Your best mate, your girlfriend, your son, your daughter, your grandpa or your pet – share windsurfing with them on WWD 2009.
Starboard, one of the world’s leading board manufacturers explains the idea:
"More than 80% of active windsurfers today are windsurfing because their dad or a friend taught them. Growing windsurfing is as simple as that. So on the 16th of August, we’d like to invite the hundreds of thousands of windsurfers the world over to introduce windsurfing to friends and family. It’s a simple virus theory: one cell becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, and so on. It really is up to us to introduce windsurfing to those around us, and this is what WWD is all about.
Jim Drake said about the Idea of the World Windsurfing Day:
"What a great idea! Celebrating this young sport with a day devoted to recruiting new windsurfers. The date chosen -- 16 August -- is super. Usually mild and warm in the Northern Hemisphere, perfect for introducing windsurfing to the curious and youthful athletically inclined. Actually, they don’t have to be all that young. I was almost 40 when I first stood on “Old Yeller” the first windsurfer. But they have to be adventuresome and willing to look a little foolish when inevitably they lose their balance and get dunked. And there’s another attribute I would urge be used in selecting and organizing these first time sailors. And that is that each group contains roughly equal numbers of boys and girls -- men and women, if you prefer. This, now, makes the experience a social one, maybe even a dating one. And everyone will be trying his or her very best. Finally, it never hurts to have a fire laid and ready to light with chilled or warm liquid refreshments nearby. Bon chance!"
