SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Greatest Show on H2O is hitting the road.
Members of the Catfish Bay jump team are spending their morning on the water, only days removed from winning a third straight Midwest Regional Show Ski Tournament.
“We’ve got some fantastic young guys, we’ve got a fantastic driver for our jump team and it’s a pretty cool deal that Catfish Bay can pull off that kind of talent out here,” Catfish Bay founder Jim Bruns said.
Catfish Bay finished first in a variety of categories, everything from jump and pyramid to tow boat and pick-up boat.
“It’s almost a dozen people, you’ve got your jumpers, you’ve got your boat driver, you’ve got your boat rider. We’ve actually have a safety crew out there, we have an announcer for this team jump event, and so it’s a team effort 100-percent,” Bruns said.
“We’re a smaller team so we have more of a closer bond, like a family bond,” 15-year-old Adam Hammer said.
“Other teams will bring in people from other places and kind of try and make the best team possible, but here we’re all local and just jumping together,” 18-year-old Dawson Wallen said.
The jump team will now compete in the Division One Show Ski National Championships in Indiana, where they’ll take aim at a second straight title.
“The difficulty of jumps these guys are doing is truly world-class and so that’s what sets our team apart, the pace and the speed that we do our jumps at and just the quality of the jumps that they’re doing, the high level,” Bruns said.
They say consistency is key, and that means staying on your skis.
“Just got to ski everything away, ski it clean, and then make everything, hope we don’t fall,” Wallen said.
The team will compete in the national championships beginning this Friday in Warsaw, Indiana.
Catfish Bay will send off the team with a special performance this Wednesday night at 7:00.
