see!! they 've finally found a solution not to annoy everybody!!!
www.powerkiters.co.uk/g1/gallery/kitesurfing/Picture_196http://www.powerkiters.co.uk/g1/gallery/kitesurfing/Picture_189
(there you go, extracted from a thread on the kite side!!!)
Man that's dangerous!
He's boosting big-time and just downwind from him is a fleet of beach umbrellas.
Reminds me of another stupid similar thing some cretin made as a windsurfing stimulator that was in SOS eons ago. It was a board on a big spring that wobbled around while you held onto a boom I think it was a joke
The pic shows a pretty good simulation of real kitesurfing I thought.
In the foreground of the pic, the Kite-dude is boosting huge off a grain of sand in the pus wind; while just downwind, a fleet of Umbrella-dudes(which reminds Kite-dude of a bunch of kook windsurfers) are chugging upwind pretending they are happily planing.
Kite-dude stomps on the handle-bar and navigates over and around the hazard completing a 'deadman' at the same time by hanging upside-down off the pulley-frame with his board. Killer!
Then he sticks the landing on a smooth patch of water and instantly sinks!
well yeah waveslave! pretty extreme hey!!!
Although now I am wondering whether extreme kiters like this might not get in trouble with the kids at the playground, if they start kicking them off their swings.
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Originally posted by waveslave
hello chinook,
The joke went up in smoke.
Hardie,
The joke that I was referring to was the windsurfing simulator that was in use at SOS many years ago.
SOS caught fire one year and the simulator went to the big windsurf shop in the sky.
Rest in pieces, stimulator.
Mr Slave, what hardie referred to was your joke in poor taste about the fire that swept through the best windsurf (and kitesurf I might add) shop in WA. One which gives no bullsh!t advice and good prices to boot and attracts more O/S business than all the others. And we almost lost it in an unfortunate fire (and many ppl lost a bit of cashola for their consignment boards too BTW). So yeah, your "joke" was not funny. I'd say hardie just said what most other ppl on this forum thought.... your "joke" was sh!t. This message brought to u by Friends of S.O.S
Oh and PS for the ignorant folk: it was common in days gone by (when beginner boards were skinny and unstable) to have an old board mounted on a platform with a few springs to use as a trainer on dry land. It helped beginners greatly to be able to practice rig movements on such a device.
OH no. I didn't realise the stimulator had died!!!!
I have such fond memories of swinging madly around on it in slave's back yard.
Yes that's right slave was this baby's father.
And no Mark it wasn't an ordinary old simulator, (couldn't learn sail control on it) it definately had 2 "ts", was a stimulator.
Alass poor stimulator.
Hello Mark,
The stimulator was designed to be a device to assist in the selling process of boards;
rather than as a windsurfing simulator as such.
It became a windsurf shop party-trick tool and a bit of a joke really.
Any board could be attached to the padded cradle and the customer could get a 'feel' for the board on dry land.
The stimulator rig could also be adjusted along the centreline(n-s) so the rig was correctly located when the rider was in the footstraps.
The rig was attached to a mega fat uni-joint(100mm dia) and you could lean back hanging off the boom and be suspended.
Felt just like the wind in your sail not.
Anyway, the cradle rotated 360 deg and moved to and fro due to a huge spring mounted to a bearing.
The whole thing sat on a very stable base and your mates could spin you till you were dizzy and vomiting.
It ended up being a white elephant and another failed scheme but it did actually work.
It went to a heavenly place(the dump) but the spirit lives on.
Sorry about my cretin comment earlier waveslave didn't realize the inventer was a forum user
