I was out in glorious sun today minding my own buisiness in 5 to 10 kts on my Mistral One Design , 9.4
Then out of nowhere the wind increased to 15 to 20 kts . So instead of changing boards I just slid mast back all the way and no CB . It was awesome fun until the swell grew to 1.5 m and started to get airborne . It's fun in a strange way fanging a freight train like a small board .
My question is , should I be doing this or am I going to break something .? The 40 cm glass US box fin was on my mind as well as the noise the whole thing was making smashing over the water .
Ps : I'm not light .

Answer yes you can jump but how you land! Bend your knees and absorb chop.
Forward looping is hard on your board, boom or body.
Creased bottom, bent boom, black eye and broken nose. Most landings ok!

What's all this talk about looping ?
Thats not intentionally going to happen .
It just feels and sounds like I'm killing it . It handles it OK , it's just hard work strengthening it up when it gets out of line .
I do get a chuckle trying to ride the swell back in , it's like surfing a filing cabinet

In an old Neil prude video I think Naish loops one

Ben1973 said..
In an old Neil prude video I think Naish loops one

Paducah said..

Ben1973 said..
In an old Neil prude video I think Naish loops one

I believe based on the footstrap placement and tail shape (winged squaretail) this would be an 86-88 Mistral Equipe XR LCS rather than the 1989-1993 Equipe. I say that not to diminish the achievement just to confirm it is not the Mistral One Design nor the later Equipe(s).