Hi guys, as I said in my previous post I am new to this sport but I was a kitesurfer before. I know all the basic rules about sailing and how to stand on a board or how to sail up and downwind.
I am self learning Windsurf and I am just wondering how a bad windsurfer I will be without getting professional lessons.
Unfortunately in my country there is nobody interested in this sport so there are no teacher or windsurfers.
Is it possible to learn windsurf just by practice and video-lessons?
How long should it take before you can jibe without falling in the water 100 times in an hour? 
I learnt to gybe by watching teh old Peter Hart Carve Clinic on VHS.
I came out OK.
THere are no lessons to speak of here is Oz, and while it is certainly a barrier, we all got over it.
I think it depends on your personality.
Some people can introspect, and perform out-of-body experience whilst watching videos. or something like that.
I believe that for the right person, watching the right instructions and intellectualising them can get you all the way to at least basic freestyle - in time.
Some just can't and need person-instructions. Those may learn just as fast.
Get yourself a copy of 'Beginner to Winner' dvd. It is an excellent easy to follow instructional dvd done by Jem Hall.
Thanks guys, I will look for that DVD right away.
I found also some very good lessons on UTube, but I have found also some people that do not know what they are talking about at all ...
xCarantoc is true, sometimes you find people on YouTube which try to act as Wind Guru but they aren't. I didn't say anything wrong, didn't I?
As OB64 said, get your hands on some Peter Hart vids. Beginner to Winner is the pick, also Turn for the Better...list goes on. Very clear instructions.
No, you did not say anything wrong, that's just aussie humour
Actually he said something quite wrong. Who seriously goes back to pole dribbling after they're a kiter?
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Guys I didn't want to open a "wind kit competition" ...
I have 'found' the DVD and it's really well done!
By the way, I kite for 2 years and I saw too many friends get injured and hill due to wrong lines setup, bad weather and co. so that I decided to move to windsurf, which looks to me more safe and less painful ... I mean who will spend 1 hour to blow up or take a part everything when with the windsurf in 10 mins you are all setup?? 
OK, I bite: how do you compare the two sports-wise?
If your goal was to stay fit and work out, which ?
Some local kiters have told me that kiting is harder a sport, which I find diff to believe, mind you haven't and won't try it.
DVD's are all good but it is much better to have a teacher, just like this one
(By just like this one, I mean with a blackboard and stuff, very helpful)
xMark MEGA ROFTL ... I wish I could learn from her ...
Well IMHO Kite is harder to learn and less safe ... If you break the kite in the middle of the ocean, like here ... there you are, you can't easily go back home.
Now, at least, I have a huge 200 board which float very well ... 
About the painful, especially here, kiter are still seen as bad guys because the space in Bermuda is small and tourist and kiter do not fit well in the same spot, if you get what I mean.
Finally, no windsurf is not harder to learn, from my point of view kiting is more difficult to learn than windsurfing for sure ...
The only way to compare the two sports is to try both of them. 
Anyway we are having now 2 hurricanes so this long week-end is waisted ... I was already planning to spend the whole week-end on the beack with my gear .... 
Mark, let me get this right: she's teaching you things she does,
so you can do them too, is that it ?
