(serene music)
(waves rolling gently)
- Now, I live in paradise here.
Don't tell too many people about it.
Show me somewhere better, it's not possible.
Nothing.
(waves rumbling)
I kitesurf, which I like
and I've been doing kitesurfing now
for about seven or eight years.
Before that I, and I still do,
windsurf for the last 40 years.
And it's lovely.
You set a course and it's like,
just like flying on a cloud.
(serene music)
If heaven's like this I'll be very happy to go.
(water splashing)
You're out there and you're just oblivious
to the problems in life,
and you go as far or
as little distance as you like.
It's just beautiful.
It's a different world,
and any little problems, any hiccups,
they just bypass you.
It's just lovely, you know?
It's poetry in motion when you're out there.
And when I die, and I'm gettin' near
the end of my life, I'm hoping
that there's kites up there.
(serene music) (waves rumbling)
Suddenly my wife died 16 1/2 years ago,
and very quick, only in two days,
of breast cancer.
And she had one chemo and on the Saturday
at lunch time we were going to go out
and she wasn't very well,
and within two days she died.
And when I saw that I thought,
I will change my life.
And I started living life all the time.
I spent the first three or four years
away nine months a year.
I was windsurfing, kiting, skiing, snowboarding.
I went all around the world doing these things.
And then after about three or four years,
the pain is going so you come back
and join what one would term a natural life.
After I’d seen how my wife left this world
I changed my way of thinking.
It could be tomorrow I'll be gone
so I live each day to the full.
You'll never know when you're gonna go.
Although I think I'm healthy, I could be dead tomorrow.
Hence why I do all the things I do.
(wind rumbling)
(water splashes)
I was in the Italian Lakes about three or four years ago
and there was no wind, and I saw,
to my belief, a man on a windsurfer sculling.
And I thought, what a marvelous idea.
There's no wind so you can still get out and do something,
and hopefully this is the first time
I've tried it and it may work.
I'm looking forward to it 'cause today
there's no wind and it's ideal
for what I want to do.
And I can go out on the water where I love and away I go.
Being my age, I'm not bothered what people think.
I just do what I want to do,
and I know very well if they had the guts
or the ingenuity they would also
like to be with me.
But sadly, a lot of people won't do what I do.
God knows why, but there you are.
I was on the water a few months ago and
I didn't want to stop at all then,
and I thought, I just love it.
I thought then, I'm gonna live another 10 years.
And when I tell my friends they don't like that,
they think, can't you go before then, Dave?
This last, I suppose, 10, 15 years
I've slowed down.
I don't run like I used to.
I can't jump about.
I haven't changed my ideas, my principles
in how I think about life.
Learned a few lessons over the way.
But I'm still basically the same person.
I'm an old man but with young thoughts.
And that not gonna change,
and the day it does change I will die.
(upbeat music)