The unthinkable once 2 years ago happened to me when she asked: "Honey, don't you want to buy new sails?" So I bought 6, plus 6 masts, several booms and a board as well. I think she's a keeper 😇
🙂 I try to keep it down to maximum three boards and four sails. One of my favourites is a Starboard Aero from 2006, and it s still going strong. From 1998 to 2010 development was extreme. Now it's mostly for the fun of it, if you buy new gear - unless you are in the PWA. It was windy today 🙂All the best - Per
@@surferkaspert4679 My dad got me into windsurfing when i was younger (this was about 30yrs ago now, and it seemed much more popular back then also, anyway...), we bumped into a guy while we we're all just setting up on the beach. and he said something like "i got into windsurfing because i thought it would be a cheep sport, ...3 boards, 4 masts and 7 sails later...". Made us all laugh. Good times. Still, i have to agree with the OP though. it ain't cheep. Additionally, not sure how these wave guys can do it, broken masts, sails...etc.. that would set me back a fortune! love new sails but tbh all my gear is 10 years old or older simply for the price of it all and there's no second hand market for it where i live.
So right 😂 Respect to you and your lovely forgiving wife! But really it’s why I virtually stopped as, with kids I couldn’t keep up. I just rent now 😢😂😂🤙🏻
That was good fun. If I may "challenge" your video a little bit (and please take this in a good hearted way :-) ) - I guess you're a pro, and then what you are presenting is the tools of your trade and what brings money on the table. And I assume much of it is sponsored. However, I think that one of the main culprits in killing windsurfing - or at least making it much less popular - over the past 20 years is the notion that in order to be a windsurfer you're gonna need a sh*tload of gear for different conditions - wave, slalom, foil etc. And this makes it very expensive and it can give aspiring windsurfers the idea that this sport is just waaaaay to expensive and complicated for them. That is so sad! While it makes completely sense that a pro like you has all this gear; for 80 % of the average amateur windsurfers out there, we can get away with much less gear and much less advanced gear. A 115-120 liter freewave or FSW board; 2-3 sails, one, boom, a couple masts and a couple fins - then the majority of us happy amateur - weekend warrior windsurfers have all we need. That's an important message, that the industry - with its focus on extreme specialization - unfortunately hasn't promoted enough if you ask me.
Hi Torsten Thanks for your comment. I am not a pro windsurfer, would be nice. Instead I have focussed on building a life that allows me a lot of freedom in more ways then one. I am a team rider for different brands, but that doesn’t give me stuff for free but at a discount. For this year I’m on some new brands but more on that in a later video. Also this video is just made for fun. Before I got into racing 8 years ago, I was one waveboard , one freestyle board and 4 sails kind of guy. And I still think that if you a lighter person you can do most conditions with a 4,5 a 5,7 and a board around 100l. As you can see my wave boards are over 10 years old and I think the freestyle board is from 2008, never change something that works. But getting into racing have really given me many more days on the water so when I go wave sailing now I can do 5 hour sessions. Also I have met many great people thru windsurfing more and more and also had great experiences doing Defi and other races. And I will say that I am very passionate about my windsurfing so for me having more gear means more time windsurfing, and that is very important for me.
@@surferkaspert4679 Thx for your answer. I understand, and please don't take my comment as an attack on you personally - I don't like moralizing to others about how they spend their money :-) It was meant more as a comment to the general "state of being" of the windsurfing industry. As for your own WS journey: That's awesome - more power to you :-) And I agree - anything that can give one more time on the water is good. We're only here once, so the more time we spent surfing, the better ;-) I am nowhere near your level - so for me, freeriding + bump n' jump is as good as it gets. And then I combine it with kiting as well. So even if I only have two WS boards and two sails - I have kite equipment too... Maybe I'll see you on the water some time - I live in Copenhagen, but who knows, maybe this coming season will bring me to Jylland. 🤙
@@toppersurfer maybe we succeed in getting a session together, I also sometimes sail in Veddelev. Just look for the guy spending more time in front of the camera then on the water😅😅😅
Yeah-Midlifecrisis 🤗 and total messy! I constantly tried to optimize my gear: 4 sails, 2 mast, 1 boom, 2 boards (4,0-5,5 and 86+95ltrs) and wingfoil for light winds (10-25knts)- 1 board, 2 Foils 2 Wings. I am happy and relieved😎🤙🏄🏻♂️🌊
@@sprecklesville 230cm outside. If you look on my channel there is a video with eura activa 690 hb review plus another video where I measure the garage of the eura.
