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[happyfeet]

Figured I would share a recent video to the forum. Haven't footed much this year yet so I'm a little rusty. At the beginning I fall mid one foot to left, but managed to make it to my back! It was a narrow stretch of river with and S curve and a boat came around the corner, so we had to slow down really quick.

Edited August 13, 2015 by happyfeet

[footndale]

One of the 16 year olds, we've been helping on Thursday mornings.

[Dare2goBare]

Figured I would share a recent video to the forum. Haven't footed much this year yet so I'm a little rusty. At the beginning I fall mid one foot to left, but managed to make it to my back! It was a narrow stretch of river with and S curve and a boat came around the corner, so we had to slow down really quick.

A little rusty......lol......lol.....very nice or a little rusty, you had great water to boot!

Thx for sharing.....I'm in my second week of three at the lake and we've had a lot of wind. Not

a lot of footing....

[happyfeet]

Thanks Dare. Water was pretty awesome. Warm and not a ripple to be seen except for the one boat at the beginning.

Hopefully you get some better water. Seems to me like the next 4 weeks are when I get my best skiing in!

[JB-FOOT]

Figured I would share a recent video to the forum. Haven't footed much this year yet so I'm a little rusty. At the beginning I fall mid one foot to left, but managed to make it to my back! It was a narrow stretch of river with and S curve and a boat came around the corner, so we had to slow down really quick.

Nice Job. My Kinda Glass,,,,,

your right leg stay a liitle stiffer all the time than the left one, try sliding it back a couple of inches

[happyfeet]

Thanks for the advice JB. I actually noticed that to. Seems like on the water it's harder to tell where you are along with your limbs! Haha. Currently nursing a very sprained right ankle so that might be part of it.

[JB-FOOT]

Thanks for the advice JB. I actually noticed that to. Seems like on the water it's harder to tell where you are along with your limbs! Haha. Currently nursing a very sprained right ankle so that might be part of it.

A sprained ankle, and we are still footing.... Gotta Love it.....

We footers are crazy are we not....

It is truly an addiction that we can not get enough of...

How fast are you footing, what do you guess you were doing when you asked her to slow up a little?

Also, what motor is in your Vette?

While the Pros are amazing to watch with all of their mad skills, I find it much more rewarding to watch us normal (I say that loosely) people barefooting!

Thanks for Sharing your Video

[happyfeet]

It really is an addiction! An adrenaline rush like you can't get anywhere else.

I foot at 43 mph. That's GPS verified. When I told her to slow up we were going about 46-47 mph according to my brother who was in the boat. Not sure if you could see my face before I stood up but I knew we were halling. That was the 2nd time she had ever hit the throttle on our boat so she was still getting used to it.

It has the 383 Callaway.....it's a thing of beauty!

Edited August 13, 2015 by happyfeet

[JB-FOOT]

Fellow Barefooters, help a brother out and check out this thread i started, I need some REAL EXPERIENCED Personal Use Advice...

http://www.themalibucrew.com/forums/index.php?/topic/57215-echelon-with-the-wake-or-diamond-hull-for-footing-has-anyone-footed-the-diamond/

Maybe I should have posted it in the general section....let me know please

[justgary]

So with all this talk of learning to barefoot with a swing on the boom, I got up this morning and made a swing out of a 2X4 and some rope. The wind was all wrong for footing today, but that shouldn't stop anyone, right? I tried it first to set the height, and I forgot to tell my son to not turn left. It didn't take long for him to turn left and dunk me, but I had already figured out just how easy it was on the swing.

My son was nursing a sore shoulder, and he had memories of his attempt at holding the boom without a swing, so he declined a try on this trip. A wakeboarding group in a Centurion came over to say hello (we had met them on the water a few months ago), so after we skied a bit I went back over to them and asked them if they wanted to try barefooting. Both of the men in the group immediately said yes.

Cut these guys some slack, because 1) they didn't watch me do it first, 2) it was really too rough to bother barefooting, and 3) I had never tried coaching someone on a swing before. I did explain to both of them that if it were glass calm, they would both have gone as long as they wanted, because both of them had clearly figured it out. I'm calling it a success, and hopefully they can try again on a better day. Please don't critique their posture or anything until I can get them out again.

Victim "C" had PRK done on his eyes a few weeks ago, so he wanted to wear a face mask. It turned out to be a good idea anyway, so Victim "S" decided to use it also. They got situational awareness a little easier without the water flooding their eyes. I was proud of both of them for giving it a try even though the water was terrible. Great work, Victims "C" and "S"!

