Lyme Regis Water Skiing

Water Skiing off Lyme Regis - stand upright and keep your head over your feet

Spectators gather on the beach at Lyme Regis in Dorset to see a water skiing event. Water skiing was invented in 1922 by Ralph Samuelson when he experimented with different techniques and boards as skis, in Minnesota USA. Samuelson travelled the country teaching the skills he had learnt and the sport became an international past time when photographs of the sport started appearing in magazines worldwide in the 40s and 50s.