A point of my recent social discusions have been trying to classify what is a sport and what is a hobby. A fine line between the two. Hence I classify my passion for windsurfing as both of these just to make it easy. A sport - as obviously it involves considerable physical activity and a hobby - as I spen copius amounts of time reading articles, looking at sites like this one, buying the associated gear; and keeping up to date with technology.

The problem with this hobbie is that I purchase magazines based on my hobbie. Whenever I am in a shopping centre I make a deliberate bee-line to the newsagent to check out the latest magazines. Undoubtedly my favourite being the "Freesail" magazine. The problem is that time and time again I am disappointed not to find it on the shelves anymore. Truly this is the best of the magazines as it is local and features articles based on people we sail with, places we sail at and gear that we sail with (not a big fan of the dry suit). Occasionally I will get desperate and spend the $12 - $14 on a UK or US mag. Surely we have a windsurfing population to support this magazine or have the publishers just given up on the concept. Admittedly it wasnt frequently published and I would have prefered a weekly subscription, but given we have some of the best windsurfing conditions in the world what is going on???

Too right. Given this day and age of technology you would think articles and magazines could have more of an international focus that extends a lot of its attention into our great backyard.

As for the UK mags, technique can be good, however I find them a bit depressing when they are sailing on some lake in the central midlands or on an indoors arena (great use of initiative though.