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sav1
Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 50
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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 10:21 pm Post subject: Worst Experience While Learning |
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What do you regret doing when you were a novice because you just didn't know any better?
One of my friends blew out his back because he was taught to uphaul with his legs straight!
For me it was sailing right onto the beach the first time I got plaining because I didn't want the sensation to end! |
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rgomez
Joined: 13 Dec 2012 Posts: 112
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:30 am Post subject: |
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1. Not reading the choppy water conditions near the jetty and getting dragged through it as I was unable to uphaul.
2. Uphaul line opening the boom clamp mid sea and then swimming back for 40mins dragging the rig. |
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jpellegrino
Joined: 28 May 2011 Posts: 18
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Wiping out with sail landing on top of me while hooked in. Kept pushing up against sail with my head to get air, finally unhooked, grabbed boom, slid out. Longest 10 seconds I've had in awhile. |
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mrchocky
Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 61
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Hitting my head with the mast. Had a headache for a year after. |
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U2U2U2
Joined: 06 Jul 2001 Posts: 5467 Location: Shipsterns Bluff, Tasmania. Colorado
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 10:10 am Post subject: |
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[quote="jpellegrino"]Wiping out with sail landing on top of me while hooked in. Kept pushing up against sail with my head to get air, finally unhooked, grabbed boom, slid out. Longest 10 seconds I've had in awhile.[
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mrchocky:: wrote
Hitting my head with the mast. Had a headache for a year after.
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now wear a helmet . I lost a brand new sail cause of getting hit
scarey with the sail, has happened to me, worst was probably the sail was partly over me, stuck in the harness and in one footstrap, it twisted tight.
Using a roller instead of a hook on your harness helps the stuck, and wider /bigger straps as well. _________________ K4 fins
4Boards....May the fours be with you
http://www.k4fins.com/fins.html
http://4boards.co.uk/ |
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thombiz
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 799 Location: Corpus Christi
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 10:25 am Post subject: |
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The worst thing I would do when I was first learning was to push the gear far away from me when I was in the process of falling. I remember one time in a 25 mph blow, I shoved the gear hard away from me, and when I surfaced and looked for the gear, it was about 8 yards away from me and moving downwind quickly so I started to swim after it. I quickly realized it was moving at the same speed I was swimming, so I swam harder. Maybe 50 yards later, I finally caught it. I was completely exhausted. I hung onto the gear for about half an hour while I regained my strength, then water started and worked my way back upwind to my launch site. From then on, I always hung onto the boom or mast when I would fall. |
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vikingsail
Joined: 12 May 1998 Posts: 46
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Buying my first equipment that was advertised in a local paper. It was a horrible narrow transistion board, aluminum mast, tie on boom, and a baggy sail that that had a 3 knot planing range before slamming me into the water. Luckly I got rid of the board and got newer sails within a couple of years. |
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Arrgh
Joined: 05 May 1998 Posts: 864 Location: Rio
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:38 am Post subject: |
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So many choices...My first board was a used Mistral Equipe (original model) purchased from a friend, complete with original 6.6 sail and rig. To his credit, he took me to a shop in Berkeley where we found a fairly used but relatively modern (for 1993) 5.0 sail. One day I decided what the hell, I'll try that 6.6. Did a pretty easy uphaul off the dock, got out into the lake and fell. Went to uphaul that thing and I swear it had sucked up a gallon (8 pounds) of water. Made it to shore and never used it again. I don't think my back was ever quite the same. |
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dhmark
Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 376
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Letting go of boom while falling, the boom head hit the tail of the board, denting the tail, breaking through the ASA. Lesson learned: Hold on to boom. A few sesssions later, then hit my own head with mast holding onto boom. Very scary overpowered sesssions in offshore winds at Candlestick, Coyote point when basically a beginner uphauling. dhmark |
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PeconicPuffin
Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Worst Experience While Learning |
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sav1 wrote: | What do you regret doing when you were a novice because you just didn't know any better?
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Listening to my friends, who said "don't take lessons". Lessons were for rich people and sissies! Two worst habits I developed (with the help of same friends) were waterstarting with both feet on the board (as opposed to letting the front leg drag at first) and back foot first getting into the footstraps. After five years of windsurfing I nevertheless was fast and could do sloppy jibes. Then on a lark I took a two day clinic with the Imperato brothers, who said "you're fast, but you do EVERYTHING wrong. They straightened me out on a bunch of things, and I became an instruction junkie.
In the smash yourself up department, my very first day trying windsurfing I kept pulling the mast foot out of the board (I was uphauling on an original Windsurfer) and driving it into my shins. I was bloody when I finally got off the water, but I had managed a couple reaches of 5-6 feet, and was hooked! _________________ Michael
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