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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.

Day 1 Slalom Results, Day 2 Pictures

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A website has been found that is posting results from Worlds.  Sounds like it’s being done by someone on or affiliated with the Great Britain Barefoot Team.  Here’s the link.

You can view slalom results from Day 1 by following this link.  They’ve got the Top 5 for Mens & Womens Open listed and a bunch of videos.

In the Mens, KSO leads by hair over Small.  Stokes thinks that since Small was right with KSO on slalom, he might be able to win the overall championship now.  I guess we’ll all need to wait and see.

In the Womens, the Hellar girls are both in the top 5.  Elaine in 3rd and Shannon in 5th.

Meanwhile, over at footnfotos.com, they have Day 2 Pictures going online.

World Update Day 1

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Opening Ceremonies and Day 1 I believe are both done.  So far, the only place to be giving relatively up to date updates is a photo website… footnfotos.com

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Team USA Marching in the Opening Ceremony

You can see a slide show of the entire Opening Ceremony here.

There are also some pretty awesome pictures of the first day of competition.  Here are a couple low res samples…

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The agony of defeat…

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And the thrill of victory?

No idea who either of the skiers are, but those are just a couple of the awesome pictures that have been posted for the first day.  You can view a slide show of all the photos here.

All of the pictures from here are from the footnfotos.com website.  Be sure to go check them all out.The competitors are going to have some sweet pictures to remember their time at Worlds.

Meanwhile, I’ll try to hunt up some actual results.

US & Canadian Nationals Results

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Whie looking at BFC I saw that they had posted an article about the Canadian Barefoot Nationals that took place August 21st to 24th.  The article was well done and highlighted the notably portiions of the event, including the 15 foot flyer done by the 65 year young Ross Holden.  For the full results, I’ve tracked down the posted results from the Water Ski and Wakeboard Canada Website (that name just doesn’t roll of the tongue.)

It got me thinking that I haven’t heard anything about the US Nationals that took place August 12th to 16th. I scoured the BFC website looking for details and came up empty.  I then began looking across the inter web and found the results on the American Barefoot Club’s site.  Not a whole lot of details about how things went, but they have all the results.  Here’s the link for the recap.  I’ve also opted to include the article below, because I wasn’t able to find a direct link to it and it may eventually disappear.
Lake Elmo Sports Barefoot National Championships Begin

The US Barefoot National Championship began Wednesday August 13th at the “Blue Moo.”  This beautiful site is found just outside of Black River Falls, Wisconsin , Wisconsin and being donated to the event by the Blake Heller Family.   The Final Overall Results features skier from the very youngest to the very senior such as Jim Boyette and John McDonald. For the individual events use the following links:

Tradition at this event, has every skier randomly assigned to a barefoot teams.  There will be either 9 or 10 skiers on each team.  The teams are then auctioned off with have of the money being paid out in prize money and the other half will support the US Barefoot Teams attending the World Championships in January.  Scoring for the team is the similar to the World Championships.  Each team member’s overall score (from each event) is used in the scoring.  The top 5 scores from each event are included in the overall for each team.  This is a lot of fun because a Junior skier can be just as (or more) important than the World Champion Keith StOnge.

Music City River Run Results?

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Anyone know what happened down in Nashville this weekend?  Been looking around bet haven’t seen anything yet.  Tried Barefoot Endurance Racing, who announced the event, but didn’t see anything up there and also tried the forums on BFC but came up dry.

If you know the results, drop me a note at wedge [at] talesfromthefoot.com or just drop a comment on this post.

Update 10/20 @ 955 pm CDT – Based on the comments below, there were two divisions…

  • Inboard Division – 50 Miles – Won by Team Rum Runners –  Don Simon, Todd Fipps, Doug Roufinauf, and Mark
  • Ski Pros – 100 Miles – Won by Team Top Gun 
There are a few more details in the comments below.  They mention some stories from the race and I’m hoping they send some my way.

Redneck Barefooting

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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

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.