ive gotten my 1 star windsurfing,
and lemme gif you guys brief idea of whats it like.
during my lesson day,
it was gay ass wind,
either too dam strong,
or too dam weak.
so we spent the lesson learning howta balance on a board runnin in line with the waveswhich is n exercise in idiocy.
or so i thought.
so thought processes last week was.
teacher : OKIE,SIMPLE.YOU STAND ON YOUR BOARD,TURN 2 ROUNDS FOR ME AND YOU CAN PULL UP YOUR SAIL AND TRY WINDSURFING.
methinks"aiyah no kick"
/kick
grab board.
board flips over on the end i rested my weight on, i fall into the water and kena boinked on the head.
methinks "(insert long chain of swearing)"
/kicks to surface
methinks "(insert long chain og swearing)wah lan eh the seawater dam salty!"
2nd attempt.
/kick,this time spreading my weight.
this is much more successful, tho i end up scrabbling up the board like a 20 month pregnant crab.
whilst on the board,
turn 180.
me thinks "WAH SEH MAI LAI HOR LIMZ BEIZ GOTZ SKILLZ"
wave hit the board.
methinks"SHIT."
/fall into water.
repeat climbing onto board experience.
on board, now i face the waves.smarter alr mah.so i move when the wave pass.or so i thought.
wave go over.
/turn!!!!!
methinks.shit.now i face this way how the hell am i gonna see the wave.
wave hits.
methinks"SHIT"
tis experience continues for a good hour,everyone falling into the water before the 2nd 360 can be achieved.
finally.
coach: OKAY WIND'S UP!!!YOU ALLL ALLLL ALLLLLLLLL FAILLL BALANCING.NOW GO PULL UP THE SAIL AND GOOG OOOOO
i guess its enuf to say we didnt get much windsurfing done since we were mostly falling into the water.
lol.
however,
this week.
nice wind,nice sun,everythin was juz about as perfect as one could hope for it to be.
1st attempt.
/scrabble up board.
hoist sail into neutral position.
balance.
wind grabs hold of the sail and nearly rips it out my hand.
i turn to giant and shout "SIAO LIAO THE WIND SIBEI HIONG"
/watch giant laugh,forget he's supposed to be balancing,
and falls into the water with a big splash.
i start laughing,
forget im supposed to be balancing,
fall into water myself and the boom comes down rite o top of my head and smacks me silly.
/kick to surface
/swear really loudly.
/turn to giant and i see laffin his head off at me and he starts scolding me for making him laugh n now he cant stop and focus nuf to get on his board.
okie so nvm.
one shall not be daunted despite the magnitude of the task.
so i scrabble on board once more,
bring the boom to neutral position,holding it there..
and slowly start shifting my legs to the move off position,
and then smack the boom into the lift off position....
n............
start inching forward, slowly...
and i remember the words of my coach.
"IF YOU WANNA GO FASTER, BRING THE BOOM TOWARDS YOU TO CATCH THE WHOLE WIND."
and i pull the boom towards me bravely.
now this happens in a micro second.
i pull it into me in 1 motion,
suddenly the force pulling the boom forward quadruples. AT LEAST 4 x.
before i can scream or swear,my board accelerates like a jackrabbit whose balls juz got prodded with a electric prod.
i desperately tryta hang on,
and next thing i know,the wind pulls me ALL THE DAM WAY OFF THE BOARD TOGET WITH MY SAIL.
im not shitting you it lifted my ass.
of course it helped tad the wave motions prob left my CG a lil higher,
BUT SHIT MANG ITS JUZ WIND!!!!
i flew off the dam board.
landed a good distance away from my board.now if i was on land,
the expressions would be "shocked flat on my ass"
but since i was in the middle of the sea, i was "shocked flat on my lifejacket"
well,
enuf with the failures,
so lets gif you the true windsurfing 101 experience.
you climb onto the board,
and ride the waves 1st.
you bring up the 15 kg sail and slowly lift it and let your board straighten out,
and then shift your feet to the move off position.you wait for the wave to hit,quickly balance out and shift the boom forward and into the vertical position and maintain your balance.
you begin to feel your board rushing forward.
swish swish swish it goes,smackin its head on incoming waves as it heads out to sea.
you hang on for dear life till your movements r secure against the wave motion.you then reach and put your other hand on the other end of the boom,and sloooowly,inch it in towards you.
every lil bit you pull in,you feel your board tryin to run from under you.
the wave motion start to get even more hiong,as your board starts going up them at speed and literally flying outta water for that bit of time and landing before mounting the next wave.
finally when you're leaning all the way back,and you're confident,you pull the sail to the full face of the wind.
then you feel the wind on your back,your sail angled forward,your board making surf as it speeds along the surface of the water and you speed out to sea,and you lean all the way back,the sail and its wind taking your full weight,and you really speed,i swear i was up to a good 3 x of my sprinting speed.
that my dear frends.
is windsurfing at its best.
=)
now if i could learn howta turn properly,
i wouldnt hafta keep doing a paddle recovery back to shore.lol.
oh wellz.
2nd lesson only.
i shall improve.
but its the best decision for an outdoor activity ive made in a long time.
/love to giant.
awesome shit.
=)
more to come more to come more to come.
some pictures for jo0 pple.
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