- Orlando Watersports Complex
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Orlando Watersports Complex is located in Orlando, Florida, right off Orange Avenue/527. This facility offers opportunities from the beginner to advanced rider of wakeboarding, water skiing, kneeboarding, and wakeskating. OWC is the only park in the United States that includes two main cableways. The beginner/intermediate cable generally runs 18 mph and can be accurately adjusted from 5 to 36 mph to accommodate the level of rider. In the advanced slider park, wakeboarders and wakeskaters are only allowed due to launch ramps, kickers, flat-bars, table-tops, a-frames, barrels, and the newest addition: a funbox. This cable travels at 20 mph and requires that helmets must be worn. An addition of a shorter cable, the "Indian Rope", allows the rider to attain up to 35 feet of air helping improve rail skills. On September 23, 2009, a 22-year-old man hospitalized in Florida died from a confirmed case of N. fowleri after having contracted it at the Orlando Watersports Complex.[33
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Types of Training
O-dub, a.k.a. OWC, a.k.a. "the cable", offers a variety of training camps, lessons, schools, and clinics to advance water sports. A third division of the man made lake separated from the cableways by a boardwalk, encases an area for behind the boat sessions. All lessons are pulled by the latest Ski Nautique or Super Air Nautique Air Team Edition boats. Teams as well as individual riders nationally and from around the world choose OWC for winter training, optimized training and world class coaching.
On Site Gear
Performance Ski&Surf, one of the United States' largest water sports retailers, provides the pro shop on site with a large selection of demo boards and skis, gear, as well as rentals. Rates and prices change periodically throughout the weekdays, weekends, or on holidays. Several variety packages of passes are available with or without lessons, as well as facility membership. The OWC is open year round hosting events and promotions to all levels and style of riders.
In the news
On September 23, 2009, a 22-year-old man hospitalized in Florida died from a confirmed case of Naegleria fowleri (referred to as the "brain-eating amoeba") after having contracted it at the complex.
External links
- http://www.orlandowatersportscomplex.com
- http://www.physorg.com/news172861361.html Florida man in hospital after dangerous amoeba infection
Categories:- Sports venues in Orlando, Florida
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