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Stand Up Paddle => Downwind and Racing => Topic started by: DavidJohn on April 14, 2018, 12:47:21 AM
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Lots of woo hoo's on the bay today.
https://vimeo.com/264726909
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Awesome! Conditions looks great 8) I like rainy days and the music was dead-on.
Liked the clips where you show how nicely the Maliko recovers even when the entire nose
is under water.
Woo-Hoo it is :)
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Inspiring :D
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I really enjoyed that. Loved the fit of the music to the images. That Maliko obviously downwinds well, and you are getting the best out of it.
Great to see the old school “paddle twirl” making a comeback too :) I haven’t seen one of those for a while.
Wish I could be over there doing that with you guys.
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Awesome! Good for you encouraging that new paddler. Fries in the car with the rain on the way back was a nice detail, too.
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Awesome ;)
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Awesome! Conditions looks great 8) I like rainy days and the music was dead-on.
Liked the clips where you show how nicely the Maliko recovers even when the entire nose
is under water.
Woo-Hoo it is :)
Thanks.. It was our first good DW conditions in ages and it’s been a long hot summer.. Two days ago we had 30degC (86F) at midnight which is really odd for April.. Anyway.. it really feels like winter is really coming now. I agree.. Rain on a DWer is pretty cool and soon after we finished it bucketed down.
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I really get a lot of enjoyment watching your DW videos. And the french fries looked real tasty too. ;)
Thanks for always sharing your videos.
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Great video DJ! Does anyone by you use an unlimited board for downwinding? Maybe I have missed it in your videos....?
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I really enjoyed that. Loved the fit of the music to the images. That Maliko obviously downwinds well, and you are getting the best out of it.
Great to see the old school “paddle twirl” making a comeback too :) I haven’t seen one of those for a while.
Wish I could be over there doing that with you guys.
Thanks.. and I hope you make it down under again and we get some conditions like this together.. btw your board stack system worked perfect..
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Awesome! Good for you encouraging that new paddler. Fries in the car with the rain on the way back was a nice detail, too.
Thanks.. I would encourage everyone downwinding to pair up with someone for safety reasons.. and if you see a newbie downwinder don’t leave them behind alone. I think too many people treat DWers as a race and the need to get your best time becomes their priority rather than just having fun with others out there.. :)
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I really get a lot of enjoyment watching your DW videos. And the french fries looked real tasty too. ;)
Thanks for always sharing your videos.
Thanks.. You always thank me for my vids and I really appreciate it.
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Great video DJ! Does anyone by you use an unlimited board for downwinding? Maybe I have missed it in your videos....?
More and more of our crew are getting on the UL bandwagon.
Paul (PT) in this vid had his new 17’4” SIC Bullet.. Because they are so fast they are often way ahead of me.
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Great video DJ! Does anyone by you use an unlimited board for downwinding? Maybe I have missed it in your videos....?
More and more of our crew are getting on the UL bandwagon.
Paul (PT) in this vid had his new 17’4” SIC Bullet.. Because they are so fast they are often way ahead of me.
Isn't PT the one with the unlimited Ace?
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Awesome! Good for you encouraging that new paddler. Fries in the car with the rain on the way back was a nice detail, too.
Thanks.. I would encourage everyone downwinding to pair up with someone for safety reasons.. and if you see a newbie downwinder don’t leave them behind alone. I think too many people treat DWers as a race and the need to get your best time becomes their priority rather than just having fun with others out there.. :)
Words to the wise....everybody can hurt themselves, have a bad day, so one day you wait for me , tomorrow I wait for you...
Having down quite a few winter down-winders on my own I have sometime decided not to go when conditions are too unpredictable unless we can buddy-up.
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Nice session and cool edit.
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I would encourage everyone downwinding to pair up with someone for safety reasons.. and if you see a newbie downwinder don’t leave them behind alone. I think too many people treat DWers as a race and the need to get your best time becomes their priority rather than just having fun with others out there.. :)
Agree.
Doing ski alpinism in the mountains one sticks together. It's just mandatory. Even races are team events and the team has to finish together and rope together in sections.
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Oh, and BTW, the fin that comes with the board goes in the little slot on the bottom side. Not on the deck.
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Oh, and BTW, the fin that comes with the board goes in the little slot on the bottom side. Not on the deck.
Ha.. To get across the shallow water on the sandbar at the end I usually walk well forward on the board and drag the fin even though the tail of the board is lifted it still drags.. But on this day it was only about 2” deep in places and doing that wasn’t working so I decided to just click the fin out drift across the sand to the beach and it worked great.. :)
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Thanks.. I would encourage everyone downwinding to pair up with someone for safety reasons.. and if you see a newbie downwinder don’t leave them behind alone. I think too many people treat DWers as a race and the need to get your best time becomes their priority rather than just having fun with others out there.. :)
Great vid DJ, and captures many many details that makes for a great run including the fries at the end..
I'm with you totally on pairing up, and sharing the stoke with newbies. Having moved from Hong Kong to the US, I'm starting at ground zero here downwind crew wise and so the only way to get fellow downwinders (apart from Burchas and a few others) is to get people out who have never downwinded before.
We had a day like yours here on the Long Island Sound at the weekend, and it was the 2nd downwinder for one of our local crew here having done a similar one last year with me.. "Is it always like this?" he asked when we finished... My answer was "I wish it was!". He's nailed two of the best downwinders I've done since arriving by chance!
One great thing about going out with paddlers new to downwinding is that you can "stop and go" as you stay with them, and really take in the whole experience of being out there in wild conditions rather than going flat out the whole way. It is those moments of sitting down on the board out there in the middle of the mayhem (wind and sea condition wise) while feeling totally at ease, that I remember more sometimes than linking bump after bump...
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Great video. Very nice conditions. Awesome gliding ;)