My Ability level: I'm a very fast wavesailor!!!!1

Technique: It's very impt in speedsailing. Its about using your leverage to translate every bit of power through the board and fin. Board trim is critical, how to trim the board on the optimum area of the tail of the board, too much board contacting the water is slow, not enough slow or dangerous.

Tuning: Tuning your gear the sail for the conditions, boom height, harness line length, mastfoot placement, fin selection, all these affect your speed.

Sail size: Use bigger than you imagine for a flat stretch of water, with a very broad reach/run, I often rigged too small and woulkd run out of wind.

Mindset: Too much fear inhibits, not enough fear gets you in trouble. But you have to have the desire to want to go as fast as possible. I was too Timid!!

When to go: If you like flying, fly on a good forecast, if wanna stay and wait, at least 6 weeks is necessary to get more than 1 run down the strip. I got 2 runs over 5 weeks, and I got 1 honking easterly which is almost as good!!

and you met lots of cool people

and put up with the Pit Crew [}:)]

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kato said...

and put up with the Pit Crew [}:)]

...Zooming past him

but will you be back my friend? That was just the start of the windsurf season. It gets better

Your a funny little dude elmo

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windtechno said...

Your a funny little dude elmo

He's not little

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graceman said...

windtechno said...

Your a funny little dude elmo

He's not little

and I'm not a dude

and NOT pretty

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elmo said...

graceman said...

windtechno said...

Your a funny little dude elmo

He's not little

and I'm not a dude

Annd as Bender quoted
"and NOT pretty"

Yep, that about covers it

And do not convince two whacky vics to set up a GPS team caus they are comin to haunt ya hards Love you long time even though its been a short time. IWC road trip to WA - STAY TUNED

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elmo said...

graceman said...

windtechno said...

Your a funny little dude elmo

He's not little

and I'm not a dude

Annd as Bender quoted
"and NOT pretty"

Yep, that about covers it

You forgot furry palmed.

elmo is a cutey

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windtechno said...

elmo is a cutey

and you guys think kiters are gay????

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stamp said...

windtechno said...

elmo is a cutey

and you guys think kiters are gay????

I know, Iknow

its a sad sad situation we find ourselves in

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stamp said...
and you guys think kiters are gay????

Anyone who ties themselves to their toy should at least be considered sexually deviant! :)

love ya elmo

Some more reflections:

There's nothing wrong with my gear, but heaps wrong with my sailing technique, gear tuning and decision making!!!!!!!

Sandy Point in October is ****** COLD!!!!!!!!!

The Pit Crew are very fast because they have great technique, are v.good decision makers & have finely tuned their gear to suit the place, & not bec they sail Sandy Point!!!......... I was consitently 2 to 5 knots behind them.

The Victorian and Australian windsurfing community are a great bunch of blokes!!!!

When Sandy Point is firing, it is one of the best feelings in Windsurfing, had 3 of the best sails/sessions of my life there!!

The place is addictive in the way intermittent reinforcement is, (eg. Poker Machines) You don't win often but when you do you just want more and more........

and MORE

For the three times i have been down there it has improved my confidence and ability.
Oh and that little flutter you hear on the board when you go over the 2mm chop keeps me up at night

I still remember my first sandy point experience. i am from north queensland and i had never experienced much past 15 knots of wind let alone going really fast.
My first sail was a sunday morning, dead low tide, 20 odd knot SW, 10 degrees (felt like -10). I bought a cheap wetsuit (2mm i think) so needless to say when i stepped into the water i shat myself, when i went past the rigging dune into 20 knots + i shat myself, when i got planing and got shot down the course on water flatter than concrete i shat myself. And of course the first time i fell in the deep end ......... my shat was frozen.

i missed this year but will definatley be back next year.

So Hardie, you reckon SP is just one large Skinner Box?

Sounds like Cheesegraters..:-))

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So Hardie, you reckon SP is just one large Skinner Box?

Sounds like Cheesegraters..:-))

DEfinitely the Skinner Box, but when you are rewarded it is the Ultimate, whereas Cheesegraters doesn't compare, that's more like aversive conditioning or punishment Point Walter would be our closest equivalent, but I've heard it is very gusty, when SP is firing the wind is clean and consistent!!!!!!!! I'm going on a search in January, going to hire a Jet Boat and explore the northern waters of our coast!!