Has anyone got into windskating here? I'm thinking of knocking up a cheap board to keep me busy when its really light.
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Hi,
I tried on a long skate board that I made ( full carbon resine infusion) with descent trucks( I mean good wheeles and really good steering) and it's wicked!
The freestyle become finally super easy! You need min 5 kts up tu 15 with the same sail between 4 to 5m. You have to get a really damaged boom tho! coz when you fall down it's no more the water! The acceleration is insane and such a big inertia! Really cool but if you want to go for jumping tricks you need a proper mountaing board with straps and tyres to get the 'pop'. Street skates are alright but can be much better! Windskate is great but don't spend to much time on it otherwise you take bad habits and it's hard to catch up with windsurf!
Have fun!
I picked up a windskate board from the beach hire on cable beach in the early 90's and used it for light wind days for many years until my wife sold it in a garage sail. It has fat pneumatic tyres and was mega heavy but was awesome in large carparks (hillarys marina) and on grassed parks with large nambankments. (And was amaaazzzing on the hard sand at cable beach)
I also recall someone in the late 80's early 90's regulalry riding one through the over flowing carpark at pelican point.
I made one too, with a 1.3m long plank of wood and skateboard trucks and monstertruck tyres..
went pretty well at the hilliarys carpark, got up some decent speed until the wheels melted.
Im moving up to karratha so might have to upgrade the board, truck width and tyres. the saltflats would be wicked.. theres some ramps and stuff there too.
anyone done a forward loop? Ha
