John Cornish has skied at top speeds on waterways, skittering across the surface of the water with nothing to glide on but his bare feet. He once barefoot skied behind a drag boat with a ...

Competitors, both young and old, are ready to make waves on the water — on their feet. The City of Winter Haven is hosting the National Barefoot Water Ski Championships on Championship Lake this year.

The Barefoot Ski Ranch has become quite the water sports hotbed in the last year. Last September, Stuart Parsons hosted a wildly successful event titled Jump Jam at his Axtell ranch, which houses a ...

TOWN OF GARDEN VALLEY — Barefoot water skiers from 12 countries will be vying for world championships at an event set to be held in rural Jackson County this week. The 2016 World Barefoot Water Ski ...

AXTELL — Elaine Heller, of Wisconsin, won the women’s open competition Saturday at the Barefoot Water Ski National Championships at the Barefoot Ski Ranch. About 120 of the world’s best skiers were in ...

Paul Oman died as he lived: barefoot and wet. A veteran member of the Twin Cities River Rats Water Ski Show Team — known best for its annual Minneapolis Aquatennial show on the Mississippi River — ...

Shannon and Elaine Heller used to get up at 5 a.m. to feed the calves on their family’s western Wisconsin dairy farm. They don’t do that anymore. Now days they get up at 5 a.m. to practice barefoot ...

A 16-year-old has returned from competing for Britain in barefoot waterskiing at the European championships in France. Jasper Poulton-Stowe, from Ashton Keynes, in Wiltshire, and who trains at ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - A Western Wis. native is a world champion in a unique aquatic sport. Brody Meskers grew up in Chetek and started skiing when he was 5 years old. His parents were both skiers, ...