2010 Corpus Worlds training up-date...
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:16 am
It's been a week now since i've arrived here in Corpus for the worlds. We've had it all from balls out windy and volkswagon sized chop to flat and light.
Farley and I set a (spider man themed and branded) windward and leeward mark to see what's up 2 days ago. That boy can really grind and always has another lap in him. It was full on war with lulls in the 5 knot range and puffs to upper 20's... Possibly in the lower 30's... I can't tell anymore... A couple times my board speed numbers read downwind 30+ knots and I believe it because on one downhill leg I caught air unintentionally off the back of a man sized piece of chop and buckled into the back of the next. Somehow still in the straps both my knees hit the board and added to my dent collection... (Sorry Aguera. Hope you don't mind a couple extra dents on your baby). Of course Farley smoked me on that run...
Next beat (upwind) the wind turned up a notch and so did the unforgiving massive chop... It's funny here in texass... The waves do not spread out like in the open sea here. It just gets steeper and steeper. Upwind Farley and I where really close and when we finally found our spyderman mark bouncing in the seas we speed for it neck and neck. Pinned wide open and overstanding we both hit a voodoo wave that sent us both in the air at the same time... Going upwind with no intension of jumping. Needless to say we both ate it hard.
I didn't have enough yet so I took another crazy lap. I ate it really hard catapolting myself and skipping like a rock for 100 yards and face planting into the backs of the waves. This place can be really brutal if you loose control...
On my beat back upwind i caught air once again... The wind got under my board, ripped her off my feet and blew back straight at my face. All I could do in my out of control sate was put my forward knee up to keep the obvious from hapening. Sorry Aguera, one more dent you will for sure notice.
Man I really love this new sport. It seperates the men from the boys for sure.... I'm not talking age here either. When you hit the windward mark and turnoff the wind... If your not scared your not pushing hard enough.
No wind yesterday, today it was really light and gusty, shifty north wind out of the city with butter flat water. Farley tuned up his new board. We both swam through the lulls and droped our 9's (we should have been on 11's, but no wind is no wind and we still would have swam). In the end we both swam/drifted in. Farley gets the navy seal award today for scaling a barnicle covered wall and sacraficed his body to save his kite and new board. Dude is tough!
More to come... Fan should be back on maƱana and there should be more sailors on the water for some extra motivation.
AK
Farley and I set a (spider man themed and branded) windward and leeward mark to see what's up 2 days ago. That boy can really grind and always has another lap in him. It was full on war with lulls in the 5 knot range and puffs to upper 20's... Possibly in the lower 30's... I can't tell anymore... A couple times my board speed numbers read downwind 30+ knots and I believe it because on one downhill leg I caught air unintentionally off the back of a man sized piece of chop and buckled into the back of the next. Somehow still in the straps both my knees hit the board and added to my dent collection... (Sorry Aguera. Hope you don't mind a couple extra dents on your baby). Of course Farley smoked me on that run...
Next beat (upwind) the wind turned up a notch and so did the unforgiving massive chop... It's funny here in texass... The waves do not spread out like in the open sea here. It just gets steeper and steeper. Upwind Farley and I where really close and when we finally found our spyderman mark bouncing in the seas we speed for it neck and neck. Pinned wide open and overstanding we both hit a voodoo wave that sent us both in the air at the same time... Going upwind with no intension of jumping. Needless to say we both ate it hard.
I didn't have enough yet so I took another crazy lap. I ate it really hard catapolting myself and skipping like a rock for 100 yards and face planting into the backs of the waves. This place can be really brutal if you loose control...
On my beat back upwind i caught air once again... The wind got under my board, ripped her off my feet and blew back straight at my face. All I could do in my out of control sate was put my forward knee up to keep the obvious from hapening. Sorry Aguera, one more dent you will for sure notice.
Man I really love this new sport. It seperates the men from the boys for sure.... I'm not talking age here either. When you hit the windward mark and turnoff the wind... If your not scared your not pushing hard enough.
No wind yesterday, today it was really light and gusty, shifty north wind out of the city with butter flat water. Farley tuned up his new board. We both swam through the lulls and droped our 9's (we should have been on 11's, but no wind is no wind and we still would have swam). In the end we both swam/drifted in. Farley gets the navy seal award today for scaling a barnicle covered wall and sacraficed his body to save his kite and new board. Dude is tough!
More to come... Fan should be back on maƱana and there should be more sailors on the water for some extra motivation.
AK