sounds like you need some new friends

I know what your saying its to easy to give everyone your time and not keep enough for your self. the killer with windsurfing is when the wind is up you just have to drop everything and go

Gonewindsurfing247 said...

sounds like you need some new friends

and your freinds need new wives!

Nothing to do with mid life crissis - thats what Harley's are for - its just about having fun

Seems its a lot more acceptable to don tight bright Lycra and head down to

the local cafe with your new carbon mtn bike than it is to go to the beach. You

just gotta shout out to the world " I'm a windsurfer and proud of it", if enough of

us do eventually we will be accepted.

My mid life crisis has turned into a full on addiction.3 years ago at the age of 52 I grabbed my sons gear for a go while waiting on the beach for him dinghy sailing.This has now resulted in the purchase of 4 boards, [the latest being a 95 lt FSW last week]5 sails 3 booms and a trailer to cart it all in.Some one told me that learning to water start over the age of 40 was like trying to make lead float,well thats a load of crap.Looking forward to purchasing a van and spending my long service leave and many more hoildays over the west after having a very good holiday over there last year.The people I have met since taking up this sport have been great,and the fact that having type 2 diabetes I have found a sport that keeps me fit and helped me shed about 8 kilo.This is definately one midlife crisis that I am going to explore even further and hopefully take to the next level because I am having a blast.

The gybes are starting to come together,been having some coaching from Wormy down in Bowen.

nbr said...

The gybes are starting to come together,been having some coaching from Wormy down in Bowen.

If we can get some squashed air over here consistantly, I can work on all the tips Nebbian gave me a few weeks back

Nebs, your friends don't have a clue. Signs of a mid-life crisis are doing things that are aimed at impressing 22 year old chikky babes. Windsurfing certainly doesn't rate on that score. If you had taken up kiting your friends might have a point.

Why do people give up on life so soon? I think it's because they think they should "act their age" whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. When I now do things that I used to enjoy when I was much younger, like going bush, boating or snorkelling, I enjoy them just as much if not more these days. With one exception- skateboarding. I ain't still got it there.

Gonewindsurfing247 said...

sounds like you need some new friends

Yeah, some younger ones

Men's Reactions Peak at Age 39

Scientists asked 72 men, ranging in age from 23 to 80, to tap their index fingers as fast as they could for 10 seconds. The researchers also did brain scans to measure in each subject the amount of myelin - a fatty sheath of insulation that coats nerve axons and allows for signaling bursts in our brains.

Both the tapping speed and the amount of myelin was found to decline "with an accelerating trajectory" after age 39.

http://www.livescience.com/health/081017-reaction-times.html

Harrow said...
Why do people give up on life so soon?

I plan on windsurfing and skiing until I drop. I may not be skiing triple black runs in canada when I'm 85 though...

I keep tell the family that i,m not middle aged yet.You have to know what your end date is before deciding what the middle is My middle age is 51 so i,ve got a few more years of being young and imature. More sailing and boarding please

Harrow said...

Waiting4wind said...

Just recently re ignited an old passion, started tracking my car. Lot's of fun

Ok, you got me there. Just what is "tracking my car" ???

(Hopefully not doing GPS speed runs in the Commodore !! )

No it's fanging the Subaru Sti around Eastern Creek Raceway. I have an equally as cool electronic gadget, measures your acceleration and deccelaration speed, cornering G's and all sorts of other useful data. Just as much fun as the GPS. So the speed rush doesn't stop when I get off the water.....now isn't that childish!

Send your old mates a copy of The Windsurfing Movie for christmas. Always gets me pumped for a sail. their wives will hate it.

pierrec45 said...

You guys are unfortunately right: most men give up on life and living when they're real young. The majority stop doing sports and activities coming out of uni.

Was unfortunate to suffer a medical drama a few years back, anyway speaking to medico about this and that and what makes/keeps the heart ticking strong. Apparently at around 30 years of age, plus or minus a few, the body changes and the reason is we are conditioned from the beginning of time to hand the "chasing of dinosaurs" onto the young guns, and sit back and relax, and live high on the hog.
Just in all of our cases us buggers want to keep chasing dinosaurs, great A.
Oh and the Doc reckons its the best thing, dont stop ever chasing dinosaurs, its good for us