Tag: stunts

Flying Back Tumble to One

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Hearing that I thought “what the hell is that going to be?”

A slightly better description would be “drag on your stomach, head first in a superman position, then spin on your belly into a back deep position, then stand up one foot only.”

Still confused?  Then just watch the video…

Flying Back Tumble to One

Next on the video play list is video showing the worst possible place to face plant while barefooting…

Not a good spot for a face plant

40+ MPH heading towards a jump, you’d think the guy does everything in his power to not fall.

Finally, for those of us who think we’re good footers, here’s a kid whose probably better than us.  And he’s 5 in the first video, throwing down tumble turns like nothing.

I’m only 5!

Think it’s a fluke?  Here’s Brody a year later…

Are you better than a 6-year old?

Hopefully that drives you to work on your footing skills so you can say you’re better than a 6-year old.

Props to The Rowboat for finding these gems… Personally, I think the guys over there have too much time on there hands.  All they do is search YouTube.

Bodies…

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I’ve heard rumblings about this video over on the BFC forums and finally decided to check it out myself.  It’s a video from Toes Up or Faceplant.  The website is a little bright with some crazy fonts, but if you dig around a bit, they have some good stuff.

If you’ve heard the song Bodies by Drowning Pool, you might have an idea about what’s in the video.  If you don’t know the song off the top of your head, you may have heard it in ads for the movies Daredevil, The One, xXx, Fahrenheit 9/11, Rambo or even a US Marines Commercial.  The song caused a little controversy when it came out and some stations even stopped playing it for a while.  Why, you ask?  If you think about the lyrics and think about how it’s been used in advertising, it can easily be misinterpreted.  It is really suppose to be about moshpitting.

Anyways, the most common phrase in the song is “Let the bodies hit the floor.”  According to the lyrics site I found, they say it 27 times, roughly have the lines in the song.  Now, while barefooting there is no floor to hit, but there is the water, and this video, A LOT of bodies hit the water, and they hit the water HARD.  They did a very good job putting all of these crashes to music so file is a pretty big (but it looks good) so be patient.  Enjoy…

http://www.toesuporfaceplant.com/bodies.wmv

Download Bodies Video (Toes Up or Faceplant Production)

Barefooting or Swivel Skiing?

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While the Rowboat’s Paddlers and Rykert argue about Venn Diagrams and question where their cooler full of beer is, I’m going to ask you to grab a beer out of your fridge, sit back and watch a video production from BFC. I’m not sure where BFC find these guys but they got some crazy footers named De Villers. I let ya’ll know about the first De Villers’ video, now there is a second one. This one has the first name of Zane and it features some solid footing.

Now if you go look at the forums on BFC, you’ll find quite the discussion about the Super Fly High that the De Villers make use of. Some people think it’s cheating and not real footing while others say it is just the evolution of the sport. I fall someone in between… Learning how to foot and get my long line deep water starts more consistent, I could tell the difference between a normal pylon, a slightly extended pylon and a hylon in how they helped me make my starts. Now the SFH is much higher, almost like a trapeze. I’m off the opinion that yeah, it’s going to make the tricks easier to do. But the tricks these guys are doing are sick and even watching them being done on the SFH is pretty awesome. So I guess I’m of the opinion that the SFH’s make the tricks easier, but if they are going to give us tricks like this, I’m all for them. Now when people start doing these tricks on a normal boom or long line on a hylon, then the people doing them on a SFH can be called wussies. Until then, they have bragging rights on some crazy tricks.

One trick Zane does that stands out is the overhead 360 on the barefeet. I see swivel skiers do this all the time, some even throw 7’s or 10’s. I also see shoe skiers do this trick. But never before have I seen it done on barefeet. Zane does some other stuff in there two, but I’ll just let you watch and be amazed.

Enjoy…

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3 Big Back Circles

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Props to Liz Flaherty from the Chain Skimmers and the UW Ski Team.  At state last year (2007) she did a nice little barefoot act.  She starts with a back flier and then ends up doing two more back deeps as she does her 3 BIG back circles… not the tiny little circles another team does… she goes all the way around the show course.

Props to the guys that messed up the first hot pick of the rope… it made the act even better!

BFC put up a video of it…

http://www.eaglewetsuits.com/videos/ShowSkiChallenge/2007_LizFlaherty_State.wmv
Download Liz Flaherty’s 3 Big Back Circls

Rain Got You Down?

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Ignore the fact that is the heart of winter here in Wisco and there is currently a winter storm warning that is expected to dump 6 to 8 inches of snow tonight.  Pretend it’s summer and there’s been lots of rain… and now back to the story…

Find a culvert that is flooded with water, a car that is fast off the line and some friends willing to watch you potentially injure yourself severely and you have the making of a good barefoot video.

This is Chad from the Must-Skis, a little show ski team from the metropolis of Beaver Dam, WI.  I can attest that he appears completely sane in normal situations, but still opted to try this little stunt out.

If you check out Barefoot Central, you may have seen this show up there, but I posted this first way back in October last year over on my personal blog, but the video is worthy of sharing here.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8455661757957891119

Chad Foots by the Road

Chad, if you read this and care to offer some insight in to this stunt, please share and send it my way.  I’m sure there is a good story to share.