The Story of a Flightless Man - Maciek Rutkowski

Slalom ist die Disziplin von Maciek Rutkowski (POL-23). In der Welle, besonders bei Sprüngen, hadert der Pole mit sich selbst. In diesem Video erzählt er seine Geschichte, 'The Story of a Flightless Man'. Sein Kommentar dazu: I can't jump. Really, I can't. I've tried. Over and over again. Went full speed, sheeted in as hard as I could, used huge sails, basically did everything by the book and still couldn't go as high as the boyz do. OK, I'm heavy. But so is Philip, so is Kenneth and a few others. Maybe I'm just born flightless? Like an ostrich or something. Haha. Or maybe I'm just destined to stay on the face of the wave, put as much of the rail of the board in the water as possible, throw some spray, hit the lip, get washed, go to the rocks, hurt my hobbit feet, step on seaurchins, grab my all-dinged-up board and my all-scratched-up sail, walk back up the beach and try again? Maybe. I don't know. What I do know is that I enjoyed putting this video together eventhough everytime we filmed I sailed like a total kook. But it still might just be one of my best. You be the judge of that. Hopefully you enjoy it!