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Original Message 1/19 16-Feb-03 @ 07:24 PM - Anyone else...?
Okay - so I KNOW I'm the only one interested in sailing - but I had to ask because I know a couple of Australians and NZ'ers troll here...
Message 2/19 18-Feb-03 @ 12:38 PM - RE: Anyone else...?
Alinghi wins after outsmarting the Kiwi's at the start to get the right side (favored) of the course. Then, after gaining for the next 4 legs, Team NZ forced the Kiwi's to take 2 extra tacks on the last upwind leg and held them off on the final downwind leg for a 3-0 lead. GO SWISS!!!
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Message 9/19 19-Feb-03 @ 01:47 AM - RE: Anyone else...?
I won't get into defining sailing as a sport, but I will say this;
Tacking a boat in 20 knot winds is NOT easy. Doing 6 or 7 of them in 20 minutes, is HARD WORK. Hoisting a 50 pound sail up a 60' mast AS-FAST-AS-YOU-FUCKING-CAN is hard work. It's not always the most PHYSICALLY demanding...thing...but the strategery is intense. The start of sailing race is one of the most exciting things in all of sports. Especially when you have 12 30-40' boats fighting for the same place on the starting line. But, it is an acquired taste - it's only exciting when you know what's going on.
I have played many team sports, but NOWHERE is teamwork more important than in sailing.
So who's going to their local yacht club now to get on a boat and see what I'm talking about. All you need is a 12pack of beer and you're on board. No experience/money necessary.
Message 10/19 19-Feb-03 @ 02:55 AM - RE: Anyone else...?
Message 11/19 19-Feb-03 @ 03:37 AM - RE: Anyone else...?
it's pretty cool to see in real life (espeically those lasers with the mast parallel to the water!)...
but the whole attitude of: "if you want to be successful you have to learn to sail and play golf" totally pisses me off.
anyway.. that's how it was over here ;(
-j
ps: krisgot: curling looks kinda fun tho! but yeah, watching IS boring ;)
Message 12/19 19-Feb-03 @ 08:05 AM - RE: Anyone else...?
Message 13/19 19-Feb-03 @ 12:03 PM - RE: Anyone else...?
Message 14/19 19-Feb-03 @ 06:11 PM - RE: Anyone else...?
and i've sailed myself, for two weeks once.
it's just so... 19th century :p
Message 15/19 19-Feb-03 @ 08:05 PM - RE: Anyone else...?
yes I realise showjumping is an 'olympic sport', but to my mind to make things like that, or sailing $100 zillion dollar boats with hulls woven from boron fibre, mars bacteria & himalayan lesser-spotted bush-babys' foreskins or some such ultra-expensive stuff, a 'sport' is cobblers cos the participants are restricted by wealth as to their involvement surely?.
I mean your average person can't afford a top flight champion showjumping horse, insurance, stabling & training fees, feed, tack, box and 4x4, vet & farrier fees, and then the tens or possibly hundreds thousands required to ship all that to an event overseas.... it's nuts to include it in an Olympic or any other 'sport' calander... What next?... an Olympic 'who owns the most expensive car' challenge?
Also, Olympic air-rifle shooting is another rivetting event, almost as electric as 'Olympic curling' in fact! - Perhaps they should liven things up with Olympic 'drive-by' shooting, fencing to the death with fully sharpened foils... heading the shot and catching the javelin too would be entertaining!
I cant wait till next time when someone'll break a record by 0.00000000000000000000002 of a second - *yawn*
c'mon really Def z - sailing!... it's almost as tedious as F1
Message 16/19 19-Feb-03 @ 10:40 PM - RE: Anyone else...?
Message 17/19 19-Feb-03 @ 10:44 PM - RE: Anyone else...?
Off to play footie in the snow...
Message 18/19 19-Feb-03 @ 10:46 PM - RE: Anyone else...?
As much as I LOVE the America's Cup, it's not representative of the sailing world. I have been sailing all my life, and no, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Like most of the people I grew up sailing with, I am the child of a blue collar family whose disposable income went to sailing. It's like any other hobby. Learning to sail is NOT expensive, but getting into some of the exclusive yacht clubs can be. I was never part of those...
As far as excitement goes - until you learn to sail and get into a race, you'll never believe a word I say. I'm a sports fan in general - I've been known to take in a 'footy' match here and there - but there's nothing as exciting as a sailboat race. Watching sailing isn't the most exciting thing, yes, but's it's a lot more interesting than watching someone chase a small white ball around a field. There's more action, and there's more strategy. :-)
Message 19/19 20-Feb-03 @ 04:16 AM - RE: Anyone else...?
j/k I couldn't care less, i'm high.
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