laurie said...

Greenroom will be dancing in the street ...

Will you have this next dance with me Lauriena

Great, so maybe you can settle the right-of-way rule in waves in said forum...

> Wasn't that clarified many times over in some recent threads?

You mean the one that went 287 replies and no conclusion, all personal opinions?

Yeah.. it's easy - just give way to anyone bigger, faster, more coordinated, or better looking than you. And watch out for the event threshold close to the bar in a river, or just out the back because the rules change.

Unless you're a kiter, in which case you don't give way to anyone.. ever. Which is not relevant, because kiters shouldn't be in waves anyway, because they suck at wave riding..

Most of the debate on that thread was over whether starboard was really starboard, or if it could be port at the same time.. which in the end all boiled down to Einstein's theory of relativity, and whether you were talking about the sailor or the sailing location.

Sheesh... some people are slow learners!

Can we have a freeride forum?

555 said...

Actually (and I never thought this day would come) I agree with the Slave on this.

I think we all in minority sports as it is, so breaking it down into sub-minorities is really splitting an already thin hair.

There is something to be learned from all the different disciplines, and splitting everyone up just makes the cross-learning more difficult.

I'd have to agree with this too, it also means I have to look at two forums instead of one and with the lack of wavesailing happening at the moment I havent anything to post about in it either

i don't agree


if u don't like it ....


don't read it.

Ummm.. Greeny... I'm sure that was a good point while it was in your head, but let me snip a few parts of it for you:

Why do we have to sift through all the GPS, windsurf vs kitesurf, freestyle, Windwally Train/Wello or Luser is gay threads?

Just like Miller said, "If you dont like it... dont read it"


Isn't that why the threads have subjects? So you can choose not to read them??

Just because a forum is titled 'wave sailing' doesn't stop Luser going in there and whining on about how kiters rule the waves and poleys are old and gay..

Splitting everything up makes it more difficult to follow the threads, and there is an element of critical mass when it comes to forums. If there's not enough happening to keep people interested, they will drift away to other forums.

Pierrec45 has a valid point too.. as a freerider who may one day find himself in a wave break, it would help if he's been exposed to discussion on right of way rules before hand - that way he (and others) will have an idea of what's going on. If that discussion only happens in the wave forum which he never visits because he's a freerider, then he'll be clueless in the waves..