From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Best Place To Cable-Ski and Wakeboard

September 21 2005

Ski Rixen at Quiet Waters Park
401 S. Powerline Road, Deerfield Beach, 954/429-0215, www.skirixenusa.com

If not for the five-sided mechanical Ski Rixen that pulls wakeboarders around a lake at Quiet Waters Park, it's likely that the members of Team Ski Rixen, which trains there, never would have gone to Australia, Austria, Germany, Hungary or perhaps even Canada. The only system of its kind in the United States has provided a boat-free proving ground for locals such as Chad Forrest, Rod Mapp, Alexander Peschl, Marc Schuster and Brad Federspiel, all of whom represented the United States at the 2005 World Games in Budapest, Hungary. "The best part is you come and ride," Mapp says in a Web page testimonial. "You don't have to get gas or clean the boat." Casual water-skiers, kneeboarders and surfers also use the Ski Rixen six days a week for exercise and assorted daredevil feats
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