http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3St1GgoHQ

This is hilarious!  They play it so straight.  “Waterproof shoes”, of course!  Brilliant.

Talk about blazing new trails! 

Once they master their technique, I can see annual runs across the Hudson river to New York or across the Mississippi river or the Golden Gate, or even. . . do we dare think it. . . The Catalina Island Run!  The sky is the limit.  An Olympic event, perhaps.  “Water Strider” shoes will be all the rage.  Loch Ness, the Bosporus, the Messina Strait, Gibraltar, all will fall.

And to think this all started with the Basilisk lizard.

If they would flap their arms like birds they’d stay above water longer (one nanosecond)!

Olympic event…
I imagine doing this in free style swimming competition should be allowed?