Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Sandboarding … Hmmm whats up with Footboarding! Oh ya, I am writing this for all the people, who didn’t visit India or some of the countries where footboarding is very usual. Of course, don’t carry on with this statement. You can’t find footboarding in all over India.
In one of the discussion with my friends @ UK, we were discussing about the Indian Traffics. I almost forgot to tell an existing activity … Foot Boarding. If you ask any of the College student or ex-college student the question … What is fun thing you can think when it comes to Bus? Everyone would say in chorus, all about the foot boarding. It is as equally fun as the risk involved in it. Ok, enough of suspense; lets know what exactly it is and how to master it.
Usually, most of the regular buses don’t have any doors at passenger entry & exit. The youth usually hang over at the foot steps of the bus. Sometimes, people have to do because of the over crowd in the bus. Generally, you can find almost 6 to 7 foot boarders on each doors in a very crowded buses, literally, standing on the thumb finger of one of their legs and one arm holding part of the bus (Sometimes, you have to manage with just fingers of your one hand). Along with fun & heroism, comes a great responsibility – withstanding the weights of the people standing in the stair case while the bus is turning. The real experts – the gods of foot boarding … you can find them hanging over the windows of the bus with their legs hanging over in the air. You can see them hanging as long they want and if they feel boring and can’t able to place a finger of their legs in the foot board, they always opt for climbing over the window. 
Oh ya, I have seen many experts do that. Of course, you would get scolding for doing that from the public.
Now, it is time to get expertise on foot boarding. To be a good foot boarder, you gotta be a person with good arm strength & running stamina. It’s all about getting into a running bus and getting down from a running bus safely. When the bus starts from the bus stop, you should start running along with bus. After reaching few distances, try to hold a bus comfortably and then jump into the bus. The experts would try to place the tip of legs very firmly. Anyways, you would find people giving you space to keep your foot and if you slipping off, they would tend to pull you in with scolding. Well, scolding is part of the learning. So, no worries! Amateur should try with slow speed and empty buses. They can try get into the bus or get down from the bus when the bus is moving very slowing. With experience, they can try with high speed and crowded buses.
So, to state,
“Experience is directly proportional to Speed of the bus & Crowd in the foot board.”
Some simple tips which you gotta keep in mind, while getting down from the bus, run along with bus till you can control your speed and slow down. Don’t keep your legs stiff as it would hurt you. Be very careful when you try the front door as they are very risky when compare to back door. Another fact you got to calculate is the height of the first foot board from the ground level. There can be some bus with high and some with low foot boards. If it’s high foot board, you gotta build some air while you jump into the bus.
You might be thinking that why one should try these if there is so much of risk involved. Answer is simple - Fun, Heroism, Grab very quick attention of crowd and of course Gurls 
Com’on every college goer would like to grab attention of girls.
Behind the scene, the credits go to the bus driver. He has to drive very carefully as he has to keep the foot boarders in mind while driving closely to some other vehicles.
However, Governments are playing their roles by instructing how dangerous it is to indulge in these activities. They have been introducing more buses on the busy tracks and also they are introducing closed buses.
As said before, be careful. Safety First, Fun Next. If you can’t expertise, enjoy by watching others do the tricks!!