Thanks puffin.

555 said...

Are all these 'new' moves being catalogued anywhere? Royn Barthodi has a bunch of moves on his site, but they're mostly the classic stuff, and it doesn't appear to have been updated in a while.

I taught myself a lightwind freestyle trick that I'd never seen before (it just occurred to me while cruising across the harbour one day), and then thought 'I wonder if anyone else does those', but couldn't find it anywhere. It's more of a shinbiter with a cowboy stylg rights often e behind the back rig flip.. Not as cool as the anklebiter, but still..

ooh You have naming rights. They could be worth a fortune. Naming rights often remain unexploited. Why, I sold the naming rights to my first born child for a handsome sum. Norms All Nite Diner doesnt talk to me much. In fact he recently ran away from home. Dont know why....

Donkey gybe?! I thought that was the Monkey gybe, the essex duck that is.

The "hoss" tack is an understandable error. The planing push tack is attributed to a Moroccan bloke named Haas (sp?) which is indistinguishable from "hoss" when said with an American accent to my ear.

I've noticed "vulcan" is often called "volcan" or even "volcano".

Any others? How many spellings are there for gybe?

NotWal said...

So three 5s, this trick of yours, how does it go? I'm imagining you're sailing along on a beam reach and then somehow get to do a cowboy rig flip from the wrong side of the sail, and somehow your ankles are endangered. Does it involve a step around the front or a step over the mast like a Jizz?

From a beam reach, the sail gets tipped far into the eye of the wind. As it goes over, you take your front foot, step over the mastfoot (on the downwind side) and onto the centre line in front of the mastfoot. The foot of the sail gets a shove from your shin as you do this part which kicks the sail around so that it catches the breeze and spins toward the stern. Then pass the boom behind you to your back hand, then stick your backside into the sail and flip it cowboy style remembering to step over the mast with your back foot as it comes around. I haven't tried it planing yet, so that will be an interesting day!

I agree with the NZ ocker mate above, that there is a need for a nomenclature of sorts.

All this naming is getting wayyyy out of control. Look at all the fora: it is clear people are getting lost on the Web all over with the petty names. "I thought it was this" "no in fact it was that."

Flakas, cowboy, doodah. "The skinny mountain goat", "the snake that barks at the moon", "the one-eyed wombat", and so on. Pet names are fun, coz they're often short, sometimes even monosyllabic. But let's face it: not a single one of them means anything.

Seriously, there used to be such a nomenclature for freestyle in a 1980-ish book by one Gary Eversole. Yes, around 1980, and scurvy was still a health threat then. Yet me reckon this naming still applies, I use it for my (few) articles.

Not sure that it would apply to all this new board stuff, but I think it would go a long way. Names are longer, but more descriptive and more independent from the context. In particular, all 4 body positions, sail and board directions are taken into account.

OK, where's me tinny...