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Surfing and Soaring?
On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 8:06:13 AM UTC-8, Burt Compton - Marfa Gliders, west Texas wrote:
On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 10:04:33 AM UTC-6, Burt Compton - Marfa Gliders, west Texas wrote: The legendary Woody Brown. Surfer, sailplane pilot. Begin he https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Brown_(surfer) Thank you for sharing! I had not heard of this amazing life. |
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Surfing and Soaring?
On Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 11:43:09 PM UTC-8, gotovkotzepkoi wrote:
son_of_flubber;982328 Wrote: Does anyone who's done both seriously care to contrast the two? I've only read autobiographies of ocean wave surfers, but there seem to be some points of contact in terms of motivation, the experience, the quest, the immersion, the risk taking, the weather, the places, the compulsion, the high... I see no similarities. -- gotovkotzepkoi Ah, Inspector Clouseau, did you look at the similarities of movement, both ride waves, both go through turbulence getting to the wave, both must have a 3rd sense, an awareness of surroundings and planning ahead. Both are weather dependent, and knowledge of weather trends is useful...……. |
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Surfing and Soaring?
On Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 6:26:39 PM UTC-5, son_of_flubber wrote:
Does anyone who's done both seriously care to contrast the two? I've only read autobiographies of ocean wave surfers, but there seem to be some points of contact in terms of motivation, the experience, the quest, the immersion, the risk taking, the weather, the places, the compulsion, the high... Soaring is Surfing in Slow Motion https://youtu.be/3LaqrCSeh5A |
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Surfing and Soaring?
IMHO Surfing doesn't have anything in common with Soaring, nada, zilch. Completely different environments and experiences, and participants.
I've got in 52 years of surfing now. 33 years Hang Gliding. 22 years Soaring. Just saying.. |
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Surfing and Soaring?
From Portugal, 42 years young
I´ve been surfing for 30 years and gliding for 8 (flying a DG 808 in Spain and Portugal) Gliding and surfing have 2 essencial things in common: - they both use the forces of nature (fluids, sea and air) to glide, so, as said before, you need to adapt and recognize what the atmosfere or the sea are doing to extract the most of it, if you don´t do it you land out or you don´t catch waves; - wave and ridge flying is surfing in a glider, and surfing in a wave is gliding in a surfboard. I´m sure that the surfing experience helped me a lot in the gliding, on the attention you need to have to recognize where the energy sources are and on the finesse and suppless you must have to don´t waste energy and don´t create drag while piloting. You schould try surfing if you never did it, and never forget that the best surfer is the one enjoying the most, not the one that has the best technic or is winning everything (even if you are a beginner that just learn to stand up on a surfboard). Come to surf in Portugal and fly in Fuentemilanos, I will be more than glad to help you around Cheer Jose Pires de Lima At 23:00 03 February 2019, Nick Kennedy wrote: IMHO Surfing doesn't have anything in common with Soaring, nada, zilch. Completely different environments and experiences, and participants. I've got in 52 years of surfing now. 33 years Hang Gliding. 22 years Soaring. Just saying.. |
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