learning to barefoot

Maybe if he had some Lane Bowers "Dawg Paws" on he might have...oh wait...never mind...

boy that neck brace is kinda stiff and bulky! made my head feel like a tomato!

is it fine to learn them with the shoes (extreme footers), or better go barefoot?

actually my last post will be for barefoot-
the speed on shoes should be only 30 max.

Here is a tip that worked for me, that I got from Brad (Barracuda) that made all the difference when I was learning. Some above have touched on it. A lot of instructors/instructors have you focus on pressing down with your chest to get up. That is all I focused on. Although a part of it, I think it is a small part. Much more critical is what you do with your legs, once you are planing on you belly with your feet planted. At this point driver speeds up. In one smooth and combined motion, legs come together, feet go from pointing out to pointing down and most critical, legs drop down and you bend at waist to push legs down. With that tip I went from very rare success to almost 100 percent success. Pushing your chest down with legs spread and trying to stand up at that point can cause some wicked groin pulls, I found.

Bend ankles not toes.

That sucks Seb!!

And the goPro continues to produce quality videos

ya da maaannn!

   

Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated!

It's Willie's Malibu with the BI tower and super fly high.(It used to be on my Sanger, we moved the whole set up over)

I am just as comfortable doing the sideslide on a standard flyhigh at this point in time.

As strange as it sounds-it may be a little easier longline, you can lean more forward on the longline for some reason??? as opposed to off the boom/5 ft handle I lean more away.

However, with a high high boom(overhead) and a 2 or 3 foot (wrapped) handle is the best way to learn it. I see alot of people trying to do it but they are putting too much weight on the "show foot" as Lane calls it, that's the one just skimming the water, the weight is mostly on foot closest to wake(which dictates which side of the wake you do it on) the heel of the weighted foot is actually forward a little bit.

I have tried the reverse and I am not getting it, just can't get the weight transferred correctly...more high boom practice needed.    

That is awesome! How fast?

AWESOME!

Why did you move all the stuff off the Sanger?

Moved the tower off because it was a pain to fold up and down since I keep my boat in the garage, it really is not designed to be folded up and down alot. It's fine if you do not need to regularly fold it up and down. Willie keeps his boat outside and he never folds down the tower just lays down the SFH.

On the boom side slides can be done on the shoes at 29-30, barefoot at 38-42. I usually use Scarpa cut down shoes.

Andre DV likes 44+

There are really very few, as in very very few people who "need" 50. At 50 I am skiing on a tiny spot on my heel and can't steer at all.

43-44 is plenty fast to do most everything for almost anyone.

Roys new Sanger does 49---just wait til his wife runs him up wide open to 48 or so accidently, hehehehehawhaw

You do not want to fall at those speeds...trust me.