Has anyone ever seen a poledancer land a jump over 3 meters??????
Every vid you see of a dancer getting any decent air,they fall out of the sky like an
elephant skydiving.
Dont really see the point of trying to jump if you know there is never any chance of
landing it.A bit like doing a jump on a dirt bike and landing in a lake.
If they do actually land on their board,they sink and fall off.
When they can land and ride away clean and powered up, then I might be impressed,but I cant see the sport progressing to that point when it hasnt progressed at all in the last 10years.
If you put your kite low and don't use it to dangle around like a dope on a rope you would "fall" out of the sky to, like any other boardsport.
Dont get me wrong,I think windsurfing is still an awsome sport in the right conditions.big waves an strong wind! Its def way harder to master than kite surfing and more taxing on the body and takes longer to setup an packdown an you get smashed more but I used to like watching Robby Naish an co goin hard at it an I'm sure you westy boys go smashing it up too just have not seen the evidence on vid yet ??
Got any good links anyone?
RayQ , I can only go by what I see down the beach and on vids.
Please post vid to show me a big jump landing clean and powered.
Maybe some pro's can,but I havnt seen it.
Maybe one of the legendary KOTP???
PS this isnt a troll attempt,
I have been searching the web to find one but havent had any luck.
Is it possable???????
Check out the footage on the wind surf forum of Jaeger Stone.
Awesome in anyone's language.
Jumping on a windsurfer is awesome and takes lots of skill, not like kiting - its too easy to jump/dangle.
There was the world cup held on the Cape Verde Islands a few years ago see if you can find it, or some poley boys can post a link, the guys competing had to give it up after trashing all the gear they had taken along...
kiting is mainly for people who are to sh!t to windsurf or do just about any other boardsport. They find homage in kiting because they can learn to ride in a day, jump in a week, do a fully sick pullup or "ride" a wave in a month... They like it because they can believe they are good at the sport in no time, they can believe they are doing the motions that they think are hard. They write and give useless information on forums after they have been doing the sport for a month because they think they know something. Learning to do a backroll off a diving board would take longer and be harder to achieve than it is kiting.
Who cares if you think windsurfing is gay, at least it's a hell of a lot more legit than kiting will ever be. I would be glad if I was still a poley, at least the fact that it's somewhat hard to learn weeds out some of the complete w@nkers that would otherwise be clogging up the beach. Pitty for them now they just learn to kite instead...
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What's 62.3' in metres?
I am sure it is more than 3.
Even accounting for some strange US measure (I know their pint is not quite a pint), inaccuracies inherent in GPS measurement of levels due to the similarity of satellite height orbits, pessimism in some peoples minds and optimism in others, I would be pretty sure it is more than 3.
Whaaaat KOP has got nearly 8000 hits for his forum, dam I told you guys he was a awesome dude. Is this going to be a sticky forum??
KOP please come back to the windsurf forums it is not the same with out you
