A race sail would give you further lift once you layed it over horizontal

Jonas Ceballos gets pretty high

http://www.continentseven.com/windsurfmove167.html

That, I think, is just a fast wave board, i.e with a slalom rocker rather than Evo style with lots of tail rocker. They say a powerful sail is best too. Sailworks claim their Hucker is a you beaut jumper. I guess it's a lot like a Naish Force or an NP Alpha or a Gastra Poison.

You're pushing poo with a pointy stick though if you think you are going to beat a kite for altitude. Haven't you seen the Top Hat video?

He should try and sheet in.

Yeah those Naish jumps from RIP were exactly what I was thinking when reading through this.

You can use slalom boards but as they are constructed as light as possible the coming back down side of things may not give longevity to the board.

Trying to remember the article on Dale Cook, I pretty certain he has custom boards made for him which were based on slalom designs but highly reinforced, I'm pretty certain he said they were generally heavier than of the shelf boards due to the extra strength built in to handle the landings (I'll try and find the page)

The other alternative is something like the freestyle waves which have a good turn of pace (some guys use them for blasting) and are designed for jumping, chuck a decent fin in it and it'll go quicker.

Wave shape is important no? You'd want a wave that is spilling and ramp-like, not pitching and round:



So then you'd need to just be going as fast as possible. I'm going to say slalom gear. I think on "The Windsurfing Movie" there are some helicopter shots of Naish flying on some slalom gear, yes?

The fastest slalom board you can get your hands on, wide tail would be good as it won't punch through the top of the lip early, the most verticle wave possible. Construction, you don't really care about the landing do you ? or control in the air ?
Don't you just want to hit the most verticle ramp at the highest speed and just go for pure height, don't worry about the landing or handling or any other damage. Go the height.

Hey can we have a GPS height challenge ? Do GPS measure height ?

Rider5 said...

The fastest slalom board you can get your hands on, wide tail would be good as it won't punch through the top of the lip early, the most verticle wave possible. Construction, you don't really care about the landing do you ? or control in the air ?
Don't you just want to hit the most verticle ramp at the highest speed and just go for pure height, don't worry about the landing or handling or any other damage. Go the height.

Hey can we have a GPS height challenge ? Do GPS measure height ?

i requested this back when the gps thing kicked off when there was talk of trying to get the wave guys involved.

other than some fairly blunt responses i was told that gps devices couldn't accurately measure height due to the curve of the earth or something in relation to the satelites or something.

my head hurts.

maybe this is not an issue now with the new gps devices.