You just need lots of wind.. Like yesterday.. - can I just add and a lot of skill. That is not what I witnessed yesterday. DJ's paddle was always on the LHS for a reason, everytime you caught a wave you started heading towards the middle of the bay, then without the skill of DJ you had to paddle on the your RHS forever. If you are not back on your board enough like DJ you just go nose under and hope it comes back up without you being flicked off.
The last bit of the run was the hardest, RHS paddling on your knees to make sure you made it back into shore where the cars were, knees got sore so worked out if I sat on my board with my left leg in the water and paddle hard on the right I would make it. Doesn't exactly look like what was on the video, but the board is still on the roof incase there is another downwinder today...
