For all your questions and comments related to the magazine. http://forums.boardseekermag.com/list.php?2 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:06:52 +0000 Phorum 5.2.19 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,12337,12337#msg-12337 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,12337,12337#msg-12337
Thanks, Amy]]> admin BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:26:03 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,12046,12046#msg-12046 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,12046,12046#msg-12046 Ady howes BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Wed, 30 May 2012 20:37:26 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,9917,9917#msg-9917 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,9917,9917#msg-9917
when can we expect a test of the new 2012 Waveboards with about 75 Liter? Single, Twinser and Quads against each other!
Because german surf-magazine I don´t trust in testing. There testteam is to much influencend by personal sponships of the testteammembers and business related aspects I think.....
So we are waiting for the next test from you...]]> MB BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:04:16 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,8292,8292#msg-8292 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,8292,8292#msg-8292 The most dissapointing thing is that one of Europes biggest selling brands was left out of the poll yet again ,but that probably has more to do with magazine advertising policy in the UK ?]]> Baydrew BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:30:17 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,7970,7970#msg-7970 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,7970,7970#msg-7970 surfchick BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:01:16 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6994,6994#msg-6994 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6994,6994#msg-6994 Andy]]> andywindsurf BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:54:52 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6767,6767#msg-6767 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6767,6767#msg-6767
What do you want to know?]]> admin BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:53:08 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6489,6489#msg-6489 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6489,6489#msg-6489
These waves are about as fat and unclean as a coach load of Pompey beauty queens but obviously a lot softer.

Nice to see obligatory drop ins from a Tushingham rider who by the standard of the sailing must be one of their international riders.

At least the shoes on the other foot as it's normally Mullet dropping in on his Starboard barge - check out Rippers Moobot vid for evidence of such blatant infringements.

K-Bay Local]]> biggyzsmalls BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:21:59 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6483,6483#msg-6483 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6483,6483#msg-6483
Please can you change the default status of the video/podcaset from 'play' to 'stopped'. Saves having to endlessly turn it off when you revisit the home page.

thank-you

Jon]]> jjma BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:51:55 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6347,6347#msg-6347 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,6347,6347#msg-6347 david.w BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:09:01 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5915,5915#msg-5915 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5915,5915#msg-5915
I have just read through the recent wave board tests and this shows exactly what effect conglomerating the only independent UK windsurfing media source into the M "borer" circus has had.

Can Bseeker/boards/mporia "who ever" publish your advertising percentages for 2010 and compare these with the equipment tests.

I have tried out most of these boards on demos this year and there are some blatant dogs in this tests which have been hidden to the public.

Giving the starboard "barge" quad (if you can call sticking 4 fins into a mould left over from the evil twin) top marks on get up and go is just plain ridiculous. That monstrosity of a board was the worst thing is I have ever ridden since the Evil Twin.

However I expect Starboard to be pretty high up on the advertising list along with JP whose pretty dull bouncy board appears to have done best in the test, surprise surprise.


Shame the only mag that appeared to have some balls has gone, sold out to the humdrum that is boards magazine.


Best Advice - Never buy a new board. Read the historical reviews in boardseeker, when they were slightly true, or on the forums and buy secondhand. On ebay these days you can get twin fins for £300-400 quid. Avoid any starboard ever made. Multi mass produced in thailand and design by a thai race guy based on scraps of info from McKercher.

Why not try a quatro built and designed by full time windsurfer and top ripper Keith Taboul.

Or even better grab a custom that are kicking around super cheap these days, based on the best shapes ever made, from quatro, Nelson, D-light, Why or even home brand Moo. Top quality materials and build without the #148596060 number produced stamp which must make handing out the best part of £1500 all the more gut wrenching.

It would be good to start a new independent forum site where people can honestly report the good and bad points fo equipment, like they do for mountain biking with out the media monster being able to edit and scrutinise whats going on.
A new site would also help clean out the regular butt-munching cling-ons which mag websites forums seem to attract (which I am certainly not). After this rant I will go and hide away for another year until it all builds up again.

I'm just dissapointed that a sport I love is being run into the ground by a bunch of money hungry morons with opposing agendas to their normally faithful readers. If I had the time and skill to launch a truly independent website where true windsurfers could congregate to share their findings and love of the sport I would have done it already.

Anyway I can forsee a lot of replies telling me how buying secondhand will kill the windsurfing industry in the UK and it will spiral into decline and doom for all windsurfers. These will be mainly from the importers themselves like mr fuller, hackford, murray etc, their minions or unfortunate souls who actually believe the hype.

