Who We're Sailing For

[Puma]

Hello there, the following is an old article from Josh Sampiero, editor of Windsurfing Magazine.
Speaks by itself:

It's rare that you recall a windsurfing movie for its words rather than its visuals.
Nevertheless, Four Dimensions starts with a quote from former world champion wave sailor,
 and current board-building family man, Francisco Goya that I will remember forever:

" For the people that spend a lifetime around the sport, when they watch somebody ride,
 they're watching their state of mind. It goes beyond admiring that move or whatever thing
 they are proving to the outside world. Right now, the sport is at its purest form -the people
 that are doing it, they do it because they love it."

 To me, this is one of the most fantastic things about windsurfing. With the exception of the
 very  few pros we have here in the United States, the people you're sailing with every day don't
 windsurf  for pride, or fame, or money. There's no cool factor in identifying yourself as being a
 windsurfer. There's no clothing line to buy into, no haircut to have, no music that has to resonate
 with you to call  yourself a windsurfer. By and large, we do it for the fun. There's no image windsurfers
 are trying to fulfill. Yet, at an even deeper level, windsurfing is an integral part of our Identity.
 It changes the way we look at the trees blowing in the wind as we drive to work. It speeds us up.
 It slows us down. As Goya so perceptively implies, it changes your state of mind and that is how
 Windsurfers Identify with each other. When  I see Fran's smiling face come off the water -and believe me,
 he's always smiling -I know exactly what he's thinking. Because I've bee there too. And so have you.

Cheers!

Puma

[FKPhil]

“There's no cool factor in identifying yourself as being a windsurfer”
Sadly true now but not always so. In my yoof me and my fellow nerds thought that chick doing the head-dip on the Miami vice credits was super cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkurWAXgZs

I live in hope that one day I’ll see that move repeated at PA or in a Lawrence Lim video.

[PlaneSailin]

“There's no cool factor in identifying yourself as being a windsurfer”
Sadly true now but not always so. In my yoof me and my fellow nerds thought that chick doing the head-dip on the Miami vice credits was super cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkurWAXgZs

I live in hope that one day I’ll see that move repeated at PA or in a Lawrence Lim video.

That clip is awesome!    Miami Vice never gets old!

There's an early episode where Sonny and Rico are working undercover on some Caribbean island, and a bartender asks them "are you guys here for the windsurfing tournament?"  ..but aside from that, I haven't seen any actual windsurfing in the show,  and I've almost finished Season One...

(This is not exactly relevant to the topic, btw... )