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Self Magazine: January 2001
"The Sport I can't Live Without"
When Catherine Bell saw videos of professional wake-boarders doing
"double front flips in the air" as they catapulted over
a boat wake, she thought: I can do that. "They make it look
so easy," chuckles the star of the CBS drama JAG.
Bell, an inveterate adventure seeker, buckles her feet to a board,
and, as she's pulled behind a boat, performs jumps and flips over
its wake. After two summers of "face plants and whiplash",
the 32-year-old made her first truly successful run on the board.
"Now I'm cutting back and forth getting spray," she explains
Wakeboarding has become Bell's sport of choice. "It's hard
to get myself to workout, but [wakeboarding] is so much fun I don't
mind," she says. Plus "it works every muscle in your body:
your lats, your arms, you butt, all the way down. You're pulling
against a 3,000-pound boat."
Though there are plenty of women in the pros, Bell says she says
she doesn't see many out in the lakes. "Guys think it's cool
that I can do it," she says. "I get close to them, spray
their boats and show off a little."
© 2001 Conde Nast Publications. All rights
reserved.
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