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[–]I_Conquer 28 points29 points ago

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The modern day Icarus.

[–]andbruno 3 points4 points ago

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Compare that to this guy.

[–]talipdx 15 points16 points ago

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Definitely in the Columbia Gorge, looks like possibly Rowena? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Gorge#Description

[–]doesthissmellright 4 points5 points ago

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Yea that's the Gorge

That vid's been floating around the windsurfing forums etc for ages. Can't remember the dude's name but he's a local fixture down there, the guy's always busting massive air and he's actually pretty good at landing it too!

remember reading a "how-to" article from this guy in WindSport once about how to get big air and it went something like "speed, speed, speed!"

[–]Zen1 0 points1 point ago

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Dale Cook!!!

SOURCE: Grew up in da hood.

[–]doesthissmellright 0 points1 point ago

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YES! thanks man, that's actually been bugging me since yesterday.. the guy was amazing, never saw him do any fancy tricks he was all about mind-blowing massive air! like.. make me piss my wet-suit just watching kind of air!

man, and he always had a sweet Roberts board with a sick custom paint-job.. dude was (is?) an all-around baws!

[–]awrex -1 points0 points ago

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Meth, meth, meth?

Is there anything OTC I can use?

[–]lukeatron 2 points3 points ago

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My brother lived there for a while. Saw way more kite surfers than wind surfers and let me tell you, those guys are crazy. Some of ballsier ones would get 40 feet of air and cover a distance of hundreds of feet in a single jump. I never saw it but my brother told me of people that would jump up and swing out over land before coming back down in the water. A couple people die surfing on the Columbia every year. The river flows against the prevailing (and crazy strong) winds so it's one the best places in the world for this stuff.

[–]kaydub88 4 points5 points ago

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I kitesurfed for quite a few years.

Those big ass jumps, those are nothing. In fact, kiters that really do the crazy shit a lot of the times look down on those that do those big sent jumps. (by sent jumps, I mean that you send the kite in the opposite direction, load up line tension with your board, then pop your board off the water and send your kite back the other way).

The CRAZY stuff is when someone does a kiteloop 10-15' above water with a handlepass thrown in there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yePj6Brbesw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yIWYdd9PQA&feature=related

The big jumps, you come down nice and easy... you fuck up a kiteloop though, you're in for a world of pain.

[–]Zen1 0 points1 point ago

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Big jumps on kiteboard gear ARE nothing. Try doing on a windsurfer, where the board weighs a lot more than a kite rig.

[–]kaydub88 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah, windsurfing is definitely harder than kiting.

[–]oedipusanonymous 1 point2 points ago

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I'm a kiter. 40 feet of air is not bad, but I have friends that do 65 feet regularly.

[–]Love_Bulletz 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah, I've seen this sort of stuff before driving through there.

[–]muthafuckingoose 0 points1 point ago

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i have kite surfed there, and the wind can get pretty intense.

[–]A_Birdy 0 points1 point ago

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Probably Hood River.

[–]info_dev 63 points64 points ago

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A wild mirror appears

[–]onionhammer 14 points15 points ago

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Do you have a smaller gif? I can still almost see what's happening

[–]dmanww 0 points1 point ago

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maybe one with sound too

[–]stevenconrad 2 points3 points ago

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Actual "wind surfing."

[–]junglepoon 2 points3 points ago

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Junglepoon used Downvote!

It's not very effective!

[–]Onion920 0 points1 point ago

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How about a mirror for the mirror?

[–]TheyreEatingHer 0 points1 point ago

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What are you talking about...?

[–]soylent_comments 32 points33 points ago

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Couldn't land it? What a loser.

/Sent from my couch.

[–]galapagos1859 10 points11 points ago*

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I can imagine this guy thinking that if he didn't jump at that time, he'd probably be found dead in a different country

I meant "HE" not "WE"... lol

[–]marshmatter 6 points7 points ago

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We? What the hell did I do?!

[–]ssirin88 10 points11 points ago

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YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID.

[–]itoldyouiwouldeatyou 9 points10 points ago

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Apparently those sails work as pretty good wings when you put them on their side.

[–]gonetosea 36 points37 points ago*

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All sails work pretty good as wings when you put them on their side.

