So hurricane Ike is bearing down on us today, and after the preparations were made I thought it was time to have a little fun. I decided, as they say, to make lemonade out of lemons. Now, I have often complained that Houston has no gravity. In this sense, I mean that there are no hills in which one can generate speed on a bike, skateboard, or any other sort of personal craft. Today, we are getting plenty of wind from the pending hurricane so I thought I would take advantage of it.
The idea is simple. You duct tape 2 corners of a sheet to your roller blades and grab the other 2 with outstretched arms. Voila! You've made a human sail:
It would be nice if it worked a little better going forward, but you have to let the sail bow out like a boat sail. I guess the design needs a little work, but here you can see the test run:
