05-20-2008, 04:31 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 9,483
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I would highly recommend wearing a helmet and lifejacket when windsurfing. I've been a half-mile from the shore, and I can't swim a half-mile.
Also, there was a windsurfer in Austin. He got hit by something, either a board or a boat, and went down and didn't come up. If he had had a lifejacket he probably would have lived.
Also, I have been slammed so hard windsurfing, that even with a helmet, I had a bad headache.
Surfing is about waiting. Windsurfing and wakeboarding is about action. Nonstop action.
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