Not only do the guys of Barefoot Man produce a calendar each year but they also release a number of downloadable movies which show more of the guys in action. The films are a quality production and are full of sexy rowers showing off their impressive oars and rollocks. Despite the fun they are all serious sportsmen and there are some World class competitive rowers among them.

You can purchase the calendar and films, as well as loads of other items from the Barefoot Man Website.

Apart from the guys, the other thing that people enjoy in your pictures are the stunning locations. This year in particular you've gone very exotic.
Well, yes, we have and I'm quite proud of that because I feel that it's a natural trajectory for us. I mean, we've already done Positano Italy and photographed on a yacht, moored off Capri. We've done the Costa del Sol and English stately homes with the National Trust. We've done quite a lot of glamour and it's been great. I was going to Costa Rica for the first time to meet Patrick, one of our longtime contributors, who is involved in something called FireRide. It's a mountain bike trick riding festival.

He was doing FireRide in Costa Rica and a friend of mine mentioned that there were these guys who live and work in the rainforest of Costa Rica, far south on the Pacific. So I ended up going there and they hosted me for a week. The guys that were there, like the guy on the cover of the calendar, were all doing some sort volunteer work. He actually works in education and lives in San Francisco. So I said, how do you feel about going nude for our calendar? He said he's been a fan of the calendar since he was in his 20s, and so yeah, of course.

And then I got other guys to take part too. We created these amazing pictures in Costa Rica. And one of them, Tommy, had been featured on OnlyFans. And he said, he did OF because he was fat and ashamed of his body. It was his way of getting through that, and moving beyond it, by getting into shape and doing OF content on camera. So he and his boyfriend came down to Costa Rica from Santa Barbara, and we went to the Nicoya Peninsula, where we got the gorgeous shots on the beach. It's one of my favourite shots in the calendar, the one for Valentine's Day, where they are embracing by some driftwood on the beach. It's probably the most erotic shot we've ever done, in the sense that these are two naked men in a romantic clinch, if you like.

For over a decade, their award-winning calendars, films and books have been promoting inclusion, gender equality, LGBT rights and healthier masculinities. With the help of thousands of supporters around the world, they have created and funded Sport Allies, a registered charity that builds on the message of sports-led inclusion through media partnerships.

Angus, what made you decide to change your name from Warwick Rowers to Worldwide Roar, and now Barefoot Man?
Well, there were a few reasons. I think the most important one, really, was that we wanted to grow as a project and it became unsustainable for one small boat club to provide all the visible faces for this project. That was one thing. And the second thing was that, actually, there were a lot of people who were very interested in what we were doing but didn't row at Warwick University. Well, why should they be excluded? Over the last year or two there's also been comments on the lack of black visibility in our project, so we set out to fix that.

The truth of it is that if we had stayed as Warwick Rowers, there would never be any black visibility in our project because that's such a very small subset of the population that we would be working from. And we want it to be more inclusive - moving on now to Barefoot Man achieves that.

Barefoot Man are always on the lookout for more guys to get involved. Everyone taking part embarks on a transformative personal journey that equips them to become active partners in creating a more inclusive world for everyone.

You must be over 18, identify as male and be active in some form of organised sport. Otherwise, they aim to be as inclusive as possible and to embrace men and trans men of all ages, ethnicities, sexualities, and physical abilities. They are particularly keen to increase the visibility in our project of people who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+ or play parasports.

This year the Barefoot Man team also made a documentary film about the different experiences of men and women at the 2024 World Naked Bike Ride in London.

Angus says this new association is important for the future of the project:
The big thing for us in 2025 has come out of something that happened back in June. We went along to the World Naked Bike Ride in London. I was excited about this idea that men would be cycling down the street naked in a world where years ago you didn't see naked men. You only saw naked women because the people who ran things didn't want to see naked men themselves, and decided that nobody else wanted to either.

The WNBR wanted to highlight the vulnerability of cyclists in traffic through poor urban planning. There was no separation of cycle lanes from roadways, which meant that the people in big metal cases, like buses and taxis and cars, were always going to win in any altercation with a bicycle. Nudity was a way of highlighting the vulnerability of the human body in current urban planning. It was very specific and a brilliant way of doing it. We got in touch with WNBR and said there were so many parallels to what we were both doing. We would like to make a documentary about it, and they agreed.

They did say, you know, the only thing we are concerned about is that you're called Barefoot Man. We don't want to be gendered. We want to be inclusive. I said, I promise you, we will not focus only on the men. And the irony was that although it hadn't been my plan, we ended up focusing very much on the women, because the women's experience at WNBR is so radically different from the men. They are so much more aggressively perved over and objectified by others.

Through that experience has come a whole plan for World Naked Bike Ride 2025 in London, and we hope a model for every World Naked Bike Ride around the world. We are going to get some hot sportsmen who originally took part in our calendar. They will turn up on roller blades for maneuverability and they will be body painted with slogans that may have been decided by gay men or women or painted on them by gay men or women. They are going to be there to raise awareness of men's need to be allies of women by making their bodies vulnerable. These guys will be hot and they are going to be objectified.

They're going to be objectified by gay men. They're going to be objectified by the female tourists. And it's going to be an opportunity for men to develop some sort of empathetic insight into the lives that women lead every day.

So where are you to go from here, what are you going to do for future calendars?
Well, there's a particular version of masculinity and it's a brand of masculinity which has proved very popular with young men today because some young white straight men today feel like they're losing out. They feel like it's a zero-sum game, as black men, and women, and queer people, and non-binary people start having more of the pie. It's like there's less pie for them. It's like no no, that not it - it's just a bigger pie!

You talked earlier about how most of the men in our project are gay now. I want to change that, not because I don't love having gay men in our project, I do, they are more liberated, they're more progressive, they're more able to deal with situations. But, 90% of men identify as straight and these straight men are statistically having less and less. The Warwick Rowers were exceptions because by being in the calendar they actually ended up getting a lot out of the experience, as women were very attracted to the Warwick Rowers. I think they loved the idea that these guys might have a little more understanding of what it was like to be a woman, having people objectifying them. The guys were also more gay friendly and far more vulnerable, more empathetic, more generous.

Masculinity is about light. It's not about hiding in the shadows while others are in the light. It's not about you hiding in the shadows trying to win with tricks. That's not masculine energy. Masculine energy is about sunshine. It's about letting the sunlight into your life. And our future, I think, is about enabling a bigger mass of people outside the queer community, both men and women to understand that what we invented in the Warwick Rowers calendar, the conversation that we began, the perspectives that we encouraged with male nudity are actually massively relevant to what you might call the mainstream population. It's an example of queer culture which used to live in a ghetto of its own, now being able to escape that ghetto and deliver something to broader society. We have enormous relevance, and our relevance comes from the all oppression that we've lived with.

Angus, thank you so much for telling us all about Barefoot Man. Good luck with this year's calendar!

Part 1 of the Pictures and our interview about Barefoot Man

You can purchase a Calendar direct from the Barefoot Man Website for just £21.99. You'll also find loads of other items on their website including photo sets, film downloads, signed limited editions and picture profiles of some of the guys. There's also their coffee table books like WR, Freedom and Manifesto, which feature exclusive pictures from previous years.

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