No, not today ... although ... by "lake" we probably mean "the sea", for example the overgrown Baltic Sea. If you turn up at "the lake", such as Lake Garda, with a weed fin, you'll immediately have the laughs on your side. And in every pub in the evening for a fortnight. "Hey, are you going to mow the lawn again tomorrow?" With "grass", yes, some people start to grin broadly. Huge steaming bags, relaxed chilling with reddened eyes in a hammock on a palm beach, reggae rhythms - but the grass we're talking about here is no more suitable for filling a funny Jamaican cigar than a lead belt is for swimming. Apart from that, the wet stuff doesn't burn. I've tried it.
"Fin", when I hear that, that's supposed to be a fin? It looks like it's been broken off and tipped away, or like a rag hanging from it. And if you can only glide through the floating gardens of the Sirens with it, that's not enough for me. It's as jerky as riding bare-bottomed over a washboard. Really, there's no such thing as smooth.
You can do a lot more with a decent, vertical, sword-like slalom fin: Fillet a veritable codfish at full throttle at any time, cut things up under water, maybe such a dagger was even involved in the cut submarine cables or Nordstream 2, why not? It's a great way to pull the crown of a diver's head and, above all, an excellent way to get stuck in the silt for hours. In comparison, weed fins are pure fun brakes. Speaking of brakes, they are also slower, run less height and also cost a lot of money. Maybe you should at least mount them upside down and clear a corridor with a few strokes, which can then be surfed correctly with a standard fin?
So, weed fins, who needs you? Of course we windsurfers are glad that you weed fins exist. It was just fun. Others would like something like this. Who would? The foilers, the poor dogs!
More from Tommy Brandner:
- Under-80s or over-80s? Diets for windsurfers
- A visit to the tuning workshop for windsurfers
- Motorhome for beginners
- Attention drone!
- Through the shorebreak
- The avalanche of traffic jams is rolling again
- Happy B-Day, King!
- Used is still too expensive
- That was 2023
- To foil or not to foil
- Faster, faster, faster... or: Who is this Lüderitz anyway?
- Windy stories
- The handsome Hansi
- AI hysteria
- News from the Spocht
- Get fit without training
- Madhouse on the beach
- What do fish actually think about windsurfers?
- Loop into the headline
- Great season!
- Afternoon at the (windsurfing) museum - tidying up made easy
- Djinn Drake, the windsurfing genie in a bottle
- The meeting of the "anonymous climbers"
- The greatest invention in windsurfing history
- The drone smart arse
