The Kook issue - Part 2

by Emilie Marx
(Part 2/6)

Another amazing news I’ve heard is that “overpowered doesn’t exist”…
One day that I was riding on an off-shore wind spot with a surfboard, I started being pulled off my edge quite scarily. I did my best to get back upwind, lit as a rocket, to then open my safety in emergency.
When I told what had just happened to the old mate who was organising the trip -having a nap in the van when the incident took place-, he looked at me despitefully and said: “what the fuck are you talking about?”.
There is obviously no such thing as overpowered…

I wished I had been filmed, that day in North Queensland -in Oz- when the wind picked up to 40 knots in few seconds.
All the witnesses on the beach said they had never seen anything like that before: I got lofted some ten meters above the surface, in superman position, and didn’t touch the water again until I eventually released -few seconds later, half a kilometre further down…

Even the birds were overpowered that day!

Nah, you’re right, dude, overpowered is the fruit of my imagination.
I should have suggested him to lose twenty kilos so he could add some new words to his vocabulary…

I opted for my favourite one: whatever…
I had opened my safety any way, and that surely is the most uncool thing of all: only kooks open their safety when they need to. Doh.

At that point I was down to two options: signing off for the day –I was way too lit-or go with my twin tip, in order to hold on few more knots. I opted for the latter. But who rides a twin tip on a world class wave spot???

Well, me obviously, lol.

I’m quite sure the swearing guy in the van is still embarrassed about it!
–I’m still smiling about it, remembering the face of another cool guy who came to me at the evening, asking me with a stupid grin on his face: “was it you riding a twin tip today?” - like if it was the most humiliating thing to admit…

Would have been much cooler I guess to give up my session….
On a world class wave riding site, are you kidding me?
I will be the kook on the twin tip any time if I have no other choice!

So wanna know what’s ultimately “cool” right now?
Big wave riding, possibly unhooked and imperatively strapless.

I had been wave riding for three weeks when the surfboard straps started digging into my feet, leaving some open wounds.
A fellow kiter, seeing my bleeding feet, asked me what had happened. I replied: “It’s from my footstraps”.

He then looked at his sexy strap free surfboard sitting next to him and said: “what’s that, “footstraps”? “
…

Now, have you ever heard about “Maui style”?

I had already heard the expression few years ago: my then boyfriend and I were riding in the middle of rather inconsiderate riders. Fade up from having people on his way, he said to me he was going to ride “Maui style”.
That’s when he started throwing massive kiteloops right in the middle of everyone…
I do agree that at the time, I did smile: within three minutes, the spot was clear and we had it to ourselves….

To read the third part of “The kook issue”