There’s been some debate about what exactly is freestyle barefooting… while here’s AN answer. You see the Andre and Zane DeVilliers and Chris Morrison do some pretty sweet tricks, including hitting the ramp and doing more than your standard barefoot jumps. Nothing we haven’t see before, but it’s nice to see them try this stuff out on something less than perfect glass water. Granted they still had excellent conditions, but not the glass you see them do this stuff on all the time.
Archive for September, 2008
Freestyle Footstock
Sep 30
Oh Brother…
Sep 28
This is kinda of an uninspired video from BFC… not a whole lot new in this one, and there isn’t a lot of footing either. They go shopping for “cowboy” clothes and hats, do a little footing in what looks like just swim trunks and cowboy hats, but if you look closely, you can see barefoot shorts under their trunks. So if you’re excited to see guys go barefooting with cowboy hats, enjoy…
Do Your Thing
Sep 26
As usual, BFC has put together another video of really good footers doing some sick tricks on glass calm water. It’s almost starting to get old. But then about 2:30 in the video, they starting doing something interesting again. I wouldn’t quite call them front flips or back flips, but the footers do go inverted, kinda of like a cartwheel, but with no hands (after trying to find the term for that trick, I guess its called an aerial cartwheel). Then they start doing these over each other.
In summary, the first half is a little ho-hum with the sick tricks we’re becoming way too use to and then it gets interesting at the end. Now go watch the video…
Redneck Barefooting
Sep 24
Here’s what we need:
- rope… check
- wetsuit… check
- kneeboard… check
- snowmobile… check
Snowmobile? Yes, snowmobile. Don’t need a boat or even a jet ski. Just something that can move over the water.
KSO, on a trip to Wisconsin decided to try out footing on a small private body of water behind a snowmobile. Here’s the video…
Redneck Barefooting with KSO [video]
Then, based on some dates, shortly after doing this, KSO went on to win his 9th Barefoot Nationals at the Blue Moo followed by Footstock in Crandon. He had a busy summer in Wisconsin.
Footin’ Fever 2008
Sep 22
For those of you who live near Winter Haven, FL or just need a little excuse to head down to warmer weather in the fall, Cypress Gardens is hosting a head-to-head barefoot endurance competition on Saturday, October 25. Registration begins at 7am and the footin’ starts at 8am. Depending on the number of entries, it may expand to Sunday if needed. For full details, check out the announcement on USA Water Ski.