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The Final Day

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The final day of Worlds is about to start, or maybe it already has, over in New Zealand.  PommyFooter has posted a nice little update about what’s in store for the day with the running orders and how they got there.  Basically, whoever is over there is going to see some pretty awesome footing.

As they enter the final day, the Open Team competition is over and here are the results:

  1. USA
  2. South Africa
  3. Australia
  4. Great Britian
  5. Canada

I’ve also seen a few sources say that Mike Salber is the Men’s Senior World Champion, but I haven’t seen a score sheet to confirm that yet.

Good luck to all the footers today.  I”m anxious to find out what happens.

Worlds Summary from BFC

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Chuck from BFC posted a nice summary of what’s been happening so far here (link). There are some details on Andre’s knee injury and the fact that he footed again after it occured.  Overall, it’s a good summary of what’s happened so far and what we’re waiting on to find out.

Men’s Open will be decided on Sunday (that’d be Saturday sometime for those of in America).  As stated before, KSO is in the lead, but Sam is still within striking distance and will need to set personal bests in tricks and jumps to take the lead.

Overall, a very good update.  Wish we could have updates like that all week.

World Results So Far…

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Current standings So Far…

My understanding is this is the standings as they head into the final round.  First two rounds are complete, one to go.

Men’s Open Standings…

  1. KSO – in the drivers seat
  2. SAMS – needs to trick 12000+ and improve his slalom score for a win
  3. ANDRE – injured is knee, people think its the MCL, still going to try and jump in the finals
  4. SMALLS
  5. ZANE
  6. BRZOZA

Open Team Results

  1. USA
  2. South Africa
  3. Australia

Junior Team Results

  1. South Africa
  2. Australia
  3. USA

Senior Team Results

  1. USA
  2. Australia
  3. Canada

Finally, BFC has posted video footage of the Semi Final of Men’s Jump.  Here’s the link.  I’ll be watching this when I get home tonight.

Sources for Barefoot Worlds 2009 Info

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Here’s a list of the places I’ve been watching closely for news about what’s happening over there…

Worlds Results

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Here are the results from the New Zealand Barefoot Water Ski Club’s Website so far:

Mens Open
1) KSO
2) Sam Heinrich
3) David Smalls

Womens Open
1) Ashleigh Stebbeings
2) Elaine Heller
3) Emily Goldie

Based on my lack of 3 event tournament knowledge, I don’t know if they are final standings or not.  I think there are a couple more days of competition.

They have full results so far in PDF… here are the links:

They also have some daily updates posted here.

Worlds Pictures – Day 3

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Footnfotos.com has another 436 pictures up documenting day 3 of Worlds. Stuary Fafeita has been busy taking pcituresand putting them online, and once again, the pictures are pretty amazing.  I love the jump pictures since it is something I don’t see a lot, and when you do see it in a video, it is really quick.  With a picture you can really stop and stare at what that footer is going through and just imagine what is going through their head at that moment in time.

Here’s the link to the Day 3 Pictures.

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One of the many awesome pictures from footnfotos.com

I am going to offer one tiny point of criticism for Stuary.  I want more pictures of the jump landings.  There are lots of pictures of the people hitting the ramp, which are great.  I want more pictures of the landings.  I know I’m greedy.  I’m just thinking there’s got to be some good pictures of the landings.  Ones where they foot away… and ones where they don’t.  And I’m guessing some where we’d wonder how they footed away.

And yes, I saw the pictures of the Junior Jumps near the end where they landings are shown.  I want landings for the Open Divisions.  I’m thinking they gotta be good!

Another Worlds Update…

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Found another blog posting updates titled Holtzy’s New Zealand Adventure.  It is more of blog about how he’s doing, probably for his friends back home, but I did come across this bit about the Men’s Open competition:

Unofficial, David Small jumped 26+ meters, Keith 24+ meters, Heinrich 24+ meters, Keith tricked 12,000+, Heinrich 11,000+, and David (with a fall) 7,000+.

Keith is leading (based on my unofficial data) Heinrich by about 150 overall points and David by 300 overall points. For Heinrick to pass Keith, he’ll need to simply increase his jump distance by a couple of meters. For David to win, he’ll need to get a trick pass of over 12,000 points, which he is capable of.

Also, while trolling the BFC Forum’s I came across this update from Chuck:

The big topic is Mens Open.  KSO tricked an amazing 12,450 (new pending WR) and waked 19.9 and jumped approx 26 meters.  Very impressive.  Heinrich is close in wakes 19.6 and 11,300 in tricks.  Keith has all the pressure off him and onto the others.

Looks like Men’s Open will be done to the wire.

Finally, Chuck has posted some pictures… some of them are of the score sheets.  You can find those here.

USA Water Ski’s Update on Worlds

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Their update consisted of the fact that Worlds is going on right now in New Zealand.  I wish they would have tried to post an actual update on what’s going on over there.  You think there might be some sort of official update they could ask for?

It also has a nice list of all the people representing the USA.  Since I know their posts eventually dissapear off the internet (there doesn’t seem to be an archive) here’s the list of athletes from the USA per USA Water Ski:

Athletes and teams from more than a dozen countries are competing for world team titles and world individual titles in wake slalom, tricks, jumping and overall.

Members of the U.S. Elite Barefoot Team are: Ryan Boyd (Orlando, Fla.), Billy Brzozza (Coventry, R.I.), William Farrell (West Sacramento, Calif.), Elaine Heller (Alma Center, Wis.), Keith St. Onge (Winter Haven, Fla.) and Laura Szwed (White Lake, Mich.).

Members of the U.S. Junior Barefoot Team are: Shannon Heller (Alma Center, Wis.), Jacklyn Kumlien (Janesville, Wis.), Jamie Kumlien (Janesville, Wis.), A.J. Porecca (Willowbrook, Ill.) and Lisa Pressendo (Port St. Lucie, Fla.).

Members of the U.S. Veteran Barefoot Team are: Adin Daneker (Olympia, Wash.), Andrea Eggert (Smyrna, Ga.), Mike Salber (Clermont, Fla.), Heather Towers (Venetia, Pa.) and Kevin Towers (Venetia, Pa.).

In addition, several U.S. athletes are competing in the event as independents, including Danny Baumgartner (Hartland, Wis.), Thomas Gabey (Stockbridge, Ga.), Cody Heller (Alma Center, Wis.), Mike Holt (Groveland, Fla.), Doug Jordan (Renton, Wash.), Scott Jones (Monona, Wis.), Jerry Kanawyer (Byron, Calif.), John Pressendo (Port St. Lucie, Fla.), Liz Flaherty (Black Creek, Wis.), Chris Wakefield (Gainesville, Ga.), Tenley Cederstrand (Tacoma, Wash.), Teri Jones (Tucker, Ga.), Claudia Landon (Post Falls, Idaho), Ariana Koehler (Wauconda, Ill.), Kailey Koehler (Wauconda, Ill.) and Judy Myers (Yuma, Ariz.).

At the 2006 Worlds, the U.S. Elite and Senior teams each won overall team gold medals, the Junior team earned the overall silver medal, and 17 U.S. athletes earned individual medals in respective events.

I’ll continue scouring the net looking for up to date results.