New to windsurfing, will this board be suitable?

NOVAAN · Joined: 28 Sep 1994 Posts: 1551

WOW! I was going to post another reply but I can not speak any better than your last. (PeconicPuffin). Well stated.
I am also and avid golfer. I find it a great complement to my windsurfing trips. I also find it much easier to learn and get pretty good at than windsurfing. I took lessons to make my progression faster and more enjoy able. Like windsurfing, teaching yourself bad habits only makes it more difficult to learn the right way. Not many good golfer's are self taught. Many are willing to spend up wards for 500 bucks for a new driver to fix their swing. It doesn't help. A package of lessons from a teaching pro (300 bucks) will make that old club work just great. Make life easy on yourself and learn the right way....

GURGLETROUSERS · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 2643

"The 'satisfaction' notion floated by non instruction people is wishful thinking."

Don't lecture me, or others of like mind, on what you are clearly unable to understand, or that which seems to lie beyond your' tram line' vision and philosophy of life.

It is beyond your level of competence to try and assign 'failure' in life's pursuits to those of us who dance to a very different drummer!

bred2shred · Joined: 02 May 2000 Posts: 989 Location: Jersey Shore

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Do you ... or I ... or anyone else here have the innate skills Robby has in his little finger? I vote for all the (good) lessons one can find. Maybe if they had been available on the mainland or Maui back when I was figuring this crap out, I'd have saved myself a decade of frustration in trying to figure out jibing, stance, rigging, carrying my gear across windy sand dunes, getting back upwind in a strong coastal rip current, and the other 15-10 skills I tried to buy lessons for -- at any price; I'd have GLADLY paid thousands -- in the '80s. Just think how many people each of us has seen quit the sport altogether because it's so challenging! Good lessons can change all that.

THE key to freeedom in WSing is the waterstart. Self-taught: years. Lessons: hours.

The first flashy triumph is planing jibes. Self-taught: 5-10 years if persistent. Lessons: days to weeks.

Get lessons, or at the absolute minimum, every instructional video you can find.

bred2shred · Joined: 02 May 2000 Posts: 989 Location: Jersey Shore

techno900 · Joined: 28 Mar 2001 Posts: 4166

I think the whole point here, is that for most windsurfers, lessons will speed up the learning curve and most likely, minimize the inevitable frustrations.

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830

Regarding GURGLETROUSERS " Don't lecture me, or others of like mind, on what you are clearly unable to understand, or that which seems to lie beyond your' tram line' vision and philosophy of life. It is beyond your level of competence to try and assign 'failure' in life's pursuits to those of us who dance to a very different drummer!"

And Bred2shred's "Wow, nothing like someone else telling you what is and is not satisfying - TO YOU. "

But that's what you guys are doing: Saying that being self-taught is more satisfying.

And Gurgletrousers...when did I assign failure?

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830

[quote="bred2shred"
For the record, I have no problem with people taking lessons or recommending that other people take lessons. It is a valid way to learn.

What I take issue with is someone saying that you can not have a satisfying experience in windsurfing without taking lessons.
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That's not what said (otherwise I'd agree with you and apologize). I'm saying that the statement "learning without taking lessons is more satisfying" (or words to that effect) are nonsense.