Barefoot Worlds Coverage on Tales from the Foot

Barefoot Worlds are going on right now in New Zealand.  The best of best are over there tricking, slaloming and jumping.  KSO is trying to defend is title.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world, at least those of interested in barefooting, are curious to know what's going on over there.  So far, there hasn't been much, if any, official coverage, but I have managed to track down some sources to keep tabs on what's happening.

Instead of having to scour the internet yourself looking for info, I'm doing that for you.  Just head over to my barefooting website Tales from the Foot.  That link will show you all the World's Barefoot coverage that there is to know about so far.

While you're there, feel free to browse around the whole site.

Going for a Record... 122 Peoples, 1 Very Big Boat

I wrote about their attempt last year (someone from Tasmanina even stopped by in December 2008 to let me know about this upcoming attempt on Jan 31st.) Well they are going to try it again.  The Horsehead Water Ski Club in Tasmania is going to try to set a record.  Don't know where that's at?  Neither did I, so enter Google Maps, and you find out it's here...

Still not sure where that's at?  Well that "island" is off the southern tip of Australia. It is west of New Zealand, if that helps.  Here's a link to the location in Google Maps.

Enough geography for today, back to the task at hand.  The World Record attempt.  The current World Record, at least according to this YouTube video, so it's gotta be true, is 100 skiers.

100 Skiers, 1 Big Boat [video]

Anyways, the Horsehead Water Ski Club is gonna try it again this year.  This weekend actually. They gonna try on Saturday, so that would be some time late on Friday here in the states if my international date line logic is current, but it could be wrong.

Anyways, good luck to all the participants in this attempt.  You can check out this website for updates.  I hope they let the world know how they do.

Heli Front

I the show skiing world, we've seen barefooters pull front flips, but in the video below we have a guy doing a helicopter pulling a front flip... very nice.

Heli Front [video]