For those of you that think that doing these crazy tricks on skis, or your barefeet, or hitting the ramp is easy, just watch this video. It features skiers from a professional ski show trying out the new stuff in their spare time and this video shows all the crashes these people go through to land that big stunt in the ski show.
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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…
One thing you just don’t see very much is water skiing at night. It’s just not allowed in most places. Tommy Bartlett’s in the Dells would do night ski shows, but in the heart of summer, it just doesn’t get very dark until very late, so it usally wasn’t done in the full dark very often.
The Austin Barefoot Club is once again holding the big race. Located in Austin, Texas, this is the endurance race to compete in. It’ll take place the weekend of November 8th and 9th.
For those unfamiliar with the idea of endurance racing, combine aspects of the following sports in your in head…
Why?
The tag line on the flyer is “Bring Your Heart and Bare Your Soles!” and I think it is very fitting.
Here are a couple videos I found showing the experience…
I recently wrote about how to make your back deeps much harder. Now I’ve come across somethig that maybe just make your back deeps a little easier or maybe help your driving for people that learn back deeps.
As many of you know, I scour the web, looking for good barefooting information. Well, I came across Lane “Dawg” Bower’s site a while back. I’ve looked through it a little before and found something that I wanted to share with you.
Lane has a page up with how he instructs people on back deeps. Here’s the link. He’s got a lot of info on the page, including a couple video of him going through the information.
He goes through some very good basic information for both the footer and the driver including:
The best part is he explains it very clearly and concisely. Here’s the first video…
Be sure to check out the rest of Lane’s instruction on his web site, including the second video with more info. Once again, here’s the link.
The site isn’t the best to get around, but if you dig, there’s some good stuff there. He’s got an email list you subscribe to for fairly regular informative updates. Some of the emails I find a bit un-informing, but there are some good ones in there too. You just need to find the useful info.
Links:
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.
I’ve just posted Mad-City State Highlight Clip online. You have a couple options to view it…
Well, it has finally come to pass. Paul O’Conner of Mad-City is no longer the sole person doing 720’s in the show ski world. We have a couple more people to add to the role call now.
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.
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