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Harry Member Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418 |
11th September 2004 Windsurfing: Avon beach Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: Up and down Surf / Sea State: Flat/chop/some small waves Air Temperature: 17ºC Sea Temperature: 18ºC Weather: Overcast/showers Max Speed: Distance Covered: Thought I would be by myself again today, but woke up to find a text message from Bob saying he was up for a sail. Nice one. So drove to Avon together. Turned up around 1pm to see Adam and Tom out on the water - another nice one, we weren't expecting them to be there. Was really good to meet up with Tom again since had only seen him once briefly since Brazil. Adam was on a 4.7, Tom 5.2. But I was sure it looked windier, so chucked up the 4.5 again. Just about the right choice - wind was really up and down, could have done with the 5.2 at times, but really didn't want to be overpowered. Was annoyingly flat so not particularly exciting sailing. All the time I was having issues with staying upwind - wind was so up and down that I was blobbing a lot more than is healthy, and the strong cross-shore current ripping out of the harbour often grabbed me and whisked me downwind. So when sailing out was just trying to get upwind, and often didn't have enough space to gybe on the inside. Grrrrr. Comedy moment around 3pm when the wind dropped right off and swung round to the NW as some rain passed over, leaving everyone marooned, some worse than others. Fortunately only a 10 minute swim for me, but Bob got it the worst out of everyone, swimming for at least half an hour ha!!! Wind soon came back after that though, and like yesterday was best of all right at the end. Some waves started popping up on the sand bar as the water was receding with the tide, so good for jumping. And I went for my first 2 forward attempts oh yeah!!!!! Well....I'll kid myself that they were proper attempts, but in fact they were pretty pathetic. The approaches were fine, jumped no problem off the wave out of the harness, but thing is I was concentrating so much on just psyching myself up to go for it I sort of forgot to do the technique bits, i.e. sheet in properly and tuck my legs up! Result was a sort of splat forward into the water on my side having hardly rotated at all. Bob said it sort of looked like a crap table-top forward attempt cos I kept my back leg straight and dragged it up behind me, instead of tucking up under my bum. Still, I'm calling them loop "attempts", feel like I've cracked the mental fear barrier now and can't wait to try them again!!! So another solid 4.5 session eeeexxcellent. Again not the perfect session, several not so good bits, but big plus points included really feeling I've got my outside gybes sorted (even properly planed out of one oh yeah!).....and of course those forward attempts. Nice one. Looks like it's gonna honk again big time on Tuesday!!!!! But need to rest my poor aching limbs, and bollox do some work....hmmmm will I make it out? |
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