Working on an idea for a 'Wave Rally' aka wave slalom event for Geraldton next season. Idea is for an event with the main goals of being fun & using multil-fin wave board & wave sails. If wind is light we could use beginner boards as a novelty.
Curious what the interest in such an idea would be with you guys.
Absolutely loving it! Great concept! Edit great and the added commentary by Benny makes it all the more exiting!
Great job Paul!
Stuff the wave gear. I had a ball last time running the slalom gear through the waves and chasing the swell lines up the coast. Just worried a few by doing 20+minutes runs out to sea, just so fun. Racing in it would be awesome.
Amazing Paul! Yeah def wave gear or maybe just make it open, no gear restrictions and make sure to have the course go through the big breaks so that anyone will be reluctant to jump on slalom gear anyway, unless they like to swim back in ;)
Should be about fun, the less rules the better.
Wave slalom is fun and widens the gear options so don't need dedicated slalom kit to be in the mix. A couple of old wave slalom pics from my archives.
First pics are a wave slalom comp in circa 1983, over 40 years ago - before there was any dedicated slalom gear. (I'm on the cobra sail with homemade board).
Second pic is a wave slalom start at 1986 Rip Curl wave classic, Torquay (I'm Q16, behind Phil McGain and Bruce Wylie on Gaastra sails).
Coincidently, WA-1 is Dave Sheen who is the guy doing the back loop in the Windrider footage that is in the Wave Rally video above.
Great thing with Coro's is there is a pre set course with bouys made up of crazy ass cray pots in the middle of breaks :)
Qld's version would be shark nets !
As long as everyone uses fluro boards sails and wetsuits, and bleaches their hair blond.....can you bleach grey blond???
Today Robby Naish drops a short video of slalom-board jumping.
Would be interesting to also add in a required jump ... though maybe not a trick-jump... could use the Surfr app.
Great idea!
It reminds of the speed contest that you once colud join for 5$ at the same spot with everybody on their wave gear (naturally).
When I was there in 1999 I wondered until 5 minutes before the contest how on earth they were going to measure the speed, that's when I saw the coppers car cruising down the dirt road............