Victim "C", third try:

Victim "S", first try:

Victim "S", second try:

[toddthelineman]

Seeing the board fall so low and climb up his back would make me very nervous. When I had my daughter (who was 12 and had severe scoliosis ) sit in a handle to try barefooting she did a good job of keeping it right under her butt. The water was rough then too, but it worked flawlessly. I agree, it was success. Whenever I get the guys from work to try it they always just brute their way through it and get really sore. It's hilarious lol

[justgary]

I did set the swing height for me, and I'm sure that one of them was about 50 pounds heavier than I am.

[happyfeet]

Gary, do you have shoe skis? Progressing from shoe skis and then to feet is the way to go when first learning. For beginners learning the correct positions at slower speeds is really helpful. Especially kids!

[Dare2goBare]

It really is an addiction! An adrenaline rush like you can't get anywhere else.

FOR SURE! We all put it in this perspective! As JB puts it "Welcome to the Dark Side" lol..... find myself using

this term a lot now......lol....

[JB-FOOT]

Well, We FINALLY GOT GREAT water this weekend with calm and clean and debris free miles of glass...

so without further talk, lets view the action from my old age barefoot buddies...

tried a stand back up after the glide at the end of the run....

Paul just Loves going backwards....it is rare for him to go frontwards at all...

[JB-FOOT]

Some more from the weekend

Norm (real name is Mike, but we already had a Mike so we changed his name to Norm)

probably my fastest learning student!

and Joe, I have been footing with him for 20 years.

we have just as much fun ripping on each other as we do footing...

[happyfeet]

FOR SURE! We all put it in this perspective! As JB puts it "Welcome to the Dark Side" lol..... find myself using

this term a lot now......lol....

"The Dark Side" haha....

I always try and explain the feeling to people who ask, "whats it feel like?"

For me, when you finally get to your feet, it feels like you all of the sudden go into slow motion. The only thing you are thinking about is your feet and the water. Your body is so focused on thing your mind can't be anywhere else because a 43mph face plant is inevitable.

Then when(no "if" it happens eventually) fall everything speeds back up. And you realize just how fast you were going! LOL

[Dare2goBare]

JB

Any multi person bar runs, fighting each other for water to see who can dump

the other guy. ....??..... lol... if you haven't done this it's a blast. .... good for when

the sets are done and your at a point of just screwing around on the bar...

[JB-FOOT]

and Meet our other friend Tom, who loves to slalom ski every weekend with his wife, but occasionally comes out with the boys and foots,

this is his 1st day footing this year....he did great for not footing in 15 months

my 1st successful toe hold of the year...

[JB-FOOT]

"The Dark Side" haha....

I always try and explain the feeling to people who ask, "whats it feel like?"

For me, when you finally get to your feet, it feels like you all of the sudden go into slow motion. The only thing you are thinking about is your feet and the water. Your body is so focused on thing your mind can't be anywhere else because a 43mph face plant is inevitable.

Then when(no "if" it happens eventually) fall everything speeds back up. And you realize just how fast you were going! LOL

So you wanna see a FACE plant do you....

this was my 2nd to last run yesterday after 2 great days of footing and just footing with total ease and confidence...I was trying to THINK (that was my 1st mistake) about where my foot position is because I have been struggling with 1 foot wake crosses, so at the end of 28 seconds into the video I decided to LOOK down at my foot.....bad idea...HAHAHA

Dare2GoBare, this one is for YOU! you sick sadistic B@$tard!

Edited August 24, 2015 by JB-FOOT

[JB-FOOT]

and you got to get back on the horse after one of those falls!

[happyfeet]

JB, Thanks for sharing! Nothing wakes you up better than a one foot to face slap!

[JB-FOOT]

JB

Any multi person bar runs, fighting each other for water to see who can dump

the other guy. ....??..... lol... if you haven't done this it's a blast. .... good for when

the sets are done and your at a point of just screwing around on the bar...

Of course we do

by the way, it is only a blast until we have to fill out paperwork! (at the ER)

[JB-FOOT]

Paul does his 1st long line backwards one foots...

and Don't they know we are trying to barefoot...

[JB-FOOT]

Joe is our king of Smooth Tumble Turns

I think it helps to be shorter....

I am just jealous as to how smooth his tumbles are...