Once you get over all the many (completely irrational) excuses that are stopping you, then it really is one of the easiest jumps to learn.
But, only YOU can make the decision to start.
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I could do 30 knots on a slalom board with my eyes closed…. but where’s the challenge in that?
And, in 10-15 knots I’d need at least 2m bigger sail in the same conditions.
Loving the challenge and recreating that luderitz feeling almost daily, in 30 knots less wind.
⛵ 80.22 km/h top speed today!
Max 2s: 80.22 km/h | Avg Top 5: 73.93 km/h | 500m: 73.31 km/h
Bunbeg | Sunday, March 29, 2026 | 00:57:50 | 15.1 km
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Nice that an early season speed session saw me at the top of the gps3 world ranking for a couple of months, but of course I knew it would never last. Never expected it to get beaten by 1 hundredth of a knot 😂
I’m well aware it’s only because most of the water in The Netherlands was frozen 😂.
As the dutchies and Belgians get some good wind in the next few days, I’d expect it to drop even more. The aim all the time is to get at least a 45knot 5x10 second average, which is a decent speed until the Luderitz results change everything later in the year as usual.
In any case, I t’s all just for fun, and a big part of it is just keeping a diary of all sessions and seeing how I did over the years, and looking how to improve.
Glad and Irish course could be a little part of it all.
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Full value day in the NW last Sunday. On the road at 04.30 to catch the low tide for the speed course at Bunbeg.
No epic speeds - as wind was a bit too west - meaning we could only use the inside shorter course. Peak mid 43kn.
Then onto the waves at Maghers, where the wind increased and ended up on 3.3s in sunshine / hail showers.
Look at the colour of that water 😍
Great to be joined by the @dublinbaywindsurfingclub in both speed and waves. In at the deep end 🤙
Speed pix & vid by Seraina 🙏
Waves by Cat Ward & @_larspetersen 🙏
3rd day in a row using 4.9 at our magic #skerries gybe spot, putting in the reps.
Sometimes it goes good, sometimes it goes s**t 😂
It’s all learning 🤔🤙
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There’s snow in the hills above Dublin this morning, but the last few days certainly feel like winter is gone, and the water will warm up soon. .
It’s only a simple foil gybe, but feels so satisfying when there’s no sound at all.
The subtle art of keeping it all flying clean and dry - is such good practice for regular gybing on a fin - and any day I can fly around at 30 knots on small sails in light winds - is a good day!!
Love this spot in #skerries so much.
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Who remembers these classics?
I have such vivid memories of @bjorndunkerbeck , @rushrandle , @angulo.mark and the rest of the legends in those epic @neilpryde_wind videos by @robertmasters .
In the early 90s before the internet, before social media, printed magazines were one thing, but VHS videos like Rigmarole & Instant Replay were like Windsurfing p*orn, and we all grew up dreaming of one day sailing in Maui or getting our hands on sails like this ‘RAF Cam World Cup Wave’.
Or better still, the Neil Pryde branded boards, and the Combat Wave sail were the pinnacle of everything we dreamed of.
Yesterday I couldn’t resist taking this 35 yr old classic for a spin, just to see how it would work compared to my latest and greatest 2026 Combats.
The results - bags of power, pulls like a train, and although a narrow wind range, made me appreciate just how talented those guys were back then. The pioneers of our sport must have been seriously fit to do moves on gear like this. Respect!
Windsurfers these days have no idea just how spoiled we are for choice…. It’s so easy now to get good gear. What a time to be a windsurfer!
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