Check it out some mainstream media for windsurfing! I got quoted at the end of the Article.
There is one mistake that is easy to spot, it says, "A windsurfer can travel up to speeds of 48.7 knots per hour". I did correct that when I proofed read it but it must of still got through. As you know Antoine has gone over 52knots and this time at Luderitz Windsurfers will probably go quicker than the kites. That is my intel anyway.
Anyway its all good and hopefully it will give a boost to windsurfing and the windsurfing retailers.
Only print media as this stage, it will go online later.
regards Justin
Windsurfing is a fairly low-aerobic sport, so unless you're sail pumping, where you 'pump the sail by pulling it towards you and pushing it away to create an artificial wind, you're not getting an exhaustive workout," says Gilliam
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/try-this-now-windsurfing-20130524-2k507.html#ixzz2UjXhAGfT
Well obviously the bastard hasnt watched me windsufing, crash, swim, waterstart windsurf crash swim, waterstart crash windsurf water start then has he 
In print it is a full page with a huge photo!
'fairly low-aerobic' hmm not sure I agree, especially when you are trying race and beat your mates
Great to see a media write-up on the sport, but geeez, has the writer ever riden a sailboard or even seen some serious windsurfing?? "Gentle execise that won't leave you wrung out" Hmmm, I must be doing another sport...
If that article is typical of the link between an activity/event and its reporting in a mainstream newspaper then what does that say about the news and current affairs reporting we are dished up?! Jeez!
Select to expand quoteCambodge said..
If that article is typical of the link between an activity/event and its reporting in a mainstream newspaper then what does that say about the news and current affairs reporting we are dished up?! Jeez!
It's funny you say that Cambodge, as pretty well everything reported in media is usually horribly inaccurate and / or exaggerated. And the more you know about a particular field, the worse the inaccuracies appear. I know nothing about windsurfing, but I know it ain't no gentle work out! But, any promotion of the sport is better than none. Would be interesting to see the facial expressions off the reader when he has his first "gentle workout". Those Tia Chi lessons never seemed so easy.
Cool photo,
Everyones favourite school teacher on an old Wind tech board
Not sure who the other 2 losers are 
Something like this would have been good..... from "now"....
I worry about the future of the sport :/
There needs to be more "cool" factor in the media..... It's great that dudes that used to windsurf in the eighties, and have had families are now coming back to the sport, that's awesome, and probably the reason the culture is so friendly and mature as it is, but without some image promotion beyond the one design glory days and the retro nineties (which were good times might I add).... the sport will fade.....
Don't get me wrong though, awesome the article was done, and awesome coverage, but sex it up !!!!
Select to expand quoteK Dog said..
I worry about the future of the sport :/
Don't worry,seabreeze is going back to the grass roots and has now a new ONE DESIGN WINDSURFER category forum section .
Maybe when these inspirational characters bring the sport back we could have a Instruction/How to ,Freestyle/flowstyle and kids section.Select to expand quoteK Dog said..
Stock photos from the nineties........helps reinforce the retro image
Some vocal minorities in our sport want to keep it that way.
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. . . A windsurfer can travel up to speeds of 48.7 knots per hour. . .
Nice article, Justin. It was published in today's Canberra Times, as well, albeit with a different photo.
I thought the "xx.x knots per hour" was the typo.
Select to expand quoteJustinL said..
There is one mistake that is easy to spot, it says, "A windsurfer can travel up to speeds of 48.7 knots per hour". I did correct that when I proofed read it but it must of still got through.
regards Justin
It's annoying that one. It is funny though, if you read Captain Cook's journals you'll find he used to write, "knots per hour" too.
Select to expand quoteKA360 said..K Dog said..
I worry about the future of the sport :/
Don't worry,seabreeze is going back to the grass roots and has now a new ONE DESIGN WINDSURFER category forum section .
Maybe when these inspirational characters bring the sport back we could have a Instruction/How to ,Freestyle/flowstyle and kids section.K Dog said..
Stock photos from the nineties........helps reinforce the retro image
Some vocal minorities in our sport want to keep it that way.
*Face palm* Oh.....why......why....... don't people realize, if you don't get behind the shops, you don't get behind manufacturers....... you get no new kit in the future.... sport dies...... and you become a strange old man tinkering with old ropes, pulleys and a strange fiberglass plank with a strange triangle Dacron sail sitting in your garage murmuring about the good old days incoherently (and no doubt they were good - then), drunk on cheap port... as your wife ponders a fresh start away from you and your strange obsession with the past :P BEHOLD YOUR FUTURE WINDSURFING!!! HAHAHA. BEHOLD........!!!
Seriously though, hats off to you guys getting the articles up (bar the wife upgrade ones), you guys are great ambassadors to the sport. Wouldn't it be cool to see some articles in mens magazines, like Men's fitness magazines etc... have a big reader base.... AWA????? Do we have a strategy on sport promotion? There are some awesome athletes in windsurfing, from speed, to freestyle wave and slalom.....
In Captain Cooks time speed was measured by basically throwing a piece of timber over the side with rope attached. For example say a six minute interval. Knots were tied at specific intervals with different coloured pieces of stained leather in them at so they knew how many knots had gone out. Multiply by 10 to give you distance travelled in an hour. (Through the water speed). I'm not justifying SMH mistake mind you.
