It was perfect weather yesterday. Sunny and warm, wind 25 knots solid gusting 30.
Allow to build up the chop around 1 meter high on our semi flat water channel.
Bored a bit crossing the 500m distance and gybing , I started to improvise and instead
of straight cut through a chop cut nice regular semi turns using as a guidance incoming chop waves.
Nothing possibly unusual for wave raiders, but I did never saw anybody playing that on the choppy or flat water.
IMO that style could be quite a fun, when done with regularity and rythm.
Also a bit challanging as I managed to cut few time edge too deep and fall into water.
I wonder if somebody of you did try or even have some video footage of similar style.
It remains a bit popular ski riding style, when most of the time you are out of the balance relaying on the dynamic of the that curve.
Require solid wind with plenty of power on the water both in sail, hands and legs
I think such style could be easy developed into quite fascinating Olympic competition.
True slalom where 4 sailors compete in parallel on the strategically placed 30 buoys (not in straight line).
Run down , come back straight line , run again, first come wins.
or even they run 4 times every next time switching on neighbour buoys !!
After a couple of record wet years I think it must be a bumper harvest for mushrooms in SE Qld this season
