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wynsurfer
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Yes joethewindsufa! Knowing when to call it quits is of utmost importance!
Here is a little gem from the northwest forum that puts things in perspective.
Thank you trudyl! Scroll down a bit to"Gale's back in town" and the next episode. Don't miss this!
http://www.iwindsurf.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25140 |
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cgoudie1
Joined: 10 Apr 2006
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Location: Killer Sturgeon Cove
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Greetings GT,
That luck is in your genetics.
Call it what you like, but a junkie is a junkie ;*)
I'm just glad I picked the appropriate "passions" to positively effect my
life span (baring a misstep).
Long may it be so for us all!
-Craig
p.s. Fun is what I'm after on the water, or the snow, or in the dirt, but I do
get an occasional modicum of satisfaction as well.
| GURGLETROUSERS wrote: | I sometimes wonder why I was born so lucky to be passionate (agreed, better term than obsessive) about these three things. Long may it remain so!
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westender
Joined: 02 Aug 2007
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Location: Portland / Gorge
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Experience is good but expertise is better. |
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| joethewindsufa wrote: | are we doing it for the TOW or for the FUN ?  |
I know plenty of each. I am driven by the FUN part, yet have refused to make any commitments to anything less urgent than an Emergency Room since taking up windsurfing. Meetings, anniversaries, Superbowl, elective surgeries, food, Christmas, work (taking leave on short notice was usually manageable even back when I had a job), meals, sleep, my dentist, etc. were all subject to my Lifetime Wind Pass.
Yet some people still criticize those of us who choose to sit out some really crappy conditions, and others simply log miles or speeds and don't know whether they had FUN until they look at their data on a computer.
THANK GOODNESS! If we all wanted to do the same thing in the same way, the same places and times would be packed. |
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isobars
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| westender wrote: | | Experience is good but expertise is better. |
How do we achieve the latter without the former?
I had a decade of fun before I figured out jibing, and many would say I STILL have no expertise because I have never jibed around a buoy, don't even know where my GPS is, and plan never to learn a Gecko Loop, aka a deliberate face plant. |
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isobars
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| techno900 wrote: | | Once you know what it takes to do a loop (most advanced windsurfers know - even though they may never have tired), "easy" is not how we look at the skill. It looks really cool |
The first three GOOD ONES I saw looked cool. The next 10,000 were just controlled crashes into a stall. Maybe that's why I have no CLUE (or care) what it takes to do one. Besides, the VAST majority of so-called loops are just cheese rolls; a LOOP is and end-over-end mast-high vertical rotation. But if people have fun trying or doing them, and do so without interfering with others, that's what counts. |
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isobars
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| cgoudie1 wrote: | | I'm just glad I picked the appropriate "passions" to positively effect my life span |
That's what I thought when I gave up desert motorcycle racing in favor of WSing. Yet like marathons or even excessive jogging, excessive WSing slams our immune system.
It's worth it, to me. |
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westender
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tm00
Joined: 21 Jul 2000
Posts: 250
Location: Lake Champlain - NY
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| slinky wrote: | Yes joethewindsufa! Knowing when to call it quits is of utmost importance!
Here is a little gem from the northwest forum that puts things in perspective.
Thank you trudyl! Scroll down a bit to"Gale's back in town" and the next episode. Don't miss this!
http://www.iwindsurf.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25140 |
Amazing stories. |
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joethewindsufa
Joined: 10 Oct 2010
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Location: Montréal
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those "stories" have a happy ending, but not all do ...
locally NO windsurfers have died, but have seen an experienced kiter leave beach in an ambulance
and one kiter has died at the same beach - loop of death
this discussion brings to mind some songs:
"do it 'til you're satisfied"
"i can't get no satisfaction" - i try n i try ...
"you can't always get what you want", but if you try ... might get what you need
"when i die and when i'm gone"
and also some philisophy:
"are humans EVER satisfied ?"
should we "open our hearts and minds to life as it is"
profit charts MUST go UP - ask coca-cola
what is more, faster, "better"
if we remain satisfied, will we ever be motivated ?? |
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