barefooter

One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.

A barefooter can perform such tricks as one-foot barefoot, tumble turns, crossing wakes, and toehold barefoot. Wake crossing is achieved in much the same fashion as it is on two skis.

In 1950, a waterskiing competition in Florida included a barefoot waterskiing event. The barefooter who could barefoot water-ski for the longest time won this event. Barefooters began performing tricks such as tumbleturns and skiing backward in the early 1960s.

A person who chooses not to wear shoes or socks.

A Calgarian barefooter by the name of Jay Winkler doesn’t even let Canadian winters slow him down. He says he particularly loves bare-hoofing along a high mountain trail around Emerald Lake, B.C.

Julia Hill is a barefooter extraordinaire. She spent two years living in a California redwood in a crusade to protect the state’s last remaining oldgrowth redwood forest[…] She always climbed the tree, which she named Luna, barefoot, even in the dead of winter, saying that she “had to have the connection.”