@@sprecklesville around 240 with a little bit of angle is possible. My wave boards are only 215-220. The trick is double bottom and there is small space that runs the whole way so if your mast is stuck you can take it home in one piece 🤩 I have not been on a weight so fingers crossed. I have upgraded to lightweight batteries and composite gas tanks. And I never fill the water tank more then 50%
Good one!! I see the humor, yet I do not approve.' You see there is a mint vintage Ride 277 on Kijiji and the price is good and if I have 9, why not make it ten! I say buy them and beware of the sharp edges. PS, Pease do not do camera lenses or guitars.
😂😂 I always tell the guy who sells me the gear that my wife limited my spending amount. He understands immedeatly that he has run out of options then only to accept my bargain offer. So this way you can put your wifes suspicion to your benefit… (sorry dear)
Look at RUclips Kailua windsurfing for seniors. Got one board and 2 sails, Ezzy cheetah 6.0 and 5.0, brilliant, might get a 3rd. Been trying to sail for 47 years on and off, now 70. People say I’m quite good actually.
Me last year: honey this year ont any new surfboards... only a small 35ft cruiser , just to live on the water and catch the wind everywhere he is ...😂😂😳
It’s a shame that all windsurfing marketing still portrays women like they did in the 80s. It pretty much turned all my daughters off the sport. But otherwise yes. 😉
I will do DEFI and IFCA WC and Waterz this year and most of the danish tour and maybe a bit of the german multivan cup. Time is a bit short. Sailnumber is DEN-16. PWA is a bit out of my league
So marriage is the biggest problem for the windsurfing industry?! 😅 Good thing thanks to modern technologies, monogamy has gone out of style, so maybe the windsurf industry has a bright future!! Seriously though, nice quiver ;)
I asked the guy in the bike shop why all the frames were black. He said it was so that the wives didn't know when you bought a new one.
When I told my wife I wanted to buy a new sail, she said I already had one😆
It is very simple: your bank account will tell you how many boards and riggs you really "need".
The unthinkable once 2 years ago happened to me when she asked: "Honey, don't you want to buy new sails?"
So I bought 6, plus 6 masts, several booms and a board as well. I think she's a keeper 😇
OMG, such a real life situation 😄 true story actually... Nice scetch 🤩
haha, the garage scene killed me, spot on!
🙂 I try to keep it down to maximum three boards and four sails. One of my favourites is a Starboard Aero from 2006, and it
s still going strong. From 1998 to 2010 development was extreme. Now it's mostly for the fun of it, if you buy new gear - unless you are in the PWA. It was windy today 🙂All the best - Per
oooh, my man! I am still riding Aero 127 since 2008 till these days, no intention to let it go 🙂.
I love it. Next time tell her all those new boards and new sails are safer than the old ones. She won’t say “no” to safer gear, right? 😂
"Just need 4 more boards and 5 more sails"... On top of the midlife crisis porsche!... 👀😳
Your wife is an angel from Heaven!!.. 🤣😂🤣😎
It is a pity that the equipment has become so expensive in the past few years...almost unaffordable to most people 😢
It is crasy but compared to bikes and cars it is nothing and if you look at boats with the same performance it is pretty cheap to be a windsurfer
@@surferkaspert4679 My dad got me into windsurfing when i was younger (this was about 30yrs ago now, and it seemed much more popular back then also, anyway...), we bumped into a guy while we we're all just setting up on the beach. and he said something like "i got into windsurfing because i thought it would be a cheep sport, ...3 boards, 4 masts and 7 sails later...". Made us all laugh. Good times. Still, i have to agree with the OP though. it ain't cheep.
Additionally, not sure how these wave guys can do it, broken masts, sails...etc.. that would set me back a fortune! love new sails but tbh all my gear is 10 years old or older simply for the price of it all and there's no second hand market for it where i live.
