What is barefoot?

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On this day I will talk about an extreme sport called barefoot.

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Let yourself be dragged on the water at full speed without the help of boards or skis, only with your own body, and try to perform complex stunts and tricks. This is barefoot skiing, an extreme modality of conventional water skiing that was created almost 70 years ago in Florida, where there are now teaching centers.

The World Barefoot Center is one of the most important and has several of the best experts in the world. Some of them (Keith St.Onge, Ben Groen and David Small) have just starred in one of the wildest sessions that are remembered.

If it is usual to use a jet ski or a boat as a tugboat, this time the drag line is fixed to a seaplane. Of the three skiers, only one had done something similar before and no one had dared until now to place a ramp in the water to make chilling jumps, since the plane flies from 80 km / h, that is, more than the maximum speed that reach the boats that usually drag these acrobats of the water.

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"It's fun and a little easier than being towed by a boat because the plane is taking you out of the water, so your feet are lighter than when you're behind a boat," Groen explains to the GrindTV publication. Although barefoot skiing has left hundreds of broken bones since its creation, this time there was no need to regret injuries. Of course, the protagonists recognize that they needed a couple of days to recover from the session.

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