Last Saturday I went to a friends prawn farm which is very close to the place I used to work. He has the most fantastic new toy – a jet boat!! It was my first time to try wake- boarding (Its like a snow board for water.) I must confess to stacking it the first ten or so times I tried to get up and going. Each time almost pulling my arms out of their sockets! Once you can get going it’s quite easy to stay up and turn. I left the big jumps, flips and slides to the other guys not wanting to show them up on my first go!!!
The second part of the day was really fun when we had two ropes and were knee boarding. A body board is use and you start off on your belly then hop up onto your knees and sit on the thing in a very Japanese way. They are surprisingly a lot easier than the wake board and spins ect are great fun. The main aim of the boats driver is to “rag doll” the two people on the back. That basically consists of trying to go really fast into a corner and send the two people on boards around the corner like a slingshot watching as they skim along. Inevitably they go to fast and end up fling off the board and crashing along the water like a rag doll being thrown from a car. I was more than a little stiff trying to get out of bed this morning.
The guys also have a big pipe in the pond one end below the water. The aim is to slide along the pipe out of the water. By some amazing fluke I managed it on the knee board by pure fluke of lining up and holding on!!
The second part of the day was really fun when we had two ropes and were knee boarding. A body board is use and you start off on your belly then hop up onto your knees and sit on the thing in a very Japanese way. They are surprisingly a lot easier than the wake board and spins ect are great fun. The main aim of the boats driver is to “rag doll” the two people on the back. That basically consists of trying to go really fast into a corner and send the two people on boards around the corner like a slingshot watching as they skim along. Inevitably they go to fast and end up fling off the board and crashing along the water like a rag doll being thrown from a car. I was more than a little stiff trying to get out of bed this morning.
The guys also have a big pipe in the pond one end below the water. The aim is to slide along the pipe out of the water. By some amazing fluke I managed it on the knee board by pure fluke of lining up and holding on!!
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