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I’m just not good at the whole water skiing gig. Something about getting dragged behind a boat on some plastic or fiberglass floatsam, just doesn’t seem to coordinate very well for me. I have tried a couple of times, and if you consider that I stood for probably a total for 4 minutes, I just don’t think it’s me. Give me some jetskis and let me tear something up.

That being said, I do recognize that there are many out there that love nothing more than just wake and spin around a lake for hours doing flips. Well, they’ve taken it to a new artform (Foil Freaks).

Apparently somewhere in the 60’s, 70’s a couple of guys, Mike Murphy and Bob Woolley decided to add a type of foil to the bottom of skiis and knee boards. Sometime into the mid 80’s they thought wouldn’t it be cool to add one of these things to bottom of something you can sit on? And the rest is pretty much history.

Now there are world championships and people tearing things up (or themselves) with this stuff. Would I do it? Probably not. But I have respect for those that do.

This HAS to be scary, and earns defintely a respectable 4 out of 5 B.A.R.s

Pictures where all stolen from www.foilfreaks.com.