Dug up this beauty from a couple of years ago, filmed on the gold coast.
the opening scene was all helicopter footage and they made a full on windsurfing shop set in the north burleigh surf club for the movie.
This was on TV today, 7two I think. Got a huge surprise when I was flicking channels and saw a teenage girl blasting along!
So I am guessing the kook that had the post jump catapult was you Greeny...
Hmmm and maybe the double for the girl was Lisa G???
I saw that too, i was about to leave to go windsurfing myself when i saw this cool cool chick blasting along the water on TV .
and yes, lisa girle (many times queen mambo) was stunt double for both the star and her mother.
love the one handed lift up of cutter onto the board by lisa
i once new a man who did that, now he only has one arm
Good stuff, thanks for the heads up.
And I thought Disney was all about animated monkeys, how could I be so wrong? :)
This stuff is strong. I just thought I saw you in a Disney movie Greeny. All these years and it's the first time I've seen you sail. That's weirder than her mum and dad floating on the lake there.
What makes me jealous is that Greenie has obviously aged bloody well if he can be a double for a teenage dude from Hollywood.
The teen movie "Wizards of Waverley Place" which was on recently has a cool windsurfing scene in it too.
(Sorry but I don't know how to do youtube links.)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0092220/
The ultimate mainstream windsurfing movie made locally in the eighties, all about an aspiring competitive sailor (Tom "man-from-Snowy-river" Burlinson). I've posted my fave scene from it before, but to recap...
[spoiler alert!]
Hero running late for sailing comp in the final act. With his windsurfer tied on top his kingswood, he charges for the punt; if he misses it he misses the comp. Punt starts to pull away from shore, hero guns it and jumps car to try and make punt. Slow mo' of car gliding (in a kingswood way) thru the air toward the punt. Will he make it?
No, he won't.
Car sinks into water, with distressed onlookers getting worried. Suddenly, out of the water pops the hero on his fully rigged windsurfer and he's sailing off to make the competition.
Well, that's how I recall it anyway. Based on a true story I think...<cough cough>
[edit: looking a bit closer it also had a young Nic Kidman in it, circa "BMX Bandit" era!]
Not to be pedantic but I'm pretty sure it was a Manx beach buggy he drove off the pier with gear on top.
windrider was a classic
it is the best windsurfing movie ever made,
except for the ones greeny was in.
