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.
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.
The Wall
What This Water
Has Hosted.
World Junior Championships
Thirty-four nations on a five-year-old lake — the event that put Shalom Park on the world map.
World Record — Overall
Jaret Llewellyn sets the IWWF Open Men overall world record on this water.
World Record — Junior Slalom
Robert Pigozzi's junior slalom world record, fifteen years later. Same lake, same glass.
IWWF World U21 Championships
The world's best under-21 skiers — including two hometown names in the field.
Canadian National Championships
When Nationals need record-capable water, they come back here.
Canadian Open & Junior Canadian Open
IWWF-rules slalom, tricks, and jump — most recently July 13–15, 2026. Spectating free from the banks.
Coaching
Coached by People
Who've Competed at This Level.
Sean Kraus — 2019 U21 World Championships (Tricks), six Alberta records. Evan Kraus — 2019 U21 World Championships (Slalom), 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.
The Film
Proof, In Motion.
The loop in the header above is a real aerial pass over this water — boat, skier, ramp, and treeline in one frame. A tournament-day cut is next, once we can put a name to the run.
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.