How To Water Ski Barefoot Video

Getting up for barefoot water skiing is made much easier with a boom pole. Learn how to get to your feet with the help of a boat boom in this barefoot water skiing video.

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Keep holding the boat boom
Don't get on feet too fast
Stand into position slowly

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Paul is a current member of the Canadian National Barefoot Water Skiing Team. He also teaches bare footing in Florida. He lives, eats, and breathes the sport. A native of Toronto, Canada, he is the captain of the national team and is very dedicated to representing his nation. He holds the tricks record for the open men and a bronze medalist at the World Barefoot Water Ski Championships. He dedicated his life at about twenty years old to the sport and hasn't looked back since.

PAUL MCDONALD: In this clip, we are going to look at some of the different start methods that you are going to use to get up barefooting. The barefoot boom is the key to making barefooting easy. If you fall holding when you are on the boom, you always hold on. You drag on your stomach and you get to try to start again. But to begin with, you are going to need a nice patted wet suit, have the boat driver accelerate while you hold on to the boom and drag on your stomach. At about 20 miles an hour, the boat driver can give you the signal, you are going to roll over onto your back, keeping your hands right where they are, lift up your left hip and pull yourself all the way around to the front, but do not get onto your feet yet. You are going to want to. You can think about it, but don't do it. Right on your butt with your knees a little bit bent out in front of you so that you can clear the spray from your face, freak out that you are riding on your butt a little bit, slowly start bringing your feet back towards your butt with your ankles flexed up and you are going to set them on the water nice and gently. From that position, you are simply going to rock forward, stand up into position, just like you are standing up off the couch, nice and easy. It is almost exactly like standing off the couch, except you are doing 35 miles an hour, there's spray hitting you in the face and holy mackerel you are on your bare feet on the water.

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