TurtleHunter said...

jeez you got to be joking doggy. I used to s#*t myself surfing down at scabs when you hear the clatter of a windsurfer coming towards you and not being able to see it

Mate I have surfed down there for years, windsurfers are no problem. I think they can see you easier or they know were you are and dont get close. I have never worried about them like I do with kiters, who seem not to be looking where they are going.

lotofwind said...

Yeah , I think the person that got killed by a windsurfer on Bondi Beach many moons ago might be scared of them.

Hey lotofwind, you've made this reference a couple of times. I've never heard of this incident before, and have only be made aware of it as you have raised it in these forums.

Can you provide any more details, as my Google searches came up with nothing.

lotofwind said...

It was back before internet days when windsurfing was in its hey day.
Was the reason wind powered crafts were banned at Bondi.Not that you would want to sail there anyway.

Are wind powered craft banned at Bondi? Also there should be some reference to a fatality involving a windsurfer at Bondi even if happened back in the 80s. I was keen on windsurfing back then and bought the Aussie magazines. I never read or heard of a fatality due to a windsurfer at Bondi.

lotofwind said...

It was back before internet days when windsurfing was in its hey day.
Was the reason wind powered crafts were banned at Bondi.Not that you would want to sail there anyway.

Although the Internet is recent, a great deal historical stuff has been uploaded, almost to the extent that the Internet is becoming a library of info for the last 80 years or so.

Be that as it may, people still windsurf at Bondi, as can be seen by this recent thread:

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/New-South-Wales/Bondi-Photo-Shoot/

Cheers

Î could post pics of idiots kiteing at Bondi, like those windsurfer idiots in the above pic,dosent mean its legal or should be done

lotofwind said...

Î could post pics of idiots kiteing at Bondi, like those windsurfer idiots in the above pic,dosent mean its legal or should be done

Totally agree.

But you need to be able to back up statements such as "a windsurfer killed someone at Bondi a long time ago"

Cheers

An old windjunkie mate,local bondi boy from before even your guys time,maybe, use to have the old yellowed newspaper article pinned to his wall.
Thought the article was funny cause title said "Call for windsports to be banned at Bondi after fatality" .
Windsports,,,just add baked beans

windsurfing is cool i used to windsurf heaps.
much more you can do with kiting tho and the sick videos from local beaches outweigh vids that coming from windsurfing community.
you gotta show some windsurfing and its lifestyle lads. even old fellas can make flicks

lotofwind said...

^^^^^^Âgreed, if it wasnt for the polers inventing kiteing, we wouldnt be here.
Thanks guys.
Its a bit like ANZAC day. Remembering the diggers that made our lifestyle like it is.
We should have a minutes silence(no posting for a minute) in respect to our poledancing generation. Least we forget.

There must be a polka dotted yellow boardy forum somewhere thanking kitesurfers in the same way...

Lest we forget...

^^^ irrelevant ..... he got bagged because it is yet another post in the wrong area by a kiter

....followed by kiters' responses, in which they spell "kiting" incorrectly. Kinda makes it a target rich environment for windsurfers' p!sstakes huh ....

INTHELOOP said...

windsurfing is cool i used to windsurf heaps.
much more you can do with kiting tho and the sick videos from local beaches outweigh vids that coming from windsurfing community.
you gotta show some windsurfing and its lifestyle lads. even old fellas can make flicks

Much more you can do, how so? From my perspective when you compare wave and freestyle windsurfing to the kite equivalent's it's chalk and cheese. The amount of variety (in terms of different moves) in windsurfing wave/FS these days is ridiculous; conversely there's only so many different ways you can spin hanging from a rope. The differentiation being that the difficulty in learning even the basic freestyle windsurfing moves is that high, you don't see them very often 'out in the wild', let alone every random local punter making a video featuring them.

FormulaNova said...

lotofwind said...

^^^^^^Âgreed, if it wasnt for the polers inventing kiteing, we wouldnt be here.
Thanks guys.
Its a bit like ANZAC day. Remembering the diggers that made our lifestyle like it is.
We should have a minutes silence(no posting for a minute) in respect to our poledancing generation. Least we forget.

There must be a polka dotted yellow boardy forum somewhere thanking kitesurfers in the same way...

Lest we forget...

Yes, but its thanking the windsurfers for them



I still havent actually seen any pics of a kiter wearing these shorts except the ones drawn on by you guys?????? Pics or its never happend.

Yes, my former life really sucked.
But luckly I have been blessed in my next life and evolved to kiteing.

lotofwind said...

Yes, my former life really sucked.
But luckly I have been blessed in my next life and evolved to kiteing.

Well, we all have to start somewhere when pursuing a passion, you don't lose respect for your humble beginnings as a windsurfer!

albers said...

Hey lotofwind, I'd like a dollar for every time you've posted this picture of yourself in your former life as a one-design windsurfing instructor

He's got a definite sexual fixation on a photo dating from the late 70s.
Most people fantasize on recent (and opposite sex) chicks...