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Barefoot skiing is water skiing behind a motorboat without the use of water skis, commonly referred to as "barefooting". Barefooting requires the skier to travel at higher speeds (30–45 mph/48–72 km/h) than conventional water skiing (20–35 miles per hour/32–56 km/h).
Mike Seipel (born Mike Seipel) is a retired American competitive barefoot water skier. He was considered to be one of the greatest barefoot water skiers in the world. He was a member of the United States Barefoot Team and was a two-time overall world champion in 1984-85 [1] and 1986–87. Seipel didn't win any medals at his first Worlds, but he ...
Photographs and newsreels of Pope barefoot waterskiing at speeds in excess of 40 mph became an international sensation at the time. [6] The media attention was created by his father, Dick Pope Sr., to generate publicity for Cypress Gardens, but it also helped popularize water skiing worldwide. That same year, at age 17, Dick Pope Jr. won his ...
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Neil Heeney, who competes in the extreme sport of barefoot water skiing, has applied for a special use permit to allow ski boats to use the western channel of Nelson Island under certain ...
1.2.1.2 Barefoot three event. 1.2.1.3 Barefoot slalom. ... Water skiing was introduced as a World Games sport at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara, California.
Barefoot skier Kevin Keith, 66, from Southbridge won three gold medals at a world competition in Texas last month.
Keith is a two-time World Barefoot Champion, winning Overall titles in 2006 and 2008. Keith learned to barefoot water ski on Lake Umbagog in New Hampshire at the age of nine with instruction from Mike Seipel, a two-time World Barefoot Champion. [2] He entered his first barefoot tournament at age ten in the Eastern Region. [3]