I know its been a crappy season for a lot of Aus so condolences to those who haven't got out much.
I was hoping to crack gybing consistently this season & also get chop hops going..I get occasional flashes of brilliance but it looks like these goals might have to be continued next season..
Hope I'm not too old to sail by then..
i think i'm doing okay this season. my gybes have improved considerably, and i plane out of a lot more than i did at the start of the season, so i'm happy about that. i'm pulling a few strap-to-strap ones as well, which has been a 'career' first for me
my other thing, was to get some chop-hops going, and while i'm not threatening the gorge boys by any means, i am throwing out hops at least every second tack and feeling bolder and more in control every time. the season's got quite a few more sailing days in it yet, so i'll keep at it, and hopefully start getting some altitude going.
yep! I've got comfortable sailing a much smaller board this season, and reckon my confidence on the water has improved, and my fitness has improved.
I am rewarding myself with a tuition tune up, booked on Jem Halls Mauritius trip later this year in September 
- anyone else from Oz coming?
I've achieved a fair few PBs this summer. However my goal is to get a 2 second peak at 30 knots and sail over 100 kms in a day. I'm planning on heading up to Burrum Heads for the speed event. Hopefully I'll make it as its a bit of a trek and hopefully there will be a bit of wind.
Yes i was hoping to break the 40 knot barrier and after 4 times with it shown on the GPS, i smashed into it by achieving a 44.01 on the dial, came down to 43.44 2sec peak. Now to do a 45 before im 18 in two years.
24kt hr and 25kt alpha achieved, what next? I'm gettin slower, older and fatter, not fair, not like Izaac above me getting faster, fitter and stronger and more skilled every year!!
Not even nearly.
Crap season and too much work have resulted in few sailing sessions.
I wanted to build on my budding looping skills, and do some speed stuff, but I have done neither.
I have resorted to buying a bigger rig to get some more flat water time in over autumn and winter, as I'll be working in FNQ again.
Have new sail, waiting for board to come off a wharf somewhere. Hoped to have it in time for this weeks SE, but that's not gonna happen. I did have to be fussy, of course.
I'm thinking of using the GPS to motivate me to do some distance stuff.
100km in a day seems looks a reasonable goal to start with.
I'm philosophical though, having been through the madly obsessive phase before, and not really wanting to go there again, even though the crazy does beckon.
learned to waterstart 
have pulled a couple of carving jibes , even got some chop hops in at botany in a southerly. I could have surfed my longboard there that day.I have been out in the surf it was very small .got some more sails .yes it has been a good improvement for me all round now if i can improve on my improvements & go faster this yr i will b happy.seasons not over yet so should get better still.
Now i water start im saving for a better winter wetsuit i dont want to stop sailing at all when i should be able to tool up for the cold .
Season must've gotten lost or decided to never show...spent the season trying to get fit for w/surfing by mtb-ing & suping...now it seems that they may have taken over as my primary outdoor activities!
NO....Not even close, Forward loop was my goal for this year and It has not happened. I sit here in Geraldton on holidays and have had the opportunity but have not taken it, My chicken wings keep sprouting when I have the chance. My chop hops, jumps and stock airs are on the money and gybes are much better which I'm please with but I just can't pull the trigger on that forward. This being my 4th season windsurfing I was hoping I'd be pulling forwards by now....Anyways I need to go and groom my chicken wings for tomorrows session.
Good on you for you those that achieved there goals for this year and keep trying for those that have not, It's all good.
Summer Days...Cheers.
Hope I'm not too old to sail by then.. so maybe I won't have to wait until next season! That was on my small board though so back to beginnersville on the large one where I have to learn the footchange. .Only 1 planing one but got round on the others.. Boy it makes a difference to your energy levels when you don't fall and have to waterstart 2 times a run! Ill have more energy for fun stuff like getting chop hops down!
- anyone else from Oz coming?
Seriously, just give it a go.
Don't try and do a full forward, just a little barrel/cheese roll.
It does not hurt like you think it will.
A simple catapult is ten times worse.
They call it a catapult, because it can throw a grand piano a hundred yards, but a failed forward is barely enough to pull the skin off your porridge.
Watch the "El Toro" youtube if you don't believe me.
Here
30 kn LOC finish 80% gybes Wannabees top 10 australian by years end- hmmm maybe GO TEAM !
I reckon we have sailed every weeknd in some form since October last year!
I am nearly making regular quick tacks, that was my aim this season,
SA = happy dayz
same down the bottom of SA in Beachport, have been sailing absolute heaps and must say the conditions here are what has given me my scores i have so far . my aim this year was to get 40 knot 2sec, 35 nm, 23 alpha and make the top 50 for this year on the gps team challenge. and buy a speed board so I bought a F2 missile and it flies...!!!!!! have made then all already thanks to the missile and so now going for 42 2sec and 37 nm, 25 alpha and hope to try and stay in the top 20 for aussie this year. oh and I want to go for 300 distance in a couple months when I have holidays.
I wanted to get out so much more often than I actually did. Sadly, work and other things kept getting in the way.
I did get the tick on getting out in the waves and actually riding some waves. Also managing to get air time on the way out. Next step - forwards and breaking 50% success with my gybes.
Not so much about technique as pointing out that he didn't get hurt.
Took a beating, but survived to tell the tale.
I found it pretty motivating.
Cripes I must have been a good sailor to do what I did with it!
Gazman, Mmm yep I seem to have had a run of "events". Both boards have been victim of La Nina, all Melbournes rain and the crap that has ended up in the Bay.
I hit either a tree or a railway sleeper in the SSD, it's pretty well stuffed. The LM Large fell victim to another hunk of wood but is repairable.
Since Nov I have had the demise of the SSD, then the crash on the LM Lrge resulting in 2 broken ribs. A week before Xmas we get an "urgent" job at Holden and my 3 weeks leave gets cancelled. Xmas day my Labrador eats a River stone out of the garden bed which gets stuck in it's intestine. $2000 later Max is fine.
Then my Wife gets T boned at an intersection and the brand new Cruze is pretty much totalled. Kids in the car but luckily nobody hurt and it's a company car.
Then I finally get back on the water and hit another piece of crap on the LM large leaving the bottom cracked open. Oh and Spotty broke my big carbon boom in the LOC ruining his day.
It,s got to be all up from here!!!!
So back to the subject. The goal was to smash through 45 knots. Not met yet as I haven,t been to the PiT since November, but it will happen!!!!!
Whats all the "season" talk, do you all stop for the winter ?
Admittedly evenings are out (save you sickes for the winter !)
My goal for the season was lose 10kg, which I met.
(and that was mainly just to get more use out of my smallboard)
