Friday, July 4, 2008

no surfing without helmets


We have a dilemma, we encourage our paddlers to learn to ride the waves and have fun in the surf but when you have a large group of kamikaze surfers all trying to get on the wave at the same time the danger level goes way out of control.Helmets are mandatory for anyone in a club kayak, private owners have to use their own discretion, but given the ammount of traffic its highly advisable to invest in a bit of cranial protection. This video shows our friday morning group catching waves at the rock, a reef just about 200m from the shore which produces some great surf.Love those waves.

2 comments:

Silbs said...

Wonderful clip. Good example in there about how foam does not support a brace well!

Unknown said...

Actually thats a demo of a newbie in the big surf, I just didnt capture the better braces surviving the breaking waves, but will keep on trying. Thanks for your compliments