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oh. You are serious...

Cause the Olympics is gay.....

As if there isn't enough penis heads kiting already...
Let's put it in the Olympics

Good input from the seabreeze community

What's the current state of play, Olympics are planing to ditch RSX for kite foiling? Honestly I think kite foiling needs to be in there but so does windsurfing, however surely the RSX is done....i've seen one, ever. Is there a plan to move to foiling with the RSX:Convertable, Surely that's the future?

Currently I reckon there is a good range of classes, but kick the Finn out, again who sails them, add kitefoiling and change the RSX to RSX convertable/foiling, job done

Edit: just had a read of the proposed changes...hilarious, 49er now mixed, no 49er FX, extra single handed womens class....still with the finn....keelboat (ok probably representative), many wtfs'. Maybe offer up a twin rig two person RSX and it might meet their gender quota and only take up one spot....might then have a chance

They should have a weight-based class. Ride anything you want as long as the total kit weighs less than 20 or 30kg. RS:X board, kite foils, windfoils, exotic carbon creations. Go nuts. Winner take all.

I just looked and there is a version of the Wasp that weighs 40kg. Include them and see what happens.

Gorgo said..
They should have a weight-based class. Ride anything you want as long as the total kit weighs less than 20 or 30kg. RS:X board, kite foils, windfoils, exotic carbon creations. Go nuts. Winner take all.

I just looked and there is a version of the Wasp that weighs 40kg. Include them and see what happens.

That all sounds great but the reality is anything other than one design favours rich countries budgets over athlete's abilities. Even with one design bigger budgets have an advantage but box rule will greatly increase that. Olympic sailing would become like America's Cup with only a handful of nations.

PS: Wasp foiler's are a one design boat

myusernam said..
windsurfing racing is a pretty boring crappy sport that doesn't capitalise on the best aspects of the sport anyway imho.
add to that you need a variable - wind. makes it hard.
I mean it is so far removed from normal winsurfing - large boards that resemble a kayak. super long booms, large sails, yachting triangle courses etc.
The best parts of the sport aren't reflected by the olympic version.

This is so true, but keep it in the olympics and find a way to get the pro's in.

Would have been so cool in the past to see Naish heading up USA, Dunkerbeck for whoever, against, Greg Hyde, Kleppich, Todd for Oz and Kendall for NZ, etc etc.

Tennis, basketball has done it, but in windsurfing the Olympics would have been the pinnacle.

Keep ; limp dicks in Olympics ;has a nice twang to it, might help fight the cause

ThePhil said..

myusernam said..
windsurfing racing is a pretty boring crappy sport that doesn't capitalise on the best aspects of the sport anyway imho.
add to that you need a variable - wind. makes it hard.
I mean it is so far removed from normal winsurfing - large boards that resemble a kayak. super long booms, large sails, yachting triangle courses etc.
The best parts of the sport aren't reflected by the olympic version.

This is so true, but keep it in the olympics and find a way to get the pro's in.

Would have been so cool in the past to see Naish heading up USA, Dunkerbeck for whoever, against, Greg Hyde, Kleppich, Todd for Oz and Kendall for NZ, etc etc.

Tennis, basketball has done it, but in windsurfing the Olympics would have been the pinnacle.

Not sure there is any exclusion of the Pros, look at our own Jessica Crisp, 2x professional windsurfing world champion, 4x Olympian

Probably, but I reckon if you stuck Antoine Albeau on an RSX for a few days he'd beat them all.

cammd said..

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That all sounds great but the reality is anything other than one design favours rich countries budgets over athlete's abilities. Even with one design bigger budgets have an advantage but box rule will greatly increase that. Olympic sailing would become like America's Cup with only a handful of nations.

PS: Wasp foiler's are a one design boat

Both problems are easily fixed.

Even poor countries have rich people. I have seen lots of people from poor countries with state of the art gear, and often they have the skills to use it.

You can limit the competition to production gear. The products used have to be on the market and have sold so many units by a cutoff date.

Personally I don't like any rule-based solutions. As soon as you introduce complex rules (except for basic safety rules), then you introduce scamming and cheating.

Race. Win. Job done.

Here's another simple criteria you could use. Race on anything you like. You have to be able to pick it up, carry it 50m, Jump in the water and race.