learning to foot

My limited success with cheeking out has been to lean back and ride on your elbow. Also, don't wait. Cheek out as soon as you can.

Good luck!

-Keith

You may just want to start just off the table like where Hollywood is (white suit), cheeking out is really not totally necessary.

To cheek see how much I am leaning in this shot, once you get over the wake you need to be ready to stand quickly or you may just get sucked back in.

Keith wrote: behindpropeller wrote: Leaning back can cause you to bounce which = out of control, FYI. Tim No doubt Tim. I meant just when cheeking. I need to lean back more than when trying to plant and ride my elbow outside the wake. I hear the bouncing issue however. I have the this problem once I'm outside the wake and am getting ready to plant.

The problem with telling people to lean back is that they tend to stay leaned back once it is time to plant. Once they do that they drop their feet off of the rope and crash while trying to plant.

When I teach, the need to get to a sitting glide position asap, and I take care of getting them out of the wake for the first few times, having a shorter line helps too. Going from the proper butt glide position to a plant is a lot easier.

Tim

Hmm, so you just stand up in the wake? No cheeking for you? I guess with a proper line length the water's fine for footing back there.

It helps to have a BFN

JoeinNY wrote: It helps to have a BFN

Maybe, maybe not. In that last photo, it looks like a very turbulent table. Partially explained if thats a 75 foot rope. Some boats offer a particulary smooth area between the propwash and the wake, especially with a 100 foot rope, that is an exellent spot to ride.

Edit: upon a second look, that could also be attributed to the fact that the boat is in a turn.

See that spot on the last pic where it says 9-07-2007. That is the sweet spot. Try it.

Nicely done guys. In a little over a month, that's great progress.

Wow, very nice improvement since GL. You guys must have a new found appreciation for the Barefoot Nautique. Keep up the great work.

Ken

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Lefty

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Sorry I didn't reply to this post. The arm is good. I'm on my third and last cast. They keep opening up the angle of my elbow with each new cast. This cast comes off in three weeks, and then it's 2+ months of therapy. I'm going to look like some kind of sissy, doing those curls with a 3LB dumbell. The left arm is doing great, 12oz curls have kept it strong.
Leaving tonight for the barefoot race in Big Rapids. Tested the drivability of the arm last night with some barefoot pulls on White Lake. No problem. The left arm worked well, doing it's job at the White Lake Inn . I hope to have some pics or vids from the race. I (or Brendan most likely) will post.
Lefty

Well, I can now cheek out and I've been up a couple of times on Friday. I pulled my tricep on one nasty header and now have a nice swollen lump on the back of my left arm, but that's going down. Today I woke up with a nice bruise developing on the inside of the same arm. The good thing is it doesn't effect slalom skiing, or footing for that matter until I fall like that again. But boy what a rush.

Barracuda,

How long of a line are you running off of. That was some good footin. The water was perfect.

Sorry no new pics yet, birthday's, work, and my sister announced she was getting married. So hopefully this week end we will hit the lake.

That was a 100' BI line. I know, it's like a mile long, but the water is real nice at that point behind the 86 SN.
-Brad

87BFN owner wrote: Brad, 100' was wondering from the video it looked shorter. The two man run looked like you guys were having a good time.

The lines were shorter on the double run- probably 75-80'.