OK, we're all getting bored with the lull outside so here's a new game :

Given the "Polesurfer" and "Teabagger" discussion in the Kite corner and the display of superiority of the recently evolved "homo kitesurfiens" over the supposedly dying "neadertalus windsurferus" I'd like to find out how many of us do both sports and not intend to quit. Here's the rules: Everyone replies once only if he/she does - so we see the numbers from the replies counter. And no abuse please.

So let me start: YES! Anytime I spend on the water is good time No wind I still go swimming.

Steve

Topic renamed due to popular demand. Good on ya, Nigel

water and wind are my drugs of choice

sailboarding is my method of getting my fix

there's enough for us all to share

let there be wind this weekend!!

Have surfed for the last 20 years, and finally cracked last year from spending another waveless summer in Perth, without my salt water fix. I finally picked up an old clunker of a windsurfer (probably a relic from the 80s, fluro pink cloth sail and day-glo blue boom ) Spent all last summer in the river, being chucked over the handle bars ,choking on jelly fish, cursing and swearing but all the time having a tonne of fun,have finally upgraded to a little sinker with a flash new (secondhand ) plastic sail. Still getting chucked but totally addicted, specially on those 25kt plus days jammed in the footstraps, strapped in and pretending I have some sort of control! Great fun. No inclination to try "tea-bagging", for some reason just doesnt look like the same rush, but hey each to their own.
Billabong was wrong, they say only a surfer knows the feeling, Merchant and the crew obviously havent stuck a pole on their boards .

There is a time and a place for everything. For me it all depends on tide, swell, wind strength, or if I buy some new gear I just have to try it out.
I want to be on the water anyway I can get it.4 sailboards 5 sails
1 kite 1 surfboard arms for swimming
A polesurfing teabagging bodybashing waxhead
Good on ya guys
Live life as if there is no tomorrow
Nigel

Is this windsurfers annonymous

I Windsurf, Surf, Kite.
Why not? Its all good!

My affliction with pole gear could best be classified an addiction.

I bought a surfboard 6 months ago, but it's a very poor substitute for windsurfing. Surfing is 15% hard paddling/getting dumped, 80% bobbing around like sharkbait, and 5% great fun.

No interest in teabags - seen too much carnage and my health allows me to feed my windsurfing addiction. But never say never.