duzzi said..
A question: who on earth claims speed records over a 2" framework? Nothing comes to mind other than this "record" by Godard ...
A lot of speedsurfers focus on "top speed", which is a single point measurement and the least accurate speed number. Top speed is even used as one of several numbers in some speedsurfing competitions.
2 seconds is quite an improvement over that; with the Motion GPS he apparently was using, the 2 second speed likely includes 10 or 20 points (depending on whether he's recording at 5 or 10 Hz).
One problem with 2 second speeds is that 2 second top speeds can easily be set in catapults. But that's more a problem of beginners and intermediates who crash a lot, and in particular with winging. I Nico had gotten the 41 knots in a crash, we surely would have seen some amazing crash footage. He probably would have bounced multiple times
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And, of course, 2 seconds is used as the "top speed" category in the GPS Team Challenge, and also tracked on GPS-speedsurfing.com (which, however, focuses on the 5x10 second category since it is less prone to artifacts and "lucky gusts".
Also, you make an interesting point. 2s at his speeds is about 150 ft /81 m . That's most of the way across a football pitch. That's more than just a blip.
