A jumper in full flight at Shalom Park

World Record Capable · IWWF Pedigree

Records Fall Here.

Jaret Llewellyn's Open Men overall world record, 2000. Robert Pigozzi's junior slalom world record, 2015. Same water. Your training block is next.

The Site

Purpose-Built in 1985.
Proving It Ever Since.

2,100FTLength
300FTWidth
42Acres, private
15MINFrom YEG airport

The lake was oriented, bermed, and planted to kill the two things that ruin training water: wind and backwash. Forty years on, the windbreaks are mature and the water holds glass through a full set. Third parties keep records here because the conditions keep allowing them — “world-record-capable” is the sanctioning phrase, not ours.

The 9,000 sq ft, three-level clubhouse carries tournament infrastructure most private sites can't: judges' platform, officials' area, commercial kitchen, banquet floor for two hundred.

Appendix Q — installs here Course inventory and homologation level, tow-boat make/model/year, and the prevailing-wind sentence land on this page when the operational questionnaire returns. The interactive lake map (SVG, tap-to-explore courses) builds against those facts.
Aerial view of the Shalom Park lake and property
2,100 × 300 ft, dug for this

The Wall

What This Water
Has Hosted.

1996

World Junior Championships

Thirty-four nations on a five-year-old lake — the event that put Shalom Park on the world map.

2000

World Record — Overall

Jaret Llewellyn sets the IWWF Open Men overall world record on this water.

2015

World Record — Junior Slalom

Robert Pigozzi's junior slalom world record, fifteen years later. Same lake, same glass.

2019

IWWF World U21 Championships

The world's best under-21 skiers — including two hometown names on the podium side of the story.

2021 · 2023 · 2025

Canadian National Championships

When Nationals need record-capable water, they come back here.

Annual

Canadian Open & Junior Canadian Open

IWWF-rules slalom, tricks, and jump — most recently July 13–15, 2026. Spectating free from the banks.

Pending D7 sign-off The full filterable records & results wall (every national title, provincial record, and hosted championship, by era and discipline) publishes after Mark ratifies the complete list. Nothing goes on this wall unverified.
Sean Kraus on the dock in Team Canada kit
Team Canada, home dock

Coaching

Coached by People
Who've Won It.

Sean Kraus — 2019 U21 World Tricks Champion, six Alberta records. Evan Kraus — 2019 U21 World Slalom Champion, Team Canada, and a tournament-grade driver. Kristy Kraus — three national titles, three national slalom records, past Junior National Team coach. Ken Nelson — Hall of Fame, and the man who dug the lake.

Coached sets add $10 to any package. Multi-day training blocks for visiting skiers are arranged directly — water time, video review, and course work built around your event calendar.

Visiting Skiers

Fly In. Ski Glass.
Fly Home Faster.

Getting Here

Fifteen minutes from Edmonton International (YEG) — closer to an international airport than nearly any record-capable site in North America. Direct flights from most major Canadian and US hubs.

Water Time

Set packages from $57/set make a week of volume affordable; private-lake scheduling means your sets run on time, on glass, one skier on the water.

The Season

Mid-May through mid-September, noon to 8pm — long northern evenings mean late glass most southern sites never see.

Appendix Q — installs here Lodging shortlist, advance lake-block booking, and typical daily set counts for training weeks land here from the questionnaire. Until then: contact us and we'll plan your block directly.

The Film

Proof, In Motion.

The Title Runmedia/evan-u21-worlds.mp4 · Evan Kraus, 2019 U21 World Slalom Championship · click-to-play facade
Tournament Daymedia/tournament-day.mp4 · Canadian Open atmosphere — banks, boats, buoys · click-to-play facade

The Water Doesn't Care
What You're Ranked.

It just holds still and lets you prove it. Bring your training block to Canada's premier site.

Training waterpackages from $57/set
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