How we got our name... Now that's a pretty cool story.
Our very first production was the Billabong / Country Feeling Surf Classic in Jeffreys Bay in 1994. I was a Final Controller for M-Net at the time and somehow convinced Hunter's Gold to sponsor the costs of the TV production. Russel McMillan was the then CEO of Supersport and for even more inexplicable reasons he okayed the airtime and let this 'Never-before-produced-a-frame-of-video-greenhorn' lose on the world of TV production. So I got a crew of cameramen, audio guys and presenters stroke commentators together.
We would record the action on two cameras with commentary by Daren Scott and various experts (the likes of Rabbit Bartholomew being one) Live on camera 1. This whole set-up required some rigging as we also played in slomo's for the commentators to voice.
So the day before the contest started we finished the rig and decided to have a Welcome-Braai for everybody... Why? I don't know. It was the day before we started what's been my dream for as long as I've been working in television... My Own production! And we throw a party! Bad idea...
The party soon grew out of any semblance of a normal Braai. It wasn't only the TV crew coming either. News of this Never-to-be-missed event spread quickly and other guests from the contest, including Tony Blewitt and his 5FM crew, started pitching up bearing (mostly Alcoholic) gifts.
The Braai portion of the evening was dealt with soon enough and then the Partying started! Again, I should've stopped it. Seeing that the call-time for day 1 of my dream was 05:30. But, I didn't, and before we knew it, we were embroiled in some weird drinking game. I think it might have been Darren who invented it.
It consisted of us sitting in a circle around a table and having to answer questions in turn. Get it wrong and you had to down some concoction (mostly tequila) from a shot-glass. This was all good and well until we realized that some of our party were giving the wrong answers on purpose, just to get to the shot! Typical behavior for TV and Radio 'professionals' . So a more 'cruel' punishment for stupidity or uninformdness had to be divised.
Here I have to digress a bit. I have, as all who know me well, an addictive personality. Now, one of my addictions are sweets. Any sweets. Chocolates, suckers, mints, Sugus, You name it. One of my all-time favorites however is salty Dutch licorice.
For this shoot Debbie packed an assortment of tooth decay as well as a jar of salty licorice. Said Dutch treats were in the shape of a foot and about the size of Dierhof (Camera 2 man's) thumb.
Back to the game. As everybody, bar me of course, couldn't stand the Dubbelle Zoute Feet, this was added to the shot as punishment for a bad education, or upbringing, or both. 　
So the game was on, and every time a mistake was made (definitely not on purpose anymore) a chanting of B L A C K F O O T, B L A C K F O O T would ensue to egg the by now, more and more rowdy, but miserable-in-defeat subject of Dutch cruelty on!

Hence the name Blackfoot. Only later did we discover that there used to be a tribe of Blackfoot Indians in North America and so adopted our Dancing Indian logo, designed by the very man (Martin Bakker) that got me into surfing in the first place and then connected me with Billabong to start me off in Television Production. Kudos to you brother! His link is on our home page, so go check it out! Great art!

The contest went well with Epic waves and the Production went (mostly) smoothly. So smoothly in fact, that it won the ASP Media Award for 1994! Dunno how.