If Will Robinson thinks being lost in space is dangerous...
Ever since our ancestors crawled out of the murky deep about 530 million years (give or take a few weeks) ago, we land animals have had a love/hate relationship with water. We drink it, play in and on it and enjoy simply being near it - walk on the beach anyone?
What would windsurfing be without water? Scraped knees and broken wrists. Pavement and even sand hurt. At some point or another, you come off the board and end up like a Tour de France racer.
These guys race bikes because land sailing looks too risky. They've seen the video below.
Water, though, doesn't always play nice. Tsunami, flash flood, storm surge, avalanche, rip tide, black (road) ice. I mean, really. And, since we've lost our gills, even a few inches of the stuff can kill us.
Barrett and Peggy Walker have one room left for their Fall Outer Banks Trip. The rate is $350 single and $400 for a couple (private bath). The food kitty is about $100/week. The house is located in Nags Head on Roanoke Sound. Week #1 is Sept. 29 - Oct. 6 and Week 2 is Oct. 6 - Oct. 13. Contact Barrett & Peggy Walker
Ricardo Campello was out training the other day in Pozo and Cutre, a local windsurfing center caught it on film. It's worth watching the video for a couple of reasons: a back loop to a front loop on the same jump (I think that's what it is) and the number of times he throws some really high jumps in the same session and doesn't land them. If you're not falling, you're not learning.
I hope it will make you feel better about trying new stuff and spending a lot of time in the water. Sometimes, we wrongly associate getting wet with ineptitude.
Here's a screen grab of a high jump.
Whoops, wrong pic. He's above the frame in this one.
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