Show us Your Spring Barefooting!

75 Tique wrote: kapla wrote: hey were can I find kristof´s picture on the bathtub? I heard of the pic but actually never saw it... you asked for it....wish you hadnt...but you did.

Thanks Larry....I really needed that!

john

Hollywood wrote: Water temps are creeping towards 60 here in N.IL/S.WI

Our water temps got below 20C last weekend and are already down to 17C looks like the end of the season for us.

Never got to barefoot this year came close but it is hard with a driver who has just got his licence and me trying to learn at the same time.

Next year will go to a barefoot school early in the season and get started. Boom extension arrived the other day from BI that side spray on the 2001 is distracting.

I get ya on Wally. He's waiting. He doesn't show up at the ski club, but the rotation can get long mid-summer. I try to get all the footing possible, especially April/May and Sept/Oct. This winter was not the best for footers here in CA. Lots of rain, bad weather. There were a few nice days, but missed a lot of them due to obligations, or nobody to go with. Andy (GlassSeeker) went back to school out of the area so I lost my main bro to ski with. Now the club's open my wife can drive and I can get a few fair weather skiers on the water.

You been in the water yet Hollywood?

Last weekend I wore the long wetsuit under my barefoot suit and froze my butt off. My second set I put on the drysuit. I wore the drysuit all winter, but thought it was April and time to hang up the drysuit. I like the flexibility of the drysuit, but hate the neck: it is a choker and clamps on my jugular vein.

Thanks for the bump on the thread. I was terrified looking at Kapla's @SS sticking out of the ripped suit on page one. I hope he did finally trade that one in!

Going out Fri/Sat out to the ski club for a couple of sets. Water is cold there right now as the lake is High Sierra snow melt, temp = 54 deg. The delta water is mid to high 60's right now.   Air temp has been unseasonably low here in the Golden state. Normally 80's by now; it has been 60-70 deg. Soon it will be 100 deg. in Sacramento so I am actually enjoying it.

is the top entry a con? why?

I was a newbie by then..so I missed that thread..LOL very funny...

hey were can I find kristof´s picture on the bathtub?
I heard of the pic but actually never saw it...
the suit is still at homw..I´m deciding to fix it or hang it in the wall of shame along my broken in anger tenis racquets...LOL

That shot will live on just like Kristof's bathtub encounter.

Looks like some of our international members are not afraid of nudity.

Kapla any chance of getting some of you previous picture subjects in that suit out on the boom.   

I'd stick with a zipper.

That is hilarious, great pics!

long waited for this to happen but these are my first runs of the spring..LOL
the bf suit in its last run..time to fix or change








after some tumble turns I seriously need a new suit!!!!

Hollywood: You are a good sport. I was actually "wisecracking" about the ice in the Northern climes. I have nowhere to crack, really. My ski lake was 54 degrees over the weekend, because the upstream reservoir dumps icy alpine snowmelt right from the bottom, so it is cold til end of June.

Still working on the backdeep. Discouraged, right now.

Memorial Day Weekend at the ski club was a great time. We cranked out at least 3 sets a day with good conditions. GlassSeeker came out and wow'd the substantial crowd, but sorry, no video. You will have to settle for me and my 12 year old daughter running the camera:

Memorial Day FootFest

Any you guys out there footing? Even the mid-west and eastern ice floes should have busted up by now!??

Like the guys said, a boom makes life easier. I use it for all kinds of teaching. it has more than paid for itself. I see them used a lot, especially on Craig's List, but they are more like 250-300 bucks.

I do not recommend building one yourself. Saftey is huge on my boat and you can get jacked up easily on unsafe equipment. Heck, you can get jacked up on "safe" equipment. I am sure Phatsat67 is going to do a fine job, and I would love to see pictures.

The way I see it, I spent 10's of thousands on my boat, 500 bucks it not unreasonable for something I use EVERY time I am out like a boom Think of how much people pour into towers, stereos and boards and skis.

Good Luck!

BTW: I ripped a huge set at our ski club on Saturday. Temps in the high 80's, NO WIND, and nobody on the lake all day. Only bummer was no photographer.

Footin' is where it is at!