early 80s, doing the volenteer thing on a kibbutz in israel, myself and a couple of the very lovely danish girls that were on the kibbutz too decided to hitch hike to the coast for a day at the beach. when we got there, there was a windsurf rental stand, and they were keen to give it a go. so i, being the expert, was going to show them how its done..

hmmm, kinda slippery deck though, but..
here, stand like this, one foot in front of the mast, one behind, grab the rope see, and just pull the sail out... whoa!
down i came, one foot on either side of the mast, full speed...right square

end of lesson..

but fortunately, the one girl was ,quite uh, kind hearted, and was able to nurse back to health..

easty said...

and the word of the day is......

knigit said...

ululations

I had to reach for the dictonery dictoinary dictonary that book full of words!

Ja!! for sure! :O

On holiday in lake Garda (italy) for my sisters wedding.
I had not windsurfed for a couple of years (turned to the dark side as a kiter) but decided to rent a formula board and full cambered 8m rig as the wind was light.
I some how managed to sail into the competition area while a big race was ongoing (by this point the wind had picked up to a healthy 20knts),just as I was thinking I was really cool for out sailing all of the world class competition I did a huge catapult and hit my upper thigh against the nose of the board. Wost pain ever and total paralysis of my leg.
After 5 minutes of floating to gain my composure I tried sailing in but could not put any weight on my leg (wind now blowing really hard offshore) so spent 30minutes trying to swim my gear the 50m back upwind to the shore, all in front of a huge spectating crowd (with commentator).
I could not walk unassisted for 4 days but felt a total wuss as all I had to show was a fist sized bruise and no breakages.

climber said...

Saturday
Take off downwind for speed run..get new PB..

PBF ? It was your Personal Best... Fall !

climber said...

Saturday
get tail slide / spinnout
Catapult
Spend 20 minutes pulling out CARBON splinters from foot..

Yeah, I keep hearing about those carbon foot print... ahahahaha

7 broken ribs and a punctured lung out the back of sprecks, speard by my best mate ,young gun and full of confidence ,thought i would pass him real close and give him a fright,,,He shilded lifted his nose and clipped me at 40kts,Armadad back to shore,and comforted by jenna d rosney,will never forget her comfiting eyez looking down at me while i sounded like micky mouse,i learned my lesson and when anyone gets to close to me messing about it scares the fk out of me. my old mate was right in shilding even though i would have made it<that ain t the point.