Thank you all very much! Alex read all the comments and he asked me to say a big thank you to everyone too. He is a little overwhelmed at getting the award and he has been asked for interviews by the local ABC radio and local papers. They keep asking him what his goals are and so he's had the opportunity to tell them that he would like to go to the Olympics and hopes that windsurfing will be reinstated... He is happy that the MP is coming to assembly to present him with his award because most of the kids at school don't believe him when he's told them about his achievements at the Worlds.
From my point of view, the best thing is if more kids become interested in learning to windsurf. It's too selfish not to share it. We have such a great community in windsurfing where people really do still look out for each other. We just need to keep encouraging it. It's part of what makes windsurfing better than other sports.
And would love to catch up Jamie but you'll have to come a little further east as well as south - we have just decided to move to St Georges Basin and we're in the middle of buying a house which settles in a month. Exciting times ahead - we'll have access to waves, speed and freestyle locations close by and be able to do a lot more windsurfing!
