Standup Jetski Curiosity

My standup jetski curiosity started long time ago, for quite some time, I was looking forward to give a try to the standup jetski riding style but I had no ski available. Since standup skis were the very firsts in the personal watercraft beginning, the original ones that started the PWC revolution of the 90s, you will find that the standup jetski population, somehow, feel king to PWC and look down to the seat down or runabout jetski rider, as they are call at the racing circuits. It's due, mostly, to the standup ski been harder to ride than seat down personal watercrafts. This resentment may be in part due to the seat down been easier to ride and getting, extremely, popular in the last few years. Therefore, many of them, refer to the seat down ski as "cough", sometime, in a very offensive manner. This class division make is a very strong source to heated discussion and point of views at the different PWC forum online. A very good place to learn about the standup ski is the PWCToday Forum.

Got the "Standup jetski curiosity" out of my mind by buying a modify Kawasaki 750 SXi Pro from a personal watercraft ex-racer at San Diego, Ca. By the way, I discovered, I have lived for more than 30 years next door, Los Angeles, and didn't know about it, San Diego to be one of the most populated standup jetski area in California, the nation, and perhaps in the world. By the time I got my SXi Pro, the season was almost over and I couldn't get much use out of it in 2006. Even though it was hard to ride standing up at first, and I fall a few times, by the second outing I was capable of riding up and felt the excitement, the thrill, the rush, and water spray hitting my face and soul... A great feeling of youth for an old timer like me!

I'm glad I got this "baby standup ski". When the 2006 PWC World Final Championship took place in October at Lake Havasu this year I was hating life , this event is my personal weather alarm letting me know that my jetski season got cold and is all over, because I just gotten hook on riding the SXi Pro, I rode it only in 3 different occasion, and even with just a little taste, I was feeling like a teenager again. Because I couldn't stand up the first weekend out with the SXi Pro, I’m superstitious, I did shaved my bear trying to fool the ski into thinking that I was younger... I think it worked... I was up by my second camping trip!

Now, I want more, a lots more of the standup riding ski, in my case the Kawasaki 750 SXi Pro. I still love fast riding, jumping, and seating down, sometime, in my 2000 Kawasaki Ultra 150 jetski. What I have learned so far is that standups and seat down PWC are made with two different type of entertainment in mind. In the standup ski, you can feel the rush right from the start and without having to go very fast but you’ll have to be in good physical condition for the workout you going to get out of it. In the runabout or seat down jetski, you don't have to do much work but to get the rush you have to go really fast or do a lot of jumping. Heck, you can even do some fishing out them if you want to. I will enjoy riding either one of them based on what I feel like that day. They are both a very thrilling sport and should always be conducted in safely and respectfully manner to restricted areas, swimmers and fellow boaters around you! Get an standup ski and feel the rush! View my Kawasaki SXi Pro jetski video
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