Could be a new freestyle move.

Once at Pozo, I over-rotated a double forward and by accident it was a triple.




I woke up shortly thereafter and thought it was a nice dream....

i once caught a ball with my groin while fielding at point.

Mark _australia said...

Once at Pozo, I over-rotated a double forward and by accident it was a triple.




I woke up shortly thereafter and thought it was a nice dream....

Every time I dream about windsurfing, I'm somewhere near the water, see others out there sailing, and by the time I get myself organised, I wake up!

Sums up my life!

I was involved in a salvation of a cargo ship. 45NM off x-mas island MSC Denise reported a mayday and she was taking in water. Expecting a salvage team to be at least 4 days away, we were stationed there and arived with in 5 hrs. Upon arival the transom of the 31000t Cargo ship was below the water line, engine room completely full of water, all power and electrics disabled and drifting towards the coast of x-mas island. 60hrs later of non stop pumping of water from the ships bowels she was towable and 10NM off the coast. found out later that the crew were trying to sink it for insurance purposes.

Subsonic said...

Not sure Id call my story a save as such but here goes...

Coming in to do a nice flatwater planing gybe, took my foot out of rear strap, placed it on other side of boards foot slips and suddenly im sitting on my board still planing, still hooked onto the sail.

kept going for a short while before I figured the least hurtful way out was to ditch the gear and fall off backward. the board kept going for 10 or so metres before the rig hit the water

get up look around (heh heh.... good, no one saw me) and ran over to my gear

I think that's the first 'step' to initiate the start of my 'lay down gybe"move..

evlPanda said...

Subsonic said...
Coming in to do a nice flatwater planing gybe, took my foot out of rear strap, placed it on other side of board foot slips...

That's where I bruised a rib. Couldn't laugh or god forbid sneeze for three weeks.

Not good! I bet you fixed the non slip..

I have had some great saves over the years racing motorbikes but I also had a lot of non saves too.

The Specials (well Neville Staples version) gig a few years ago in Sydney

Two muppets (sorry elmo) in their early twenties in front of me NOT dancing

In front of the muppets is two blokes mid to late forties who are as big as wallaby front rowers...both wore grins from ear to ear and were dancing like their lives depended on it...

Front Rower one accidently bumps girl muppet. Apologises profusely. Boy muppet gets all angry. Front rower one and two apologise.

Muppet boy turns to me expecting a sympathetic ear - Didnt get it -"everyone is here to to dance ,not fight or stand still mate"

Five minutes later

Front Rower two accidently bumps boy muppet. Before front rower has even turned to say anything I see muppet boy loading a punch - I grab his arm which then propells me between Muppets and front rowers.

This is seen by security plus a stack of people - muppet boy tries throwing a few at the two props - who could eat him for breakfast - but none land as I have ended up standing in between.

Result - security hauls off muppets - thus saving muppets from Wallaby front row
Everyone has a wow of a night dancing - not concerned with Muppets and seeing something incredible
Everytime Front rowers go to the bar (often) they return with a drink for yours truly and thank me from not having their night spoilt

Totally unrelated to windsurfing - but my best save ever.....

Some years ago I was giving a scientific presentation in the US. At the end I put up a slide of Perth to show where I was from. To my horror the slide was upside down, but to Americans, who think of us as the land downunder, it was brilliant. Brought the house down and made my presentation very memorable.

Windxtasy said...

Some years ago I was giving a scientific presentation in the US. At the end I put up a slide of Perth to show where I was from. To my horror the slide was upside down, but to Americans, who think of us as the land downunder, it was brilliant. Brought the house down and made my presentation very memorable.