Just think though, why is windsurfing kit changed every year, has it really ever advanced that fast. A good model car can be around for four years before a new model is produced. Half the time the new designs of kit are worse than last year, take the icon or evo for instance. If everybody stood together as united front we could change things for the better.

And remember after reading this never underestimate how much some people know about a sport they love and the mysterious and seedy workings which go on within it.

We are watching you and awaiting our time for the anti Mporia uprising.]]> biggyzsmalls BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:51:08 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5913,5913#msg-5913 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5913,5913#msg-5913 www.boardseekermag.com]
(http://www.boardseekermag.com/travel_features/jeri/jeri_travel_feature-2.html)

I plan to go to Jeri in early January hoping to catch the end of the swells and windy season.
Please can you tell me if it was September 2010 when Chris Wootten was in Jeri?

Thanks

Mike]]> welshmike BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:48:19 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5880,5880#msg-5880 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5880,5880#msg-5880
Secondly, can the automatic flash player have it's playing state set as stop? Maybe if the podcast were offered as a download and or stream (with it's playing state being set as stop) the users choice is empowered.

thanks,

Jon]]> jjma BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:12:51 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5767,5767#msg-5767 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5767,5767#msg-5767 bucko BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:58:30 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5748,5748#msg-5748 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5748,5748#msg-5748 Is there nothing more of interest out there in the massive windsurfing world?
What next boogie boarder gets up on one knee?
Kitesurfer spins aimlessly in circles?

Is this the new direction now the BOARDS mag bandits have got there long fiddly fingers into the mag?

SUP loving printed mags bending over for the board producing advertisers who are trying to sting the frustrated windless readers up to £800 for a thrill they could get from an old bic calypso and a cut down oar.

SUPs may have there place in fat, lazy waves or flat water cruising but please don't force this barbage onto real windsurfers.

It's hard enough to get away from the things nowadays at real surfspots, why they haven't been banned from busy beaches is a question which should soon be answered before a serious accident forces the point.

Michi Eskimo is most famed in Maui for doing daily SUP coastal runs in a pair of tiny speedos, which would almost guarantee him a cover from the old boards editor. I don't care if all the top UK pro guys are riding SUPs, they are either jumping on their sponsors bandwagons or lame enough to think surfing is beneath now.

Have a flick through SUP mag and see how everybody is trying to sell you the idea of how great it is to SUP.(P.S I only flicked through as it's is always better to understand your enemy)

True adrenaline sports such as windsurfing don't need to go on and on about how amazing it is, one go and your hooked.

So please give us more windsurfing news and no more of this unforgiveable pushing of Strangely Ugly Pastime in your mag.
If I want to see people bent over and grunting away like a chimp I'll search out b@tchseeker.com.

If surfing is compared to skateboarding,
Body boarding would be rollerblading and
SUPing would be the recent trend of crap skooters that plague todays skate parks with a little handle to help the under fives or more talentless balance.]]> The Big Z BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:37:27 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5583,5583#msg-5583 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5583,5583#msg-5583
I'm hoping it's a single change to the flash player, but could you make the play/pause into one button? Also, is it possible to have frame forward/frame backwards either as buttons or arrow keys?

Cheers]]> Wednes BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:15:59 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5327,5327#msg-5327 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5327,5327#msg-5327
PLEASE, PLEASE, keep it the boardseeker way and write honest opinions about the tested equipment. And keep telling us how products compare with each other.

It would make me weep if you bowed to commercial pressure and wrote just what the brands asked from you, without any ranking... The last few years it has been painful to read tests in printed UK magazines.

Keep up your good work!]]> pgvirtual BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:31:41 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5274,5274#msg-5274 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5274,5274#msg-5274 jenksruss BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:16:04 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5080,5080#msg-5080 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5080,5080#msg-5080
What about making a test of the raceboard sails on the market. You guys seem to have the now how and the right platform to make a long wanted test. In 2009 the raceboard woulds hade over 110 entrys, the biggest in 20 years. The rules are “changed” to the 9.5 m2 rig, and I am sourer that a test of the different 9.5 m2. sails and mast/sail combinations, would bee a scoop for your magasin. There is a lot of guys and girls out there that would love to read it.

