I was even worse as a kid. Since there were no lakes nearby in West Texas towater ski, and we were too poor to own a boat anyway, We would use a 6' 1X6 board and ski in the road ditches after a good rainstorm using a rope tied to the bumper of a pickup.
In south Texas we didn't have a slip 'n slide so we would hose down the driveway and slide down it. If you landed wrong you'd walk away with bumps and bruises but we sure had fun.