Who plays chase the dinosaur game?

Today was pretty average conditions. There was a few pole dancers mowing backwards and forwards. I decided it was my duty to burn them off going faster and more upwind than them.....

Then after I had out sped and upwinded them I laid down a sweet jump to rub salt into their 2 dimensional mowing wounds.

Hehe...

^^^^ really? I visit the windsurfers at Green Point, Ricketts and Point Ormond all the time. It's fun and they're generally decent people. They're nice and slow and all fall off when they try to gybe. Some years ago some tosser did a jump and sprayed me but generally they're ok. The crew at Ricketts are generally better when the wind is honking.

The wind shadow in a northerly at Green Point is particularly entertaining. The sailboards wobble and fall but the kite flies above it. Getting too close in at Elwood can be a bit fraught. The turbulence knocks the kite around a bit.

Windsurfers could probably keep up with speed and angle if they tried. Most don't. In my windsurfing days I would do coast runs and stop in at each beach to see what was happening. I still do that on kite gear. Even most kiteboarders don't use the upwind potential of their gear.

we don't have this problem on the northern beaches in Sydney , lucky to get more than 3 or 4 wind surfers around here .

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Gorgo said..

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Sorry Gorgo, your point is ? windsurfers are generally decent people. So are Syrians

My point is there is no dividing line and we can, and do, ride wherever we want to. I got charged, once (maybe gybed in front of once too). In general they can't keep up so they can only charge me if I let them.

Yep, that's what I like about the kite, upwind, air and freedom. almost feel like a tosser when you cut the windsurfers up but they have a choice too!!

i just quitly go upwind of them a fair distance and drop my kite allllll the way down to just above the water and follow them useing the kite to block ALL there wind. then they randomly out of nowhere the wind stops so they fall back onto themselves into the water and go WTF today strangest thing happened!! the wind just stopped all of a sudden out of nowhere hahahahaha use to only do this to friends but im finding it hard not to to the general public aswell... they never once figure it out untill i told them

Just push them into extinction!

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Underoath said..
Just push them into extinction!

I thought it had already happened??????
The last old die hard local poledancer here has been kiteing now for months, after being a "sailor" his whole life now says he would never be restricted by a boat and sail ever again. He cant believe how much more unrestricted and maneuverable kiteing is to him.
Has given him a new buzz in life like he is a teenager again. His enthusiasm is awesome to see.

Plummet the Plums duty to be a Plum.

I have never seen an instance when a pole dancer goes upwind better than me. Not once. Not ever.

I have never seen an instance when a twin tip tea bagger goes upwind better than me. Not once. Not ever.

And I'm a far cry from the better windsurfers too.

Looks like a couple of the silly old dinosaurs took your bait plum. lol.

Actually I didn't even consider poleys would be on the kite page. What are they doing here? They must come to be trolled?
I never go to the pole page. If I do by accident I scream and exit out asafp.

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JKimbler said..
Dumbest thing I've read today and that includes several posts about Donald Trump and Monica Lewinsky's ex boyfriend's wife... I go on here because I sail and kite, did you know you could do both?

AGREED I don't windsurf but its certainly harder technically than kiting and looks way better at Jaws/Big Margs etc than little guys holding kites. Seems there is some trolling going on

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cauncy said..
On the flat generally poleys get the nod on a par skill wise, it's when there's good swell their progressions halted heading out, upwind IMHO is where kiters have the upper hand

Agreed, their upwind ability is not very efficient, thats why the have to head out to the horizon to get to back to the take off spot taking a lot of time, while the kiters have cut straight up wind back to the start of the wave, caught 3 more, by the time they return from whale watching.lol
Thats why if they are on a swell, even if I have right of way, I'll pull off it and let the poor bugger have it, otherwise he is up for another long journey out without even getting a wave. No polers left here now though.

And yeah, in a big good swell they can go ok, as long as there is a deep channel so they can actually get out, otherwise they struggle big time getting smashed trying to get past the breakers and getting washed back in...... fun to watch though.
I think thats the main reason all the polers that have been dancing for 20 years at our local, now all kite.

Great to see so many open minds......


I'm actually considering getting into windsurfing (on a SUP). What size sail should I get for my 9'6 - I want to use it in smallish surf in light winds - eg 10 - 15 knots.

The idea is I can SUP surf when there is not too much wind, or it's offshore, I can windSUP when it's light winds, and I can kite when its more than 18 knots.

Can any windsurfers reading this thread give me some advice on what size/ style sail I'd be after?



To all the rest of you, try broadening your horizons, you'll have more fun

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SavIb said..
If you can smoke one, off the wind plums I'm all ears.... Maybe you have a special speed mutant to take care of business?

A speed mutant.... now that's a good idea!... No. I have no such location locally for offwind flatwater speed runs.

The closest I get to that scenario is when I step off the water and onto the land into my kitebuggy. The kitebuggy smokes the hell out of the land equivalent of a windsurfer a blocart.