Quite a few people have come up to me to comment about the photo I ran of Andy Brandt last month. In honor of his birthday, I used this shot of one of Andy's signature tricks to suggest that he was becoming confusled about how to windsurf in his old age.
Let me tell you about the first time I ever saw Andy pull this move. T'was 1998, at my first ABK windsurfing clinic, held at Tiana (bay side). "Freestyle windsurfing" was not an expression one heard back then. I was in the group of "good" students who were working on jibes. Andy demonstrated several picture perfect step jibes, then came charging towards the beach, jumped around the mast into B2B backwinded mode, sailed up to us, and then proceeded to tack. He blew the tack, and immediately apologized to us, saying "I swear...I know how to sail."
We were all jaws agape dumbfounded. "You know how to sail? I'm pretty sure what you just did is impossible!" I should note that Andy was on a 110 liter mid-90's slalom board. It was pretty cool.
Andy is the best teacher I've ever had the benefit of learning from! If you haven't been to an ABK camp yet - Just Do It!
Posted by: Canadian Guy | November 24, 2010 at 03:33 PM