British Water Ski & Wakeboard has been working with clubs, ski schools, pro’s and most importantly lots of young people, to design a great way for young extreme enthusiasts to get into a water sport discipline, develop into a hobby and progress to competition level, achieving goals and earning awards along the way.

Some of the world’s best skiers, wakeboarders, barefooters and kneeboarders have helped design a set of coaching stages to teach up-to-date techniques and skills. World Champion Nicole Arthur and well known ambassador for wakeboard Matt Crowhurst were amongst the development team. The ‘Cutting Edge’ scheme is available to everybody who uses a British Water Ski & Wakeboard club or Ski School, and is presented with a three stage objective program.

Bronze award provides beginners with a grasp of the essential basic skills required in any of the disciplines. On completion they will receive a certificate showing that they are able to get up on the water on their own and stay in control of the activity safely. At this stage of the activity the desire for the sport is developing and with a little encouragement from the coaches will lead on to the Silver award and the hobby begins!

Silver award is designed as a development program, which is a learning process for each discipline with broken down easy to achieve steps, the way the pros were taught. On completion of the Silver Award a Board or Ski sticker is awarded.

Gold award is all about progressing your skills up to competition standard, not only does it teach enough to earn valuable extra points at competition level but explains how competitions work. The Gold award is tough but certainly worth accomplishing. On completion of this award not only are you a competent competitor you will also receive from British Water Ski & Wakeboard an exclusive ‘Cutting Edge’ Fat Face gift voucher and a complimentary competition licence.

Participation Certificates can also be issued for those who haven’t had enough time on the water to achieve the Bronze award. Every Club and Ski School in the UK can offer this programme.

All these materials can be downloaded using the links along the left hand side of this page.

If your club isn’t offering ‘Cutting Edge’ then they can sign up using this web page by clicking on the ‘Order Form’ link.