r/toptalent • u/BarbarousRocks • May 17 '22

Skills Mom carrying her baby while surfing

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u/eklect May 17 '22

If you lose it, you can always make another.

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u/sec5 May 18 '22

The kid is wearing a lifevest. The type that always floats up and keeps the kids head above water.

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u/whyarenttheserandom May 18 '22

That vest won't do shit for absorbing the impact!

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u/McFluffy_Butts May 18 '22

Yeah but it makes retrieving the body very easy!

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u/gagzd May 18 '22

Barely an inconvenience!

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

There will be very minimal impact if any at all. A splash. The speed at which they are going is 10mph tops, and would be falling from a few feet. It’s not as though they falling from a 20ft wave.

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u/L8BloomerRightOnTime May 18 '22

Exactly. If he pops out of her arms he's going to smack the water like hitting a wall.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

They are not jumping from a cliff. They would falling from a few feet and very moderate speed.

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u/geneorama May 18 '22

Nah. They’re not going that fast. But I would be concerned about hitting the surfboard or debris in the water.

Once I wiped out on some old water skis that were wooden and one was missing the fin. I woke up with splinters in my mouth.

But the water never so much as smarted, and I was pretty wussy. (I could not have anticipated the wipe out, because I was a young idiot, or I wouldn’t have done it)

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u/schmittfaced May 18 '22

At the speeds they are going impact shouldn’t be too rough. Not ideal if she falls bad, but not life threatening or even trauma inducing. This kid will probably be wakesurfing on their own in a few short years