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wayneg
wayneg
WA
105 posts
WA, 105 posts
3 Dec 2008 4:48pm
Just looked on Kevin Pritchard's web site, there is a picture of US1111 using a seat harness in the waves?? I thought it was only old guys used seat harness' in waves due to their sore backs.

Sorry - couldn't work out how to copy the image over.
ma
ma
NSW
375 posts
ma ma
NSW, 375 posts
3 Dec 2008 8:14pm
www.mauiwindsurfing.net/
Vid of the same day, not seat harness
curac
curac
WA
1160 posts
WA, 1160 posts
4 Dec 2008 1:37pm
he is an old guy
Yousurf
Yousurf
WA
165 posts
WA, 165 posts
4 Dec 2008 2:33pm
Since when has mundine been sailing.
P.C_simpson
P.C_simpson
WA
1492 posts
WA, 1492 posts
10 Dec 2008 1:18pm
Yer old guy, when will Robby Naish, Kelly Slater and Lance Armstrong just give up the old bastards.

I just hope i'm a 10th as fit and talented as these old guys at there age.. even a 100th.

Robby is on the new Wind Legends DVD saying he is even more stoked to be sailing these days that he ever was. it seams the older sailors get the more keen they are to get on the water.
WINDY MILLER
WINDY MILLER
WA
3183 posts
WA, 3183 posts
10 Dec 2008 7:59pm
our robby
who art in hawaii
naish be thy name
thy board shall be done
with one one one one


etc
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23695 posts
WA, 23695 posts
10 Dec 2008 9:49pm
P.C_simpson said...


Robby is on the new Wind Legends DVD saying he is even more stoked to be sailing these days that he ever was. it seams the older sailors get the more keen they are to get on the water.


Seems they go all kite oriented then come back and say how stoked they are to be back
Wet Willy
Wet Willy
TAS
2317 posts
TAS, 2317 posts
12 Dec 2008 3:01am
Mark _australia said...

P.C_simpson said...


Robby is on the new Wind Legends DVD saying he is even more stoked to be sailing these days that he ever was. it seams the older sailors get the more keen they are to get on the water.


Seems they go all kite oriented then come back and say how stoked they are to be back


OOOOOOOOOOOH!

Haircut
Haircut
QLD
6491 posts
QLD, 6491 posts
12 Dec 2008 8:43pm
it's coz easier doesn't necessarily mean betterer
nebbian
nebbian
WA
6277 posts
WA, 6277 posts
12 Dec 2008 8:31pm
Mark _australia said...

P.C_simpson said...


Robby is on the new Wind Legends DVD saying he is even more stoked to be sailing these days that he ever was. it seams the older sailors get the more keen they are to get on the water.


Seems they go all kite oriented then come back and say how stoked they are to be back


My housemate used to be a keen windsurfer, then took up kiting. It's funny, in the couple of months of seabreeze we've had, I never saw the kite bag move from under the stairs...

He saw me loading up the car heaps of times, and had a wistful look in his eye...

Last weekend he bought a windsurf board and we went for a sail. I was amazed at how easily he got planing, gybing was a bit difficult at first but then he stayed dry for most of them towards the end. And the grin on his face afterwards was like this:

Now he's looking for a cheap mast, sail and boom. Anyone got a cheap 5.5 wave setup they want to throw his way?
WINDY MILLER
WINDY MILLER
WA
3183 posts
WA, 3183 posts
13 Dec 2008 9:33am
05 s1 5.3 - 200bux....needs a skinny though
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23695 posts
WA, 23695 posts
13 Dec 2008 2:46pm
2003 NP Zone 5.3 $120
mkseven
mkseven
QLD
2315 posts
QLD, 2315 posts
28 Dec 2008 4:02pm
Waist harness better for your back than seat harness and that is comparing it to the best suited seat harnesses with back support.

I think older folks may go to seat as it locks the sail down where waist is a more dynamic ride.
hardie
hardie
WA
4133 posts
WA, 4133 posts
30 Dec 2008 1:50pm
re age and windsurfing, yes I agree the older you get the bigger the stoke, one reason is that you realise it aint gonna last forever and every day you get is a bonus, and given it's a technique sport, ageing doesn't get in the way of developing technique so for some of us we just keep getting better at windsurfing as we age, and ironically it keeps you fitter and younger
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
14968 posts
QLD, 14968 posts
30 Dec 2008 10:26pm
hardie said...

re age and windsurfing, yes I agree the older you get the bigger the stoke, one reason is that you realise it aint gonna last forever and every day you get is a bonus, and given it's a technique sport, ageing doesn't get in the way of developing technique so for some of us we just keep getting better at windsurfing as we age, and ironically it keeps you fitter and younger


ditto to that hardie,

i am amazed at how fit the "retired" windsurfers are. i know guys over 60 that still wave sail and look 20 years younger.
puffin
puffin
235 posts
235 posts
11 Jan 2009 1:36am
WINDY MILLER said...

our robby
who art in hawaii
naish be thy name
thy board shall be done
with one one one one


etc


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