Bluebird Deaf Water Ski Club

British Water Ski & Wakeboard

Yesterday, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of Bluebird Deaf Waterski Club 🎂🎉

We had a fantastic day with lots of past and current members including some of the founding members, who all enjoyed either participating, catching up with friends, watching or just eating cake.

Thank you to everyone for coming and making the day a great success!

This year, Bluebird Deaf Water Ski Club is celebrating its 60th anniversary!

We are holding a celebration event on Saturday, 16 August from 10am onwards.

This is a day to celebrate our 60th anniversary, with current and past members joining together.

Everyone is welcome to come along to have a ski or wakeboard (discounted rate of £15 per tow for non-members), meet up with old and new friends, while enjoying some cake.

Bluebird Deaf Waterski and Wakeboard Club is holding two women and girls taster sessions this summer in partnership with British Water Ski & Wakeboard ☀️

These sessions will be held on:
- Tuesday 8th July from 4pm onwards
- Tuesday 5th August from 4pm onwards

Women and girls over the age of six are welcome to attend - no experience necessary!

We have experienced coaches and drivers, newly refurbished changing facilities and provide a safe and fun environment for people to learn how to ski or wakeboard or get back on the water after some time off.

We will have snacks and goodie bags for participants and a discounted ski rate of £15 per ski. You can book your place by messaging us or by emailing - [email protected]

On Saturday, we held our annual Midlands Nautique Dyl Rowlands Memorial Multi competition ☀️

The sun was shining and some great scores were posted!

Thank you to everyone who came and skied in the competition, the judges and spectators.

A special thanks to all of our hard working members for their work and effort on the day and in the run up to the competition!

Had a lovely message from Diana Rowlands this afternoon, we spotted a group in fab new T-shirts, who turned out to be Bluebird Runners, a group of friends who are slightly competitive.. but very supportive! They mostly know each other from waterskiing and socialising but decided to add running to the mix, after 2 of the group ran the London Marathon last year (and one is taking on the challenge next week!). They're officially 'Non-Official' but thought it would be fun to get some t-shirts made up! We enjoyed being hosts for their inaugural run with their new kit, they had a fab morning!

Team photo - Bluebird Runners 🐦 Love it! 😍

Yesterday we held the annual Bluebird Ski Day of Fun, which included 4ft jumping (max speed 42kph), trick skiing (or tricks on a different piece of equipment) and half and 3/4 course slalom skiing on anything but a slalom ski!

We had over 30 tows with members and friends getting out of the water to have a bit of fun and try something new - we even had two new jumpers, Elly and Josh who both successfully landed jumps for the first time! Alasdair also landed a 20.4m jump!

Our wonderful new boat! Thank you Midlands Nautique!

The day ended with the medal ceremony and awarding of personal best prizes, of which there were a lot in the younger age categories, as well as a certain British Trick Record being broken! It was also an opportunity to thank all the officials, judges and drivers and all the spectators, who braved the torrential downpours with good humour and hung on to the gazebo for dear life when it almost took off into the sky like a giant balloon 🎈 Finally, a huge, gigantic thank you goes out to all our amazing members without whom the Competition would not have been possible and whilst there are too many to name we hope you know how much your hard work over the past months/weeks/days, as well as on the day itself is genuinely appreciated - you all deserve medals! 🤩🎖️🤩