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Just wondering is anybody has some not water related hobbies? I ride dirt bikes. I ride them since 10 y/o, so it was way before windsurfing. I know a lot windsurfing and surfing guys who also ride motocross. There is some similarities between motocross (probably more cross country) and bump and jump windsurfing. How about you?
Sleep and sex.
Pffff, IMO motorbikes suck, just had to get a new 9,5 kilogramm 2nd hand mountainbike, my old one just broke down, thanks to the supercool bike parts politic of an eastern producer (yes, sure I’m talking about fucken shimano!), I couldn’t renew an simple axel of the front wheel and an important part of the back wheel of my loved old bike. Always coming up with for the average user unnecessary new shit, not thinking about supplying the old stuff people need from time to time due to using it. Love that!!!
But back to my new bike and your on the long term surf spot fuckin’ stoke, madrussian, I accelerate my 9,5 kilo bike with muscles (and it really accelerates!), which would be much stronger if I wouldn’t live in Hellgium, where you have to drink beer instead of doing something really relaxing, like one of my water foreign hobbies…smoking pot in the evening! Never the less people can do the same what people do with their surf spot fuckin’ stinkin’ motorbikes with an bmx or mountainbike (even more radical stuff due to less weight, did you ever jump against a tree with your motorbike?!) and it’s not too wise that there are surfer’s who still stick to motorbikes, on the long term view! Well, at least your ass is getting fatter, hope your wife likes that…
Back to other hobbies than surfing,biking, smoking pot…huh, there are a lot: running (5-20k's) skateboarding, skimboarding ( I love the word sandskating), stretching, climbing, fishing, enjoying nature, improving my language skills (unluckily I didn’t have the nerve to begin learning Russian, only the dobre dien and nastrowje vocabulary yet, would like to impress some lovely Russian ladies, hehe!), annoying my neighbours with loud music (like tonight, huh, they will be pissed!), headbanging, maddening in general, gardening, homegrowing, thinking about a less planet destroying way of life (this GP guy really helps with that), my animism religion, constructing a surf trailer for my bike (just subscribed on the local evening school course for an aluminium welding course. I thank the windsurf industry for not coming up with something useable for a decent price!!! Yeah, sure they want you to buy a v 8 to get your equipment to the beach AND buy new stuff every year…suckers!), looking for 2nd hand surf equipment ( here mostly offered 1 year old stuff or ultra old stuff for overrated prices! But I maybe finalemente will be able to purchase a Maui Hot Sails one for a decent price, juhu!), talking bullshit on internet forums…unluckily I am living in a fucken idiot country, where people seem to be most happy if one’s other is unhappy, thus there’s not much space for real relaxing and practising my hobbies with full power, like I could when I was still living in the holy Netherlands… what a great relaxing freedom I had there…bloodily missing that!!!
Allez hop, cheers and cheerio,
Chris
I am an audiophile nut. My 5.1 surround sound blows away any Imax theatre with speakers that weigh over 100kg each. It is the one glaring exception to my basic Buddhist lifestyle. This Picture of the front was taken during renovations. 
Joanna is a ballroom dancer.
Last edited by Dolf (2007-10-06 17:46:59)
Hey Dolf,
would like to pass by for practising my headbanging hobby, hehe,...
hang loose,
I am a football nut!
I am a Manchester United fan, as well as an Adelaide United fan.......I could watch football all day long. I have recently retured from playing, wanted to spend more time windsurfing, shit I've even just quit playing cricket to sail more!
While in Maui last year, I watched the world cup games at random cafes in Kahalui (the little swiss cafe behind Neil Pryde) as well as the dinner next to Jacques, as well as Pio's house (crazy Argies!)
Its a healthy habit!
After reading your posts I've been reminded of many things I've done. I'm more content with less now. I had some awesome Altec Lansing speakers and a tremendous album collection. I was a disc jockey. I played drums and guitars and belonged to several garage/basement bands. Was pit crew for a AA Gas Supercharged drag car (427 Chevy enlarged to 484" w/blower/injector) on the strip. Owned hot street cars like my 1968 Pontiac Le Mans. Disco danced. Bowled in leagues. Gambled shooting pocket billiards. Shot handguns competitively. Crabbed the Chesapeake Bay. Bar hopped over a 3 state area. Built, owned and rode custom Harley-Davidsons (6). Water skied. Owned a vacuum cleaner repair store with a full motorcycle shop in the rear. S.C.U.B.A. dived and snorkeled. Owned a boat and fished The Lower Florida Keys. Played golf, Frisbee, darts, poker and chess. Smoked Pakalolo since the 60s (nonstop), protested the war. Protested for Black rights. Did some photo journalism in Washington, and photographed models, children and portraiture. D.C. Taught, rented, repaired and sold windsurfers. Fathered 2 lovely daughters who gave me 8 grand kids, the youngest 6 months and the oldest 20 and in college.
