The U.S. Elite Barefoot Water Ski Team and the U.S. Senior Barefoot Water Ski Team each won overall team gold medals, the U.S. Junior Barefoot Water Ski Team earned the overall team bronze medal, and 15 U.S. athletes combined to earn 37 individual medals in respective events as the Barefoot Water Ski World Championships concluded Sunday at Lake Inspiration and Forest Lakes in Otaki, New Zealand.
How Keith St. Onge was saved from prison, poverty and polar winters to become one of the greatest footers ever
A dream can make you do what no sane person would, like sleep in a shed. In the not-so-distant past, that was Keith St. Onge’s life. With sweat beading all over his face, he’d lean up and bang on the wall-mounted air-conditioning unit that strained to fight off the thick Florida heat.
After a quick piece of toast or bowl of mac-and-cheese, he’d be out the door to the lake, where he gave his landlord (shedlord?) barefoot lessons instead of rent. St. Onge would grab a few passes himself and then jump into a ramshackle pickup truck. All the windows would be down because there was no AC. He’d head to his under-the-table job of installing lights, and halfway there the truck would overheat, so he’d push it to the side of the road, wait 10 minutes and then start it up again. He’d work, return that night and crawl back into the shed, only to start it all over again. Read the rest of this entry »
Keith St. Onge’s world barefoot slalom record is approved
After claiming to break the record five times only to have it stripped away, Keith St. Onge finally has more than claims now - this past year he officially broke the world barefoot slalom record with a score of 20.6 at the Gauteng North Barefoot Championships in Bronkhorstspruit, South Africa. The previous record of 20.5 was set by Brian Fuchs 12 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
