This self proclaimed best barefoot video ever falls a little short, but does feature some very good technical barefooting. It features KSO, William Farrell and apparently someone else. I’m not knocking the footing in anyway, just saying it may not be the best video ever. I did like the background music… Dragula by Rob Zombie.
Tag: stunts
And Now Something a Little More Recent
I’ve put up some older KSO videos recently, older being early 2000’s. Here’s one a bit more recent, probably the last year or so. It features footing by Mike Salber and Dany Baumgartner in addition to KSO. Once again, it features some sick “traditional” trick footing by KSO and ther others.
This video is the first one that I’ll say it has something in that you should try at home. Given the number of videos that have been up here lately, and the wide variety of stuff that’s been in them that most sane people wouldn’t try, but this one features something that some people might thing is easy or safe.
I”m not sure which footer it is, but one of them steps off the ski platform and foots right behind the platform, to the point where his feet are nearly under the platform. It looks cool as all hell, but IMO, it is crazy dangerous to foot this close to a boat. Please don’t try that without EXPERT instruction and guidance.
But beyond that, enjoy the video. Nothing really special, but it’s a good video with some good shots. It also has a trick in that I want to try, the front flip, and it has some good shots of it.
Enjoy the video…
http://www.eaglewetsuits.com/videos/therundown.wmv
Crazy Footers
There was a little request in the new forum to find some videos that feature speed footers. What are speed footers you ask? Don’t all barefooters go pretty fast already? Well, most footers go around 40 MPH or so. A lot of the people you see doing these crazy tricks are probably pushing 45 to 50 MPH. Compared to speed footers, these speeds are down right slow. Speed footers go 70, 80, 90 or 100+ MPH. At these speeds if you fall, your bones might be shattered or destoyed. Even the boat drivers are wearing helmets at these speeds.
I’ll have a more in depth post about these very crazy atheletes in our already crazy sport of barefooting in a week or so (I need to do a little research first), but to wet your appetite, here’s a short clip of Teresa Wallace go 91.16 MPH on nothing but her barefeet.
All My Life
Can’t say I’ve been waiting all my life for this video. This is an older KSO video again. Nothing really special about other than some very clean tricks barefooting. Not gonna say a whole lot more cause there isn’t much more to see…
You can find this video on BFC’s Video page here. The video is titled “All My Life” and the link for it is near the bottom of the page (it is just a text link.)
Did someone turn up the heat?
One more classic video to share from KSO. Circa 2003, this video originally appeared over on BFC. Besides some barefoot horseplay, it features someone wearing a great white bikini, better yet, it’s someone that should be wearing a bikini. The kicker is she does a deep water start in it… and nothing else.
Sadly, here in the land of cheese (aka Wisconsin) we no longer experience the weather that encourages people to worship the sun in bikinis. We’re now in jeans, long sleeve shirts, sweatshirts and jackets. We’re bundling up as winter approaches, so this video brings fond memory of summer days on the lake.
Beside the bikini clad female, you see KSO and someone else doing some tricks on the boom, that although now they seem almost common, I think they are probably some of the earliest people to try some of them.
Enjoy the footing, enjoy the tricks and enjoy the white bikini…
You can find the video on BFC’s video page here. The video is titled “Hot in Here Video” and the link for it is near the bottom of the page (it is just a text link.)
More Old School… Cowboy Up!
Here’s another old video from KSO from BFC. Little grainy, but there is some helmet cam, yes I said helmet cam, footage of him hitting the ramp. For most us, that’s a new perspective. There’s also a lot of shaky cam to endure, but enjoy…
You can find this video on BFC’s video page here. The video is titled “I Wanna Be a Cowboy Video” and you can find it near the bottom of the page (it is just a text link.)
Let’s Go Classic… Magic Carpet Riding with KSO
The “classic” BFC video features Keith St. Onge, who has won numerous national overall barefoot championships, a world championship and a Footstock championship. He’s an all around excellent techinical barefoot.
It features a classic song, lots of thumbs up poses, and some funny camera angles, Enjoy…
You can find this video on BFC’s video page here. The video is titled “Magic Carpet Ride Video” and the link is near the bottom of the page (it is just a text link.)
Chetek Barefoot Boys Try to Match the Ladies
I guess the guys of the Chetke Hydroflites needed to try and match the ladies. As I posted yesterday, the ladies turned in a very good video for BFC’s show ski challenge. Great footing, well editted, and just enough of a theme to match the music.
The guys footing video… well its mostly a collection of footing from their shows so there are a lot of barefoot lines which makes for a fair number of crashes. They also have a little dude that foots. At one point during the video the little dude tries a two ski bomb out, doesn’t quiet make, but holds on trying to do a tumble up. Watch for the little dude’s footage… it great.
The guys also put together a good sequence of crashes for the end of the video, so be sure to watch it all the way through. They very likely endured a lot of headaches making those crash videos, the least that we can do is enjoy watching them.
Chetek Barefoot Girls Make Bad Girlfriends…
…they go footing without you.
But seriously, there is some pretty good footing in here. The ladies of Chetek put together a hell of video for Chuck’s Show Ski Challenge. It features some footing from the Chetek Hydroflite Ski Shows and some other footage of them just out having fun footing. Lauren, Kelly, Kelsey and Nina do some nice footing here.
And they even have the token bikini footing shot that features a face plant.
Check it out…
http://www.eaglewetsuits.com/videos/showskichallenge/Bad%20Girlfriend.wmv
And There Will Be Pain
Jonesy from Toes Up put together a video of some of his barefoot jumping. I’m not sure if this is jumping prior to Nationals, from Nationals, or after Nationals, but it is a lot of barefoot jumping.
For those of you not familiar, barefoot jumping is the sport of skimming across the water on your barefeet at speeds around 40 to 45 MPH. Then you hit a ramp about 18 inches high and attempt to go as far as possible in the air and barefoot away. When done right, it looks really cool. When done wrong, it makes for great crashes that all look painful. Both of these, the done right and the done wrong, are great fun to watch.
I’m thinking Jonesy was probably walking around like an old man after this experience and some people game him some grief. Instead of trying to explain, he made a video to explain his situation. Enjoy.
Just a a warning. The video is pretty large so I’m not sure how well the embed player will work. I’ve put a link to the video underneath it that you can easily use to save it and then play it on your own computer.
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