Sit Ski Clinic 2024

The Pomona Lake Ski Club is excited to offer adaptive water-skiing opportunities to individuals with spinal cord injury, amputations and other conditions that impact mobility and would otherwise prevent them from participating in this wonderful summer sport.  Thanks to our generous sponsors and donors, the club was able to purchase two sit skis in 2013 and since that time have skied 100’s of rides and have offered numerous adaptive ski clinics.  

In 2024 we will be offering one clinic, dates and groups to be announced soon. We will be helping several other groups with their clinics this summer also. These clinics are free to all participants.  

If you would like to enjoy the lake on a beautiful summer day and enjoy the freedom skimming along the water and having water splashed in your face, please review the participant requirements below and preregister for one or both of the adaptive ski clinics…you will be glad that you did!  Preregistration is required.  

Participant requirement: 

  • Be one year post injury 
  • Be 10 years of age at the time of the clinic 
  • Be in good health (not counting your condition) and have no open wounds, recent surgeries, or anything that may be contradicted by the water.  
  • Understand that you will be towed behind a boat at speeds of approximately 20 mph and should you fall, your body must be able to sustain contact with the water at these speeds.  
  • Able to go from a face down position in water to a face up position and signal OK while wearing a personal flotation device (life jacket).  
  • If you have any questions in regard to your injury and participation in adaptive water-skiing, please consult with your physician prior to skiing and registration. 
Release of Liability Form: 
 
Participants in the Adaptive Ski Clinics, please click on the link below, print, fill out, and bring the release of liability form with you to the clinic(s) you are registered for:  
 
 
Volunteers Needed for Adaptive Water Ski Clinics:  
 
Volunteers are needed for our Adaptive Water Ski Clinics that will be help on Friday, June 3rd at Crown Lake in Lawrence, Kansas and Saturday, August 13th at Pomona Lake.  We can’t give the opportunity for individuals with disabilities to experience the thrill of water skiing and the fun of being on the lake without wonderful volunteers such as YOU!  Lives are changed through your willingness to volunteer, both for the participants and for our volunteers!  These is nothing better than seeing the smile on a participants face as the experience the joy and freedom water skiing and knowing that as a volunteer you made this happen!  
 
Please click on the link below to learn more about volunteer opportunities, responsibilities, and to register to volunteer:  
 

Our first ever event was held in Holton, KS, in 2013. We had a beautiful sunny hot day in August, where the water temperature was comfortable and the wind was calm. Attendance was amazing! The participants enjoyed their day skiing and at the end, the Rough Water Warriors put on a short ski show to entertain the large crowd that had gathered.

We have now completed 8 sit ski clinics and skied hundreds of rides in our 3 sit skis.

Be sure to watch our Rough Water Warriors Facebook page so you know when our next event takes place. We are always looking for donations to help support this worthy cause. We try to supply refreshments and a dinner at the end of the day. We appreciate any amount of donation.

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