Friday at a Hockey Game [video]

And since it is a Friday, and this is a Friday related post, here’s Dallas Friday on a boat…

Yes, she’s a  wakeboarder, but I’ll let anyone in my boat that loves to be on the water… just as long as they save some glass calm water for me to do some footing on. It helps if they can drive the boat… anything else is just a bonus.

Karen Putz (previously featured here) attended a did a story for Chicago Now. Be sure to read it and check out all of the pictures. There are also links to her personal blog in the story with even more details from the week.

Ladies, check you calendars and make plans to head to the Blue Moo on June 19th. This info was recently spotted on both Facebook and on ShowSkiers.com and is from Shauna Pasanen, one of the organizers of the event:

Female barefooters invite you to join an all girl three event barefoot tournament, Barefoot Chick Fest 6/19/10, at the Blue Moo Lake in Alma Center, WI . We encourage you to come out and take part in this great event. If you need help unlocking your potential we will be offering a Barefoot Clinic for Girls only, no boys allowed!

June 17th and 18th. This is a wonderful opportunity to make new friends, create memories, and to have fun sharing your strengths in barefooting. Sign up today by emailing: barefootchickfest@gmail.com If you have ever wanted to compete, learn, or watch barefoot waterskiing now is the time. Women today welcome you in getting started, so that we together can build a sport for newcomers tomorrow. Get involved, make it happen, Barefoot Chick Fest 6/19/10!

Brad Paisley – Water [video]

Did you know that Brad is married to Kimberly Williams-Paisley? Not sure who that is? She was the daughter in the Steve Martin movies Father of the Bride I & II and also on According to Jim (as Jim’s wife’s sister). So when he’s out on his boat, skiing, footing or whatever he does, he has some good company in the boat. And good company is always important. Especially at the end of the day when the sun goes down at it’s beer-thirty.

Mr. & Mrs. Paisley

It’s also nice to see our little sport, and the sport of water skiing in general, in the mass media, and a Brad Paisley video qualifies as that. I think every waters skier around remembers the Alan Jackson video for Chattahoochee since it featured some slalom skiing in it.

Alan Jackson – Chattahoochee [video]

I personally love the neon colors on his life vest and how he is really cutting it up on what appears to be some classic Dick Pop Jr skis in some of the shots.  I also love the old Nautique in the video.

And while we’re on the topic of country music video’s featuring water skiing, I’ll throw one more into the mix. It doesn’t necessarily tie directly to skiing, but it does features such lines as:

It was painted red, it’s stripe was white
It was 18 feet, bow to stern light…

As he reminisces about his childhood boat.

Alan Jackson – Drive [video]

And with that, country music video time is over, for now…

For those that don’t know, the Blue Moo Lake is run by the Heller family who have several very accomplished barefoot skiers that competed successfully at the 2008 Worlds Barefoot Championships in New Zealand. Needless to say, they know a little something about barefooting.

Now you might be wondering why that makes us over the age of 12 depressed?  Well, just take a look at the BFC video that they released showing her barefoot tricks.  She’s already jumping out of boats and doing side slides.   Enough with build up now and on to the video…

You can find the video on Barefoot Central’s video page here.  It’s called “I’m a Believer”.

You can view their event calender on their site or you can view the event calendar here.  I’ve added all of their event and many others for 2009.

Be sure to check out their video section.  They put together a nice video of the footing from the 2008 Beach Party titled Hellar 2008.

Sadly, here in the land of cheese (aka Wisconsin) we no longer experience the weather that encourages people to worship the sun in bikinis. We’re now in jeans, long sleeve shirts, sweatshirts and jackets.  We’re bundling up as winter approaches, so this video brings fond memory of summer days on the lake.

Beside the bikini clad female, you see KSO and someone else doing some tricks on the boom, that although now they seem almost common, I think they are probably some of the earliest people to try some of them.

Enjoy the footing, enjoy the tricks and enjoy the white bikini…

You can find the video on BFC’s video page here.  The video is titled “Hot in Here Video” and the link for it is near the bottom of the page (it is just a text link.)