His YouTube channel is pretty good too. Hope they gain some traction again in the PWA with him involved.

Not sure he is the righgg guy for the job. My wife won't watch his videos because he is always whining about something... PWA president needs to be someone everyone else can go to with their whines.

Shifu said..

jdfoils said..
Not sure he is the righgg guy for the job. My wife won't watch his videos because he is always whining about something... PWA president needs to be someone everyone else can go to with their whines.

I've never thought he was especially whiny.

Yeah, me either.

Nico dropped a few bombs in his latest vid suggesting he is keen to fix cracks in the pwa. I wonder if it's a fin v foil thing

X training clips are online and it looks .... SICK!!!!!

there are also some shorts online but I think it's from the same day

Gestalt said..
X training clips are online and it looks .... SICK!!!!!

I'm reserving judgement until it actually happens.
Sotovento fin slalom racing doesnt need any added extras. Maybe the 6 bouy with a couple of short legs to add some extra gybing skills to the racing would be good.
If they race at Pozo, they could make the normal format more interesting by clipping the edge of the wave area by putting gybe bouys in the area to include some sailing over swell.
The jump over a sausage is a recipe for injuries and broken kit. The sausage needs to be 50m long to give the sailors some room if all 8 hit it arrive at once.

I'm definitely in the "this is the best idea ever" camp. Predicting this is gonna make foiling look boring and get more sponsors into the sport.

Gestalt said..

last season had some killer fin races

You mean in some heats people sailed with fins. Foils dominated the results.

Shifu said..
I've always though obstacle jumping was a bit silly for serious racing, it throwing a big element of luck into proceedings, but the actual sailors seem to love the idea.

Others might disagree