Windsurf

During my summer holidays I visited a town in Spain called Cambrils, in Tarragona. This is where I usually go in the summer, however this year I noticed a new business giving all sort of water sports lessons. So I decided to try something new and take a windsurfing course for two days a week throughout the month of August. Here I learned how to set up the boards with the sails and manage them on the water. Of course a the beginning I was only just learning, however by the end of the month I really got the hang of it and was windsurfing like a pro. Windsurfing is useful for CAS because I had increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth in learning how to windsurf and undertaken the new challenge of windsurf. I had also worked collaboratively with others as many of the activities in the first few sessions requires teamwork to set up boards and other tasks. I showed perseverance and commitment as I attended all of the lessons for the course and developed new skills like being able to catch the wind and measuring the tide for safety reasons. Throughout the course I became an inquirer, a communicator, principled, caring, a risk-taker and balanced.

My aims for this activity were to appropriately learn the water sport of windsurf. This required me to learn to set up properly, learn he rules of the water and be aware of my surroundings constantly to make sure that it is safe.

This was a challenging experience for me as it was the first time I had ever tried windsurf and was completely new to me despite doing a lot of surf. What was also challenging was the fact that it is quite different from surf and can occasionally get confusing, and also that it was not just learning how to ride on a board, but all of the other smaller factors so consider and be aware of.

This was Action because windsurf is a water sport which requires quite a lot of strength and ability to manipulate the sail and be aware of the surrounding sea. 

I personally found this activity very fun and useful to me as I have always wanted to learn how to do windsurf. One of the most entertaining things was watching others learn and suffering together learning how to get up on the board and holding a sail and sharing the shame of not being able to get on it alone for the first week. I think this was a really good form of exercise and acquirement of knowledge because it did not just help me to get fit, but also how to be extremely aware of the sea because it can be very traitorous, which I did not know enough of from doing surf and it is necessary to know to be safe at sea.