Crazy Germans
Brad Feld wrote about his trip to Europe about a month ago. He was in Munich for some time, and he mentioned some “wackadoodle surfers practicing in the small river under a bridge with a water pipe”. Well, Erin and I were in Munich last October on our honeymoon, and I’m pretty sure we saw the same guys surfing near the English Garden, check it out:
Imagine just to the left of this picture a large concrete pipe that the water is coming out from, it looks very weird to see this in the middle of the city. These guys stay in the exact same spot while they surf side to side on that one wave. The other guys standing on the side are next in line to surf after this guy falls. He’ll float downstream a bit and then get back in line, its pretty funny to watch. We saw this towards the end of our Mike’s Bike Tour of Munich, which I highly recommend.
Brad Feld said,
Wrote on June 7, 2006 @ 11:49 pm
Yup - those look like exactly the same dudes.
Simon said,
Wrote on June 18, 2006 @ 6:13 pm
I don’t think that this is all that uncommon. I’ve seen something similar being done in Central Otago, New Zealand with guys hanging on to a rope tied to a high bridge.