Windsurfing is on fire. Let it be.

More groms, organisation and comps for groms

More wind. I **** you not - I've been out once since early January.

I don't know another 7/8 days


Had a chat with Borjn Dunkerbeck about how good it was that a few young guns were coming throught whilst he was traveling with young Koster

in his words ABOUT BLOODY TIME ............

All I can say thank god I didn't grow up with a Mobile Phone(oh sorry...... I Phone) , lap top ,and play staions............ fkem

Long live Galaxy and Space invaders.........at least you had to get out of the house and to the corner deli.


Mind you long live Monster / Red Bull / Mother ..........................


Go Greffeti or put a skull on your sails or something fired me up again



Tar Severn loft ...........

Offtopic: how does one deal with kiters asking to grab their kite when they come back in from the water?

A couple of months ago I was rigging up on the beach and heard a kite slam into the ground about 10 metres from me. The kiter yelled at me to grab it, as it was thrashing around. I honestly didn't want to be anywhere near that thing. A bunch of guys ran over and planted it down, so it lost all lift.

Real sailors!!!!! Most real sailors frown upon Hobie Cats not Windsurfers and that's coming from somebody who has hung around yacht clubs for over 40 years.

lotofwind said...
I was actually talking about my new passion of hobie cat sailing.

Wow Dude, your new passion is totally old school.

You must be kidding, right ?

Hobies are a freakin rigfk ... but we all knew that, hey ?

lol.

WOW, I might have to give up the hobies if everyone thinks their not cool, or maybe start a thread on "how do we make hobies cool again"lol

Myself migrating from small cats to WS 30 years ago. As to the question as to what is wrong with WS. Nothing is my answer. For the population of Australia there is an huge amount of water of any kind so it is no surprise that people find their favourite areas and are not generally crowded into a given space other than of course a few spots that are well known to have the blessing. Is is difficult to reach a high level of proficiency. Yes but then again so is anything worth the effort that is way beyond watching TV. And along the way sailors create their niche. No one makes value judgements we just let everyone do their creative thing. A very nice informal community and little organisation for many is a good thing. Those wanting to race socially or more professionally do their thing. Must admit that kiters worry me a bit but then again I have been around long enough to know what can go wrong if a third party gets out of control.

"Why do we need more windsurfers?"

Well after much consideration I have arrived at what is undoubtedly the supporting answer.
Unfortunately my desire to address the subject found me pondering the
poser/premise with a relentless " I wont stop so you may as well go away" style attitude, which was directed at the exact same thought and vision to boot, that entered my mind every time i would hope to investigate the topic.

Finally , a clear mind, I compassionately thought of all the new people flocking to the sport .. searching... what good? What good? Bingo!

We all need one or two Prot?g?s who we are available to occasionally(whenever they corner u in a car park looking for the secret tip ) and whom we encourage, acknowledging their milestones and in the same breath subtly introducing the new goal.

Mine would sound something like this:
Me"Arghhh .. Wayne what are youo doing mate you scared the crap out of me " WAYNE: " I have to sneak up on you Coz when i don't ZOOM,off u go". Me "I know thats weird isn't it... hey i was watching you riding today and I said to all the guys , "see that guy out their Wayne ... they said "yeah man we call him the breeze" Me yeah I tell them that I have never seen anyone pick up the sport as fast as you, your technique is flawless,Wayne: gee thanks Man thats an unreal thing to hear." The truth comes out easily my friend. anyway pal , we need to keep the "Express train to Greatness" on track .. you've out grown your rig dude, ive got the perfect one at home for ya. I got it from Rob" WAYNE:"ROB?" ME"Yeah Nashy to his mates... i was just telli g him about you earlier this week and he said i should move you onto his hand made one ASAP" WAYNE: "But i just bought that one design off you last week. " Me : "Yeah I know ...ytou are a lucky guy in the right spot at the right time with the right guy"

Oh that dominating thought , the only other thing that i could see happening with a sailboard craze was this image of me driving up the coast, my mindset: Extremely Concerned REason: in the space of 45 minutes a third 10 footer had just flown by my car.

if only wa=e can find a way to get them to but our old gear but not use it?

2013 - Very strong offshore wind, a thousand competitors. Are you going to run a race?

Of course you are!

Where's the problem with windsurfing?

SYDXXX said..

"Why do we need more windsurfers?"

Well after much consideration I have arrived at what is undoubtedly the supporting answer.
Unfortunately my desire to address the subject found me pondering the
poser/premise with a relentless " I wont stop so you may as well go away" style attitude, which was directed at the exact same thought and vision to boot, that entered my mind every time i would hope to investigate the topic.

Finally , a clear mind, I compassionately thought of all the new people flocking to the sport .. searching... what good? What good? Bingo!

We all need one or two Prot?g?s who we are available to occasionally(whenever they corner u in a car park looking for the secret tip ) and whom we encourage, acknowledging their milestones and in the same breath subtly introducing the new goal.

Mine would sound something like this:
Me"Arghhh .. Wayne what are youo doing mate you scared the crap out of me " WAYNE: " I have to sneak up on you Coz when i don't ZOOM,off u go". Me "I know thats weird isn't it... hey i was watching you riding today and I said to all the guys , "see that guy out their Wayne ... they said "yeah man we call him the breeze" Me yeah I tell them that I have never seen anyone pick up the sport as fast as you, your technique is flawless,Wayne: gee thanks Man thats an unreal thing to hear." The truth comes out easily my friend. anyway pal , we need to keep the "Express train to Greatness" on track .. you've out grown your rig dude, ive got the perfect one at home for ya. I got it from Rob" WAYNE:"ROB?" ME"Yeah Nashy to his mates... i was just telli g him about you earlier this week and he said i should move you onto his hand made one ASAP" WAYNE: "But i just bought that one design off you last week. " Me : "Yeah I know ...ytou are a lucky guy in the right spot at the right time with the right guy"

Oh that dominating thought , the only other thing that i could see happening with a sailboard craze was this image of me driving up the coast, my mindset: Extremely Concerned REason: in the space of 45 minutes a third 10 footer had just flown by my car.

if only wa=e can find a way to get them to but our old gear but not use it?

This is probably what you would end up with if KOTP, Macroscience, Dude and Man all decide to have a child together.

Nice pic. ^^^

It's a small wave but it doesn't matter.

The colours are radiant and I particularly like the highline taken with the speed-trim body language of the rider.

But best of all is the deathhead image on the sail.

terminal said..

2013 - Very strong offshore wind, a thousand competitors. Are you going to run a race?

Of course you are!

Where's the problem with windsurfing?

Wouldn't it be great to go in this, what an adrenaline buzzzzz. Aussie needs to run one of these.

TASSIEROCKS said..

kato said..

One ofit sounds like such a positive our major problems that no one has touched on is this...


"Our sport is cut in half by having two organisations controlling its progress" (Or lack of)


Yachting Australia controls the Olympic pathways, all the racing side, training and youth development and is recognised by Government/ AIS. They can apply for all government/private grants and grow the sport


AWA and all its state offshoots control wave, slalom, freestyle events and are not recognised by Government/AIS, Private and cannot apply for any grants. They appear to have no training or youth development pathways.

Time for the AWA to finish the process started so long ago and become a properly recognised association and lets move forward and plan our direction and grow this sport properly

How do we get this moving again It sounds like such a positive step to get the our sport moving in a clear direction to grow the sport.

Sounds like you've found the answer to your question Russ. The first step would be to talk to Dave, he is the Windsurfing Tasmania AWA Rep. He will be able to give you a history and point you in the direction of who to talk with to take the step. Keep us informed of your progress.