Ezzy-friend, Lancerlin inside the reef is usually OK, bit of seaweed about but OK . Safety Bay also OK and probabaly the better of the two places for what you are asking for.

Rivers not too bad, winds can be gusty at times, some dont like the river, but dont let that turn you off.Plenty of sites, Melville, Pelli Point and so on.

Mineral

hey. there are loads of great spots for freestyle, just not many freestylers in wa for some reason. going to be trying to push some freestyle next season with a few clinics from the top guys from europe and hopefully a comp if we can get enough interest.
hope to see you around.
lee
pelican point windsports

Yes! I'm keen! been trying some freestyle moves but only once I saw others freestyling on the river when i was there (applecross), its good to have others around to look out for and ask about the techniques. Woodie's would be great, the water is sooooo flat... great way to piss the kiters off too hehe !!!
Keep us updated leepasty

Can only speak personally, but as a surfer from the 60's "functional school" Doing "tricks" goes against the grain.
Tricks on boards was where surfing was at up to about 66, you know spinners, handstands, riding backwards, all sorts of things to show how clever you were but detracted from control on the wave.
George Greenhough, Bob Mactavish, Nat Young and crew, started the Aussie tradition of performance wave riding, as opposed to board tricks.
So although there might not be many waves around, I'm still not inclined to do non functional manoeuvres. Just a mind set I guess, if you haven't been a surfer, you probably wont have it.

and of course morality is definitly involved though some times clearly not debated to it's full extent!

does doing tricks comment on a users morality?

If a user executes a trick, does that mean he or she has signed up to a course of postmodernist consumerism. certainly the knowledge and skill set required to achieve these tricks has been fragmented into the global market place allowing each user to experience his/her own outcomes, but does that itself make moral judgments of the persons political or social ideologies.

the recent globalisation of windsurfing as a whole would suggest that modernist design concepts of wide boards and twist top sails have enabled the postmodernist windsurfer to flurish.

traditional paradigms such as speed and wave have been questioned. will freestyle become the bastion of postmodernist windsurfing, with it's pop art graphics and neo-romantic experiences.

It is after all a re-appraisal of existing moves and an artistically aesthic movement. if it is a postmodernist pursuit then it also has positive moral benefits. the rejection of capitalism, a bluring of the line between highbrow and lowbrow and the disection and questioning of all that has happened previously.

until freeatyle itself has had time to mature we will not know. it may in fact be a clever facade, constructed by the capitalist beast. taking advantage of our postmodern lifestyles and hurredly working on the next morsal to promote on the menu.

as david byrne said.

stop making sense.

i see another 50 foot wave fan.

very cool.....

Coming out happy is where it's at!! As long as you're not hurting/inconveniencing any body else, all the rest is irrelevant!!
I certainly wouldn't expect anybody else to share my paticular mindset.

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Originally posted by Chris 249

Like, what the hell makes off the lips and bottom turns more "functional" than a quasimodo?

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It's very hard to categorise manouevres, It's more why and where they are done. Something functional, improves either or, speed, power, control and proximity to the action. In other words you're riding the wave not the board.
Personally I get my kicks from "Gs" +ve & -ve. I remember well the days when I still had enough bottle to ride Margarets, those freefalling take offs, then the knee bending bottom turns, thought I was going to snap my board once, just couldn't stop myself from sinking downwards.