Well 2020 was quite a year. Covid. Lockdowns. No travel. Social injustice. A brief market meltdown. Working remotely. A lot of windsurfing and windfoiling. And then retirement from my 30 year finance career.
I downloaded my Garmin connects activities and calculated that I windsurfed/foiled 1,227 km last year in my 75 sessions. That totalled 87 hours with the average session just over an hour each. The longest sessions by distance and time were 56 km of windsurfing and 3 hours of foiling. That was a record number of sessions, but still under 100 hours on the water. (I know I had a few sessions that weren’t recorded on the Garmin - some during their data issues in the summer, but I think that is a pretty good baseline.)
So I'm guessing in my 40 years of windsurfing at maybe 50 hours per average year for 2,000 total hours on the water? I'm well below the 10,000 hours that Malcolm Gladwell says we need to master something. If I add in the number of hours spent watching windsurfing videos, practising on the beach and dreaming of moves in my mind, maybe I am close to 10,000 hours?
In 2020 I taught 14 first timers, had 2 repeat students, launched one student on a board for the first time in 30 years and got two experienced windsurfers foiling in 30 minutes. Happy to be getting so many people into the sport!
Goals for 2021?
- Set up my windsurfing school website
- Windwing on skis
- Get my windsurf teaching certificate(s)
- Learn to Wingfoil
- Have a 100 km windsurf day
- Have 100 sessions/days on the water. (And maybe total 200 hours on the water?)
- Windsurf to the Bustard islands and back
- Some more foiling 360s
- Maybe another Vulcan?
- Teach 20 new windsurfers
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