I always thought being involved in higher profile events would be good.
Perth no longer holds the RedBull Air race but it would have been good to see some freestyle demos done down in front of the South Perth foreshore.

Great thread. This how were doing it locally inverlochwindsurf.org.au/ .

Lots of fun stuff without getting too serious with a good social network to help people out. Currently 80+paid up members and it doesn't take a huge effort to make it happen but you do have to get involved and put back into the sport. And its a HUGE amount of fun.

We windsurf cos its fun.....nothing else needed

I hear you Dylan and Kato, FUN is the key word for me.

Here is a few screen shots of the big french fella showing us how to have FUN... formidable!

Windsurfing = The Sky has NO Limits

The Defi Wind video shows men and a woman (OK they need to have more women in the advertising) having fun and going fast - nothing too complicated and 1000 windsurfers.

The trade wind video was the best marketing I saw when I was getting into windsurfing although it wasn't how I started, at the time it was the video I would show anyone who was interested in windsurfing. Back in those days there wasn't such a big gap between the top guys and the ordinary sailor and people watched Hawaii as that was where are lot of the new developments came from.

Its got great yet unfamiliar music, has a storyline, and they are having fun Again they should have featured the women more. The bit where Mike Waltze and (I think?) Joyce D'Ottavio ride out together and do matching table top jumps - they should have had more of that.

A few good video's aimed at getting men, women and children into the sport are needed. We already have many brilliant videos of the cutting edge performance side of things.
But videos are probably not the key to getting people into the sport.

Cost is one major factor and although there is a lot of good second hand gear out there that people want to sell, anyone new to the sport would be put off by the initial cost and by the minefield of identifying the right gear to get, so putting together a quiver for a beginner of second-hand gear would be one improvement that could be made.
Selling beginner packages of new gear is well covered by manufacturers but the cost may stop quite a few people taking up windsurfing who would do it if they could get a cheaper quiver and trust that it would do the job.