Dolphin Address 15
June 21th 2006
I got to read about Einstein. There is this persistent rumour going around only ten people in the whole world can understand him. Rather than claiming to be number eleven I like to thank David Bodanis for explaining E=mcsquare to me.
To many people the subconscious dolphin experience arrives several hours after the actual swim. Likewise I was stormed by insight after the atomical capiche, but now I'm enabled to travel by time warps and win energy out of matter.
I think this calls for the occasion to let you in on the magic working of the WaterWing. Often times I wondered how it can be that no-one else seems to ever have thought of it. In spite of all my wonderful personality I just don't believe I am that clever. It's even hard labour to explain it in a way I can understand it myself. Sometimes you happen on some sort of secret and then explain it afterwards. Even if your theory sucks, never mind as long as it works. But if you really understand how something functions you can apply it in other ways as well.
I think the key to the WaterWing magic is that two things work out simultaneously and tend to confuse each other. Let me depart from one single event. When you hold the wing flat before you in the water and swim off with the monofin the WW resistance is minimal. Now just for explanatory purposes think yourself underwater, gliding at some speed, holding the WW flat before you. Now you tilt it upwards. What happens?
The 'counter water' pushes under the WW and leads you up to the surface. Let me call this 'the uplead'. Similarly you can tilt the WW downwards and your forward speed will push you downwards, 'the downlead'.
Now to activate the WW you tilt it, like in downlead to start with. Instead of merely letting the counter water lead it down, you push it down actively and when it is at the bottom of your arms reach you actively heave it. Now you can imagine that you combine two forces: the counter water, effectuated initially by your mono and the force you add yourself by pushing the wing up&down. Once you move it’s easier to keep moving. Combined you push water backwards, so you yourself move forward and this causes the continuation of counter water.
Now this is the mind bender: by actively pushing water down backwards, you cause yourself moving forward while the WW is lead by the counter water. Only thing you have to do is tilting the wing into pushing and heaving and the WW will steer into active propulsive undulating trajectories. You have to keep on ‘feeding’ power into the ‘up’- and ‘downleads’ and of course the more power you feed in, the faster you go.
I do hope there are more than ten people on the globe who are able to follow this. What more can I say? The WaterWing works, but it takes a lot of pudding to taste the proof.
If you do follow you can reason out for yourself why my latest and patented improvement, the ‘scoop mode’ worked so well that I even built a wider spanned WaterWing that processes more water and therefore moves me faster by the same effort.
Einstein showed us the equation between energy and matter and opened the door to space. The WaterWing leads us back to the water. Gives hands to our webbed feet, speeds us up, puts us in balance, infinitely improves manoeuvrability and generally grants us more control over the wet element. Thus we can participate effectively within the full strength of our body. Still there is the other stone.
Now don't be sad if you can't follow this. We are all limited in genius to our own expertise.
Et pur se muove!
Jan Ploeg, WWR&DC, Fanore, Solstice day (June 21st) 2006
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