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Surf Jousting
On the second pass, I unseated the knave and dumped him unceremoneously into the drink | |
Modern windsurfing combines speed, agility and grace. But after a while, one can get tired of battling the elements alone.
Introducing Surf Jousting. Combatants use the latest in windsurfing equipment, but wear a specialized harness with a "bullseye" hoop that protrudes from the back.
Then,
racing towards each other on a quarter mile course, they must catch the hoop with their light titanium lance and let their momentum throw the opponent off his surfboard while staying on their own.
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Until I read this was windsurfing, I was stumped by the implication everyone would be travelling in the same direction. Unless you kind of poked the guy next to you until he fell off. |
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I was hoping for a 14' Nerf lance. |
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[dooper] "serf" was an essential part of the name, windserf just wasn't cutting it |
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Snerf?
Sounds like fun. Sign me up. |
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Actually, you don’t need a lance. Just tip your mast forward and spear the guy with it. (Well, that’s going to be harder than it sounds, but still easier than carrying a lance.) |
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You're going to kill someone. (+) |
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It's only funny until somebody loses an eye! |
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<waiting expectantly for 'smurf jousting'> |
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That's when the water's cold enough to turn you blue. |
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With the its 200th anniversary coming up in 2005, I propose a pitched battle at sea consisting of hundreds of windsnerf jousters actually at Trafalgar - Britain vs France. Both sides would be colour coded, if you're jousted into the water or fall off, your out of the battle...adjudicators from a launch boat using binoculars determine the last windsnerfer left standing - whose side wins. Claims of shabby authenticity from naval historians will be fought off using forged archeological evidence. |
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Bun. And I like the "mast-spearing" idea. It *could* be done with standard wave surfing, as they might all be going, say, south, but could then make a lot of changes east and west. |
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Smart. Purely for the invention of new a dialect somewhere between Mediaeval and whooooooooaaa-doooooode |
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