And it’s with good reason too as Davis prepares for this weekend’s year-ending L-class tournament at Stoney Park.

“Any scores that we get this weekend contribute to your overall world rankings,” Davis said.

“It gives you an idea of where you’re at and you can gauge yourself against other people, so it’s just a good basis to get a standing of where you’re at for the beginning of next season.

“You can then build on that.”

Kalkbrenner believes the “Australia’s poster boy” does “everything by the book” and it is this attention to detail that makes him well-known around the world.

“He just doesn’t throw tantrums,” Kalkbrenner said.

Davis has been the Australian national champion over the last two years and is considered to be one of the best skiers in the country.

The 19-year-old was on the world stage at this year’s world under-21 waterskiing championships in the Ukraine.

While he didn’t perform as well as he’d have liked in Dnipro, there were still no tantrums or kicking stones – he knew he just needed to get better.

“That sometimes happens in competition doesn’t it; you have your good tournaments and your bad ones,” Davis said.

The Australian under-21 national champion is focused on finishing the year on a high.

Davis is almost a Port Macquarie local despite growing up in Canberra – his family made the seven-hour trip to the Mid North Coast regularly.

He has been based at the park for the last three years which has contributed to his constant improvement.

“It’s almost home for me here,” the quietly-spoken youngster saidd.

“It was that place we always came as a family since I was nine years old where we came here over Christmas for a couple of weeks each time.

“I pretty much learnt to do all my skiing with Jason Stone who coached me a bit originally.

“The park is one of its kind in Australia where it’s man-made specifically for what we do so we make the effort to come to the good places.”

He has kept a level head despite being a national champion, but he knows he is the one that other skiers are chasing.

“[The key to it all is] lots of training; it’s the same as any sport, the more you put in the more you get out of it,” he said.

“I’ve been lucky to have had all the right coaches all my life and I’m just enjoying it at the moment and that’s the main thing.”

Davis already has his eye on the world championships in 2019 at a venue to be announced.

“They come in two year cycles so we had one this year,” he said.

“Now we’ve got a year to train and prepare for the next one and hopefully subject to selection I’ll have a crack at the next one.

“They’ll announce it closer to the start of next year.”