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Danilo Lanteri is a piece of windsurfing history, in Italy. We are honored to host, on this website, a series of technical articles that will help us understand how windsurf boards and fins are made, and which elements determine their performance.
Read more: I am telling you the windsurf board (by Danilo Lanteri)
Many of you will have happened to be in a spot, seeing a windsurfer performing a freestyle maneuver, and wondering which maneuver he/she is landing. It may be simple curiosity, but more often you would like to learn it, and then you need to know its name, to look for instructional material that explains it clearly. We have therefore decided to classify them and create a catalog of freestyle maneuvers to help you, to get that purpose.
The first experiences of windsurfing among the waves can be frustrating: they all pass under your board and you don't catch a single one. But acquiring the right waveriding technique will open the doors to a magical discipline, perhaps the most exciting of windsurfing, which really puts you in contact with the sea.
Read more: Waveriding: basic technique for catching and riding waves
To complete the understanding of the windsurfing boards shape, from a few months we have decided to equip ourselves with a freestyle board: the Fanatic Skate TE 93 2014, also used by the world champion Gollito Estredo. The freestyle board has many peculiarities, which in this article we try to highlight.
For beginners, rigging a windsurf sail and preparing the board as best as possible, evaluating the result obtained, is an operation full of unknowns. We receive many requests in this regard in the Waterwind forum. Since an important part of our fun depends on the sailing and board performance in the water, we thought it could be useful to publish this article to help "young" windsurfers.
Read more: Getting your windsurfing equipment ready (by Nico and Fabio)
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Many of you may have needed to carry out a small repair on your windsurf board. In this case, there are two options: contact a professional repairer, or, given the modest extent of the damage, rely on do-it-yourself. Let's see how to proceed in this second case.