Brilliant video! By the way, I managed to hang onto some extra boards using the excuse, keeping them for the kids. Don't delay
That’s why I switched to sailing only my LT, simple and cheap 😂
Same here and all over the world
Yep. S350 class midlife crises car, new set of sails for Etchells (why? You bought them 5 years ago) and not to mention $30k Tubes HIFI 😂😂😂
"I don't need new wave boards this year" 😂😂😂
Love it!!! Back to one board and two sails
Absolutely brilliant.
So right 😂 Respect to you and your lovely forgiving wife! But really it’s why I virtually stopped as, with kids I couldn’t keep up. I just rent now 😢😂😂🤙🏻
Ha ha, this is so spot on. 🙂
so the biggest problem is the wifes of the addicted windsurfers. LOL.
That was good fun. If I may "challenge" your video a little bit (and please take this in a good hearted way :-) ) - I guess you're a pro, and then what you are presenting is the tools of your trade and what brings money on the table. And I assume much of it is sponsored. However, I think that one of the main culprits in killing windsurfing - or at least making it much less popular - over the past 20 years is the notion that in order to be a windsurfer you're gonna need a sh*tload of gear for different conditions - wave, slalom, foil etc. And this makes it very expensive and it can give aspiring windsurfers the idea that this sport is just waaaaay to expensive and complicated for them. That is so sad! While it makes completely sense that a pro like you has all this gear; for 80 % of the average amateur windsurfers out there, we can get away with much less gear and much less advanced gear. A 115-120 liter freewave or FSW board; 2-3 sails, one, boom, a couple masts and a couple fins - then the majority of us happy amateur - weekend warrior windsurfers have all we need. That's an important message, that the industry - with its focus on extreme specialization - unfortunately hasn't promoted enough if you ask me.
Hi Torsten
Thanks for your comment. I am not a pro windsurfer, would be nice. Instead I have focussed on building a life that allows me a lot of freedom in more ways then one. I am a team rider for different brands, but that doesn’t give me stuff for free but at a discount. For this year I’m on some new brands but more on that in a later video. Also this video is just made for fun.
Before I got into racing 8 years ago, I was one waveboard , one freestyle board and 4 sails kind of guy. And I still think that if you a lighter person you can do most conditions with a 4,5 a 5,7 and a board around 100l. As you can see my wave boards are over 10 years old and I think the freestyle board is from 2008, never change something that works. But getting into racing have really given me many more days on the water so when I go wave sailing now I can do 5 hour sessions. Also I have met many great people thru windsurfing more and more and also had great experiences doing Defi and other races. And I will say that I am very passionate about my windsurfing so for me having more gear means more time windsurfing, and that is very important for me.
@@surferkaspert4679 Thx for your answer. I understand, and please don't take my comment as an attack on you personally - I don't like moralizing to others about how they spend their money :-) It was meant more as a comment to the general "state of being" of the windsurfing industry. As for your own WS journey: That's awesome - more power to you :-) And I agree - anything that can give one more time on the water is good. We're only here once, so the more time we spent surfing, the better ;-) I am nowhere near your level - so for me, freeriding + bump n' jump is as good as it gets. And then I combine it with kiting as well. So even if I only have two WS boards and two sails - I have kite equipment too... Maybe I'll see you on the water some time - I live in Copenhagen, but who knows, maybe this coming season will bring me to Jylland. 🤙
@@toppersurfer maybe we succeed in getting a session together, I also sometimes sail in Veddelev. Just look for the guy spending more time in front of the camera then on the water😅😅😅
@@surferkaspert4679 😄👌
Yeah-Midlifecrisis 🤗 and total messy! I constantly tried to optimize my gear: 4 sails, 2 mast, 1 boom, 2 boards (4,0-5,5 and 86+95ltrs) and wingfoil for light winds (10-25knts)- 1 board, 2 Foils 2 Wings. I am happy and relieved😎🤙🏄🏻♂️🌊
How wide is your Eura Mobil van? I’m impressed you get all your boards in their width ways. Which model is the van? How wide is it?
@@sprecklesville 230cm outside. If you look on my channel there is a video with eura activa 690 hb review plus another video where I measure the garage of the eura.
@@surferkaspert4679 cool - I’ll take a look - what’s the longest board you store in their? Do you have any issues with weight?
