How you can join the L2W Project

The success of the L2W project relies on the windsurfing community at large. From windsurfing shop owners and employees, industry reps and pro riders, to your average Joe on the beach – we need you to pass on the share of windsurfing.

If you run a windsurfing shop or school, the best way for you to participate in the L2W Project is by helping to promote our July 7-8 National Learn to windsurf day – and donating gear and time to help give free windsurfing lessons. A free learn-to-windsurf day is something many shops and schools do anyways – now let’s make it happen nationwide. We’ll help you with the promotion part – then it’s up to you to make it happen locally. Recruit your local sailors, corral your shop workers, and get people on the water. If your shop already sponsors a Learn to Windsurf day, consider joining in with ours – together, we can really get noticed.

For windsurfing clubs, yacht clubs, student organizations, or community rec centers, you can join the L2W Project in the same way shops and schools can: Promote our July 7-8 National Learn to windsurf day – and donate gear and time to help give free windsurfing lessons. Again, we’ll help you with the promotion part – then it’s up to you to make it happen locally. Recruit your local sailors, engage the club officers, and get people on the water.

You – the local windsurfer – serves to be most important part of this project. If you live near a local windsurfing shop, club, or school, encourage them to participate, and volunteer your time to help them. Then when the weekend of July 7th rolls around, recruit a few friends who want to learn to windsurf, and bring ‘em on down and start giving windsurfing lessons.

But if you DON’T have a local windsurfing shop, your job is even more important. It’s you – the people who live where there isn’t access to a windsurfing shop with new gear and up-to-date instructors – who can really help us spread the stoke of windsurfing to people who have never heard it before. Start with some pointers on how to give a windsurfing lesson here, then turning to the L2W Media Manual to promote your local L2W event.

OK, you’re pumped. You’re, in words most appropriate, on board. What’s your next step?

1. Holler at us! Let us over at the L2W project project know you’re out there by sending over an email.

2. Get informed. Read the L2W How to teach Windsurfing Manual and the L2W Media Manual. The first will give you some great tips on how to pass on the stoke of windsurfing using whatever is at your disposal. The second is going to help you maximize the amount of exposure your event gets – both before, to make sure you’ve got a crowd – and after, to keep spreading the windsurfing word. Stay tuned to the L2W website for more updates and tips on how you can make your L2W event simply rock.

3.  Make it happen! Once you get people to the water, it’s not tough to get them to try windsurfing. Share the stoke, get ‘em wet, and change their lives.