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Aussies (and a couple of Kiwi's) rule the world!

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Created by The Waterboy > 9 months ago, 2 Jan 2009
The Waterboy
VIC, 109 posts
2 Jan 2009 4:41PM
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Took a screenshot of the GPS-Speedsurfing website and we rule!




Go Daff!

Go Mat!

Go Craig!!!

Mal W and Tony W are strangely missing from the GPS top 10 ladder despite having logged sessions (not sure why - perhaps the results from their urine sample's haven't come in yet and the RTK's are a bit suss about their suspiciously high posted speeds ).

Either way, it's great to see some of your sailing friends at numero uno and the ladder filled (almost completely) with Aussie flags!

Of course the Euro's will naturally complain about our proximity to the dateline and the fact we can post sessions onto a newly blank ladder before they're even out of bed, but let's not get bogged down in such trivial and petty technicalities eh?

WE RULE!!

kato
VIC, 3347 posts
2 Jan 2009 9:19PM
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Did you find your board ???

mathew
QLD, 2027 posts
2 Jan 2009 8:35PM
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Got a SMS at about dark - found on the far bank!

Also of note.... check out www.gps-kitesurfing.com/default.aspx - Alistair ranked no. 1!

Bonominator
VIC, 5477 posts
2 Jan 2009 10:12PM
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Almost a flush!

Bonominator
VIC, 5477 posts
4 Jan 2009 1:39PM
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Only one Kiwi left! There must be one Aussie who can get up there!

The Waterboy
VIC, 109 posts
5 Jan 2009 11:36PM
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It's a clean sweep!!

Aussies top to bottom....

Ain't it pretty?:




Heaven knows how long it'll last that way, so I figured I'd get a screenshot of it for posterity.

Oi, Huey; bring on some more wind so we can keep it the way it is!!

snides8
WA, 1730 posts
5 Jan 2009 9:50PM
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are they all vico's?? good show if thats the case

sailquik
VIC, 6074 posts
6 Jan 2009 10:35AM
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snides8 said...

are they all vico's?? good show if thats the case

Yep. just shows what one half decent day can bring,

vando
QLD, 3416 posts
6 Jan 2009 10:01AM
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sailquik said...

snides8 said...

are they all vico's?? good show if thats the case

Yep. just shows what one half decent day can bring,


Geeze daffy what i would give for a day like that

snides8
WA, 1730 posts
6 Jan 2009 9:37AM
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vando said...

sailquik said...

snides8 said...

are they all vico's?? good show if thats the case

Yep. just shows what one half decent day can bring,


Geeze daffy what i would give for a day like that



ha! their half decent day would be our day of the century!i guess if you cant beat em you got ta join em!
well done all the same to the aussies(all be it vics)for being at the top of the worlds stage!!

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
9 Jan 2009 5:18PM
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What I find the most amazing thing about this is the top 8 on the GPSSS for 2009 have an average age of 46.5years. Either this means two things;
1. the older you get, the faster you get, or
2. the older you get, the more money you have to spend on windsurf gear

Impressive effort I must say and this still leaves me 7 years to become a member of the 40+knots club (probably by then you guys will be members of the 50+knot club)

Bonominator
VIC, 5477 posts
9 Jan 2009 9:45PM
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LOL Sausage. I reckon it will be quite a few years before there are enough of us sailing at 50 knots to be called a club!

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
9 Jan 2009 9:59PM
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Bonominator said...

LOL Sausage. I reckon it will be quite a few years before there are enough of us sailing at 50 knots to be called a club!


Maybe you, Gestalt and I can start the Architect's Speedsailing Club
[Just looked at your profile - not a great profession for windsurfing unless you run your own practice or live on the beach, which I luckily happen to do]

sailquik
VIC, 6074 posts
10 Jan 2009 1:41AM
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sausage said...

What I find the most amazing thing about this is the top 8 on the GPSSS for 2009 have an average age of 46.5years. Either this means two things;
1. the older you get, the faster you get, or
2. the older you get, the more money you have to spend on windsurf gear

Impressive effort I must say and this still leaves me 7 years to become a member of the 40+knots club (probably by then you guys will be members of the 50+knot club)


Nah: The older I get, the better I was!

Bonominator
VIC, 5477 posts
10 Jan 2009 9:36AM
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sausage said...

Bonominator said...

LOL Sausage. I reckon it will be quite a few years before there are enough of us sailing at 50 knots to be called a club!


Maybe you, Gestalt and I can start the Architect's Speedsailing Club
[Just looked at your profile - not a great profession for windsurfing unless you run your own practice or live on the beach, which I luckily happen to do]


Good idea. Luckily I work for someone else right now so i can get out of jail occasionally!

tony wyn
VIC, 81 posts
10 Jan 2009 11:21PM
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hi all.,
awesome to think I was actually lowereing the averege age I thinks its just because we're too old to wavesail (well)
cheers Tony

sailquik
VIC, 6074 posts
11 Jan 2009 1:27AM
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tony wyn said...

hi all.,
awesome to think I was actually lowereing the averege age I thinks its just because we're too old to wavesail (well)
cheers Tony


Wavesailing? Yeah, I think I remember doing that too when I was young......



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