For someone who isn’t very sporty, I find it a bit odd that I’d be doing two sports videos, back to back, except for two private birthday videos for grandchildren, that is.
But these wetsuit-clad and balaclava-wearing surfer dudes were fun to watch, even from the breezy, brisk, and rainy shoreline last November.
Isabel
I’ve always wanted to try that. But having seen your video…
Tom
Tom – Splish splash sploosh! Yeah, I think my surfer-dude days are also behind me.
Hi Isabel, Go to 1:38 of your video and add that image to your array of visages! Or perhaps it’s already there! Now you have me looking! And this sport may also have potential in the summer Olympics! Fun to watch!
Marilyn – Hah! It’s catching.
Sorry — I meant 0:22-0:23!
Marilyn – I’ll have to take another look – I’m still *not* seeing it!
Neat! Was that the Big Guy in the red gear with his back to us?
Vince – Let me check . . . umm, no. As in, “No way.”
Isabel – Being me I have to mention that I think the technical term for what you are showing is para-surfing. I did some windsurfing once and that was with a surfboard that had an actual sail attached to it. That fad passed and moved on to using a para-sail.
John – Being a shortened form of parachute, I guess? Well, OK. But it works so much better in my title as windsurfing.
And if you want to consider windsurfing a generic term, then technically they are surfing using the wind as their motive power as opposed to gravity on the front side of a wave; therefore. they are indeed windsurfing. Isn’t English a wonderfully flexible language when you want it to be?
John – “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master-that’s all.”