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I flew into Atlanta just after a day and a half off from my Milwaukee trip. I had just enough time to unpack, wash my clothes, pay some bills, pack again and then get dropped off at the airport!
Hey, just another day in the life with Keith St.Onge during the summer months!
No problem though. I was off to foot and instruct my barefoot’n buds Chris Wakefield, Al Posada and Eric Coyrer!
Not just a good time in the boat but we have fun off the water as well!
Al and I always have huge competitions involving bowling, horseshoes, ping-pong and whatever else we can muster up!
Chris likes to take me mountain biking and blow my socks off going up hill and down!
Eric was the new kid on the sand bar learning how to jump faster then most I’ve seen!
So, all and all I always enjoy going up to Atlanta. Lake Lanier used
to accommodate several pro footers like Scott Gray, Steve Merritt and Canadian skier Jim Drown. Scott
Gray produced Hot Rock’n Feet I and II, Ron Scarpa’s video’s, Lane Bowers and Mike Frankenbush’s. Not only that, but Scott also taught me all of my high tech tricks as well!
I spent a couple weeks in Atlanta when I was a sophomore in High School for some hard-core, yet fun, training at Scott’s too! My hat will always go off to Scott for what he has taught me!
I usually do three days, two to three times a year at Chris’s. He likes me to work with him and his ski buds throughout the year instead of just a one-time comb over. If he happens to pick up bad habits through the year I notice them before they get too serious.
He’s quite the accomplished business man and know’s how to take his sports in a professional manor as well!
He’s coming to Nationals in August with the intent on taking home some hardware in Men’s II.
So keep your eyes on him at Nationals. He'll be kicked back in the
Barefoot Central Members VIP area with me.
The clinic went smooth as usual except for the 5:20 wake up call in the morning!
Those guys don’t just like to get the glassy water but like to wake up for fun before the sun comes up!
Ouch! Actually, we have to get up early because Lake Lanier isn’t no little lake that you can have to yourself!
The second day we had to race another footer to the mouth of a river they call the Lounge. It’s not like we don’t want to share but we have a clinic to do!
To tell you the truth though, I don’t mind getting up early because it usually means an early day off the water!
The less sun and sunscreen on my face the better!
They had a sweet set up because the plan worked like this:
1.) Get up early and foot up to the Lounge were you get perfect glass until 11:30am.
2.) I foot back in hopefully good water for lunch.
3.) Jump in the car and drive 25min. to a private lake where another Sanger sits along with a jump in the lake.
4.) Jump all afternoon on a lake that’s only 1300ft. long and sits in a whole that the wind can’t get too!
5.) Around 3:30pm we head home for some competitiveness on anything we can find.
Now that’s a sweet clinic! We’ll have to see what clinic can beat that this year!
KSO
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