learning to barefoot

From my experience I would say a well done front deep requires less effort than getting up on a ski ...then again I also think a front tumble up is easier than front deepwater :-)

Starts used to be a separate event at tourneys

Yeah, I watch HW start on a slalom and figure I must be doing something wrong. No way I can deep up slalom without getting my hair wet. Dock or shallow beach start I have a chance, deep water no way...

If your knee isnt touching your chest, youre doing it the hard way! Getting up on one ski should be eeeeeaasy.

Hair dry on a LLFD... now that I would like to see!

ski>no ski

only downside is having to pick it up (unless you kick at your dock and ski back)

if you plow and resist the boat you make it harder. with the boat, not against it. keep the ski more under you than in front. "easy peasy"

Well been working actively this we on the switch side slides, switch blades and reverse side slide.
High boom and wrapped handle...
Im able to ride the switch and back to ss but cant yet go crossing back and forth. I always end up catching the ankles! and boy it hurts!
Reverse ss got it!

Will try to edit some footage from saturday! Need some tips from Glasseeker...

I just started using gopro studio 2.0 so far no problems...no crashes, I also figured out how to control the go pro with my phone wifi which is great because you can see what the camera sees and turn it on and off remotely.

Kap just keep the boom super high and keep working on it, it's hard

TRBenj wrote: If thats the case then you need some practice starting on a ski. How else can you take a bf run without getting your hair wet? JBear would approve!

Gotta look good to do good we always say...



john

Adam:

You have a solid plane out in these videos. Couple of quick thoughts. You are planting with really "loose" feet. Note at :10 seconds into Video 2: One foot is pointing one way, the other foot somewhere else. Crank those feet back tight. In video three you are really loose in the loins. Legs and knees flopping around. You need to tighten everything up. It starts with the core: engage the core.

lastly, you are having trouble buttgliding because your arms are loose. Pull the handle in tight to your belt line and clamp down your elbows to your ribcage. If you do those 2 things you will track straight every time. Well done!

TRBenj wrote: Did you just imply that Adam has a sloppy V?

I take the sloppiness of my V very seriously.

Yeah, it was probably about half way through that I started losing steam. Although I did get a lot of practice putting on and taking off my suit. Probably did that 5 or 6 times. I'd suit up, we'd idle from the dock, and the boat wouldn't run. At one point Reid was like, how about we make sure the boat runs before you get back in that cold water again, and sure enough, it didn't. I did walk away feeling that I had made progress, so even though it may not have been my best effort, I still had some productive time on the water.

I guess its a good thing that dry land practice will help, cause that's all I'm gonna see until the spring. Come on SJRR!

Are you solid on the boom? I know the start is different, but the plane 3 point is almost the same, being much easier on the boom.

Definetely spend some time on dryland!

good work there!

kapla wrote: Are you solid on the boom? I know the start is different, but the plane 3 point is almost the same, being much easier on the boom. Definetely spend some time on dryland! good work there!

Thanks man.

Solid? No. The progression to where I am now is kinda windey. I decided after White Lake in May that I was tired of being the only person waking up at 7am at these reunions and not barefooting. So me and Joe trekked up to Tim B's in June for a mini barefoot clinic. I told him that I would follow whatever instruction he gave because I just wanted to learn, and then I promptly pussed out. Big time. HW says its in my head, that weekend it definitely was. Could barely be talked into getting out of the boat.

So Tim's plan was to start me on a wakeboard. On the boom, just gliding around to get comfortable on my back. Didn't have much problem with that, so we moved to the five foot line, and I couldn't stay on top of the board. After flopping around unsuccessfully Tim was like, ok, get rid of the board, you're just gonna ride on your back. I was there for three days and never put my feet in the water, by design. But by doing that, now I was comfortable on my back.

Fast forward to the CT mini, Tim says, ok, I've never actually seen you on your feet, I don't know if I really believe you can ski at all. So I got on the boom, tumbled around and stood up. First shot, no problem. Then I got on the five foot, Tim thought he was going to pull me around 25 to get back to gliding on my butt, and I stood up, looked over and said, ok, think we need more speed now. Now I've just been trying to build the muscle memory of planting and standing consistently. Might be a little bit of a backwards approach, but I can see improvements, little stuff, each time. I think its just a matter of repetition...doing it over and over until I just don't have to think about it. I'm probably the only person who goes out on the lake and isn't trying to ski, haha

yeah but the high speed is what makes it fun! Plus chicks dig scars.

I don't know if I'd go as far as mastered, but there was a time when I could do it. I certainly washed out on my lone long line step attempt of the year behind uncle todd's boat. That was a big crash.

oh, it ran like a scalded cat until we fludded the distributor cap. and I know what you might be thinking, how did you manage to get water in there...never ever underestimate my ability to break a boat.