I'm quite old, does that make me an "old slapper"?

It's entered the colloquialism. Who's claiming credit for first usage? Someone from WA?

Yeah it's really only common talk amongst foilers of here I'm not sure who came up with it but it's sticking once you foil it makes a lot of sense you know how it is any reason you can make up some new slang term it's in couraged it's the Australian way the grass roots of our language

azymuth said..

stroppo said..
Yeah it's really only common talk amongst foilers of here I'm not sure who came up with it but it's sticking once you foil it makes a lot of sense you know how it is any reason you can make up some new slang term it's in couraged it's the Australian way the grass roots of our language

Pretty sure it was Snides

Own it Snides !!
It's become one of those reverse racism things.
Only Slappers can call each other Slappers.
If anyone else says it, it's offensive!

Snides for governor!
Fly your windsurfer over 3 windwaves and you discover...flying the fin.

Was he "Flying" high as a kite when he coined the term?

Yep, Pretty sure Tomski or Snides came up with it.

The context of it is not normally referring to other windsurfers, but ourselves when we go out on our normal windsurfing gear, as in
"I'm going for a slap tomorrow if the winds up"
"Going out on the slapper"

It's not derogatory, it's a fact!

Which until you foil you don't realize how harsh a normal windsurfer is (even a free ride board with the perfect fin in) you can have the junkiest day and still feel like you are standing on an air mattress (but nowhere near as boring).

Still got my slapper's, ain't getting rid of them any time soon.

I guess if you're cruising around at 8knots in an almost sensory deprived state on an almost-unmoving board, you have time to daydream about names for the other disciplines.

Mark _australia said..
I guess if you're cruising around at 8knots in an almost sensory deprived state on an almost-unmoving board, you have time to daydream about names for the other disciplines.

??

I thought a Slapper was a not very attractive female with loose morals.

I guess "floaters" could be seen as a bit derogatory too

P.C_simpson said..
I thought a Slapper was a not very attractive female with loose morals.

That's a grubscrew.

Up here people seem to use "foiling" and "finning." At Roosevelt I foiled in the morning and finned in the afternoon.

MagicRide said..
I just assumed a slapper board referred to a traditional sailboard because when your planing, it slaps across the water like it's being spanked. The sail is also twitching because of the slapping across the water. With foiling, no slapping or sail twitching is going on, just smooth air sailing.

As was said by the OP.
Well done.

We need more slappers in windsurfing, and by that I don't mean boards with fins attached..