Surfrocker..., you and Cammar are awful hard on Madrussians love of motocross bikes. Since some of the coolest people on the island are regular customers of mine at the bike shop (Jason Polakow, Matt and Zane Schweitzer, Paolo Rista, Anders Bringdal, and more, and since you drive an old gas burning car (well Giampaolo does) or plan to stink up the ozone with your welding, I think you had better look at your own lifestyles before you point that finger.
p.s. In regard to Windsurf equipment... a guy named Larry Barry from San Diego was leaving the island yesterday for California. He made me a present of 3 booms, a perfect Fiberspar 460 carbon mast, 6 sails ranging from 4.5 to 6.5 and about a dozen fins for Tuttle, Powerbox and regular. This is without any doubt windsurfs best location for free and cheap gear. Oh yeah, he also gave me an F2 130 liter production board without a ding. It needs nonskid. Alright!!!!
Nice post Mystery Bob, will be sure to look you up next year. Lets do lunch
Hi Bob,
my car is old, but it has 4 cylinders and manual shift and it burns a gallon of gas every 33-35 miles. Which is pretty much the best you can get out of a station wagon in this country that was able to send men on the moon, but is not able to build cars that burn less gasoline...
I use my car because I need it to go working/surfing/windsurfing. I don't have an hobby out of using my car or my bike for the sake of it.
You and madrussian do? Jason Polakow and all those other people do too? Cool. But here I'll remind everybody that it's polluting... like it or not.
If you want, I'll be happy to do the nonskid to your board for free... Gimme a call, you got my number...
After reading your posts I've been reminded of many things I've done. I'm more content with less now. I had some awesome Altec Lansing speakers and a tremendous album collection. I was a disc jockey. I played drums and guitars and belonged to several garage/basement bands. Was pit crew for a AA Gas Supercharged drag car (427 Chevy enlarged to 484" w/blower/injector) on the strip. Owned hot street cars like my 1968 Pontiac Le Mans. Disco danced. Bowled in leagues. Gambled shooting pocket billiards. Shot handguns competitively. Crabbed the Chesapeake Bay. Bar hopped over a 3 state area. Built, owned and rode custom Harley-Davidsons (6). Water skied. Owned a vacuum cleaner repair store with a full motorcycle shop in the rear. S.C.U.B.A. dived and snorkeled. Owned a boat and fished The Lower Florida Keys. Played golf, Frisbee, darts, poker and chess. Smoked Pakalolo since the 60s (nonstop), protested the war. Protested for Black rights. Did some photo journalism in Washington, and photographed models, children and portraiture. D.C. Taught, rented, repaired and sold windsurfers. Fathered 2 lovely daughters who gave me 8 grand kids, the youngest 6 months and the oldest 20 and in college.
You are my HERO! 
This is official!
Last edited by MadRussian (2007-10-09 06:02:54)
GP:my car is old, but it has 4 cylinders and manual shift and it burns a gallon of gas every 33-35 miles.
I'd like to suggest if you cleaned the dirt of the windows (more streamline) , sand off the floor (less weight) and removed a few more unnecessary interior items (who needs passenger door handle and auto window switch) you might get 36 mpg!
Washing your car every weekend is another typical american habit that I do not have.
Whenever I think about doing it, I always find something better to do (not that difficult, actually).
But thanks for the tip! 
a thick layer of dirt saves the paint is our excuse 
I don,t bother about motor engined sports....of course less polutiong would be better, but the cars are only a really minor factor in that (check out the industrialism for some really polluting!).
Different hobby,s: i agree with Cammar 
Played for 21 years Volleybal and love cycling wich is a great hobby to combine with having no driverslicense 
If you think windsurfers are gadget minded...check the roadcycling and mountainbike scene 
Last edited by Jeroensurf (2007-10-09 07:35:37)
Ok, MB, I was drunk when I wrote that crap…, maybe I was to hard towards Madrussian (sorry, man!). But I don’t have a driving licence neither and as biker I became a little sensitive, especially when it comes to those super stinking and noisy(!) scooters and motorbikes. It’s not that I disdain people having fun, but I think especially surfers should have an intense interest in a working environment and, like mentioned, there are cooler and more radical ways of flying though the air, powered by muscles.
