Spocks. Vulcans Clew-first switchstance assaults on the Romulan empire. That’s what the ABK crew (in town a day early in preparation for their clinic) were throwing. I was just going to fool around with carving freestyle and leave the extraterrestrial stuff be, until George Marr said “C’MAAAAAAAHN!”
What was I gonna do? So I got a quick refresher lecture from Radar Tom, mounted a 4 inch fin, and then joined George, ABK’s Tom, Andy Brandt, and Brandon (and later Jon Ford an another Tom) as well as Special Guest Star Pete Dekay (editor of Windsport) out on the water to twist and jump and spin…or tried to. The 20+ knot blow at Napeague, and all the freestyle talent (plus Megastoke Marr) finally got me to make more than a few token Vulcan attempts. I went for it about 30 times, and felt like a rag doll from the better attempts (which ended in undignified crashes.) The poorer attempts were so pathetic that nothing happened at all.
They say it can take 500 attempts to land one…I doubt I’ll be that lucky Hopefully I’ll live long (and prosper) enough to land one.
are we gonna get a post on the matauk monster?
Posted by: Aaron Vieira | May 15, 2009 at 03:05 AM
Mike- Good seeing you the other night. I thought the number quoted was closer to 2000. However I think you can do it in 500 but maybe consistently would be 2000. Anyway It gets a lot easier on your body after about a 100 attempts. This is when you get around and start sliding back wards. Give it a couple more sessions and you will be on your way. See you on the water soon
GP
Posted by: Geo | May 17, 2009 at 06:31 AM