[–]doesthissmellright 7 points8 points ago

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Specifically windsurf sails though, if you look at a modern windsurfing sail's profile it's actually a vertical airfoil, pull that baby horizontal and you have yourself a bonafide wing!

[–]Man_the_upboats 1 point2 points ago

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Not sure why you're being downvoted...so here have an upvote back to + territory

[–]BillBrasky_ 0 points1 point ago

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Sails are wings on their side.

[–]Unckmania 0 points1 point ago

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It's quite obvious actually. You shouldn't have a single downvote... Have a golden upvote my good sir.

[–]abarrelofmonkeys 0 points1 point ago

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kinda makes you wonder why it took so long to figure out flight.

[–]dog_in_the_vent 2 points3 points ago

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Yeah, da Vinci was a windsurfer after all, you'd think it'd be obvious.

[–]BenCelotil 2 points3 points ago

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We need a picture of this. Old Da Vinci in pantaloons, catching air on a windsurfer, his hair and beard streaming majestically with a touch of wave spray.

[–]Space_Masters 0 points1 point ago

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It took us a while to figure out how to make the planes go and still be light enough to fly.

[–]tomasziam 59 points60 points ago

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That's a nice lookin' 403 error...

[–]hoseja 22 points23 points ago

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just click the adress bar and hit enter, once your referral won't be reddit you will be let in.

[–]joeeeeee_ 5 points6 points ago

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thanks

[–]ILike4ChanShh 2 points3 points ago

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Was it worth it?

[–]magicfingahs 6 points7 points ago

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It was a repost of a repost. So... no.

[–]inbl 1 point2 points ago

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I hadn't seen it before, so yes. And I'm sure there's other people who hadn't.

[–]FamousSoBad 1 point2 points ago

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Let me work it.

[–]WC_Dirk_Gently 1 point2 points ago

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ur a gizzard blarry.

[–]Psythik 0 points1 point ago

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Alternatively:

Firefox > Options > Privacy > Tell websites I do not want to be tracked

And if that doesn't work:

about:config > Network.http.sendRefererHeader > 0

[–]Nougat 6 points7 points ago

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[–]Baxexaa 6 points7 points ago

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seriously any alt links?

[–]goosbro 111 points112 points ago

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[–]tomasziam 2 points3 points ago

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Brilliant!

[–]Unrelated_Gif 20 points21 points ago

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[–]logicslayer 4 points5 points ago

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TURKEY! lmao

[–]sgt_shizzles 1 point2 points ago

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Goddamn that just hurts.

[–]fizikz3 1 point2 points ago

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one of those things that's embarrassing just watching it.

[–]Goat_beater 25 points26 points ago

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Is there a mirror?

[–]info_dev 46 points47 points ago

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[–]psychiccheese 7 points8 points ago

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I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.

[–]jeff_porridge 2 points3 points ago

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source?

[–]EssDes 2 points3 points ago

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I would never have that problem, McDonald's helps me stay to the ground!

[–]everydayfromwork 2 points3 points ago

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Needs a Wilhelm scream.

[–]varen 4 points5 points ago

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annoying, how many people have this one opportunity to be completely baddass and land it like a boss ? not many.

[–]EvilAce 7 points8 points ago

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I just stared at the word "annoying" for like 15 seconds thinking 'there's no way that's spelled right, but I can't figure out what's wrong with it.' Finally I had to look it up and it is spelled right. You ever have one of those moments?

[–]varen 1 point2 points ago

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TIL this happens to me with the word tomorrow.

[–]EvilAce 0 points1 point ago

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I've never understood that. It doesn't happen to me. Are you saying that if you said tomorrow a bunch of times and then I said "what day is tomorrow?" you wouldn't understand what I meant?

[–]varen 1 point2 points ago

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no, pretty much that if you look at the word tomorrow hard enough, your brain would go "one m ? two m's? are you sure EvilAce, are you really sure ? "

[–]EvilAce 0 points1 point ago

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You made me have to look up whether or not I spelled tomorrow right. I hope you're happy.

[–]tmw3000 0 points1 point ago

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Is it tommorow already?

