Mr Abe said...
Why are windsurfers so serious out on the water?
Long story, dot point version:
- Windsurfer crashes into sandbank,
- I offer help,
- He abuses me,
- I leave him to his misery,
- He later attacks me on the beach,
- He goes home sore and sorry.
Second question: Why do windsurfers punch like little girls?
I can sort of guess why.
The reason probably was that you and your kite strings rounded up the poor bugga leaving him nowhere to go other than onto the sandbank.
It has happened to me a few times that kiters have put me in places that I certainly didn't want to be simply because they cut off the exit points with their strings and projected track.
The same thing can happen even from another windsurfer but not as often because with a much smaller profile they can only block off a small area.
Kite strings plus their projected track can cut off 50 to 100 meters and often leaves the other poor guy with nowhere to go, except onto a sandbank, or into a weed patch, or onto the beach, or some other place that you don't want to be.
There is not really any way to eliminate this while the two sports are done in the same area. Windsurfers just have to accept that if there are kiters in the area things will happen that they don't like. Just accept it and don't let it ruin your day. And there is certainly no need to resort to abuse or fisticuffs. In almost all instances the kiter or other windsurfer is totally unaware of the other guys predicament and is just having a great time, until you mouth off at him.
Oh, and in answer to the last question, windsurfers only punch like little girls after 2 or 3 hours windsurfing. Otherwise they all punch like Tyson. [}:)]
