Depends on the jump Mr Wind
a backloop ideally requires a vertical ramp as I said.... doesn't matter if you do hit that at 80kpg, the nose of the board will not be initiated into a vertical and backwards arc
You can do a backie off that ramp but only just and you won't have enough time to then initiate a second rotation in the opposite direction.
It is nothing like kiting where the lift means you have time to do such things and the board is so light you can just move it with your feet, and even more importantly you are not rotating all the gear when kiting, you are just moving yourself and the board.
Plus height and speed does not mean you'll always "land it clean" or plane out of it. With windsurfing the forward momentum and sail power is converted into rotation, so in soem moves (particularly backwards rotations) the landing is a vertical drop. Again, because you don't have constant lift or power thru all moves like kiting does.
If you windsurfed you'd get it (hard to explain).
As I've said b4, I think the analogy is that in kiting you're the passenger and in windsurfing you're the pilot.
Cool,ok,
So cant get vertical and rotate unless hitting a vertical ram,like a snow ski freestyle jump, that sends you up pretty much upsidedown as you hit it,,if you like it or not.Found that out in Canada
Really you can't have an opinion on which is better unless you've become proficient at both.
I'm proficient in one, but getting better at the other... and all i can say is that they're different.
Full respect to Boujmaa, I don't even have the bollocks to go for a little girly forward, let alone a psycho death-move like he's trying.
Mr Hairdresser
3 separate witnesses with different vantage points and a frame of reference (guy sailing next to me) called it as triple mast hi
So there
That excerpt from the Jason video is so funny though, they call it a BS estimate back then, but now it is oh so easily do-able for the pro's with our new light gear
