slisVraagstellerlid sinds 2004 · 13.262 berichten11 nov 2010 19:53
Ik had het al verwacht... en ineens zag ik het op de twitter!
kiteworldmag: UK kitesurfer / pier jumper Lewis Crathern has just jumped over the Palace Pier in Brighton !!!
Lewis called the office about 1.30pm and said, 'Jim, alright? I haven't got long, but just wanted to let you know you might want to be down the Palace Pier at 2pm' Understood!
Having jumped Worthing Pier, causing a media frenzy last year, we'd had a hunch that Lewis might be eye-ing up Brighton's monstrous pier for similar aerial antics. We rounded up the guys from Progression / Fat Sand to get down there too to film it and had all angles covered. It felt weird scrambling around the pier with cameras trying to work out good angles and camera settings for one chance in such terrible light. Unsuspecting people on the pier were looking at us funny, but they were about to get a shock! We hoped.
Lewis needed a high tide to help reduce the height of the pier somewhat and a ballistic westerly wind to boost him the required height and distance. If anything it was too southwesterly and bloody grim by 2pm, squally, raining and dark. Lewis went out for a warm up and some practice jumps, but pretty soon we saw him round the pier and come in downwind near his van.
The conditions weren't right. He said,"I was on my six but I could feel it just wasn't holding me up enough. When I did Worthing pier I was on my seven and could barely hold it down." He went back and swapped his 6m for a 7m.
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kiteworldmag: UK kitesurfer / pier jumper Lewis Crathern has just jumped over the Palace Pier in Brighton !!!
Lewis called the office about 1.30pm and said, 'Jim, alright? I haven't got long, but just wanted to let you know you might want to be down the Palace Pier at 2pm' Understood!
Having jumped Worthing Pier, causing a media frenzy last year, we'd had a hunch that Lewis might be eye-ing up Brighton's monstrous pier for similar aerial antics. We rounded up the guys from Progression / Fat Sand to get down there too to film it and had all angles covered. It felt weird scrambling around the pier with cameras trying to work out good angles and camera settings for one chance in such terrible light. Unsuspecting people on the pier were looking at us funny, but they were about to get a shock! We hoped.
Lewis needed a high tide to help reduce the height of the pier somewhat and a ballistic westerly wind to boost him the required height and distance. If anything it was too southwesterly and bloody grim by 2pm, squally, raining and dark. Lewis went out for a warm up and some practice jumps, but pretty soon we saw him round the pier and come in downwind near his van.
The conditions weren't right. He said,"I was on my six but I could feel it just wasn't holding me up enough. When I did Worthing pier I was on my seven and could barely hold it down." He went back and swapped his 6m for a 7m.
klik hier voor het volledige verhaal
