It hasn’t really been THAT long since we last had waves. Only a few days really. But yesterday afater my brain had gone to mush and any chance of productivity had left me, I left the office and went to try out an idea that had been brewing for a while – tie a line to a bridge, jump on a surfboard and hang on while trying to surf standing waves. It all seemed a bit fantastic in my mind, but even I figured it might not actually work out. Talking about it certainly wasn’t going to resolve my curiousity, so off I went to our nearby river.
I took my handy pocket digi cam (canon G9) and recorded this fine film:
It was better than sitting at home. With a faster moving river and larger standing waves I think this could be pretty fun. The board I was riding is an 8’6″ and barely kept me afloat. Maybe I’ll go back when the river is flooding some day.
Sooo, is this activity required as well to make the special ice wax? Give a call when the river is raging and you need a bigger board:)
You need to find a standing wave about 2 feet high. I have seen this work in Whistler, BC off a bridge. Eventually, you should be able to drop the rope and surf the standing wave.
I think we need a bigger river. Maybe the Nenana. Or wait, what we really need is ocean waves! It would be fun though to have a river wave that could be surfed anytime.
Thank your higher power we didn’t have to do this today!
Hey Scott, you know what is really cool about this? Stoke.
Pure Stoke. One thing my surf buddies used to tease me about when we were all first getting into surfing in Northern California – is that I would go out in ANYTHING. Huge scary, sloppy, onshore, tiny mushy blown out, or just ankle high perfect offshore barrels. Thing is – no matter what the surf, getting in the water and being on my board was just so much better than diverting a dawn patrol for hash browns and coffee or doughnuts or a bagel. So I have to say I just connected to your enthusiasm.. surfs down… what am I gonna do… where can I get in.. how can I ride my board.. ahhhaaaa…
keep up the stoke
R
Robert – Thanks for the note. Gotta love it.