just started to realise that there are actully windsurfers under the age of 20!!!! (no offence to any body) im 17 and looovvvee windsurfing. its the sickest sport ever. but i thought i was a rare one cause of my age. who else is under 20????? and windsurfs??? and wishes that him/HER is windsurfing when sleeping,or at work/school,? and spends every cent they earn on new gear!

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Originally posted by divaldo

Hey Chris, I am 17 too! Windsurfing rocks!

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yea 17.. in mind! just not body. sorry to say!!

i'm 20 :) does that count?

Sorry getting old at 27.

i spoze im pretty lucky because my dad knows that its the one thing i like is windsurfing, and that i really hate school. and all i wanna do is be a windsurfer with a label, (crawf....it could happen) so he will take me out of school, "sometimes" when its blowing 25 knot's, but im working on a plan with him, where if it is blowing 25 knots or more, and i havent got a test, or one comming up, he will come get me out of school after lunch so i can get a good 4 or 5 hours in, (especially in summer with day light savings). and im hoping this works, cos when comes summer, should be getting out a fair bit :D:D.

and bubs why dont you get one of those pocket rockets, and make your self a windsurf trailer, just make sure you load the trailer with breaks, ( use two old bike forks, and get some G breaks, weld the break cable or solder together), than you can make one handle your pocket rocked a trailer break and than use the foot break for your bike so you dont die when your goin down a hill. dono how you are with your metal work but i recon a little set up like that would be sweet, mind you for the same price you could by your self a new sail. but i think i may just do that my self. sounds fun

I remember when i was 15 and first took up the sport. Now 34 and still goin, keep it up

Yeah I'm 27 and wish I took it up when I was in my teens!!! Was surfing heaps and lived in Dongara (near Gero)for a while. Never really thought about it. But man I wish I had, I might be half decent by now Started last summer when I got some lessons as a gift and new straight away that I'd discovered a life long addiction!!! Now I spend all my spare cash on kit, my girl that payed for the lessons just shakes her head and says "what have I unleashed"! haha[}:)]

i am 20 . windsurfing is the best

My daughter is 10 and she windsurfs, and asked me the other day when I was going to take her out.....

Coupla other guys here have kids that windsurf, One mate has 14 and 12 yo boys that windsurf, another mate has a 12yo boy that wsurfs

There's a bunch a kids at safety bay that windsurf

But all these kids are dependent on their parents

yea i always bail on friends and commitments when ever its windy! it is always worth it!! good to see some other young guys! im pretty sure we are all in the same boat!! the one word i think is ADDICTED!! pretty much sums it all up!

Im 12 and i only started a year ago with a 2.5, a 3.2 and i used my grandpas board, now i have a 100L starboard go, a 68L exocet universal wave,my 3.2 and 2.5, a 3.5 superfreak, a 4.0 s.f. and a 4.7 s.f., i have a 5.5 severne cammed sail and im getting a 72L starboard prokids flare. Can't wait for the summer when the good seabreezes come in, and the water is'nt freezing cold, although cold water is better than no water!

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Im 12 and i only started a year ago with a 2.5, a 3.2 and i used my grandpas board, now i have a 100L starboard go, a 68L exocet universal wave,my 3.2 and 2.5, a 3.5 superfreak, a 4.0 s.f. and a 4.7 s.f., i have a 5.5 severne cammed sail and im getting a 72L starboard prokids flare. Can't wait for the summer when the good seabreezes come in, and the water is'nt freezing cold, although cold water is better than no water!

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im hoping that your display pic isn't of you, because if it is your showing me up. and you have 3 superfreeks, gees, i only have 2 (only one atm because i just ordered my new 2008 5.3) and with the water, why dont you jsut put on two wet suits. and also i have a 160ltr go, and it is sweet what are the 100ltr ones like, never seen on out, i recon it woudl be sweet on the liter days for cruising around the river going out to the deep water where the fairies cross.

It is great to see new blood coming into the sport. We need them to keep the sport growing. We are the one and only accredited Yachting Australia Windsurfing Training Centre in Brisbane and shall be running free clinics this season at local schools. Anyone interested should get your sports teacher to write to us so we can arrange it at your school. We do a lot of lessons/courses with local groups too, scouts and cadets so if you are involved in that too, get your leader to contact us. All our courses are Yachting Australia certificated.

Anyone young guns think they have what it takes we are signing up for new Team Riders for 2008. Details can be found here -

www.seabreeze.com.au/Members/Content/News/Kitesurfing/Recruiting-Qld-Team-Riders-now_1182467.aspx

Happy sailing!

Geraldton has about ten groms from 14 to 18 going hard . They are frothing for summer breezes to come. Had to give them heaps of old gear to get started, but they are hooked. It's so good watching how quickly they pick it up and go for it.

Ah to be 17 again. Screaming downwind on a Windsurfer One Design, daggerboard slung over the shoulder, water gushing out of the daggerboard slot straight into your eyes, then the uni pops out and you and the rig catapult 20 meters through the air and nearly drowning because you're grinning so much you swallow heaps of water.

Hey guys, you don't have to be under 20 (I'm in my very late 20's (38)) to act like a big kid with a new toy when santa brings you a new board; or over exaggerate about how much air you got or how fast you went today.... However, you should definitely be grateful you live somewhere where you can windsurf regularly in the sun without a wetsuit (shorts optional ); in the UK you do most of your sailing in the winter in a 6mm semi-drysuit with blue fingures/toes and ears, pissing down with rain, hail and occasionally snow, but you still have a big . I just hope SA turns outto be just as good but WARM!!!!

I don't think I can wait several months for my kit to arrive out here, and it probably needs replacing anyway; time for a trip to the nearest shop to look at some goodies