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The Windsurfing Golden 80´s
date 10/22/2004 3:35:47 AM
message Hi all, I posted this in the Spanish forum and really lots of posts and very interesting ones…
I was so young maybe…(2-3 years old?) but, could you describe to me the Golden 80´s for Windsurfing?.
I guess we are ready to a new step but, history is always important to do it right…
how was it…what made it so so good. or maybe the question is what was right to make it so good. Forget about the present, just feel the past…
Good luck!
Ricardo Guglielmino
THE WIND ADVENTURE
from Ricardo Guglielmino ( )post number 2
date 10/22/2004 3:47:55 AM
message I was living in Melbourne Australia in the 80’s when windsurfing was booming.The things i remember were, a lot of people windsurfing, enjoying doing 2-5 kts on big large boards, ecstatic that they were sailing on the water. Of course the high performance end also existed, but was probably the minority part of the sport.
I remember one event, which was sponsored by a Tobacco company, there were Rock bands at the beach, 10’s of thousands of spectators, 300-400 competitiors, Eqipment stands, it was big time!!
Within a year or two of that event, the Tobacco company was banned from sponsoring the event, the dollars disappeared, and so did the crowds and eventually the event declined to beiing cancelled.
Then the sport started getting technical, and competitive, the obsessives like me continued, and others lost inetrest and found new things to do!!!!!!!!!
from Hardie ( )post number 3
date 10/22/2004 4:22:05 AM
message HiI also remember the days of 80 when “tons of people” flocked to windsurfing. It was easy going and the gear was not too technical.
The Professional Boardsailors Association bloomed with sponsoship from Peter Stuyvesant (cigarettes) and the Grand Slam events had a price sum of 100.000 USD.
These were the days when Bjorn Dunckerbeck was portrait on television in Denmark in primetime and the PWA events were broadcast on TV (I sold the PWA TV coverage in Denmark and was then press rep for PBA).
I thoroughly enjoyed it all…….
Those were also the days when a young norwegian law-student participated in the PWA events (I guess Svein R. still recalls it ……).
We had events in Denmark where 230 participated in the races…. it was by far the largest sailing discipline in Denmark.
What happened ? well the sport “underdelivered”, the sponsors went away and everything got toooooooooo technical. You would need a lorry to bring your tons of equipment (you had to rob a bank to pay for it) to the beach ….. and lo-and-behold you were always on the water with the wrong equipment and had to go back to the beach to re-rig…
Why did I take a break …. Tooo little time on the water compared to the effort involved (I windsurfed intensively for more than 10 years) and I got married (now with two kids)…. so the priorities had to change…..
Future: ACCESSIBILITY is the key word – I guess.
It is of the utmost importance that you can have fun – many hours on the water with a minimum of effort (as little and as cheap equipment as possible that can be used over a hughe windrange).Are we there yet ? time will tell..
Have a windy week-end
best regards
from Sten S.E. ( )
post number 4
date 10/22/2004 4:54:05 AM
message
Buy yourself a FT 148 and a 8,5 sail!
That´s all you need for lots of easy TOW!
Different gear, feel, settings/trim all the time is what makes windsurfing complicated and your manouvers lousy.
Get used to your gear and trim!
You´ll find yourself beeing much better in manouvers, and the rigging process will be done in seconds!Have fun!
Ulf Astrom
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