Hi, I am a young enthusiastic wndsurfer and i am keen be spnsored in our sport.
I believe it is important to promote and encourage young sailers in this sport as well as looking to the future and futher developing the sport.
My Name is James Brient, i live in Longford, near launceston in tasmania.
I frequnently sail with Izaak Perkins and company all around the state who is a SHQ sponsored rider and who also feels that my sailing has progressed to a level that wouls warrent suport, and who i have sailed competitively with for years. I have recently done 40 knots at the age of 16 and will only go faster. I am a keen racer and am fully envolved with the GPS team Challenge.
I wasnt sure where to start so i felt a forum would be a good starting piont.
If anyone can help me out or has any information for me that would be of use, please let me know.
For any extra informtion or anything else feel free to send me an email james.brient@gmail.com
Or phone me on either 0363912010 or 0448505429
Cheers, James
Here are some photos of me sailing:
Hi James,
I'm not in a position to sponsor you. However, here are some points worth thinking about.
1) What type of sponsorship are you after? Funding or equipment? If funding, for what purpose - travel, equipment, making a living?
2) Here's the question you need to think about from the other side of the fence... what are your sponsors going to get in return? There aren't many companies out there that will fund people for the sake of doing something nice. Generally they're going to want publicity in return. Your role is to articulate exactly what publicity they are going to get and what demographic you are going to be targeting.
Here's an example:
You have a blog - maybe not just about you windsurfing, but also about windsurfing in general - that gets loads of internet traffic.
You have your own website
You regularly make movies of windsurfing and post them on youtube that get loads of traffic
You have a vehicle that you're prepared to coat with the stickers of your sponsor
That vehicle gets parked somewhere where people who might be interested in the products of your sponsor see it
You get coverage in the general / windsurfing press.
You create your own photography / movie production / clothing brand company
It's hard yards - I know a lot of sailors who can do some properly mad tricks (Air Funnell -
First response, thankyou for your advice, all important topics and information, i agree completely. Second irrelevent.