How has windsurfing improved your life? (Health)

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How has windsurfing improved your life?

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Richiefish > 9 months ago, 23 Feb 2009

Richiefish

QLD

5612 posts

23 Feb 2009 11:52am

How has windsurfing improved other areas of your life in general ?..

I find I have improved balance skills when standing on public transport ! Just bend that back leg a bit and RIDE !!!

P.C_simpson

1492 posts

23 Feb 2009 11:11am

yep, i can now tell which to stand when having a BBQ not to get smoke in my eye's.

ka43

NSW

3097 posts

23 Feb 2009 1:30pm

Taught me that a cold beer tastes even better after a good sail

Mark _australia

23526 posts

23 Feb 2009 11:33am

I have seen flying fish. Lots of people don't even think they exist.

ka43

NSW

3097 posts

23 Feb 2009 1:43pm

Now who and why would you red thumb Marks comment????

some humourless w^nk#r who doesn't like some of us due to posts we made, and he red thumbs all my posts. One of the regular trolls I think.

Anyway serious answer: it puts my back "in".
If I don't sail for a month I get a couple of vertebrae in between my shoulder blades that slip out and cause pain. One sail fixes it... but no other stretch or anything puts 'em in. Weird but kinda cool excuse to sail

FormulaNova

15090 posts

23 Feb 2009 1:41pm

Windsurfing has been good as it has stopped me spending all my spare cash on cars... which of course, now goes on windsurfing kit...

It's also given me an excuse to travel all over the place just looking for some decent wind.

Mark, do you mind if I borrow your 'need to get the back in' reason? Sounds like a good one to me!

choco

4177 posts

23 Feb 2009 3:13pm

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P.C_simpson said...

yep, i can now tell which to stand when having a BBQ not to get smoke in my eye's.

The BBQ smoke always seems to follow me around.

....it must mirror the shifty winds we get on the lake

Gonewindsurfing247

966 posts

23 Feb 2009 1:49pm

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Mark _australia said...

I have seen flying fish. Lots of people don't even think they exist.

First time I saw one out the back of Lano I raced in to tell my mates on the beach, I thought I had discovered a new species. They thought it was real funny. Apparently I was the only person who hadn't yet seen one.

Last week were were out fanging across Warnbro Sound and one jumped out and parted my mates hair. Bl oody dangerous little buggers really.

Mark _australia

23526 posts

23 Feb 2009 1:53pm

I rang my wife to say I saw a sea monster

she told me to stop drinking and come home straight away.

FNova, anyone can use that back excuse it works well. Go for it fellas

FormulaNova

15090 posts

23 Feb 2009 2:03pm

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Mark _australia said...

FNova, anyone can use that back excuse it works well. Go for it fellas

Sounds good to me. Of course, it also requires a cool beer or two to let those back nerves settle down as well

Old Salty

VIC

1271 posts

23 Feb 2009 5:50pm

My Physio says its the best sport for my back as long as I have the correct stance. I soon know when I am not standing properly on the board.
Stops my wife spending money on horses and stops me building a deck a big deck.
Maybe a big deck would improve my life also. Wood fired oven, BBQ, old surfboards as seats, spa, beer fridge. Damn I could almost ......... nah cant go there

nobody

NSW

437 posts

23 Feb 2009 6:57pm

Restarted windsurfing in 2007 to get some exercise in an effort to improve my health. It helped me appreciate the value of exercise again and so took up two further activities. No point doing exercise you don't enjoy as you generally won't stick to it long term.

Lost 7 Kg and feeling better. Bank balance isn't looking too good lately though.

CROWEMAN

VIC

268 posts

23 Feb 2009 7:07pm

Exposure to hour after hour of direct sunshine means that the next time I return to the UK to visit family I can avoid jocular questioning along the lines of:

''you must be the palest man in Australia''; or better still..
''you did say you'd moved to Australia and not Austria...'' etc etc.

Despite liberal applications of Factor 30, I've developed a modest 'touch' of colour. I'm now perhaps the 2nd palest man in Australia - but its a good enough reason to windsurf.

Windxtasy

4017 posts

23 Feb 2009 5:21pm

Windsurfing has improved my interpretation of weather maps

McMahon

VIC

129 posts

23 Feb 2009 7:26pm

I used to be a fat 114kg blob, so I took up running to get back into windsurfing.
I lost 27 kg and successfully ran a half marathon in the process
Way fitter and as a result, get more lovin.
bought my first wave board this week.

Trousers

565 posts

23 Feb 2009 6:56pm

sailing lets me get away from project deadlines, telemarketers, and irate loan sharks.

on the flip side, I am told I am intolerable to live with if i don't get to sail for two weeks.

sausage

QLD

4873 posts

23 Feb 2009 6:57pm

Don't know about my life, but definately improved my wife's as a lot more chores get done when it's windy.

stamp

QLD

2795 posts

23 Feb 2009 8:20pm

it led me to take up kiteboarding....

(i couldn't resist. don't take it too seriously)

Sailhack

VIC

5000 posts

23 Feb 2009 9:38pm

It's stopped me from sitting in front of my computer all day, browsing forums for anything remotely......

HANG ON!!

I'm obviously still doing it...

pierrec45

NSW

2005 posts

23 Feb 2009 10:42pm

Windsurfing keeps me alive.

eyeMhardcor

255 posts

23 Feb 2009 8:47pm

It made me popular. You can tell by my green thumbs above

timford

NSW

510 posts

23 Feb 2009 10:50pm

-13 kg with a massive smile while doing it and is a complete break from the world of work although never long enough.

Greenroom

7608 posts

23 Feb 2009 8:58pm

If I didnt windsurf, I would have less than half the mates I have now.
Windsurfing has allowed me to ride waves when the seabreeze is in.
Windsurfing has been the best thing I have ever done.
I wish I had started it alot earlier in life.

spot1

1588 posts

23 Feb 2009 9:09pm

once you in you never get out bit like the mafia

Greenroom

7608 posts

23 Feb 2009 9:21pm

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spot1 said...

once you in you never get out bit like the mafia

Yeah and because you have gone to the darkside, Im gonna have to get uncle Frank onto you[}:)]

spot1

1588 posts

23 Feb 2009 10:02pm

gloo oct

lano jan

greenhead feb

m/river feb

now that is livin

jp747

1553 posts

23 Feb 2009 11:37pm

it taught me how to reason out of obligations, functions, etc..and made me a good weatherman

greenleader

QLD

5283 posts

24 Feb 2009 1:37am

it introduced me to wellington point then the gold coast.

yay!

Bertie

NSW

1351 posts

24 Feb 2009 2:57am

it taught me about human anatomy. in particular the knee

frant

VIC

1230 posts

24 Feb 2009 7:28am

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Richiefish said...

How has windsurfing improved other areas of your life in general ?..

Windsurfing provides one half of the "deep" question " what is better SEX or WINDSURFING". I personally could never let windsurfing win so must continually strive to improve sex.

....can only form an opinion if both sampled on the same day.

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