Windsurf? I'm a long way from an ocean...

After 4 months, I have to say that SUP'ing is a great workout, and has some benefit I never had considered before. That said, I'll also say that as a person with low back disc issues, proceed with caution. Don't overdo it. I did. After as many months, I'm beginning to feel better, but it was a painful summer in terms of back tweaks. Some were downright brutal. I really like doing this though. The other nice part is that it's something my wife is into as well, and unlike bikes, when she falls, the consequences aren't quite as severe. ;) But man...with as windy as it's been the past week or so??? I bet kiting would be NUTS!

^SUPing's definitely a back strainer. Glad you're feeling better.

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Originally Posted by Crampedon

Fuck Civil.

At 40 you should RIP at everything. I am 51 I ski harder, play harder and ride harder than I ever did when I was younger.
Use that shit up, just don't crash. I am working on landing forwards off summer wind-chop. THROW yourself into the air.

I have some friends in their early 60's here on Maui that are ripped as 20 somethings and charge big waves all winter.

Middle age starts at 72.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sp2HHCOZ_g

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Is that you?! Great charging either way... I'm 55 and not afraid to go that high, but still can't get past the thought of throwing a loop. Need to come to Maui, I guess... [dream]

Midwest? I'd have to say kiting. But in any decent place I'll take windsurfing for sure.
Light winds? Sure a kite will plane earlier but when the wind drops your kite will drop. Sucks in waves.
At most breaks you see windsurfers before kiters in the water. It's easy to schlog to the waves if you must on a windsurfer.
Dont like big gear? A good modern 100 liter freestyle board will plane for most people in 14 knots with a 5.5.
There is no question that windsurfing is a long learning curve. Think of it as skateboarding. How long before you can do a decent ollie? Sure you could rollerblade but who wants that? ;)
Finally there are quite a few people coming back to windsurfing like some snowboarders came back to skiing. Both are cool but the sensations are different. To me kiting has little glide, too much cranting, jumps are like hangliding. What's scary in a jump is how fast the ground comes back at you. Hanging there floating is just different .
The only place where really kites really shine in my mind is strapless surfing. That looks pretty cool.

I got into windsurfing in high school and college. The lack of wind in Colorado, or at least lack of consistent wind, made many days a pain in the ass (changing sails, paddling back to shore).

So, I bought a long skate board, drilled a hole through it and mounted my universal on with a 5.0. All you need is a parking lot with no cars or cracks. I've sailed for hours without touching the ground, learned to jibe, as well as duck-jibe, and can get all four wheels sliding while carving turns. My friend clocked me at 43 mph at the Coors Field parking lot one day. Anyway, it has now been about 5 years since I've sailed in water. Have fun!

Dear this is nothing but the kiting, about this it is very easy and enjoyed by everyone. It depends that how the wind is flowing, if it is in a fine order then it is quiet good to play this event. You can get more about this through INTERNET.
Thanks.

I know a guy that used to give wind surfing lessons on Calhoun on the weekends, really nice gent that owns a landscaping company as his real job.

I can get you in touch with him when the going outside season comes back to MN if you are interested.

i'll teach any mag for free, the joy of a good wind surf, from my compound on flowing lake.
lots of water not much snow.
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Windsurfing Rocks, if you can get a few days in a row with good equipment and enough instruction to get into the harness and straps and somehow don't like it, then walk away.

When I can make it happen (yyyyears away) I'll summer in the Gorge and probably learn to kite on low wind days, for now I'll keep pushing my WINDSURF jumps then go for the forward.

its all fun! what i like about the kite is you can ride just about anything. and that keeps it really interesting for me.

Close enough? Kiteboarding pics, spectator in Cabarete, Dominican Republic.

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Nice BroMo... did you try it?

That place is amazing. Our vid from 2004 Been back a couple times since and could easily see having a condo there.

Nice work. I did a lesson with a practice kite to learn how to control a kite, then went through setup/breakdown and release. Didn't budget the $500+ for a full lesson program so no days on water.

It's a cool place for sure, I really liked the Samana peninsula. Missed the whales by a few weeks :(

I liked windsurfing a lot when I sucked and just putted around on the big board but then I got pretty good and it started to suck. After getting body-slammed a few times and ending up upside down underwater under the sail still hooked in I started to develop a serious fear of drowning while windsurfing.

Plus at the place i usually went people would wait all day for the wind to come up and it often wouldn't. It was like sitting in a parking lot at a mountain with no snow on it at all and hoping it would suddenly dump two feet of pow.

So between abject fear and terminal boredom I bagged it and sold my gear.

Where were you in DR? I spent most of the time travelling to the different beaches just to see the country. I heard some negative talk about cabarete, but it's hard to talk down to a place that has hundreds of kites out a few times a week. Also - you kiteboard or just windsurf? Seems like windsurfing is way less popular these days, though I can only guess it's because of an easier learning curve?

Never kited, but am seriously thinking about it. Cabarete's always been good to us, so we just hang here. We've toured a few inland river canyons, but we love hanging here, surfing all day and then some interesting bars at night. There was talk of doing this sail/kayak trip around the island, but it's hard to beat having everything at your door for little money.