That's a sick "chop hop"! He just keeps goin' UP!

Wow - puts the kiters to shame!

(yes I'm putting on my flame suit now...)

Phenomenal!

Wouldn't like to be downwind of that

awesome imagine how many loops he could do from the heights he jumps

Mark,
The Gorge is an odd wind strength area, we used to sail quite a lot in wind's of 50kn. plus using similar size sails. The wind will read very strong on a meter but didn't have as much gut's to it compared to other place's around the world so I have no doubt that it was 50kn. plus. AUS 1111 has been there too and should back me up on this - I hope.

birdseyeview said...

Mark,
The Gorge is an odd wind strength area, we used to sail quite a lot in wind's of 50kn. plus using similar size sails. The wind will read very strong on a meter but didn't have as much gut's to it compared to other place's around the world so I have no doubt that it was 50kn. plus. AUS 1111 has been there too and should back me up on this - I hope.

OK I will give you that one...in part..... it is at elevation and the air is thinner so 50kn there carries less power.
However it is only 100ft - 1600 ft in the sailing areas so maybe 50kn equals 46-48?

nar - not 50!

maybe 35-40 in WA knots

insane jump though

AND..... eevveryyone knows that wind speed increases the higher you go so once he got to an altitude of, say 400 to 500 hundred feet (that's what it looked like to me anyway) it would have been at least 70 knots and I would have bailed out as well.

It wouldn't have been a jetstream trailing behind me either -- more like a sh_tstream.

I think he was still going up when he bailed...

I don't reckon it's 50 knots on the water, coz sailing in 50 with a 4.2 would be impossible

BUT

about 3 or 4 metres into that jump he has been hit by one almighty gust and just lifted into the stratosphere!

I can't recall ever seeing anyone just keep rising like that so who knows, it probably was 50 up there in the air. It definitely gets to 50 pretty regularly in the narrow parts of the Gorge.

mkseven said...

Haircut said...


awesome imagine how many loops he could do from the heights he jumps

I think he was one of the first to regularly pull doubles if i'm thinking of the right guy.

i reposted this vid on a social utility site and they were just awestruck..either 45-50 +/-3kts is still nukin' and my hats off to Dale with big cajonesthere was a guy called years ago in the Gorge named aptly 'Seargent Loop' for doing 3loops everytime he gets big air and those are back not forward..if anyone can name this guy it'd be nice to recall

Mark _australia said...


4.2 in 50 PLUS ..... no way.

May be it's American knots ! Everything seems to be bigger there...

jp747 said...

mkseven said...

Haircut said...


awesome imagine how many loops he could do from the heights he jumps

I think he was one of the first to regularly pull doubles if i'm thinking of the right guy.

i reposted this vid on a social utility site and they were just awestruck..either 45-50 +/-3kts is still nukin' and my hats off to Dale with big cajonesthere was a guy called years ago in the Gorge named aptly 'Seargent Loop' for doing 3loops everytime he gets big air and those are back not forward..if anyone can name this guy it'd be nice to recall

I don't know about triples (bit dubious) but I think it was Tony "sgt Loop" Barbarelli - or something like that... I remember him doing double forwards on the Rushwind movie "Spread the Word" still one of the best windsurf vids of all time IMHO

Wow he almost went as high as one of my smaller jumps i did today kiting.Almost.
Keep up the good work boyz
(logging out now)

elmo said...

Part of DC's jumping is sail design which Bruce Petterson explains here about the sail being required to operate horizontally to generate lift in jumps
http://www.windsport.com/news?news_id=392&uniqid=314

That was pretty interesting, seeing 2 different designers ideas of a similar concept.

I have spent a bit of time on the huckers over east, I have done a few jumps on the 5.6m from about 15 knots to just under 30, and it is an amazing sail in the air, you just float for ever almost feels like you havn't even left the water, and they over power really well.

I think Dale Cook could hold down the 4.2m in a heap of wind, and the amount of lift and the speed he got it, it's pretty dam windy.

I'm now heaps keen to have a run on the new MOJO to see how it goes compared to the Hucker.. hopefully i can get my hands on a 5.3m for some river jumps..

longwinded said...

Windxtasy said...

I wonder where he would have ended up if he hadn't bailed?
Canada?

Hospital

Canadian hospital, eh ?