Strange Windsurfing Gear festival (video)

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puffin

235 posts

puffin

235 posts

13 May 2007 3:14am

Take a look at the clip here...a long time ago in a place very strange, people were windsurfing on bizarre stuff. Who says you can't sail a tree? A xylophone? A hot dog?

peconicpuffin.typepad.com/the_peconic_puffin/2007/05/windsurfing_fre.html

Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

Haircut

QLD, 6491 posts

13 May 2007 9:13am

lol, thats a good one. Looks like Starboard development team footage. The first prototype shown in the clip is now known as the "serenity"

MintoxGT

975 posts

MintoxGT

WA, 975 posts

13 May 2007 11:31am

They all looked like how I felt I looked when I first started this crazy and awsome sport.

Nice find,
Cheers GT

bubs

924 posts

bubs

SA, 924 posts

13 May 2007 1:27pm

I'm not realy sure who i think it was Robbie Naish but he said that you could windsurf on anything flat. Someone took him up on this offer and rocked up with a door. So Robbie ended up windsurfing on a door and proved all you need is something flat as a board.

Bubs

puffin

235 posts

puffin

235 posts

13 May 2007 12:16pm

I know that Naish story...but sailing a door is one thing...how about a tree! The hot dog! I like the sense of humor here...we have Superfreak sails with some interesting designs, but nobody is out there windsurfing on genuinely goofy stuff.

snides8

1731 posts

snides8

WA, 1731 posts

13 May 2007 12:24pm

think it may of been mike waltze sailing the door in the film tradewinds...

rustbucket

NSW

290 posts

rustbucket

NSW, 290 posts

2 Jun 2007 12:28pm

man thats the best video ever..
thanks

puffin

235 posts

puffin

235 posts

3 Jun 2007 2:20am

Glad you liked it! From the same period is the following old-school freestyle demonstration:
peconicpuffin.typepad.com/the_peconic_puffin/2007/05/old_school_free.html

jord070

1109 posts

jord070

WA, 1109 posts

3 Jun 2007 8:28pm

thats the strangest thing i have ever seen

ka43

NSW

3101 posts

ka43

NSW, 3101 posts

4 Jun 2007 11:22am

Obviously you young fella's never learnt on a Windsurfer One Design.
Damn fine fun and a great learning curve. I remember falling of a thousand times, sore knees from climbing back and bloody sore shins from the T piece uni coming out of the board. LG

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