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Cribby vs Extreme 40's

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Created by ejmack > 9 months ago, 23 Aug 2011
ejmack
VIC, 1308 posts
23 Aug 2011 4:17PM
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Sorry if it's already been posted. Would be nice to see similar events/etc. in Australia. Seems to draw a crowd!

oldie
VIC, 356 posts
24 Aug 2011 10:19AM
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Where were the raceboarders? Wimps

NR
WA, 516 posts
24 Aug 2011 12:56PM
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I may of been missing something. To me it look like a crowd turned out to watch some yaucht sailing, which looked pretty cool. Then guy crib cut a video of that, and various gopro mount shots of him sailing, on the beach,and shots of his feet, and then a few shots of him hooning through the race course whilst the boats doing their own thing or waiting for a race to start ??????

dinsdale
WA, 1227 posts
24 Aug 2011 1:56PM
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NR said...
I may of been missing something. To me it look like a crowd turned out to watch some yaucht sailing, which looked pretty cool. Then guy crib cut a video of that, and various gopro mount shots of him sailing, on the beach,and shots of his feet, and then a few shots of him hooning through the race course whilst the boats doing their own thing or waiting for a race to start ??????

Phew!! Glad someone else said it. I wondered what I was missing .

ejmack
VIC, 1308 posts
24 Aug 2011 4:42PM
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Bit more here for those interested...

www.guycribb.com/windsurfing_technique_holiday0005v01news515.htm

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
24 Aug 2011 5:00PM
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Could be mistaken but that is the first video I've ever seen of Guy Cribb and the first thing that came to mind was "what a prat".

barn
WA, 2960 posts
24 Aug 2011 3:29PM
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^ is a fellow poster/reader of Seabreeze..

Al Planet
TAS, 1546 posts
24 Aug 2011 6:21PM
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Seems to be a great way to give windsurfing a higher profile at a big event with lots of spectators.

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
24 Aug 2011 8:10PM
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barn said...

^ is a fellow poster/reader of Seabreeze..




Well I guess I won't be getting any xmas cards from him in the future.

swoosh
QLD, 1927 posts
24 Aug 2011 9:31PM
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I wonder how windsurfers would do vs an AC45. I reckon especially in lightwinds the AC45 would torch anything, not sure about the windier days thou.

Aus06
SA, 235 posts
25 Aug 2011 9:46AM
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Nice little vid, but all I could think of was 'boy band'?

guycribb
WA, 8 posts
25 Aug 2011 11:03PM
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dinsdale said...

NR said...
I may of been missing something. To me it look like a crowd turned out to watch some yaucht sailing, which looked pretty cool. Then guy crib cut a video of that, and various gopro mount shots of him sailing, on the beach,and shots of his feet, and then a few shots of him hooning through the race course whilst the boats doing their own thing or waiting for a race to start ??????

Phew!! Glad someone else said it. I wondered what I was missing .



Yeah you're right it was basically just that- promoting windsurfing to the sailing crowd. But we also held drag races each day against the X40s, so had some official racing between us which went down very well with the Extreme Sailing Series organisers/ spectators.

This is what the ESS put online-


As for the 'what a prat comment' love it, makes a change from some of the stuff I get called from you Aussies. G

AUS02
TAS, 1995 posts
26 Aug 2011 8:56PM
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Great stuff ...

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
26 Aug 2011 9:35PM
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I apologise for my immature and unwarranted comment above and agree with Al planet that it was a great platform to expose a crowd to windsurfing.

[I would delete it but it is not allowing me to do so?????]

fitz66
QLD, 575 posts
28 Aug 2011 8:16AM
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Hey sausage, in the **** again mate lol, you should watch some of GCs vids not prat like at all ha ha. Intuition is great. P.s. Is there anything Red Bull aren't involved with?

Old Salty
VIC, 1271 posts
28 Aug 2011 9:26AM
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All I can say is the Extreme Sailing Series with the X40's is a brilliant concept that takes the "Boring " concept out of sailing and the match racing with Cribby on a windsurfer is a great showcase for our sport. Should be more of it. I like Cribby's concept of changing the course so there is more opportunity for both craft to cross each others path with the chance of carnage. Brave man Mr. Cribb

Wet Willy
TAS, 2316 posts
29 Aug 2011 1:11AM
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Great stuff! My reaction, though, was to ask: what are all those people doing sitting on the beach, just watching? It's windy, they should be out on the water!

da vecta
QLD, 2514 posts
29 Aug 2011 11:13AM
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If anything positive was to come out of all this would be if Cribby managed to get the phone number of the chick hosting it.

ratz
WA, 473 posts
29 Aug 2011 12:22PM
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looking very rock star there guy. when you come out to oz in january are you going to be running any slalom/gybe clinics would be very interested in brushing up on my gybe skills - or lack of i should say.

MikeyS
VIC, 1506 posts
29 Aug 2011 3:07PM
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sausage said...

Could be mistaken but that is the first video I've ever seen of Guy Cribb and the first thing that came to mind was "what a prat".


And I'm sure you thought the same thing when you first saw a video of that Naish fella.

The speed factor was the thing that first attracted me to this sport decades ago. Maybe I'm shallow or have a short attention span, but the old style America's Cup, when they didn't wear helmets, was kind of, er, somnulent. It was only ever worth watching if it got over 15 kts.
These Extreme 40's, 49ers, AC45's are basically doing in front of crowds what we've been doing for years pretty much out of the public eye, powering up and cranking. Mr Cribb's appearance ain't a bad reminder of what the punters on the sidelines can get into for a few thousand bucks (and some time on the water) compared to hundreds of thousands. And mixing it with the big boys I think gives us a little more credibility as a real sailing discipline.
Still can't work out how one guy (no pun intended) needs, what, 8 sq. metres?, while 4 guys need 100+.

evlPanda
NSW, 9202 posts
29 Aug 2011 4:39PM
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fitz66 said...

Hey sausage, in the **** again mate lol, you should watch some of GCs vids not prat like at all ha ha. Intuition is great. P.s. Is there anything Red Bull aren't involved with?


they even have a car in Gran Turismo that's, hypothetically, the fastest race car ever/unlimited.

Have taken a Red Bull when I've had a cold coming on four times now. Runny nose, really tired, mild fever etc. etc.

Stopped four times in a row now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine

sboardcrazy
NSW, 8023 posts
29 Aug 2011 6:22PM
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fitz66 said...

Hey sausage, in the **** again mate lol, you should watch some of GCs vids not prat like at all ha ha. Intuition is great. P.s. Is there anything Red Bull aren't involved with?


His gybing video is slowly transforming my gybing ( slowly due to my fault not the videos..)

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
29 Aug 2011 7:04PM
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evlPanda said...


Have taken a Red Bull when I've had a cold coming on four times now. Runny nose, really tired, mild fever etc. etc.

Stopped four times in a row now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine



It tastes like medicine so that is fair enough.



fibersnap
52 posts
30 Aug 2011 4:41AM
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sboardcrazy said...

fitz66 said...

Hey sausage, in the **** again mate lol, you should watch some of GCs vids not prat like at all ha ha. Intuition is great. P.s. Is there anything Red Bull aren't involved with?


His gybing video is slowly transforming my gybing ( slowly due to my fault not the videos..)


Another thumbs up for Cribb's jibe video - boom shaka!

fitz66
QLD, 575 posts
30 Aug 2011 7:55PM
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Vodka goes well with Red bull also Panda, cure anything.



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