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Water skiers set sights on breaking world records in Polk County
YB WEB DESK. Dated: 11/23/2021 1:13:04 PM
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Water skiers from around the world are in Polk County attempting to set more than a dozen towed watersport records for Guinness and the National Show Skiing Association. "We’ve got the world’s best swivel skiers here on the lake where swivel skiing was invented, like 70 years ago," said Tony Klarich, who is hosting some of the events at his home on Lake Eloise over the next four days. "Today is really the culmination of what we’re hoping to do with this house was just make it a community place where the waterski community could gather on the world’s most famous waterski lake right here, in honor of the memory of Dick Pope, but not just honor it, carry it forward to the next step." The next step is getting skiers, like a group of swivel skiers on Friday, to shatter some records. Swivel skiing is when you’re on a wide ski and the bindings turn. "It can either do a 180-turn and stop, it’s like there’s a pin in there, or they can do a 360-turn and stop, so.