They don't need to drop any class from the Olympics - they just need to hire this guy to do all the live commentary! He'll make everything worth watching
ronnie wrote:Tips for Rio - A windsurfer example of describing how your course race went.
Windsurf course racing world championships have just started. In his half of the draw this guy finished 2, 1, 1, 1, in the first 4 races.
Despite sailing like this
ha ha
that's funny - these are the best races, when you don't really care too much about winning.. I envy him, looks like he had a right laugh! A few really good guys I know, including one of the top formula guys Ross Williams I met again recently have the genius with a lightness of character like this that makes them very quick and resilient. Fun guys to race with.
Formula will be much closer to kite racing than anything else. Their tech and rider ability are much closer than olympic (which has no tech!).
The first United Kingdom RYA Olympic Ranking Event for the 2016 Olympics has taken place.
The winner of the kite course racing event was 19 year old Tom Squires, who switched from the Olympic RSX windsurfing class and started kiting less than 5 months ago.
kitewindunite wrote:In front of Bridge, Bridge and Harvey... ouch! No way he's just picked up kiting.
What I have read reported is that he actually started kiting in June, so if that's correct he took less than 4 months to get to that level.
A bunch of young RSX sailors all started kiting together this summer AFAIK and he seems to be the exceptional one.
I think quite a few RSX windsurfers are awaiting the result of the appeal in November to see if RSX is definately out of the Olympics. This result suggests they will have enough time before Rio to reach their full potential as a kite racer (at least for Olympic conditions) if they start after November.