Our advice to do windsurfing
We often receive requests for advice about choosing a carbon boom, in the Waterwind forum. So, it seemed useful to make a rundown of the main carbon booms currently available on the market (2022).
We, often, receive lots of desperate requests for help from people who has lately begun windsurfing, and want to buy their equipment, attend a course, or learn a maneuver. In this article, we sum up answers we've given till now, and we provide further suggestions.
Read more: Windsurfing: a guide for beginners to equipment choice
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.
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)
Beginners always have many difficulties, and unclear ideas, on which boards to buy, at the beginning of their career. With this article, we would like to give newbies a hand in choosing the first large volume windsurfing board, on which to take their first steps, and the first medium volume freeride board, with which to evolve further. We therefore give you an overview of the latest dedicated models offered by the market.
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