@@sprecklesville around 240 with a little bit of angle is possible. My wave boards are only 215-220. The trick is double bottom and there is small space that runs the whole way so if your mast is stuck you can take it home in one piece 🤩
I have not been on a weight so fingers crossed. I have upgraded to lightweight batteries and composite gas tanks. And I never fill the water tank more then 50%
😂😂😂 that’s why my wife told me to change to kite surf 🏄
Question is... do I show this to my wife so that she can see that I am not the only one hoarding gear 🙂
I just shared. It wasn't long go I was cleaning garage, and she said "why do you need some many boards and sails"
Love this... Think about this when you have kids...
I have four already🙂
@@surferkaspert4679Cool! Only 2 but I still ride the board I bought when my first was born... She's 28
haha exactly same here, also got a car with same reason.🤣
its doesnt sond like a problem for the windsurf industry. Its more like a solution
Good one!!
I see the humor, yet I do not approve.'
You see there is a mint vintage Ride 277 on Kijiji and the price is good and if I have 9, why not make it ten!
I say buy them and beware of the sharp edges.
PS, Pease do not do camera lenses or guitars.
This is me justifying my gear to my husband lol😂.
I gotta laugh it is greed.. that's their biggest problem and that goes for the industry as a whole sup,wing,wind,surf etc
well : it's not a problem for the industry
Great! That's real Life! 😂😂😂😂🤙🤙🤙🤙
Epic!!!
😂😂 I always tell the guy who sells me the gear that my wife limited my spending amount. He understands immedeatly that he has run out of options then only to accept my bargain offer. So this way you can put your wifes suspicion to your benefit… (sorry dear)
Fin film....jeg kender problematikken. Dog på et meget lavere plan. Men garagen er fuld. God vind derude ! Hilsen Torben
Do you want to say the problem for the Windsurf Industry is that we love our Honey beside Windsurfing too? 🤣
This is so funny. 😂
Look at RUclips Kailua windsurfing for seniors. Got one board and 2 sails, Ezzy cheetah 6.0 and 5.0, brilliant, might get a 3rd. Been trying to sail for 47 years on and off, now 70. People say I’m quite good actually.
Ah I'd believe all the money from doing the Hercules series in the 90s should be enough for all the equipment you'd wish for. :P
😆😆😆
Sell the old stuff to pay for the new stuff!
Love it 😅
Tell her that drinking in the pub, partying it up with your mates in the end might costs as much hehe
What - you mean you can’t do both?!! 😮
so relatable :D:D
Me last year: honey this year ont any new surfboards... only a small 35ft cruiser , just to live on the water and catch the wind everywhere he is ...😂😂😳
It’s a shame that all windsurfing marketing still portrays women like they did in the 80s.
It pretty much turned all my daughters off the sport.
But otherwise yes. 😉
Do you have the big black box for sale?😜
Naa, that is a keeper🤩
Do you sell the starboard blackbox 107 😁. And good excuses to your wife. I sold 1 one board. Now i need 2 boards back for it.
Not selling the Blackboxes. For me the holygrail of wavewindsurf in the relativly slow Danish waves. I have 87´s and one 107.
😂😂😂😂 time to sell the old gear !!
The wifey said no....to the marriage....😢
What bad faith !!!
will you compete in pwa or defi next year? what is your sail number?
I will do DEFI and IFCA WC and Waterz this year and most of the danish tour and maybe a bit of the german multivan cup. Time is a bit short. Sailnumber is DEN-16. PWA is a bit out of my league
@@surferkaspert4679 i have dream for this years go tu Defi and waterz so i have to ask my wife about new gear
Godt at starboard er co2 neutral 😂
So marriage is the biggest problem for the windsurfing industry?! 😅 Good thing thanks to modern technologies, monogamy has gone out of style, so maybe the windsurf industry has a bright future!! Seriously though, nice quiver ;)
Hi,hi😂
Wife has a weird accent.
Yes she is from Vojens😂😂😂
@@surferkaspert4679 I thought she was from Watseka.
haha :)
?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
and you will stuck with all this used gear nobody wants....be simple and wing-foil !
Wingfoiling is for when the body can not windsurf anymore🙂🙂