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Not surprisingly for a warm summer day there was already a decent crew lining up at the river bank for a ride. And – typically for this experimental times – they were using all kind of tools to ride the wave. Surf boards of all kind of shapes, boogie boards and these – nowadays you would call it wake boards – wooden planks in combination with a rope.
I went with my - errr – standard twin fin thruster. As I was still recovering from a few recently torn ligaments in my knee I had to wear a knee brace, which hindered my movements a bit. But I was pretty sure that it was not my restricted mobility that hindered me to do turns, I suspect it was the misplaced fins on my board. So I could just go more or less straight which is not very helpful at a standing wave in a river that is only about 12 meters wide. It was fun nevertheless and I only hit the submerged steel rail once.
It was warm and sunny and I had finally surfed the Eisbach AND that self-built board. It was a good day, at least as good as it can get surf-wise in a landlocked city like Munich.
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