I'm afraid you are wrong. Take me back to my twenties and my combined body and skill, including the requisite reflexes, and I'd do it. I'm sure I'm not alone. I was skiing pretty fast then, water skiing as fast as the boats would go, carting at 70+ on a long road course, I weighed only 118 - 126. I once beat a Volkswagen in a short drag race.
Now, would I do it every day? For enough money, maybe!
” I was skiing pretty fast then, water skiing as fast as the boats would go”
You never “cracked the whip”? Our boat was good for about 50 MPH but if you turned sharp and the skier went wide you could hit 70+. I lost it once and the last thing I remember was hearing a “clunk”. Came to in the boat with a bloody ice filled rag being held to my forehead. I’d caught my ski in the head and cold cocked myself.