Hang loose
Jacob]]> Jacob BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:23:29 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5018,5018#msg-5018 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,5018,5018#msg-5018 freeskiing BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:45:42 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4805,4805#msg-4805 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4805,4805#msg-4805 nycwindsurfer BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Mon, 03 May 2010 08:13:19 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4759,4759#msg-4759 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4759,4759#msg-4759 waddy BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:29:07 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4676,4676#msg-4676 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4676,4676#msg-4676 Darks BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:13:36 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4641,4641#msg-4641 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4641,4641#msg-4641 Women! BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:11:47 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4565,4565#msg-4565 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,4565,4565#msg-4565 Good thing none of the boardseeker people were at my beach on monday........

Ok guys - Boardseeker mag seem to be trying to set themselves up as a new pan european testing authority on windsurfing gear - and so far seem to have been pretty balanced about it.

But what a weird test for the Q-76 the french, germans and even the printed UK magazines loved it .I heard that one of the UK magazine testers bought a Q-76 for himself after doing the test.

I'm wondering whether they have been "bought" by Quatro - all they seem to do is bang on about the Quatro twins and quads and at the first opportunity they had to really have a go at SB they fully piled in there.

The UK distributor puts lots of advertising the way of boardseeker and their boss even had a quatro shaped for him a few years back.

Kinda makes you think they are not at all impartial.

As a UK customer who has bought (and loves) the Q76 convertible i'm really upset and angry about this as it'll no doubt impact severley on my boards resale value- plus all the "trendy" kids will think i'm a muppet.

Glad to get that off my chest.
DD]]> Dangerous Dave BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:24:21 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3919,3919#msg-3919 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3919,3919#msg-3919 I can't find one on the site ( tried help link ) .
I've been debited 2 separate lots of money on my credit card and only one add has been listed .
The link it gives you to querie matters isn't valid ( sales@k90enterprises.com ) .
' seems a bit dubious ??]]> russt11 BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:02:43 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3898,3898#msg-3898 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3898,3898#msg-3898
Just had a quick read through of he 4.7 test and once again..... it's amazing!

Good work!

Well rounded approach to the test, just the right amount of detail and UK testing definitely make your tests my personal favourites!

Keep it up,
J]]> J.D BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:07:10 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3885,3885#msg-3885 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3885,3885#msg-3885
The prices for drinks in Naxian Bars -as you wrote onto your main page for Naxos island to inform your members- are totally wrong and please correct it...!!!!!!

The Real Prices for the drinks on Naxos island are:

Happy hour from 7 'till 11 pm all cocktails cost 5euros and in some cafeterias are 3euros all night.

The normal price for a cocktail during late at night is 7euros.

The special drinks cost from 6-9euros

Drinks (plus the soft drink or the juice) Are Three To Four Times More In Quantity Than In UK.

Drink's price is 6euros in the bars and 7 in the clubs.

Whatever-shots are cost from 2-3euros per each.

For a local drink or per glass of red or white wine will cost you from 2-4euros.

The beer's price is: 2-3euros for a small.....and 3-5euros for a pint.

The imported beers cost from 4-6euros.

Plus the free shots the free beers the free drinks and sometimes and the free cocktails you earn if you are a good customer!!!!!!!!

Hey!!! Pssssss!!!!!! The guy in the middle of Naxos page is me and I'm not a barman.....I'm the dj and the owner of Naxos Jam Bar too!!!!!

Naxos Jam Bar Offer: For all of your "boardseeker.com" members.....free drinks!!!!!

With Estimate: Nick Sarris



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/2009 02:27AM by Jamusic.]]> Jamusic BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:35:51 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3882,3882#msg-3882 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3882,3882#msg-3882
I love to hear about where its going off and everything else from the world of our great sport, but surely a little more UK would be good esp as its presently firing!.. How about region roundup.. get the shops/region reps to report on wknd action, encourage photos to make us all envious about that sick session we missed...

Cheers]]> timpy BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:31:35 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3604,3604#msg-3604 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?2,3604,3604#msg-3604
I'm new on the forum but i m a long time user and big fan of boardseeker. I'm french so appologise for mystakes...

anyway, the subject of this topic is to point out a massive issue with airtime league: WHERE IS Dale Cook??!

also i suggest you to add a longjump category as it can look very insane!

please take a look at the video from the gorge and in particular the "rocket" jump from dale cook at the end. The guy seems to fly one meter above the water and over at least 10 or 15 meters!!

[www.boardseekermag.com]

cheers]]> NicDaFroggyDude BOARDSEEKER MAGAZINE Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:36:01 +0000