This shared feeling, that we were all learning something new, together; made those early years of windsurfing seem both a party and a celebration, where each of us discovered and tested our own strengths, focus, humor; persistence, anal limits.
And then went past what we had done before.
Regardless of whether your sail luffed, or the mast foot had to be wrapped in aluminum foil and jammed into a horizontal slot in the center of the board, as soon as you stepped onto the water, the salty foam and crisp breeze took you into another reality. : read more :
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We know that windsurfing attracted the masses in the early days, and we know it was largely in the capacity of sub planning mode.
It was light wind fun. Nothing wrong with extreme physical stuff,- which is only a natural progress for those capable and captivated, but if light wind windsurfing could be re-launched as 'fun', we believe it would be a massive boost for the sport.
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