See Waverunner's RiDE in action

You can't call it a brake per se, but Yamaha's new deceleration system on its 2015 Waverunners dubbed RiDE — the acronym for Reverse with Intuitive Deceleration Electronics — reduces your travel distance or forward momentum by one third compared with a plain old 'ski' once you stop accelerating. 

The deceleration system was prompted by competitor’s Sea-Doo’s iBR (Intelligent Brake and Reverse system). But unlike iBR, RiDE claims to offer greater stability because its reverse thrust shoots out the sides rather than downwards.

As the RiDE trigger on the left handlebar controls deceleration and includes a throttle, you can maintain steerage while 'washing off' speed through a turn. Of course, the forward throttle is on the right handlebar. 

With the two triggers you get a very coordinated approach to driving the new 2015 WaveRunners and, on a recent ride day, we got used to RiDE in the blink of an eye. Call us trigger happy.

In case you need to know, RiDE operates via a Boat Control Unit (BCU) that electronically activates the reverse bucket in accord with the driver’s trigger input. Yamaha says the BCU in each model has been specifically tuned to match the craft’s weight and performance and the 2015 WaveRunners we drove were certainly faultlessly setup for the test track.

But there are other new features to embrace with Yamaha's new 2015 model WaveRunners. Our full feature from the RiDE Day will be published in our 'Review" section later today (November 12). This is an extract from our big feature hereabouts covering all the new 2015 Yamaha WaveRunners and their features. Checkout the quick video of RiDE in action...