Today is 12 months to the day when I bought my first windsurfer (155 GO) and it had me wondering what everyone had achieved over the last 12 months.
For me, besides buying another 2 boards, another 2 sails, new wetsuits etc etc, I achieved:
1: Learned the basics
2: waterstarts
3: planing and harness
4: (important one) Jointed GTC - if you are not a member you should join now 
5:cracked 27 knots.
Next 12 months:
1: Gybes
2: fast tacks
3: 35 knots.
What has everyone else done over the last 12 months and want to do in the next 12 (windsurfing related
)??
"What did you achieve over the past 12 months"...what a painful thing to reflect upon - obviously there can be only one answer - NOT ENOUGH!
Let me see...
0. Made lots of new windsurfing friends and drank a lot of beer with them
1. Learnt to gybe without falling off most of the time!
2. Bought my first 2 skinny masts, plus too much other junk to list
3. Mast high jumps! Ok, mastfoot high...but it's a start
4. Heli-tacks, upwind 360s, tail-first/nose-sink tacks, duck gybes (only on a big board though)
5. Embraced the noble art of Formula Windsurfing, thus quadrupling my water time
6. Won the caption comp *ahem* 3 times!! One of them was a bit dubious though...
7. On a few occasions, sailed for an hour or more without falling off
Goals for the next 12 months:
1. Plane out of my gybes (yeah right)
2. Save more cash for the next big windsurf trip
3. Just get better and have more fun, dammit!
Not consistently but vulcans, spocks, 540's, one handed 540's, clew first spocks and 540's, grubbies and my bottom turns. Now for 2009 goals of flaka's, ponches and chacho's.
Oh and #@$(*#ing forwards......
Started from scratch, had about 3months solid in the water around inland uni
Learnt:
- To sail flatwater and tack/gybe maybe 50% time there, harness/straps too
- Just starting bump/jump small ocean waves, very dodgy as yet
- Can waterstart maybe once or twice a session
- Bought a fair amount of gear
Next 12months?
- Comfortable in open ocean (i.e: tack/gybe most of the time and waterstart always)
- Start small wave riding
- Do a downwinder
- Sail in harder conditions
I can plane out of gybes ,
Got a 33.4kt pb
Rode a nice wave or 2
bought some Brand new gear ,
started learning forwards and i wanna have them licked before the end of the year ( bit of a push i know )
Do a good body drag.
Do jumps big enough that you need to call the airport and ask for landing approval.
Next year ?
35kts
Plane out of a forward loop
A gecko
some other cool freestyle trick.
more wave sesh's
a backloop or a pushloop.
this year(2008) what ive done
1. 35 knots
2. 120km distance
3. 25 knot nm
4. 17.6 1 hr
5. 22 knot jybe
next years (goals) that i want to do
1. 36-37 knots
2. 150 km
3. 26 nm
4. 19 1 hr
5. 23 knot jybe
