Sad to see someone like aero resort to lying just to try to prove a point, especially because I know him, but he has seemed to be very competitive with me certainly on posts here, and even on the water. Guess when some people are desperate to be right, they will do and say anything, regardless of how it makes them look in the end.
Decided to hide aero's posts, so aero if you continue to disparage me, well you are talking to yourself.
I'm stating my side of this and then I'm done. I'd prefer to be on the water and not talking about this, as we all are here, Sandman included. We love this sport and we get emotional about it.
I had broken a mast while pumping. I had no clue Sandman was even there until he DM'd me later saying that he was right there when it happened. I normally would check and make sure a person is OK if I was that close, especially when not moving fast (uphauling, as he is in the photo below), but this is forgivable and I just chalked it up to the consistently weird behavior here. Or maybe he saw and realized that I was okay. I would've liked someone that close to check at least, but I don't always get what I want and it seems necessary to forgive.
But on here there were repeated angry replies by him to expert and well respected board builders correcting him when he was wrong, responding over and over again how he was muting them, conspiracy theories about non-AFS foils, etc. Just junking up the forum and stuff I could ignore but it did form a pattern.
Regardless, I was just trying to get on and ignore this. Maybe weird, but definitely forgivable or not worth really putting any real thought or emotional stake on.
Then, in a post with a new foiler, he mentioned using a very small wing (670cm2) to make things easier. Seemed like a bad idea to me so I replied that it would be better to downsize sail as going very small on the foil just makes everything faster. Didn't directly criticize Sandman as frankly I know how that would go.
Sandman responded that I "love breaking masts", trying to discredit me when I know for a fact that he was there and saw me break a mast pumping. Kind of a weird thing to insult someone about, but par for the course. Since I happened to have video of this, I recalled this whole circumstance. I got upset about it. I'm not happy that I got upset with it. Maybe this wouldn't have escalated more if I didn't react to him insulting me but I did react. So, Seabreezers, I apologize for getting angry at that.
Then I see he is badmouthing someone on a public forum who I know, when I have seen his bizarre pattern of behavior before. And then he makes up a story like I was trying to race him and catch up. And that same person who he was badmouthing here was the one that actually helped me that same day that Sandman saw firsthand what happened.
Tell me, do you think I would try to race someone, as competitive as I am, who is uphauling his sail? I get it. Sandman doesn't remember the day that well and I don't blame him for that. Memory is not always reliable. But he exaggerate what he has to know is an unclear memory and embellishes to make it sound different. Thankfully, no injuries that day and I hope none of you get hurt foiling. But it does happen. I get the fear. I have it, some days more and others. But you are using your fear and faulty memory and embellishments to put a bad name on other people. This is just not good behavior.
I'm really happy to be done talking about this. I was happy to just ignore this but insulting and dragging someone while hiding behind anonymity is just too irritating to me. I can let insulting me go but the fact that the shop owner had to come here and defend himself says a lot. Especially when the shop owner helped me that day and later on, to discredit me, Sandman insulted me and made up embellishments about it.
That kind of stuff gets to people. I hope you do better Sandman, I really do. I really hope you reflect some on how you appear to other people. I'm no angel. I make mistakes, I get emotional, and I am wrong on things. I try to correct them as soon as I realize. I'm sorry that this escalated and got so ugly, to you and other people. But maybe you will understand why insulting people like you have is so upsetting to others.
Select to expand quoteGasHazard said..
Farking hell you guys really have over reacted to a simple suggestion that a fellow who rents out hazardous stuff should warn the renter. In fact he's crazy not to. He could find himself facing a civil suit if someone injures themself.
From what I can gather from other customers of the windsurfing school who've defended the school on this thread, and from the owners reply on this thread, they do give proper safety instruction. Sandyballs probably missed the safety instructions because he's a know it all who wasn't paying attention because he lives in his own world. He's devoid of logic or common sense.
Select to expand quotephiln said... Sandyballs probably missed the safety instructions because he's a know it all who wasn't paying attention because he lives in his own world .
Was he too busy at the time looking down gorilla taping on shin guards ?
Britt and Karen do more to promote and support the beautiful sport of windsurfing in all its forms *every single day* than S man will ever achieve with a lifetime of his forum drivel.
Select to expand quoteImax1 said..
In my wife's cars user manual, it specifically says not to drink the washer fluid. Lucky I read it, cos sometimes I get thirsty.
Petrol's OK though, right?
