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It's 2011.
I love how kite-boarding has soared to popularity. If you said in 1985, hey let's surf behind a kite - people would laugh at you. (Have kite-boarded - but love windsurfing)
I love Jet skis (though most who don't own or have ridden one hate them) In the early 2000's they got ultra fast and became useful.
I know I can buy a semi personal or full-on Submarine too.
OK, I'll start with...
I have a few Radio Control Helicopters. Some are easy to fly, ther rest are amazingly complex. $$$ spent.... Trex 600ESP
To be honest I'm happy with windsurfing, it gives me more than enough enjoyment and I haven't mastered near enough tricks to consider my journey complete...it never will be: it's an endless pursuit.
While your idea about the fan powered drone thing instead of a kite sounds cool I don't see it happening in the near future, imagine that falling on your head. I would also doubt the popularity of personal submarines, much like a jet ski, cool fun for 10 minutes then you are pretty much bored; their use in stuff like marine research aside (cheaper etc).
Instead of more water sports i'm keen to see what the future will bring in terms of windsurfing innovation, I mean how good are the sails and boards these days! Compared to 10 years ago it's night and day, have we reached the pinnacle of development or are things just going to keep getting better?
You are right.
Now that the New Year's alchohol has worn off, There is nothing I can imagine that is better than all the aspects that come with Windsurfing.....
I wasn't actually taking the piss. I love windsurfing and it's challenges. (once you can consistently gybe in 30+knts and float the wind the world is your oyster!)
When I made this post I was excess 0.05. Sorry to all. My mind got caught away in the possible future of watersports. I got carried away and should enjoy "now" better.
Still, maybe we can invent something new... like a hydrophobic surfboard that is so water repellent it creates thrust just from being on the wrong angle to water.
Actually the mind stimulant is still prob excess 0.05, butttt....
Water drains a certain direction in the northern hemisphere as opposed to the southern hemisphere... The Coriolis effect - maybe. Anti-clockwise or clockwise...
So I heavily modified a 2L coke bottle (drilled a hole in the lid) and let it vortex. It spun a certain way,then I physically rotated the coke bottle to spin the other way. It vortexed for seconds then spun the other way.
It spun the the other way. (I guess the path of least resistance due to EMF or whatever)
My point being, we can spin maybe 1.3L of water in a a Coke Bottle one way but Universal forces take over and spin it the other way. Can we harness this anti-rotational force. I shall be blacked out for the next 6-12hrs - but it seems o make sense rright now. Lets harness the EMF of Eartrh. Hicc-Whopper-Spew-sleep...
I still think that this is the most insane thing any human being has ever done
Ive googled and youtubed heaps of vids like this with the wingsuit and this jump is by far the best
Actually being able to fly within metres of death travelling at high speeds has got to be better than anything on this planet
