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From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: skyboarding
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.203558.8431@javelin.es.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 20:35:58 GMT
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dr25+@andrew.cmu.edu (Danny A. Rossi) writes:

>From what I understood, he wasn't on any boogie board,
>he was on a real-live serf board.
>He was tracking around the sky, doing 360's, front loops, back loops,
>then he'd turn up-side-down, (head to the ground, but board still 
>attached to his feet) and do some more 360's and tracking.
>His landings were also pretty spectacular.  He came in over a lake,
>flared just over the water, serfed across the water, kicked the board 
>off and landed on dry ground.

A surf-board would seem to me to be rather large and clumsy for operations
like this.  The picture _I_ saw, in Life magazine, had a guy on what looked
like a snowboard.  A snowboard would be much more apt for doing maneuvers
like this.

Regarding his landings... Was he wearing a parachute?  ;-)  Seriously, one
of the people who survived falling several thousand feet survived because he
hit the slope of a snowy mountain -just right-.  Too bad he wasn't wearing
skis.
-- 

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