GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 Fairgoers at the New York State Fair are getting an unexpected new kind of thrill this year: Jet skis.<\/p>\n
A new attraction called Ski Extreme has taken over the pond near Suburban Park, bringing jet-ski, water-ski and wakeboard stunts to the fairgrounds just feet from spectators. Performers turn the small pond into an extreme-sports arena, catching air, landing tricks and sending up big splashes as the crowd reacts.<\/p>\n
Robbie Allen, owner of Ski Extreme Productions, said the show is tailored to the setting.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlike a traditional water ski show where you use a boat, today, because we are on a pond, we’re going to be using everything behind jet skis,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n
For longtime fairgoers, the new show stood out as a must-see. Lisa and Carl Norsen, who have attended the New York State Fair for 15 years, said they had never seen anything like it.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, no, this was incredible, this was amazing, this was really cool,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
They also pointed to a crowd-favorite stunt: the hydroflight finale.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe finale, watching the flyboard go up and around,\u201d they said. \u201cYou see the flyboard on clips on Facebook or the TV but… that was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen said the show brings something different to the fair\u2019s usual mix of food stands, midway rides and traditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just a niche thing that not a lot of people are doing anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ski Extreme shows run every day at 11 a.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. near Suburban Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 Fairgoers at the New York State Fair are getting an unexpected new kind of thrill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-330603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}