Our advice to do windsurfing
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)
Fins are a technical subject often overlooked by many windsurfers. On the other hand, their influence on the windsurfing board's behavior is significant. The topic is wide, and relatively complicated. In this article, we try to face the argument, illustrating the most important concepts.
Read more: Fins for windsurfing: characteristics, parameters and performances
In this page, we will propose you the videos of the stages on the fundamental maneuvers of windsurfing, organized by Waterwind.it. The videos will show the theoretical explanation of the maneuvers. In this page you will also find many other useful videos on maneuvers by other instructors.
Watching champions or talented windsurfers can be very useful. Analyzing their movements, you can "steal" some secret, and some trick, to perform at best some maneuvers (although achieving their level is almost impossible, for most of us). So, let's study together, the fast tack and the power jibe performed by the young French talent Loick Lesauvage - F780.
Read more: Windsurf theory - Fast tack and power jibe performed by Loick Lesauvage
Today, waveriding is no longer just Bottom turns and Cut backs, up and down the waves. By now, even among the waves, we see rather complicated maneuvers and movements, partly borrowed from freestyle, and waveriding is becoming a much more varied discipline. It is useful, then, to make some order among the main maneuvers.
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.