Robert Sand viser nyt move - The Zulu
Danmarksmesteren i waveperformance Robert Sand fik efter world cuppen på Gran Canaria lavet billeder af et nyt move kaldet “The Zulu”. Det er en manøvre som allerede udføres i andre boardsports som snowboard, kite og wakeboard, hvilket ikke gør den mindre radikal, og nu også i windsurfing.
Ved første øjekast ser en Zulu måske bare ud som en onehanded tabletop med et tailgrab, men Robert fortæller at forskellen faktisk er rimeligt stor.
“I en tabletop strækker man benene og sparker boardet væk fra sig, i en Zulu derimod, lægger man sig ned langs boardet og holder det bagerste ben helt bøjet mens man har fat i boardet. Det sværeste er dog at man skal holde sig oprejst og skifte sin vægt flere gange i manøvren.”
Robert Sand fortsætter.
“Man kan sammenligne det med et backloop og et pushloop, som også ligner hinanden, men heller ikke er det samme.
Det var ikke nogen nem sag at få lavet billederne af manøvren, som du kan læse af Roberts mail til sine sponsorer herunder.
Han var på Gran Canaria to gange, første gang gik det i vasken, da fotografen ikke fik lavet en sekvens som han skulle og anden gang, ja læs selv.
As you know I was on GC to have photos taken of my move “The Zulu” last week. The spanish photographer misunderstood the task last time I was there and didn´t a sequence, conditions were perfect that time, but no sequence, so I had to go back to GC.
Thursday the conditions were ideal, 2 meter waves, wind for my 3,8 Icon and 69 Newwave. This time I had arranged Reinhard Müller for the job, and we were planning on starting to do the shots at 17.00 when the light is at it´s best when shooting from land. We start off with a couple of sequences for instruction, a backloop, a forward and a tabletop. When they were done I started on the Zulu, I did a couple of them I was pretty happy with, but the golden shot was still to come.
Suddenly I notice Reinhard is packing up his gear, much to my surprise, and I sail in to talk to him. We did the shoot at Salinas and I stepped in a sea urchin on the way in, and the situation did not get better when Reinhard told me his camera had fucked up and jammed. I couldn´t believe it, the second time I had perfect conditions, and once again something comes in the way. Very frustrated I sail back up to Pozo to find out that somebody had broken into my car and stolen my money, cell phone and so on. To top everything off my board was dinged from a rock.
I was broken. I couldn´t believe it.
Saturday I got the shots back from the lab and they were not as bad as I thought they were gonna be. I am going to send the best sequence and the best single shot out to the mags and hopefully they will use them.
Det vil bladene gerne. Den ryger i over hele verden, lige fra Tyskland til Japan. Sekvensen er fra det hollandske Surfmagazine og viser hvordan manøvren skal laves.
Hang Loose Robert