[–]Bokstavkjeks 1 point2 points ago

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Unrelated, but why are you known to me as the internet detective?

[–]EvilAce 0 points1 point ago

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Probably from this post, in which I deduced that some crazy Russian guy was most likely not a troll. In a later comment, I declared myself an Internet Detective. Then RadicalAce declared herself my nemesis and we proceeded to write noir style fiction about ourselves. That was a fun day.

[–]Bokstavkjeks 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, that's the one!

You wrote "To be continued..." We're still waiting!

[–]thefifthwit 0 points1 point ago

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Oh yeah! That was awesome!

[–]OpenVault 0 points1 point ago

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Ajaolonse!

[–]EvilAce 0 points1 point ago

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excuse me sir, but that isn't a word.

[–]MetalHeel 2 points3 points ago

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I know, he should have rolled with it.

[–]Koreanized 1 point2 points ago

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He should just start kitesurfing.

[–]oedipusanonymous 0 points1 point ago

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yes, much easier, and a whole lot more fun.

[–]slartibar 1 point2 points ago

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I'ts really annoying when your surfboard just blows away

[–]GrayFox89 1 point2 points ago

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My people need me.

[–]Andrexthor 1 point2 points ago

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Pretty fly for a white guy.

[–]jaspersurfer 0 points1 point ago

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Let's not get carried away here.

[–]Stares_at_llamas 1 point2 points ago

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Hood River, Oregon. Went there for the Formula Windsurfing worlds in 2005. Sweet spot. More kitesurfing than windsurfing though.

[–]ZarZad 1 point2 points ago

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[Fry.img] Not sure if the image isn't loading....or OP is referring to the 403 error.

[–]FloppY_ 0 points1 point ago

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Someone must photoshop anti-air missiles or just lasers into this

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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WO HOLD BU ZHU LE.

[–]peeonyou 0 points1 point ago

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Rate-limit exceeded That’s all we know.

[–]CheshireC4t 0 points1 point ago

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DM:W

[–]lucidguppy 0 points1 point ago

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What a complete wimp...

[–]CanIGetaHellYeah 0 points1 point ago

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To the moooooooon

[–]ForestCrunk[S] 0 points1 point ago

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This was better than the gif I posted.

[–]Zen1 0 points1 point ago

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Video, takes place at Doug's Beach, Washington. Rider is Dale Cook, famous for big air.

[–]Censor88 0 points1 point ago

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Dude caught some righteous air!

[–]94CM 0 points1 point ago

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OMG! THAT LOOKED LIKE THE BEST MOMENT IN HISTORY! XD

[–]Oskario 0 points1 point ago

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[–]Haruki-kun 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks.

[–]imnoturfriendbuddy 0 points1 point ago

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Fly on the wings of love

[–]idiosyncrisia 0 points1 point ago

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Fly baby fly

[–]tanketom -1 points0 points ago

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Reaching the stars above

[–]Heremateyerma 3 points4 points ago

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I LIEK CHOCOLATE MILK

[–]telegrams 0 points1 point ago

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dammit batman

[–]azzaleo 0 points1 point ago

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Silly Windsurfer, you can't go that high unless you're a KITEBOARDER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj7qaEi42Ew

[–]avioneta -1 points0 points ago

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If he held that attitude he would have kept climbing to a fatal altitude. As opposed to most airplane wings this one is simply using newton's 3rd law rather than the Venturi effect. Amazing and terrifying.

[–]kennmac 3 points4 points ago

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The drag alone would cause a momentum shift so that the surfers velocity would begin to match the wind speed velocity and there would be no more lift. This was already occurring before he was separated from the sail.

[–]Nickelbackd -2 points-1 points ago

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At least he's not Rick Astley

[–]ndneze 2 points3 points ago

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Let this one die

[–]fortfert 0 points1 point ago

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Why didn't I see that coming?

[–]HawkEgg 0 points1 point ago

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again. stupid vevo and their ads preventing a Back Roll'd

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points ago

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Repost......

[–]oneblindguy 0 points1 point ago

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First time that I've seen it.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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welcome to the internet.

[–]grahamholborn -1 points0 points ago

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go die. this insta downloaded a image onto my computer. get off reddit.