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It's true that windsurfing has progressed enormously in the last 10 years. However, the sport began in the 80s before the internet was commonplace and so its de
by richardburton 13y ago
It's true that windsurfing has progressed enormously in the last 10 years. However, the sport began in the 80s before the internet was commonplace and so its development was stunted in the beginning. I should have made the graph more clear.
- randall 13y agoYou should mention Skateboarding. Kickflips took years to catch on because people only saw Rodney Mullen in skate-shop distributed VHSes.
- richardburton 13y agoThat's really interesting. Although I've played around with a longboard I never got into skateboarding in a big way so I wouldn't feel qualified to write about it. Another interesting example is the Triple Cork in snowboarding: Torstein Horgmo debuted it in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFGqkq3QqRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFGqkq3QqRE And now they're expected at each X Games: http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000194812/featuresobf/two-new-triple-corks-at-2013-x-games-big-air-torstein-horgmo-wins/ http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000194812/featuresobf/tw...
- goatforce5 13y agoSpeaking of X Games and skateboarding... Tony Hawk's first 900 was pretty neat. He was getting close to doing it, but couldn't quite nail the landing and it was decided to let him just keep trying until he got it. Even though it was over regulation time and it took him 10 tries they awarded him first place and none of the other competitors protested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_(skateboarding) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_(skateboarding) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYTNkAdDD8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYTNkAdDD8