awesome! just imagine the hangtime coz it's all about the hangtime man!

Reminds me of another stupid similar thing some cretin made as a windsurfing stimulator that was in SOS eons ago. It was a board on a big spring that wobbled around while you held onto a boom I think it was a joke

hello chinook,
The joke went up in smoke.

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Originally posted by waveslave

hello chinook,
The joke went up in smoke.

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Wavey,

This is how you do humour,

There was a randy bush mouse in Africa, who thought he was the hottest lover in the Savanna, He thought he'd make love to an Elephant Cow while she was eating from a tree, so he hopped on and was going for it, when a branch broke off and struck the Elephant in the head, causing her to give out and Anguished cry...... whereupon the mouse filled with his own sense of superiority, yelled out "Suffer Baby!"


Boom! Boom!

Now that you've picked yourself up off the floor, try this one.........................

Mr Slave, what hardie referred to was your joke in poor taste about the fire that swept through the best windsurf (and kitesurf I might add) shop in WA. One which gives no bullsh!t advice and good prices to boot and attracts more O/S business than all the others. And we almost lost it in an unfortunate fire (and many ppl lost a bit of cashola for their consignment boards too BTW). So yeah, your "joke" was not funny. I'd say hardie just said what most other ppl on this forum thought.... your "joke" was sh!t. This message brought to u by Friends of S.O.S


Oh and PS for the ignorant folk: it was common in days gone by (when beginner boards were skinny and unstable) to have an old board mounted on a platform with a few springs to use as a trainer on dry land. It helped beginners greatly to be able to practice rig movements on such a device.

Hello Mark,
The stimulator was designed to be a device to assist in the selling process of boards;
rather than as a windsurfing simulator as such.

It became a windsurf shop party-trick tool and a bit of a joke really.
Any board could be attached to the padded cradle and the customer could get a 'feel' for the board on dry land.

The stimulator rig could also be adjusted along the centreline(n-s) so the rig was correctly located when the rider was in the footstraps.

The rig was attached to a mega fat uni-joint(100mm dia) and you could lean back hanging off the boom and be suspended.
Felt just like the wind in your sail not.

Anyway, the cradle rotated 360 deg and moved to and fro due to a huge spring mounted to a bearing.
The whole thing sat on a very stable base and your mates could spin you till you were dizzy and vomiting.

It ended up being a white elephant and another failed scheme but it did actually work.
It went to a heavenly place(the dump) but the spirit lives on.