not much help to you bubs, but when i was at school i did windsurfing and surfing for sport......very lucky i guess.....

it wasn't comp based.

for windsurfing we went to a local sailboard and catamaran school. so for the first 6 months i sailed cats, then i saw the light and did the windsurfing thing for a year or so.

then for a year i did surfing as well. (for me esky lids). we caught a bus to the beach and just surfed all arvo and then caught the bus home again. got back to school around 5pm. i remember one memorable session at curumundi when some cyclone swell was around. 8-10 foot waves breaking...

i simply didnt windsurf sadly =[

got home from skool sport so late it would be after dark in the winter months...
but now that im in uni, everything is a different story :)

moral of the story... grow up and get into uni ASAP![}:)]

yeh i still go to school, i have been lucky in year 11 with no home work so far so i have been geting a good 1.5 hours of good action after school on the river, but it still isnt a 5 hours, it would be sweet if it was posible to orginize a term of windsurfing with school, go ut there one my own gear and show all the people who have never done it before up, but i guess that injury is more than posible with this sport, and it can suck for a while unless you pick it up real fast, and get planing within 5 days (like me) :)>
i wish there was a windsurfing school, where the main core subject was windsurfing and you had to do it evry day, like thats kids show blue water high
oh well, got the week ends to go out, and mondays to explain y i ddint do my homework and get detention.

just started year 10, couldnt give to ****s about school really. often leave before sport if its windy. miss a fair few fridays coz we leave early to go away to comps and stuff. and what is homework? haha...dont think ive ever really done that. dont know how im still in science maths and english 1.[}:)]

Maybe a landsailor would be useful to you. You could at least practice your rig handling and tacks n stuff.

Well you do need flat ground, the more open the better. That implies playing fields or carparks I guess. If you have a carpark you can use a long board street skate. If you're on grass you need off-road wheels.

You can build your own with a bit of dweebing. You can get suitable wheels (pneumatic about 200 dia) from a couple of those furniture removalist trollies. Supercheap Auto was selling them for a song a while ago. You take the wheels and axles from the trolly and fix the axles to skate board trucks. Fix them to a deck about 1200 or 1300 long and a hole for a mastfoot and youre in business.

Or easier than that, beg for one on this forum.

bubs... with the land kiting you're doing sounds like we will at least convert you to landbaording :D lol...

You're then at least slowly on your way to kiting

abagoodone

kiting doesnt apeal to me at all. i think it is just like wake boarding but you get more air time, and i dont think that it has the same technical dificulty as windsurifng, why dont you get one of teose computer windsurfing games, its not he same think but it gets some windsurfing into the day even if it is virtual not real,.

haha. i didnt even know they existed what is the one you got called, i would like to google it,

www.windsurfingthegame.com/2007/downloads.php have a look at that for a free game on windsurfing

Im in year 11, try to get out after school... But transport is hard, so normaly get to the river round 5:30 - 6, which is okay with daylight savings.

Bubs

I left school long ago, but continued with TAFE till I was about 35ish. You only stop learning when you are dead though.

I absolutely and utterly hated sports at school and would do anything to avoid it. I raced gokarts a few years back and found that a lot of fun, but then a few years ago I discovered windsurfing. You don't know how lucky you are to have discovered it early in life and at a time in the sport where the gear is developed and relatively readilly available.

Weekend plans changed and i FINALLY got to go windsurfing today. Great day, new boards great, and another thanks to Chris who helped in fixing our boards. Despite the fact dad got catepulted today and cracked the nose of his board in the exact same position as before.

bubs

O I see now, 2 threads.