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How much fun can you have without real waves

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Created by grumplestiltskin > 9 months ago, 28 Feb 2007
grumplestiltskin
WA, 2331 posts
28 Feb 2007 11:02AM
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This place would have to be some fun.




How awesome are those big floaty jumps.

swoosh
QLD, 1928 posts
28 Feb 2007 12:25PM
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that guy with the yellow sail and yellow board with flames... huge floaty airs.

hardie
WA, 4129 posts
28 Feb 2007 11:43AM
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Windsurfing video?................... All I can think of is that chick slowly peeling off her white mini skirt revealing those pink.....oops......... I just need to excuse myself for about 3 minutes.....

Leech
WA, 1933 posts
28 Feb 2007 12:05PM
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quote:
Originally posted by swoosh

that guy with the yellow sail and yellow board with flames... huge floaty airs.




That's Dale Cook. He jumps OVER PEOPLE!!!

more on him here: http://www.windsurfingradio.com/digest/v1.3/dale.html

elmo
WA, 8868 posts
28 Feb 2007 12:36PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Leech

quote:
Originally posted by swoosh

that guy with the yellow sail and yellow board with flames... huge floaty airs.




That's Dale Cook. He jumps OVER PEOPLE!!!

more on him here: http://www.windsurfingradio.com/digest/v1.3/dale.html



Great interview, interesting reading about his worst prang, I've hit the shore flat out, it hurts, to sail 10' onto it after a jump is insanity

Leech
WA, 1933 posts
28 Feb 2007 4:39PM
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You should write him and let him know that you invented the move!

CJW
NSW, 1726 posts
28 Feb 2007 7:16PM
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Some of that 'chop' is 3/4 mast high, real waves no...normal lake sailing...no :D

elmo
WA, 8868 posts
28 Feb 2007 5:18PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Leech

if you haven't had enough,

http://www.sailworks.com/06/video/video.cfm



Thank you very much for that
Very interesting watching his sail technique, he's really got it's use as a wing perfected.

Way Cool

garynoel
WA, 260 posts
28 Feb 2007 6:06PM
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This place looks a bit lumpy.

Mark _australia
WA, 23435 posts
28 Feb 2007 7:51PM
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I haven't watched the link as I'm on slowband so if I can't download it to watch later it sh!ts me IE youtube.

Interesting concept "how much fun can you have without real waves".

Now that I sail real DTL conditions most of the time, the bigger days are a pain sometimes. That is, it is hard to get out and one good wave is awesome but when it is mast hi and REALLY hollow with no channel to get out.... and it is 50m from shore.... it can be scary. Sometimes instead of one good wave in a sesh, and the rest of the time swimming just trying to get out (when it is big DTL)....sometimes you'd rather have a sail where you just pull big air lots and if you crash it doesn't matter. When it is big DTL for a few days you start to think that 30kn at crazy waves when it is 6ft faces is more fun. You get a better workout too cos u can sail for 2 or 3 hrs not 45min. And it is not a guaranteed busted mast when you have a minor stuffup!!!!!

Leech
WA, 1933 posts
28 Feb 2007 8:09PM
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surely all the swimming would be a better workout!?

Mark _australia
WA, 23435 posts
28 Feb 2007 8:19PM
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Not when you have almost drowned... in a rip dragging you out and 15ft sets endlessly pushing u in.... so u go nowhere.....and your gear 200m away. Then you look forward to crahs n burn sailing where you can really go for sik sh!t and it doesn't matter if you prang.

Buuuuttttt I just realised how bad my post sounded.... like a guy who just won lotto saying "oh 2mil would have been better than 1mil". I do not regret living in one of the best locations on the planet. Not at all I just meant that now and then something different is kewwwl so I look forward to a sail at Crazies in winter each year

grumplestiltskin
WA, 2331 posts
28 Feb 2007 8:20PM
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Mark, I feel for you, no really, DTL all the time, must be hell

BTW I lifted this info from the WestOzWind site, might help with the vids.

If you have been under a rock, you might not have seen that the PWA just scored epic conditions in Sal for their first wave comp of the season (Lucky Buggers).
Check the PWA website below
www.pwaworldtour.com/index.php?id=38&tx_pwaevent_pi1[showUid]=120&cHash=a3fca74615 for great video footage.
If you want to download it and watch later(especially if you have a low bandwidth connection) then get Firefox
www.getfirefox.com/
Simply a better browser Exclamation
Get the DownloadHelper plugin
Get the Wimpy player so you can watch them whenever you want.
www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html

Harrow
NSW, 4521 posts
28 Feb 2007 11:31PM
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Looks just like Botany Bay in a 40 knot Southerly, er, expect for the, uh, guys doing the loops.

Greenroom
WA, 7608 posts
28 Feb 2007 10:32PM
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quote:
Originally posted by hardie

Windsurfing video?................... All I can think of is that chick slowly peeling off her white mini skirt revealing those pink.....oops......... I just need to excuse myself for about 3 minutes.....


You must be in heaven Hard's. According to the time of your post you were able to have a w.a.n.k. mid morning in the middle of the week! Oh I envy you If I was to do that I would have to crouch low in a trench trying to avoid my work mates



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