IT’S SHOWTIME!

Show skiing is alive and well thanks to grass-roots clubs—and members who love to perform for you.

JEFF HEMMEL

“They seem to always be too tight and undoubtedly neon pink. I get razzed by friends for wearing our show costumes, but I know they’re really just jealous!” It’s a sweltering summer evening in Oldsmar, Florida, and like he does almost every Saturday from May to October, 31-year-old insurance agent Clint Gordon is busily wriggling his 6-foot, 245-pound frame into yet another tight, bright costume. Tonight’s theme? Aargh, it be pirates, mateys! Don’t laugh. A few weeks earlier it was the platforms and bell bottoms of Swedish uber-band ABBA. Soon Gordon, along with about 30-odd friends, will come together and all get their Jack Sparrow on — even sweat their way through a few choreographed dance numbers. Local community theater? Some kind of weird live-action role-play? Puh-leez. Gordon and friends…

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Water Ski (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2018

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