Orlando Watersports Complex

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[edit] Origin

Wakeboarding's popularity over the past several decades increasingly appears more in the spot light due to its origins from surfing and water skiing.  A wakeboarding association formed in 1989 introducing the sport to the X-games.  Once the X-games began hosting wakeboarding events and competitions, pro riders were produced creating new demands for training, coaching, and equipment.

[edit] Location

    Located in Orlando, Florida, right off Orange Avenue/527, Orlando Watersports Complex resides.  Only seven years old, this facility offers opportunities from the beginner to advanced rider of wakeboarding, water skiing, kneeboarding, and wakeskating.  OWC is the only park in the United States that includes two main cableways.  The beginner/intermediate cable generally runs 18mph and can be accurately adjusted from 5 to 36mph to accommodate the level of rider.  In the advanced slider park, wakeboarders and wakeskaters are only allowed due to launch ramps, kickers, flat-bars, table-tops, a-frames, barrels, and the newest addition: a funbox.  This cable travels at 20mph and requires that helmets must be worn.  An addition of a shorter cable, the "Indian Rope", allows the rider to attain  up to 35 feet of air helping improve rail skills.

[edit] Types of Training

    O-dub, a.k.a. OWC, a.k.a. "the cable", offers a variety of training camps, lessons, schools, and clinics to advance water sports.  A third division of the man made lake separated from the cableways by a boardwalk, encases an area for behind the boat sessions.  All lessons are pulled by the latest Ski Nautique or Super Air Nautique Air Team Edition boats.  Teams as well as individual riders nationally and from around the world choose OWC for winter training, optimized training and world class coaching.

[edit] On Site Gear

    Performance Ski&Surf, one of the United States' largest water sports retailers, provides the pro shop on site with a large selection of demo boards and skis, gear, as well as rentals.  Rates and prices change periodically throughout the weekdays, weekends, or on holidays.  Several variety packages of passes are available with or without lessons, as well as facility membership.  The OWC is open year round hosting events and promotions to all levels and style of riders.

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