As a competitive windsurfer you want to sail the most extreme conditions you can. You need to find out how good you are, what you can cope with, and most of all, what it's like.
I am, perhaps was, extremely competent. I have though, sailed on the edge. When one is on the edge, then things can and do go wrong.
But, when you're successful, or sometimes when you just survive, and literally conquer something, then the feeling afterwards is indescribable.
Not everybody thinks that way. Some do, some don't. You clearly don't. That's not a value judgement, just different people.
I terminally broke a Mirror sailing from Hill Head to the IoW. The wind was so strong* it eventually tore the mast out of the hull. Brilliant fun.
*Well, strong for an ageing mirror. It'd have been no problem and quite fun on a windsurfer.
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