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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)
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
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.
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
For many riders, a normal forward or back loop is, already, a desired goal. Other windsurfers have more ambition, and then to observe young champion Loick Lesauvage's technique for push loop can offer many insights.
When it comes to windsurfing, planing is generally a point of no return ... If you have had the patience to overcome the first difficulties and learn the basic maneuvers, the thrill of gliding will make you definitely addicted to this sport. Let's see, then, to understand how to reach and maintain this state of grace.