My welding course… man, I need a more stable chariot to get ALL my needed toys to the beach. I hope to find a better work through these courses, too, and if I harm the ozone layer I say the following: It is all about moderation if we discuss the environment topic, so cut all welding progresses worldwide by the half, but welding has be done…in moderation and in a way that is not ruining the planet, of course. F.e. less Harley Davidson sold, less boats to be welded to transport them. I rode my last mountain bike nearly 10 years only weight tuning it from times to times, you own(ed) 6! Harley’s and were making money selling them, lots of your hobbies are or were polluting ones, as you are a motor”sport” freak. So it’s not fair and objective to blame me for welding a surf chariot and wanting a better job to be able to spent more money in 2nd hand surf stuff and save money for my pension, hopefully not in a Kazakhstan climate …my lifestyle would give some more coming generations the possibility to surf, while yours lead us where we now are. GP’s only “sin” is having a little car (which could be a bio-diesel, if politics weren’t that incapable) , reading his blog shows that he cares a lot and moves other people to do the same. Even you, MB, mentioned in your posts, that you are using your car (or cars?!) in moderation, bravo, way to go, man…!
Jeroensurf, if the whole world is copying western mobility, that will be a serious problem, I could imagine. Please say hello to my old homespot Ijmuiden if you sail there…
Allez hop,
Hey surfrocker! Are you ever been in Kazakhstan? ;-)
Ciao MR,
luckily never, not my climate, IMO any human’s climate…
I ride my scooter to work every day. Save driving my van, which uses alot more fuel than my scooter. My scooter is a 250cc Piaggio X8, it gets 68mpg. Mystery Bob, you dont get the X8 in USA, but it is the exact same as the motor in the new 250cc Vespa. I think you get the X9 in the US. Anyway I'll be over there in a few weeks time for my Holiday (cant wait) so I'll come into your shop to check the bikes out.
I also do a bit of Hang gliding. We have a good coastal site about 20 min drive from where I live here. The season starts soon (seabreezes) so it is good when the wind is 10 -15 knots. When I was in Maui last in 2000, I met up with a guy from Maui, and we drove up Haleakala to the 6000 ft hang gliding take off, but it was all clouded out, so I didn't get to fly.
I'll probably ride over to Phillip Island this coming weekend (about a 2 hour ride) to watch The MotoGP, but I'm waiting to see what the weather does, as it looks like it may be a cold wet day.
Hey Aaron, you riding your scooter to Phillip Island? You are hard core!
You should have come over to Beachport on long weekend, it was cranking!
We never had that long weekend in Vic, but its good to see keen guys over in SA still going to Beachport to sail.
Last edited by Aaron (2007-10-09 16:34:07)
GP’s only “sin” is having a little car
...oh it's waaaay more than that, brother!
Jeroen, better get a driving license if you'll come to maui one day... or rent one of those expensive houses on the beach at sprecks! Nah, too much upwind sailing for Hookipa...
Surfrocker: no problem..as soon as its blowning N-NW we will go there.
Cammar: for the last 15 years its on the to do list, as soon as i,m getting very close (with the savings) like this year something happens that cost me evey single cent and more....so its probably on of those things that are meant not to happen
Fortunately i got a lot of friends with a license and a girlfriend to drive me around in our super cheap Toyota Starlet 1.3l, ......so Maui will no problem .
About the Toyota: I never get why Americans need a so much bigger/bigger engined car like that, we went to Ireland with it for 3 weeks with cloths etc etc, 2 boogieboards, 6 sails 6-7 masts, 3 booms and 3 boards
Okay, maximum speed with all the gear on the roof was about 110km/ph...so no speeding tickets ), but it brought us everywhere where we wanted to go and is able to drive over the beach, what can you wish more?
Jeroen,
this country's economy is based on spending. That means this country's citizens receive an overwhelming amount of messages in that direction. I remember the president himself asking his countrymen to go back to the shops and spend in a moment in which the economy slowed down...
The amount of commercials on tv is shocking (to me!).
The percentage of those commercials dedicate to cars is even more shocking.
Result, most of the americans think that owning a big car makes you happy/cool/desirable and probably even more powerful in bed...
This is the most materialistic and least spiritual country I've ever been in.
The sad thing is that americanization (correct name of globalization) is taking over all western countries.
The good thing is that Maui is not that bad from that point of view... especially the surfing/windsurfing community on the north shore. I mean, there's some huge trucks too, but not as many as in LA!
Marketing is just part of problem. Even if I want buy smaller and more fuel efficient car in US, I can't. They are just not exists. Same companies that sells in Europe small cars with small engines don't import that cars in US. Toyota and Nissan trucks don't have diesel engines in US, only big gas engines.
I think the word marketing only exists, because a manipulation department within a companies organisation would have been too convincing to the public.
It is a nasty and annoying thing in everyday life, rather close to the 1984 conditions, not in that totalitarian manner, yet, as you still can shit on it…
I'm a bassplayer, and I like windskating and going to (mostly) heavy-metalconcerts
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