Why? Because i'm a self centered selfish barstard[}:)]
And yes this is the reason i started[}:)]

Edit:- It was really so i could avoid family BBQ's[}:)]

Its an addiction I need to feed. Nothing compares to blasting about in 20-25 knots on a sunny day. That total buzz you get when you nail a carve gybe. Nothing can wipe the smile off my face. I just love this sport, I will never stop windsurfing so long as I am physically capable of doing it.

I had sailed boats and had seen the windsurfers zooming round. thought, that looks like a lotta fun. I was right. Now ? Well, you'se know how it is.

Needed to do something to regain fitness after illness and always wanted to try it. After only about 3 or 4 weeks I am hooked Still not fit yet though lol

When I met my wife (who windsurfed) i really couldn't see the point of floating around on an incredibly large and heavy plastic door in 3kts of wind; I could swim faster!

Once I saw that it was supposed to be a fast, action, adrenalin rushing sport I was hooked.

I suppose that is the difference between "sail boarding" (how I hate that term) and "windsurfing"!

Having taken a couple of years out due to various crap reasons I couldn't wait to start again, and now everything takes second place; even if it involves beer. After all what would a days sailing be without an esky full of beer in the back of Divaldo's car; cheers Dave , it must be my turn to bring the beers on Sunday

Although i started cos it looked like it would probably be fun; the addiction just seems to grow and grow such that a day off not windsurfing is just a waste of a day off!

Coz I enjoy fishing!

(WTF I hear?)

3 years ago, I had 2 weeks off over Xmas, (1st time in years...self employed!) I couldn't get the boat on the water because of the f@#%ing wind! About the same time, a mate bought a windsurfer, (GO), and asked if I wanted to try it, thought "might as well, crappy weather for fishing anyway"......long story short - best of both worlds....

winds up = windsurfing

no wind = fishing.

I used to rock up down at Gearies on the tail end of a storm looking for a surf, seeing it blown out and all the windsurfing crew having a ball.

Got chatting to one of the locals who talked it up with huge amounts of enthusiasm, decided to give it a go for when I couldn't surf.

Haven't looked back, only surf on rare ocassions now.

Thanks Waveslave you were right

I used to sail on a skiff, that was cool - but I realised that I could go faster and have more fun (do some jumps etc as well) without having to bother about having a crew organised to do it

Used to race dinghys and crew on yachts and windsurf when i had time.
Got posted to WA and have not sailed a yacht or dinghy in 4 years.

And i feel the need for speed

i saw some guys about 1982 who were windsurfing duranbah. they were sailing out to the reef off from the headland.

i was about 10 or so. it blew my mind. i vowed that one day i would learn to windsurf.

around 1988 my school offered windsurfing as a sport so i jumped at the chance.

very very happy i did.

I started this topic for 2 reasons.

1. To find out why you windsurf, what drives you.

2. To test a theory. I suggested in another topic
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34180&whichpage=1 that people don't windsurf because it makes them look cool. After 21 replies no one has said they windsurf to make themselves cooler!

Not surprisingly, some of our kitesurfing brothers have different motivations. I asked them why they kite, here.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34212




To the kiters who do it for the stoke, respect.
To those who are trying to be "cool", you're pathetic!

I used to do a lot of sailing (raced dinghies and then cats competitively) and after a while the whole carting boats everywhere, rigging time, tuning etc because tiresome. Our sailing club had an old windsurfer one design and one day I just started mucking around in it, got the basics of rig control etc. Then I bought a short board and rig off some bloke in the paper for $50. Lets just say it was plastic, had 3 fins and was PINK! Anyway the whole shortboard thing proved a little challenge initially, however that first time a gust hit me perfectly and it burst out onto the plane is forever etched into my memory. Never looked back. Sailing became less and less of a priority and windsurfing more and more of a priority. Then I moved to the coast for Uni and started dabbling about in waves and that was it, totally and utterly addicted, no more sailing :P

What keeps me windsurfing:

1) The endless pursuit of my skillset....some of those freestyle moves are just impossible

2) Days when you perfectly powered on a 4.7 and the waves are logo+ :D

Was at a go-kart race meeting, one of the blokes racing J's at the time said he was selling up, moving to Safety Bay and windsurfing more.
No idea what he was on about until a few years later I was crewing on a race yacht , a windsurfer went hooning past
Thought now there is some fun.
First go, hooked
Wished I had followed up with the guy getting out of Karting those four or five years prior.
I hate going near windsurfing lolly shops, I always buy more stuff[}:)][}:)]

my wife makes me do it

OceanBlue64 said...

divaldo said...

my wife makes me do it

Where the hell do you find a wife that 'makes' you go windsurfing???

I would even concider getting married again if I found one

Well I found mine 17 years ago at ICA indoor cricket while she was at first year uni, thought she was a good sort....after many long walks along the beach, a bit of poetry and some serenading I won her over. She is obsessed with windsurfing, spends a small fortune on windsurfing magazines, is on BOM at least 4-5 times a day, has a quiver of 4 boards, 6 sails, three masts, and me as her caddy. If she does not sail on a weekend my life is hell...

I love my wife....