Footapalooza happened this weekend and barefootski dot com has quickly posted the results. Congrats go out to Freddie Deiser. Click on over to barefoot ski dot com for all of the results, including the entire bracket to find out who beat who in the figure-8 tournament.
Update:
Here’s a story from a local newspaper covering the event.
Chris Mcwatters, along with some others, have organized a Figure-8 Barefoot Series that encompasses several popular figure-8 tournaments that take place throughout the country this year. The goal of the series is to encourage footers to compete at more of the tournmanets with a point system to determine the footer of the year. Results will only be taken from each footer’s 3 best tournaments, so if you miss one, or just face plant one, you’ll still be in the running for footer of the year.
The four figure-8 tournaments in the 2010 Series are:
For more details about the series, be sure to check out the Facebook Group, the flyer for the series and the rules and regulations. Also be sure to watch barefootski dot com for more announcements on the series.
Finally, some of the event websites are in the process of being updated. If they look out of date or just don’t have much in the way of info yet, just check back later for updated information.
The date for Footapalooza 2010 has been set and it’ll be held Saturday, June 12 at Silver Sheep Lake (a private lake) in Rolling Prairie, IN which is just outside of LaPorte, IN. The event is put on by the Freemen Footers.
They’ll be camping near the site and lodging 5 minutes away. The Friday beforehand people are invited to a bonfire as well.
For more details, including the flyer, entry form and directions, visit BareFootSki Dot Com.
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.
It’s that time of year again… the folks in Crandon, WI are putting together THE FIGURE-8 TOURNAMENT of the year. The competition is always fast and furious. They’ll be big names in the barefooting world showing up to compete that fall on their face and no names that surprise the hell out of everyone. They’ll be guys wearing the pinks shirts to let people know who they lost to. The boys from South Africa will be there trying to show they got some endurance skills to go with their mad trick skills.
This year MasterCraft and Redline have teamed up to pull FootStock 2008 with a revved up engine with over 400hp! Redline will also be offering test pulls behind the 400hp 214 for all participants of Footstock. People can schedule the appointment with Brian at Redline by phone or email. His email is brianb@redlinewatersports.com or call 608-838-0838. More details, click here.
Want some more details, go check out these links:
– Official Footstock 2008 Site
– Entry Form
You can also look around BFC.com to see if you can find more details.
Just wondering if anyone knows if the Kwahamot Figure-8 (Saturday in Tomahawk, WI) and Silver Sheet Figure-8 Challenge (Rolling Prairie, IN) happened this past weekend (not sure if the weather/flooding had any impact on them) and if so, who won?
I’ve scoured the net for results and keep coming up empty. Anyone out there know what happened?
Michael Franks mailed in his recap of the barefoot figure 8 tournament to BFC… he’s got a few more first hand details, since he was actually present at the tourny. Head on over to Barefoot Central and check out the recap. There’s some pictures of the “weather” there too.
For a truly brief recap, head on over to BareFootSki dot com… they got a really young looking picture of Stokes in their story.
Just wanted to do a quick recap of what happended this past Saturday at the Mad-City Dual…
The wind was windy, the bay was still relatively sea weed free (at least at the surface) and the weather provided some excitement for everyone…
With the wind blowing strong in Madison, the normlly calm bay, proved to be a bit rougher than normal. Rougher to the point that the longest 8 of the day was half an 8, which was put up by Paul Stokes. Ironically, if the bay had been weedier, the water would have been calmer, but you can’t have everything.
Roughly 18 to 20 footers suited up for the off again, then back on again, figure 8 tournament. From what I heard, there were supposed to be a few more, but they opted out at the last minute. There was a group from Michigan that made the long haul to Madison for the tourny and they had a good time.
Paul Stokes added another ring to the Mad-City Dual Championship Ring collection that he has going, but not before he missed a step off… rumor on the street is Frank the Tank has a good series of pictures of this rare event. Meanwhile Footstock Dave managed to catch a lot of the many falls on video, which once posted, should provide a lot of entertainment.
Afterwards, most of the footers headed over to Olin Park for some frosty beverages at the Clean Lakes Festival. They arrived in time to catch a bit of the bands, drink some beer and eat some foot before the weather kicked into high gear. It went from a hot, muggy day to pretty cool in a matter of moments, storms popped up out of nowhere, we saw clouds moving in a circular motion over the lake as everyone kept drinking beer until the festival was called to do severe weather.
Props to the One Love Footing Team for putting this together with Paul Stokes and congrats to Stokes for winning yet again.
I’m hoping to get some more first hand details, pictures, and potentially some video to post from this event.
I guess this recap became a little bit longer than I thought it would be.
You can add another figure-8 tournament to your calender. On June 15 (aka Father’s Day), Silver Lake Farms will host the the Silver Sheep Figure-8 Challenge sponsored by NoStiks.com. Here’s a link to the info and you can view the rules here.
The picture up there is Silver Lake. Glass Calm. Looks like a good tournament location.
The Mad City Dual is on for this year!!! The date is June 7th at Brittingham Park, on the crystal clear waters of Monona Bay! (Located on the corner of W Main St. and Park St. in Madison, WI)
The schedule will be as follows:
Email them at onelovefooters@yahoo.com for more info.
After the event, the Mad-City Ski Team is hosting a Clean Lakes Festival at Olin Park (just off John Nolen Drive) to raise money to help clean up the Dane County Lakes. Why mention this here? Well, they’ll have bands starting at 2pm, food and drink. Stop by, say hi, and grab a refreshing beverage!
Mad-City Wedge 