Embarassing moments.

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ka43
ka43
NSW
3105 posts
NSW, 3105 posts
4 Mar 2008 4:23pm
Just wondering what embarrassing stuff has happened to you or what you did to look like a goose.
I think mine (theres been a lot) was standing in the shorebreak (only small) with my gear at Long Reef one day years ago, not looking at the ocean and talking to a mate behind me. A small foamy slid up the foot of my sail which forced me to stagger, trip and somehow end up under my sail with a few inches of water covering the sail.
As you all know water is heavy and I was stuck like a bloody star fish between the sail and the sand while the boys p****d themselves laughing.
The water drained off and they helped me up.
Since that day I keep a wary eye on the waves when I hit the water.
Cheers
MavericK040
MavericK040
WA
583 posts
WA, 583 posts
4 Mar 2008 2:46pm
I was out by myself one day ,
cruising along not really thinking about anything then i saw a sand bar and thought nah i will make it over that easy then BAM! stopped instantly and went ass over onto the sand , i stood up and looked around and thought phew no one saw that.

the next day a fellow sailor who happened to be driving past goes that was a nice stack you had yesterday! i felt a bit silly.


another time krisiz1 and i were out he was following closely behind me .
i saw a tasty piece of chop and tryed to jump it but it all went awry when i was launched into a hooked in boardless forward which ended with me being thrown a few meters away from my gear.
krisiz had to stop because he ws laughing so much
evlPanda
evlPanda
NSW
9207 posts
NSW, 9207 posts
4 Mar 2008 5:03pm
- Due to a series of unfortunate events turning up for my first ever windsurf lesson in my old man's, giant, red Okanuis. I looked like Gidget's Dad.

- The first time out by myself I didn't expect a strong, outflowing tide. I had to get towed back to shore by a sailing school boat through all the laughing groms in their little boats.

I've been ice man cool ever since however.

... except the time I thought I could make it flat-out over a shallow, shell encrusted sand bank.

... And when I waved to someone a coupla' weeks back -> catapult.
curac
curac
WA
1160 posts
WA, 1160 posts
4 Mar 2008 3:26pm
was at a comp, during expersion session i sailed out thinking i'll try to be impressive and smash off a huge back loop on my first run out.

i hit the water and i'm flying out. i spot my ramp a few waves out and do a little jump over the white water of a closer wave when i land i nose dive and do a huge catapult.. looked like a complete kook. which i kind of am
nebbian
nebbian
WA
6277 posts
WA, 6277 posts
4 Mar 2008 3:47pm
Rocking up at the 07 Tabou classic with my brand new spiffy looking sail numbers on my lovely white sail, trying to get out past the shorebreak and getting comprehensively worked, coming in to shore only to discover all my beautiful sail numbers floating around on the sand. Note to self: book contact doesn't stick when salt water is involved.
knot board
knot board
QLD
1241 posts
QLD, 1241 posts
4 Mar 2008 5:08pm
I arrived at the carparking area to see white caps
Jumped out of the Hilux Surf and ran around to the back to grab a board
Was running down the access track with board under arm when couple of big NZ lads started calling to me "Aye bro, aye bro, is that your car?"
I dropped the board and ran back up to the carpark to see a crowd gathered and my car gone
Seeing my perplexed looked the big kiwi and his mates point down to the bottom of a gully near to where the Hilux was previously parked.
Fearing the worst I looked over the edge to see my car about 15 feet below sitting on a 45 degree angle
The boys said the car slowly started rolling along pushed by the wind edging ever closer to the drop off.
They said the whole car leaned up on two wheels as it went over the edge but somehow didn't roll over, it just drove itself to the bottom of this gully and came to rest in some soft bushes.
These boys climbed down into the gully and all sat side on the high side of the Hilux to stop it rolling further while I engaged low range and manoeuvred to some flatter ground.
Meanwhile a large crowd had gathered in the carpark to watch.
Now the kiwi lads were acting as crowd control and cleared an area ready for my re-entry into the carpark.
The first attempt failed as I had about a 5 meter run up to a 15 foot high incline.
Second attempt I got the little hilux airborne launching back into higher ground, to the applause of the kiwis some but to the obvious concern of most terrified onlookers.
I thanked the lads and parked the car, making sure the apply the handbrake this time

What makes this so embarrassing, my apartment was directly across the road from where this all unfolded and my neighbours saw it all from their balconies.







lao shi
lao shi
WA
1349 posts
WA, 1349 posts
4 Mar 2008 4:12pm
Long time ago standing in the shorebreak on a UK pebble beach. Wait for my time, throw board on water, jump on as and wave sucks just about dry, fin digs in, smashed up beach, broke fin box out of board, picked up pieces, packed up and went home. It was in front of a beach full of sailors.
One of my favorites was watching a guy come in on a building wave which gets to about 3/4 mast. He looks over his shoulder and realises there is no way out so guns for the beach. Jumps off just in front as he gets dumped on by a wall of white water and as the wave receedes he is still there holding his sail looking happy until he glances down to see a mast track but no board
divaldo
divaldo
SA
2879 posts
SA, 2879 posts
4 Mar 2008 6:29pm
In my current employment I do a lot of entertaining, one afternoon we were invited to attend the Snoop Dogg concert at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, my fellow work mate and I were having much fun in the day leading up to the concert reciting lyrics and basically being rapper gangstas with each other during the day that we got a little loose with our communication.

An hour before the show we got changed at work into more suitable concert clothes and arranged to meet up out the front of the office to catch a cab to the venue. I called my mate, well thought I did, I dialed the number above his on the teledex, which just happened to be the Director of Advertising, 2IC in the company, and procedded with the following conversation

"Yo, wassup my homey, where da **** are your mutha ****a, wassup with the cab charge bro, I gonna slap your ass with a bottle of alize brah, yadda yadda....."

I get this "who the **** is this?" all this just as I look up from my confussion to see the Director standing in front of me, watching me make this ill timed 'wrong number' phone call......

I still work here
rodney carlos
rodney carlos
NSW
30 posts
NSW, 30 posts
4 Mar 2008 10:30pm
thats nothing ka43 there was a day where i was so keen to get on the water.I jumped on the board, two pumps of the sail, gust of wind fell foward, put my teeth through my bottom lip on the nose of the board. packed up went to medical center
patsken
patsken
WA
717 posts
WA, 717 posts
5 Mar 2008 2:47pm
LAO SHI

I don't know if this counts as embaressment for you or for us other mugs you were with.

A dare between the 6 or 7 of us at Corros a few years back that whoever didn't attempt a forward loop on the day ( none of us had ever landed one and most hadn't even tried one ) would have to play chess with Mr Stinky ( an old guy campjng there )-- very aptly named due to his lack of personal hygeine.
Lao Shi was first to hit the water due to the fact that the rest of us are a bit heavier and the wind was still settling in. He was also the first back in almost immediately -- in obvious pain ( the result of a broken collarbone from a stuffed up forward ).

Now the really embaressing part for me is that I didn't have the balls to try one after that AND none of us ended up following through with the dare to play chess with MR STINKY!!
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