RocketRobin
PR Founding Father
You guys have jumped in all over my other life in the summer at this point. So I have a 21' Supra Mariah with both a Hylon and a barefoot boom. Love to barefoot when I get the chance, funny story right after college.............
I'm playing Men's league hockey with a group of guys, two of the guys just graduated from Kent State and took jobs in the area but were not from Cleveland. After one of our first games, the one guy Pete is wearing a Ski Nautique shirt under his hockey gear and I ask - "Hey are you a water skier?"
He replies - "Well more of a barefooter really than a water skier, but yes." I'm like "cool, I barefoot too" and he says "And you might know my sister?" and I'm thinking that's a weird comment, how would I know this guys sister. And he chimes in with......
"Yeah, Jennifer Calleri, you've heard of her right?"
Jennifer Calleri was the 4 time reigning Women's World Barefoot Water Skiing Champion at the time, and she was dating the Men's World Champ at the time, Ron Scarpa. Well, we became fast friends and he brought his Barefoot Nautique here from Wisconsin and kept it at my plant for a number of years that we used to ski together. And best part of the story - I was taking my kids to Disney World for a week and he hooked me up to go barefooting with Jennifer and Ron for a day in Winterhaven FL while I was down there. To Ski with both World Champs for the day was a highlight of my skiing life.......... awesome day! So at one time I could do back deeps, but it's been a few years since I've done that, and the boat isn't getting any faster and I'm not getting any lighter so those days might be over. Somewhere, some buddies have my last back deep start on video from about 4 years ago, not sure if I could do one now or not.
Unfortunately, hockey tournaments start next weekend for me as a coach and my kid as a player, and 4 weekends in a row before we have a weekend off. I need to get out on the boat and get a barefoot run in here soon! And a jet ski day with you guys, and and and.......... I've hardly ridden my motorcycle at all this year.
I'm playing Men's league hockey with a group of guys, two of the guys just graduated from Kent State and took jobs in the area but were not from Cleveland. After one of our first games, the one guy Pete is wearing a Ski Nautique shirt under his hockey gear and I ask - "Hey are you a water skier?"
He replies - "Well more of a barefooter really than a water skier, but yes." I'm like "cool, I barefoot too" and he says "And you might know my sister?" and I'm thinking that's a weird comment, how would I know this guys sister. And he chimes in with......
"Yeah, Jennifer Calleri, you've heard of her right?"
Jennifer Calleri was the 4 time reigning Women's World Barefoot Water Skiing Champion at the time, and she was dating the Men's World Champ at the time, Ron Scarpa. Well, we became fast friends and he brought his Barefoot Nautique here from Wisconsin and kept it at my plant for a number of years that we used to ski together. And best part of the story - I was taking my kids to Disney World for a week and he hooked me up to go barefooting with Jennifer and Ron for a day in Winterhaven FL while I was down there. To Ski with both World Champs for the day was a highlight of my skiing life.......... awesome day! So at one time I could do back deeps, but it's been a few years since I've done that, and the boat isn't getting any faster and I'm not getting any lighter so those days might be over. Somewhere, some buddies have my last back deep start on video from about 4 years ago, not sure if I could do one now or not.
Unfortunately, hockey tournaments start next weekend for me as a coach and my kid as a player, and 4 weekends in a row before we have a weekend off. I need to get out on the boat and get a barefoot run in here soon! And a jet ski day with you guys, and and and.......... I've hardly ridden my motorcycle at all this year.