There are more than professionals and national chmapions that barefoot, here’s the first video that showed up in a generic web search for barefoot water ski videos. No idea who the footers are, no idea where it’s shot, but just some good footing and some good falls. This family is going to have some good home videos to watch in the future if this what all their footage looks like…
Tag: stunts
New Tricks for the WBC… Take 2
Once again, there is a video on BFC to get new tricks approved. I’m not sure I understand what they are trying to accomplish. As I mentioned before, it sounds like the tricks need to be submitted to the WBC, not just posted online, crossing your fingers, hoping that the council will find it. It was also requested that the video show the tricks long line and this one spends the better half of the video showing them on the shortline on the boom. If the De Villiers really want their new tricks approved, I (personally) don’t think they are going about it in the right way.
Here’s the video, judge for yourself…
Good Times!!!
No, I’m not talking about the TV show, I’m talking about what happens when you head out in the boat with a group of friends to ski, drink, relax and generally have a good time.
Well, I’ve posted lots of videos of people doing sick tricks. Here’s a great video of people that do these sick tricks, but instead of just doing those, they are just have a hell of good time. Not a whole lot new here in turns of tricks and barefooting accomplishments, but there is some awesome footing, girls in bikinis, girls in bikinis barefooting and some more. Enjoy the video, because it looks like they had a hell of a good time making it.
You can find this video, put together by GoFastFilms.com, and others, over on KSO’s website.
Sweet Car
Barefooting and Muscle Cars… both typical need/have big engines and like to go fast. How about we put them together in the same video? Better yet, how about we barefoot behind a muscle car? A classic muscle car?
Yes, that is exactly what KSO does in the most recent addition to his growing video library on his website, ksobarefoot.com.
There isn’t a whole lot of barefooting in this video, but the novelty of footing behind a car is worthy of being shared. Enjoy…
It’s My Life
Yes, another BFC video. And it’s another one with Zane and Andre. Not a whole lot new in the way of tricks, but they decided to play with a whole new camera angle to video from. Camera work needs to be improved a little bit, but it’s a whole new perspective and it’s pretty slick. Curious to see how the did this sometime, but enjoy the new view…
You Don’t Know…
…Any Limits!
Yes, another week, another BFC video of Andre de Villiers doing more crazy stuff next to the boat. I wonder what their thought process is for dreaming some of this stuff up?
Hmmm, how can we get more air we jump out of the boat at 40+ MPH? Trampoline… let’s give it a whirl. Have someone throw us out of the boat… sounds like fun.
We already doing some slick slides at the end of our runs, what can we do to have more fun on those? How about after we start sliding, we stand up and try to foot again, or maybe just try to jump… that might work.
And then we try some other crazy stuff.
Time for you to check out their new video…
Making Back Deeps a Bit More Difficult
Many people would say that a back deep is difficult. Granted, there are some really good footers that make them look really easy, but to the untrained eye, doing anything on the water without skis is difficult. Hell, a lot of people think skiing is difficult.
But I digress. The Aberdeen Aqua Addicts, the same people that first publized the Back Breaker, have something new to show the world. OK, maybe it’s not new, but they did make a pretty standard trick a hell of lot more complicated.
Here’s the trick… have somebody do a back deep and have them carrying someone piggy back.
Without further commentary, here’s the video.
Not sure on the practicallity of this trick, but it’s looks cool. Props to the Thorson’s for making it look easy.
New Tricks and Their Point Values
I promise to find something about barefooting to post about that isn’t based on something that is over at BFC, but this is a topic that I want touch base on.
New tricks.
Although people have come up with some slick new tricks, of which a ton of video is floating around on the net, it seems that the the WBC (the World Barefoot Council) only recognizes tricks that have been sent in to them for review for being officially recognized and having point values assigned. It seems some people find this to be unfair, or maybe, too much of a hassel to go through. They think that, hey there is video of it on the web, it should be recognized. How many points will it be worth? (You can read more of this discusssion over on this thread at BFC).
Foot (a WBC member) laid out the process… send a video of the tricks being done long line to the council and then the council will review them. The council isn’t going to come look at videos on BFC to search out new tricks.
Now people are asking why the council isn’t going to look at videos on BFC? Well, I’m guessing because the current process calls for the videos to be sent to them. Plus, the council can’t be expected to search out new videos on the web looking for new tricks to add. Why? Because popular websites are going to have an easy time getting their tricks recognized. A little one person website that posts new tricks probably isn’t going to be found, and the trick not reviewed. It just isn’t a realistic process to go through.
Now maybe the WBC might need to update their process to recognize video links submitted to them, which I think would be fair. Levels the playing field. But expecting members to find them on their own accord is not a fair expectation for them.
Well, the people running BFC posted a video of new tricks they want considered, put it right on their front page, and asked WBC members to look at it. Not sure if this will be enough to get them approved, but they are trying.
Freestyle Footstock
There’s been some debate about what exactly is freestyle barefooting… while here’s AN answer. You see the Andre and Zane DeVilliers and Chris Morrison do some pretty sweet tricks, including hitting the ramp and doing more than your standard barefoot jumps. Nothing we haven’t see before, but it’s nice to see them try this stuff out on something less than perfect glass water. Granted they still had excellent conditions, but not the glass you see them do this stuff on all the time.
Oh Brother…
This is kinda of an uninspired video from BFC… not a whole lot new in this one, and there isn’t a lot of footing either. They go shopping for “cowboy” clothes and hats, do a little footing in what looks like just swim trunks and cowboy hats, but if you look closely, you can see barefoot shorts under their trunks. So if you’re excited to see guys go barefooting with cowboy hats, enjoy…
Mad-City Wedge 