windsurfing is the worst of all drugs, help...i'm chronic addict.

Wet Willy said...

There's no help for you. Or, maybe you could wean yourself off by going kiting from time to time, and gradually work your way down to boogie-boarding...

Gold

battyboy said...

Makes me wonder tho, because certain drugs give you a massive boost in confidence making you think you can pull anything off !!! (apparently!)

I might finally be able to crack that forward

Cocaine. You want cocaine for that.

There should be warnings about addiction to sea breeze posting too

i was sponsored by "speed sailboards" in the nineties.

the decade was a blurr!

if you were a moron that couldn't do it!

ahh da vecta, you remember i had wavefoils and multifinsystems

think you did too!

didn't everyone, they were like hot tuna boardies, what happened to them?

thats fitting that mushrooms appear in this thread.....spooky........

the walls are moving...........aaaargh

If you don't get a big enough natural high from windsurfing I dare say you probably have got some serious problems. Drugs alter brain chemistry and neural pathways, start messin with that, and you'll slowly diminish your ability to have natural high's and you begin to create a physical addiction and a psychological dependency on drugs. In my line of work, one ofthe biggest causes of ruined lives is drug taking................ I see people in their teens, 20's, 30's 40's, 50's and even 60's who's lives are ruined from alcohol and drugs........ That we have developed a culture where drugs are embedded in our social fabric is extremely sad

Now for the record....... of all the clients I see, and is also what the scientific literature finds, is that psychological therapy is least effective for the alcohol and drug addicted, and the alcohol drug addicted have the poorest future prognosis for ever getting well again. The brain changes with drugs, in some ways never to return to normal. The short term benefits of drug taking which there are some, are far outweighed by the long term damage they do!!

The brain becomes so altered, that even if you come off the drugs and alcohol, you probably have to take precription drugs for the rest of your life to restore the appropriate brain chemistry you need, and to feed the hungry little neurotransmitter receptors that you have inadvertantly created!!

Lecture over.......

And for those of you that pooh pooh my words of wisdom........... See you at my clinic when your brain burns out!!!!!!!! And join the queue, coz I have a waiting list!!!!!!! More windsurfing toys yippee!!!!!!!

choco said...

Hardie i didn't know you were a geologist

Yes I study people with Rocks in their Heads

stehsegler said...

Thanks dad!

Yippeee!!! A future client......... More windsurfing toyz!!!!!! Yippeee!!!!!!!!!

stehsegler said...

Thanks dad!

FYI, I am originally from Bavaria in Germany. By law, we consider beer as part of the basic foods (read it's taxed at the same rate... yay!).

Legally you are allowed to buy low percentage alcohol once you turn 16 but most people are allowed to have a bit of beer here and there at a younger age. Irresponsible? Well, when you compare the average Friday night in Munich with the average Friday night in Sydney I must say I have never seen that many people in one place completely off their face until I came to this beautiful country.

I think it's because here people drink to get drunk vs. places like Germany and France most people have a drink or two in a social setting because they enjoy it.

Go to the Octoberfest for example. The majority of people getting completely plastered beyond believe are in no particular order: Australians, Kiwis, Yanks... then followed by the Italians.

I know I know, there are many different types of alcoholism but the bottom line seems to be that people here never learn how to drink responsibly because of the way and social setting in which alcohol is generally consumed.

But again, thanks for the lecture Dad.

PS: I always thought Gambling was the biggest problem for destroying peoples lives in this country.

You may well be right about the problems with our drinking culture, but studies show that drinking early (ie under 18-21 years of age IIRC; it's the girlfriend who is doing the PhD in this area not me) can do significant damage in terms of altering the brain structure. So if you drink early you may not become a drunkard, but you may still not be the person you could have been.

Chris,

Are you sure this applies to even small amounts of alcohol? If so, you probably should give anyone under 18-21 most medication in liquid form.

While we are on the subject given how harmful smoking is in this context maybe we should ban cigaretts in the process, then get rid of liquore licenses and we would all live happily ever after...

... of course then the question is how will the government keep the masses mediacted so they don't realize how useless our politicans really are.

as I said... people in some countries never seem to get the proper education on how to consume drugs (more so alcohol than others) responsibly.

The again, in some countries they don't seem to get any education to begin with. Just look at the current US president: ex coke-head, alcoholic and all round moron.

hey thought this topic was about doing drugs then going sailing, seams to be transformed into a drug and alcohol lecture.
Think we all know the effects on your body and brain, but not the efffects on your sailing, josh angulo is a fine example of the effects and how it didn't help his sailing ability.. now he's clean and freakin rips.. there is a long list of pro sailors from australia and the rest of the world who have in the past and some still into drugs even heavy drugs, that still perform at a high level, but the question is still on the table " does it help them sailing in this condition?"
example "the windsurf movie" josh section, him trying to sail off his guts, he looked like a kook and we all know he can sail better than any of us, so the basic answer would be "no it makes you sail worse"