Junior and Senior Final Results

Here are what I think are the final standings for the Junior and Senior Divsions at the World Barefoot Tournament in New Zealand.

In the Men’s Senior Division, this is what the standings look like:

  1. Michael Salber (USA)
  2. Kevin Towers  (USA)
  3. Gordia Croteau (Canada)

Women’s Senior Division results look like this:

  1. Gizella Halasz (Austrailia)
  2. Heather Towers (USA)
  3. Teri Jones (USA)

Junior Boys Division results look like this:

  1. Heinrich Sam (South Africa)
  2. Garth Strydom (South Africa)
  3. Janie Kumlien (USA)

Junior Girls Division results look like this:

  1. Ashleigh Stebbeings (Austrailia)
  2. Shannon Hellar (USA)
  3. Caitlyn Rowland (Canada)

I’d like to congradulate  everyone on the achievments and a special congradulations to Teri Jones, who I’ve footed with on a few occassions, Jamie Kumlien who I’ve seen barefoot in ski shows for the Janesville Rock Aqua Jays, and Shannon Hellar who I’ve competed against at the Beaver Dam Best Dam Barefoot Race (her team finished way ahead of my team).

It appears we’re still waiting on the final results for the Open Division.  I’ll keep looking around and will post more details as soon as I find them.

Links to Final Results

The Final Day

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

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…

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

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

Worlds Results

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.

Barefoot Worlds Coverage on Tales from the Foot

Barefoot Worlds are going on right now in New Zealand.  The best of best are over there tricking, slaloming and jumping.  KSO is trying to defend is title.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world, at least those of interested in barefooting, are curious to know what’s going on over there.  So far, there hasn’t been much, if any, official coverage, but I have managed to track down some sources to keep tabs on what’s happening.
Instead of having to scour the internet yourself looking for info, I’m doing that for you.  Just head over to my barefooting website Tales from the Foot.  That link will show you all the World’s Barefoot coverage that there is to know about so far.
While you’re there, feel free to browse around the whole site.
Visit bfooter.com… More pictures, more videos, more water skiing stuff.

Worlds Pictures – Day 3

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!