Why windsurfing died: chasing experts and forgetting beginners, per Grok
PTrubey · x · 2026-09-25
After getting no human answer to "what happened to windsurfing?", the author asked Grok: the industry chased experts (expensively) and forgot the beginner. Drawing on his own mid-80s experience — beginner sails were big, heavy, brutal to lift out of the water, and learning took forever — he thinks those factors alone killed the sport. He uses this to push back on the "pickleball will kill tennis" analogy, seeing more differences than similarities.
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