And some local Vic news recently.... The Great Southern Star21/05/2013
vicspeedsailing.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/vss_star_21052013.pdf
Our Blog etc...
victorianspeedsailing.com/
Plus the whole point of the article was windsurfing is not dead and is not necessarily an 'extreme' sport.
paddymac, I can't really say I know what killed it. I was pretty young at the time. I agree you don't mislead people by saying you can do this awesome double forward - buy this kit; but even in surfing magazines, flick through a copy, you will see people charging shipsterns... how many people do you think are being marketed to surf there? I'd say 0.0001%. Marketing sells the dream right? Ripcurl wouldn't chose a chubby old mate on a big mal bumbling through white wash as a selling point.....same for anything else...
I didn't realize Laser sailing was so popular. Good target market for windsurfing
The article would have been best served with some new freeride pics for sure, agree it makes more sense to have an image associated to the text.......I was off on a more extreme tangent......
My gripe, which resulted in a rant, was how frustrating I find it when you see windsurfing portrayed in a historical context in mass media, when its so much more progressed now (gear wise, and ease)...... I know no one got a choice in the photo...... but agree with KA360..... there isn't much of a progressive movement, more retrospective.......
I personally would like to see some articles in Mens Health and Sports Mags etc about windsurfing, that market is typically 25-45 (have more cash than the youngsters).... and recon Speed sailing would be well placed for something like GQ as an article of interest.
I'm might think about sending some emails to the editors as article suggestions
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The article would have been best served with some new freeride pics for sure, agree it makes more sense to have an image associated to the text.......I was off on a more extreme tangent...... My gripe, which resulted in a rant, was how frustrating I find it when you see windsurfing portrayed in a historical context in mass media, when its so much more progressed now (gear wise, and ease)......
Yeah, fair call. You've given me an idea for a new topic.
Select to expand quoteK Dog said..
I'm might think about sending some emails to the editors as article suggestions
Good idea K Dog.
I've had a bit to do with our club's media strategy and with raising the profile of windsurfing with the local media here in vicco and I can honestly say, editors generally won't commission an article...you'll need to write it yourself, add your own pics and give the feature writer (normally a freelancer), the by line. Even then you will need to "squeaky wheel" the editor to get a look in! It's not impossible but there's some hard yards involved.
I tend to think that any mainstream exposure is a good thing... Sure, the pic is historical... But that image would have been all that was available on stock. The target for tHe story is not fellow windsurfing tragics, its for the average punter who won't discern between the latest gear and old stuff- to them it's still a triangle thing that goes onto a stick with a handle which is then stuck on a plank!
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There is one mistake that is easy to spot, it says, "A windsurfer can travel up to speeds of 48.7 knots per hour".
regards Justin
Sorry, but the main error is the "... knots per hour." Knots per hour would be an acceleration, not a speed! In real life it's an absolutely meaningless statement.
360, some of us are NOT trying to give the sport a retro image. We are trying to show the diversity of the sport, from modern freestyle all the way to longboards - just like your sponsor does.
Please stop being so negative.
On a more general note; there's a big difference between a pic that a professional art director chooses for reasons like the format, the layout, the way it complements the rest of the page, and the sharpness, and the pic that someone who is into the sport will choose.
If we are going to say that our experience as windsurfers gives us an expert's perspective about the article, then surely we should accept that an art director's experience in pic selection and article layout gives them an expert's perspective on the pics.... even if it's as simple as knowing what pics cost what, or how quickly they can be found when you're trying to make up an article.
One of the amazing things about windsurfing is that it can be everything from gentle to reasonably extreme, and while it would be good to see an article that showed all the facets of the sport, it's also good to see the less extreme side in print.
PS - to get a fairly objective idea of how other sports are portrayed in the media, I just did a Google image search for "SMH" and "cycling". The first pic that comes up is a "ghost bike"; an old steel roadie painted white and erected where a cyclist was killed. The second is a modern time trial bike- a pretty rare breed. The third is a bunch of round-Australia tourers. The fourth is a black and white shot of cyclists in 1900, the fifth a middle-aged guy on a hybrid, the sixth a bunch of women on girl's bikes in a field.
And cycling is booming. So if a boom sport has a mass-media image centred around cheap, simple, practical low-speed low-tech gear then what sort of image should a sport that isn't booming aim for?
Select to expand quoteMobydisc said..
Plus the whole point of the article was windsurfing is not dead and is not necessarily an 'extreme' sport.
Correct. I work in newspapers, have windsurfed and sailed offshore (I now kite. Please forgive me. I do live in WA). I can tell you now that stories are written for a general readership using language a 12-year-old can understand. As a reporter you also have to get the piece past a mostly disinterested chief-of-staff who is only really looking for a page one lead to stop the editor kicking his head again and sub-editors who just want the shift to end. That said, the job of a good reporter is to use general, simple language to take the average couch-surfer reading the paper on the train into a small part of another, exciting world. We try to make the story so good the subs have a hard time butchering it. However, start running pictures of mad men doing loops of the lip, or describing the lastest carbon fibre kit wizardy ('Hey learners, it's a lot less lethal than last year's model"), and you'll loose readers. Fast. Not good when you want then to hang around the page and buy the stuff advertiser are trying to flog in their panel ads. That all said, that the sub was too daft to realise his error and allow 'knots per hour' just shows what a bunch of landlubbers we have to suffer ....
