The Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune has a good article about the pyramid… here is the link to it.
Tag: Mad-City Ski Team
Mad-City Helps Build World Record Pyramid
This past weekend, 4 show ski teams (Mad-City Ski Team, Beaverland Must-Skis, Badgerland and Wisconsin Rapids Aqua Skiers) joined forces to build a world record pyramid. They put 48 people behind one boat powered by three Evinrude 225 E-Tech engines and built 4 four high human pyramids. Here’s a picture of the pyramid on the water.
Related Links:
Forum on Showskiers.com
Story on WiscNews.com
Story from Wisconsin Rapis Daily Tribune
Story from Wisconsin State Journal
Mad-City Ski Team Recognized by the City of Madison
Earlier this month, the Dane County Board recognized Mad-City’s accomplishments this year. This week, the Mad-City Ski Team received some more positive local press. On September 19th, 2006, the Madison City Council recognized the accomplishments of the Mad-City Ski Team for our 2006 season.
Here are links to various documents from the city council meeting…
- agenda – see page 2
- agenda item
- resolution
Here is a scan of the resolution. Click on it for a larger version.
This is in addition to being recognized by USA Waterski and the US Olympic Committee in the month of September as well.
Random Mad-City Sighting on the Web
Google sends me emails about water skiing. Sometimes it actually finds something. Here’s something it sent me on the Mad-City Ski Team. If anything, there is a cool picture of the lake. Check it out.
Evolution of Show Skiing Dance
At the Wisconsin State Show Ski Tournament, the highest scoring act for Mad-City, the highest scoring comedy act and the highest scoring act of the entire tournament was done by one man. Mr. Adam Schaller. He’s got a little dance routine that proves to be quite funny. Many people know the Evolution of Dance. Well, that’s what we did, but we put a show ski twist to it. Same premise, but we incorporated a lot of the songs that Mad-City has used over the years for our various dances. So presented here is the Evolution of Show Skiing Dance from our National’s show. It is almost the same as state, just a little bit shorter, and sadly, a couple less songs. Enjoy.
Once again, props to Bugsy for YouTubing it.
The Jaw Dropper (It is even Awesommer!!!)
At Nationals, Mad-City won the highest scoring jump act award (in addition to a National Championship in 2006). Typically, this goes to a large jump team doing a lot of multi-person jumps. Not this year. This year we had the Jaw Dropper. One man and his driver were responsible for it. We sent Mr. Paul O’Conner over the ramp three times. Boat barely left the show course. Crowd LOVED it!!! Here is the video from YouTube.
Awesome
For those that know show skiing, you know what I mean. For those that don’t, this is a slick act and worthy of the title to this post. I mentioned this in my Nationals Recap, now someone has posted video. Enjoy Wonder Lake’s Prefabricated Pyramid Hot Pick/Thread the Needle… Worthy of the highest scoring pyramid act at Nationals.
Dane County Board Recognizes the Mad-City Ski Team
On September 7th, the Dane County Board recognized the accomplishments of the Mad-City Ski Team. It’s not quiet the US Olympic Committee or a trip to the White House, but it is important to be recognized as a postive influence in the local community. I’ve included a picture of Dane County Resolution 109, 2006-2007 below. Click on the image to see a bigger version of it.
Here are links to the Dane County Board and the calender packet for the 9/7/06 meeting (the resolution is on page 7) where this picture was taken from.




