learning to barefoot

hell of a ride!! reminds me of my first attemps on the long line with a board!
boom is a must for learning!

my EZ footer handle is definetly shorter than the one there...I need to add some loop to make it hang farther from the boom....

wish I could return mine LOL but i´d pay more in shipping than buying a new one!! The loop will do the trick I guess!

missed the water lately, an ankle injury has kept me out ....bad fall playing tennis I should be ok for this WE hopefully...

So made it out with Hollywood, his brother Kurt and Johnny. Good to be on the water, but as it seems to be everytime this summer, work got in the way and I had to rush to get on and off the water. Forgot my shorts and tape which turned out to be a horrible combination filling my sinus' with water...

Anyway, I seem to be going backward with my skiing. I can't figure out what it is, but I can not get comfortable on the water, it feels like such a struggle to stay up, the spray is all goofy, can't control my feet. When I look at the video though, aside from the spray hitting my feet it doesn't look to bad.



By the way in addition to being the first time on Powers Lake, it was also the first time behind a Barefoot Nautique. That was awesome, no rooster tail, the propwash is soft and gentle, didn't pull you in. That was really cool. Thanks a ton Johnny!

no it doesn't look too bad at all.

bend knees a bit more and be 50/50, "push" the handle down towards the water

non stretch rope

fly high

nice Andy!

lol

had some nice barefooting on saturday, early session, water was awesome, no boats around.
Couple of runs, practicing one foots, holding with one hand, kinda worked on both sides, but i think i´m leaning back a bit.
Weather was nice, no need for the drysuit. Now on the suit I noticed its holding water, instead of gliding its dragging thus all surface tricks are hard to do!

Also did some runs on the shoes skis, and got to do some interesting side slide! yeah!

Have some footage from the go pro that I will upload later....

Anyway I will be on hold for a while (at least with my boat) as the tranny finally let go...its slipping under load....will see if its worth rebuilding it or ordering a new one!
boomer!

Well. as the glow of the Indian Summer in California slowly cools off, Sheridan Oaks Ski Club also closed for the season. I got my last runs out there Friday. It was glass, no wind, not another boat on the lake. Sorry, no video, just me with my wife driving.

This season will still continue for me as I hope to ski through the winter. However, when the club closes until spring, it is hard not to think that a chapter has finished for the year.


This season was one of many firsts for me in barefooting: first one-foot wake crossings, the line step position, front to back on shoes, reverse back one foot (finally), backward wake crossings... a good year to say the least.

What is next? How about back one-foot wake crosses and back toe holds? Yup.

Sanger, OK.
Malibu, Adios!


I had a decent year, lacking photo evidence once again. When the skiing conditions are the best I don't have a spotter or their hands are in gloves anyway.

-Flip turns and step offs were solid, either side and behind the boat. I even got the hip turn figured out, which is just cool looking. Next I'd like to take the turn off the wake.
-Back wake crossings OK. Deeps I get up all the way behind the boat and pick a side then just go as long as I can. I'm becoming much more aware where I am and able to somewhat move around now.
-On the shortline: back 1 reverse (finally for me too), reverse front toe hold, and the big one... back to front! I don't think I'm going to push anything backwards because I don't wear the neckbrace in the drysuit.

Probably spend the rest of the year cleaning up the footing I'm already doing, endurance runs, trick skiing and shoe (show style) skiing.

skutsch got a drysuit so now I have a winter footin buddy.

I do have some pictures and video to edit, this will take some time though to get posted.

Sounds like a good year hollywood. Nix on the Malibu, eh? Hard to argue against the Sportster though: 50-55 MPH with the Monsoon, 48 MPH with the 350. Killer wake. Wedge for the wakeboarders in the family (I have 2 going on 3...) Sanger would be my first choice. Hard to find though. I know of a 2004 BF Sanger coming on the market, but he wants 25K for it. Yikes...

Where does Skutch live? is he in the San REMOVEando valley, too??

saturday footing

some pictures

So took the family to FL for a long weekend vacation and a much needed break from work! They all decided they wanted to swim with Dolphins (the G2 I got was that was like drinking from a fire hose) so I convinced them to allow me to go skiing. So I had a day long session with Lane Bowers. If nothing else it was just good to get a day and do nothing and think about nothing other then skiing.

The really great thing is we got the whole backwards (bacerds) barefooting thing down. While I can't say its perfected at least I was consistently able to see the horizon by the end of the day. Lots of practice in store. It was just me and Lane in the boat for the day, so pictures were scarce. Below is the extend of the video that we accomplished. (its kind of funny).

That is "bacerds"!

Seb, that middle part where you catch a toe and then go full "superman" into a literal face plant... That was AWESOME!!!

Superman


Kiss the water