane.

lpskier

Mike Hazelwood and others skied in Water World.

MISkier

Here is one from "Jaws 2". Christine Freeman is the skier and an accomplished 3 event skier.

http://mosportshalloffame.com/inductees/christie-freeman/

klindy

Jaws 2 has an impressive rough water slalom ride along with a good example of pattern driving. The ending is predictable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=YF7QxGE3R6Q

Skier was Christine Freeman. Impressive resume (from IMDB) -

“Champion water skier Christine Freeman was born in 1952 in Springfield, Missouri. Freeman grew up in Thayer, Missouri. Christine first started skiing at age five and began her competitive water skiing career in 1964 at the age of twelve. Freeman was a strong three event skier who did tricks, jump, and shalom, with the latter category proving to be her specialty. Among her notable accomplishments as a competitive skier are winning eight Midwest Regional Overall Titles and fifteen medals won in seven National Championships. Moreover, Christine was the first woman skier from the Midwest region to be invited to participate in the prestigious Masters Tournament in Calloway Gardens; she competed in five Masters altogether prior to retiring from competitive skiing in 1973. In addition, Freeman competed in two California World Cup Internationals and was invited to the Moomba Masters in Australia. Christine was also the only female member of the North American team who competed in the 1969 Wills International in London, England, where she won the Women's Overall Title. In the wake of retiring from competitive skiing, Freeman went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from William Jewell College with a BS degree in Nursing and earned her Master's Degree in Nursing from UCLA in 1979. She was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.”

MISkier

@klindy, we hit that one at the same time.

Cooper_Trelawney

The original Freaky Friday

Viva Las Vegas

Clambake

Meatballs 3

MISkier

@Cooper_Trelawney, here it is for "Freaky Friday". Long sequences with intermingled car chase and skiing.

MISkier

"License to Kill" - James Bond barefooting

ral

I saw a movie on TV many years ago that was about a bunch of teenagers or college age waterskiing gang. Anyone knows the name?

Cooper_Trelawney

@ral that sounds like my collegiate ski team. It was as much a gang as it was a sports team. Man, those were great times!

Cooper_Trelawney

@MISkier my 8 year old and I can watch that movie any time! Good stuff!

klindy

Same time for sure @MISkier Ski scene in Jaws 3D too. Show skiers for lunch this time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=IMzMccLiMIc

oldjeep

Grownups 2 😁

MISkier

Here's an old one. "Donovan's Reef". John Wayne driving the boat.

Wayne

Apocalypse Now. I bet the villagers along that river felt like we do when a v-drive surfing passes by.

bbirlew

Jackie Chan - Rumble in the Bronx

jeblanc

I'm still waiting for someone to post a clip of the Fonz jumping the shark.

MISkier

@jeblanc, that clip is disqualified in the original post, as it was for television and not the movies. But, it is a classic and noteworthy, especially since Henry Winkler was a water ski instructor. His father told him to sell that skill to the shows creator and producers as a “value add”. He reluctantly did that and they eventually wrote it in to an episode.

jeblanc

@MISkier, that's what I get for not reading the whole post. I let myself get distracted by the video clips. It's not just my skiing that needs more concentration.

dchristman

dchristman

Clambake! Elvis as a waterski instructor

rayn

Mike hazelwood also did the skiing in my father the hero with a very young Katherine hiegl

chrislandy

wasn't there a whole show ski / boat chase in Police Academy 3 mid-late 80's?

MISkier

@chrislandy,

Here is one from "Police Academy 5":

MISkier

Since it hasn't been posted already, here is "The Great Outdoors":

MISkier

Here is an obscure one, but an interesting scene, nonetheless.

Watch the guy sit on the back of the driver's seat (and stand) and continuously look back at the skier like a weekend Wally. His boat docking leaves something to be desired, too.

ReallyGottaSki

I still chuckle about Steve Martin calling wakeboarding waterboarding in cheeper by the dozen 2

UWSkier

Weird how in that Jaws scene there are two different Evinrudes on that boat...

MNshortliner

Might look like some of the skiing from a couple of the members here.

klindy

@MNshortliner …. "Serpentine...…"

Wayne

Apparently there is no love on this site for a bare footing bear?