riverboarding
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Topic: riverboarding
Posted By: feva_sailor
Subject: riverboarding
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 9:14am
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i want one!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3486896397423944585&q=good+sailing - yeehaa |
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Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 9:22am
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It looks like after about 1 or 2 goes it will get really boring. ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: feva_sailor
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 9:24am
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hmm ye but put it infront of a rapid and try stay up and get big ride it would be ok or going across a small bay? ------------- |
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 9:27am
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need quite a bit of that bungee to get across a bay ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: Guest
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 10:51am
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Sad ------------- |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 10:55am
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Looks quite dull to me... looses speed very quickly and and the tricks
he was describing boil down to 'crouch down and spin a bit before you
slow down and sink'.
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 11:19am
And "aim for an impressive-looking ramp and go for a pathetic plop off the end"... It made my 4-year old giggle for a bit.  ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 12:00pm
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Hmmm.... I think he has too much time on his hands
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Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 12:12pm
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i think feva_kid actually deserves his "get out more" status ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 1:07pm
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It seems like a lame version of skim boarding. At least with skim boarding you don't need the whole bungee system and you can do it on pretty much any beach!
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Posted By: feva_sailor
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 2:11pm
i was searching sailing on google vids and it came up with this and thought what reaction itd bring up on here ------------- |
Posted By: feva_sailor
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 3:07pm
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looking at there website the bungies streach too 200 ft so u could find a small bay tie it to 1 side walk with the bungie to the other jump on the board the board and get a 30mph ride!it be good for those days with no wind ------------- |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 3:45pm
I'm sorry ? I've not heard of and of my Brighton chums doing this. Mind you, it does occur to me that just letting go of the board at maximum stretch would keep the people at the other end of the bungy on their toes. |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 8:04pm
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rather than use it on an idylic river reserved for ents and british moths, use it on mud: if you put the whole bungee skim board thing on some nice slippy mud it would probably go alot faster for longer without sinking (unless it was REALY soft mud). i suggest somewhere on the east coast. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Hobbo
Date Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 9:50pm
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I chuckled at the river map of europ compared to the river map of the USA... Idiots. ------------- Contender GBR 362 Osprey 1318 - IVplay SSC |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 13 Jul 06 at 11:26am
TT, thanks so much for the reply.  As for "Three Men in a Boat", do we really know that gay was not used in it's more modern sense (vis a vis the homosexual community) by Jerome K Jerome. The storyline and situation would appear entirely apt.I agree with your Riverboarding comments and observations on bungees. I am not a real man however, based on the listed activities. Which is not that disappointing to me, fortunately. |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 13 Jul 06 at 12:00pm
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The americanness of the narrator and the patheticness of the acutal
sport actually made me think it was a joke at first. Especially
the bit where it says: "it's good because rivers are everywhere, take a
look at these two river maps" Really? I've never seen a river in my
life! An insight into feva_kid's hobbies - searching "good sailing" in google video.....come on, can't you be just a bit more imaginative??  ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: Skiffe
Date Posted: 14 Jul 06 at 4:11pm
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So I take you don't have any bungee in you boat, cause your a REAL MAN. therefore wooden hiking straps for you ( pre seat belt webbing) cuase they require no bungee cord and traps are out for you too. Can someone over there please ensure his is being a real man, I can post the scissors. ------------- 12footers. The Only Way to FLY Remember Professionals built the titanic, Amateurs built the ark. |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 14 Jul 06 at 4:19pm
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Toldja, TT! They know where you live!! (anyone who doesn't know where TT lives, please PM me - I've got a spare pair of scissors they can borrow... ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Skiffe
Date Posted: 14 Jul 06 at 4:22pm
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You might want to look at this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6767720750668385354&q=good+sailing - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6767720750668385354 &q=good+sailing http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6767720750668385354&q=good+sailing - I dont think that the sailing would be that great here. a bit to much tide BNS i'll take you up on that offer ------------- 12footers. The Only Way to FLY Remember Professionals built the titanic, Amateurs built the ark. |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 14 Jul 06 at 4:26pm
It's the same video as feva_kid's, only edited - the Amerikaneee's gone. Same flolloping about... Same bungee cord  ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: feva_sailor
Date Posted: 14 Jul 06 at 4:39pm
yer the search was random but i was going throgh most sailing things i went through skiffs,dinghy sailing at it just came to that ------------- |