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A Question to the magazin "American Windsurfer"German version: deutsche Version Sender: Udo Fritze
I found the page "Iowa sailors on Ice" at http://members.aol.com/iowa.wind/ice.html. It includes a picture that is followed by the line: "Surfin' the snowdrifts, Iowa style" And there are no additional Facts belonging to the picture. Only if you pay a lot of attention in observing the picture properly, you realize the strange large fence in the background. Beyond the fence there seems to be a totally different environment influenced by a different climate compared to the scenery in front of the fence. Is it necessary for the typical Iowa style? Background of my
question: In the following years the European climate changed. There has not been a sufficient covering of snow in order to exercise surfing on snow. This year the situation in Berlin has changed. We had ice and snow for a large period. Then I found a notice in the Jan./Feb. 96 issue of the magazine Surf. There is reported on page 16 that two Austrian guys are able to jump as far as 33 feet with a ski based sled and a Windsurf Sail. An additional photo shows the sequence after leaving the jump hill. I called one of them and he told me, that they tried to jump as far as possible in 1995. But this year they tried to jump as high as possible. I'm quite well informed about Ice Surfing. But I like to get much more information on Snow Surfing because it could not be exercised in the past years due to the change of climate. I would like to get in touch with Americans who practice Snow Surfing. Is there anyone who remembers when and where there has been published something ( A N Y T H I N G ) on this subject? I'm also interested in windsurfing on frozen lakes covered by more than a feet of snow layer. So if you can help me to find ideas of surfsailing on snow, that allows speeds of more then 40 mph as well as close turns, give me a mail. My question is, what is possible with a Windsurf Sail on the snow ground in general. Are there special shapes which allow high speed on the one hand and close turns at low speed on the other? Maybe the person who got the idea of creating the funny picture mentioned above was inspired by ... (?) (What ever it might have been, it must have been a really good feeling.) Can you tell me what kind of experience it was? Thanks a lot! Kind Regards published in: http://www.american.windsurfer.com/airmail4.3.html Comment of American Windsurfer: Udo, try contacting the World Ice and Snow Sailing Association: P.O. Box 414 Jamestown, RI, 02835 USA or charles Chepregi at Snowfer, Inc: 175 Elmwood Ave, Willowdale, Ontario M2N 3M3 Canada. |
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