learning to barefoot

GlassSeeker wrote: Seb, Keep some bend in the ski leg on the back toehold and "push" your toehold foot down towards the water. Head up, look out the back for the horizon to keep balance. Looks like you are busting loose this summer

andy

thats a screen shot of my first attemp on doing a back deep toe hold start!

couldn´t get the balance right and ended up drinking some water!

I´m full of bruises all over the body! this freestyling is killing me! LOL

Actually I´m shy on the back one foots, I was just fooling around and wanted to see if it was hard or possible to do what i sometimes see on the vids. My goal was to hand ski, quite impossible and then decided to plant to feet and see what happen!

Like Larry, that was impressive Seb! One of the hardest things for me to do in barefooting is to progress evenly through the tricks. That is, not going on to the next trick until I am solid on the one at hand.

For example the back one foots were a real bugger for me. About a year into attempting the trick I went back and redefined and improved my basic backward barefoot position to get more bend at the waist and knees. Then I worked the next year at riding a good a back one foot. Most of the time was spent on the reverse back one foot. During that time of working the reverse I was soooo tempted to attempt the back toe hold, especially because I have been able to do the back toe hold on shoes. I held off the back toe until I could ride both back one foots. That takes a certain type of discipline. I think it is worth it, though. I see a fair amount of people who can only do a trick on their strong side. The strong gets stronger, and the reverse gets weaker.

I have a new toy, a macbook air, so i will try to start editing with the iMovie

this is my first clip, just deleted the waste footage between falls,etc

fliping it

think it was private, try now

Seb, SWEET!

Second vid the foot is as you point out. I will post it later.

Hummm, someone was asking about the "rub" between freestyle and 3 event....here's some interesting perspectives:

GlassSeeker wrote: Hummm, someone was asking about the "rub" between freestyle and 3 event....here's some interesting perspectives:

the answer!

freestyle vs 3 event

some of the wbc videos have freestyle tricks....

38mm you do the convertion

no secrets really, 25-33 mph, lean wayyyy back, keep handle low and in to waist.

it's not my thing. but i've never worked on it to get it sweet either, just never grabbed me as too exciting.

I think Scarpa and McDonald do the coolest version of it by kind of going from knees up to one foot and then back and then the other one foot and so on...

I'd say you're going to have to try it and tell us how it goes. video please!

Kap,

I have some BI booms that I can access and measure pretty accurately, but would you explain or describe the dimension you need, ..."smaller straight section"? How far away from the pylon bolt do you want the OD measurement?? Glad to help.

Todd

Ryan,

Got it. I'll work on that measurement tomorrow. The part of the boom that attaches to the pylon mounting bracket/bolt is a constant diameter all the way out to the plug-in smaller outer section, and I'll measure that area tomorrow.

Todd