And advanced surfers can concentrate completely on their performance because you won't be carried to sea by strong currents. Windsurfing in the midst of Tokyo is as thrilling to her as hanging out in a hip downtown club. Tokyo is an information megalopolis. Sound bytes of information about urban trends come and go in the nanosecond required for transmission or the flash it takes to trash the data. Young Tokyoites learn to make snap decisions and to search, choose and combine significant data according to their tastes and objectives.
Manuals are too time consuming, and following someone else's rules interferes with individual style.
The aim is to create spontaneous, personal fun that ranges from drinking in a bar to windsurfing at a beach. But just as the power of a wave slackens on its trip to shore, local trends must sometime begin their inevitable retreat. Tokyo's urban surfers realize this and have therefore begun paddling out for the next Odaiba wave. Or something even larger.