A neighborhood banking CEO gained his third nationwide championship in barefoot water snowboarding within the senior division.
Mike Molepske, Financial institution First CEO, says he and 80 others competed in barefoot snowboarding challenges like slaloming, which is snowboarding with just one ski, leaping, and tips.
The 62-year-old mentioned his specialty is trick snowboarding.
He explains “You do it with one foot and you are able to do a toe maintain.
So identical to on a trick ski, they’re pulled by their foot, so you will have one foot in a toe strap and one foot within the water.
It may be completed ahead or backward.”
Molepske says he first tried snowboarding when he was seven years outdated on the rivers in Manitowoc County.
After the primary 3 times he acquired up on the skis, he says he was hooked.
It nonetheless amazes him now.
“I made it once more! He exclaimed. That is actually cool.
It’s one thing about getting up in your naked ft it’s simply… it’s arduous to imagine it’s attainable.”
He says he desires to try to catch as much as his daughter who has gained 15 barefoot snowboarding championships.
The competitors came about final month in Helena, Montana.
He says he’s additionally competed within the worldwide barefoot snowboarding championships, which came about in San Marcos, Mexico.
