Hi all,

I was wondering if other people can confirm this. I have been trying to find windsurf mags in the local new agents here in Sydney but it seems no one is actually stocking any. I have tried both Borders Bondi Junction and CBD, Broadway Shopping Centre, a few places around the Inner West but not a single one of these stores seems to stock windsurfing magazines. Especially Borders always used to have a good selection of overseas mags.

Is this the end of windsurfing as a known sport here in Australia? What's it like in your area?

I was searching in the Newsagents the other day and couldn't find any, just one kite surfing mag.
I think our sport is on the endangered species list.

stehsegler said...

Hi all,

I was wondering if other people can confirm this. I have been trying to find windsurf mags in the local new agents here in Sydney but it seems no one is actually stocking any. I have tried both Borders Bondi Junction and CBD, Broadway Shopping Centre, a few places around the Inner West but not a single one of these stores seems to stock windsurfing magazines. Especially Borders always used to have a good selection of overseas mags.

Is this the end of windsurfing as a known sport here in Australia? What's it like in your area?

Borders in CBD (assuming there is only the one in Pitt St) always has them. They have several copies of both UK mags, although they come out here a month or so later than over there.
I've also seen Boards in other nearby newsagents.

i picked up the boards magizine at greystaines news agent of all places

I was in Borders at Bondi Junction yesterday and they had both UK mags: Boards and Windsurf as well as the US mag.

Hey stehsegler,

Try contacting Gordon & Gotch as they are the oz distributors for most mags brought into the country, or search for local retailers at:
http://www.gordongotch.com.au/ggweb/FastFind/SearchTitles/tabid/98/Default.aspx

I live on the south coast of WA, around 5 hrs drive from Perth, and have noticed that the local newsagents always stock lots of kitesurfing mags and very few windsurfing mags. I've asked why they don't stock the windsurfing mags anymore and they tell me it's to do with demand coz the public are not buying them (why should the retailer continue to stock them when they end up sending most of the copies back to the oz distributor?).

I've resorted to getting my windsurfing mags online via Zinio (www.zinio.com), works out a lot cheaper too!

It's a bit weird that you can't get them in Syd, I can get Boards and Windsurf in Armidale (Northern Tablelands, NSW)! Maybe a town being off the pulse in the 'cool stakes' for watersports is better in the long run for windsurf mags.

Just picked up the July Windsurf the other day, so way behind in issues and sometimes they only have one brand or none on shelves, but check back later and there is a few, noticed the kiting mags are making inroads into the windsurf allocated mini-section but.

Btw Windsurf got bumped up a dollar to $15.70 here, what's everyone else paying around the traps? Same price normally as Boards.

Newsagents at Royal Randwick shopping centre stocks the UK and US mags..

Boards seems to have the best content for my money the US one is ok but I don't think there's any Aussie mag anymore.