At Starboard we believe that our passion for windsurfing grows and intensifies when it’s shared and our team of riders and coaches seems to agree. When you teach someone to windsurf you get to relive those treasured moments, like using the harness for the first time or finally getting into those footstraps. Added benefits? You…
How to Gybe is probably the most known subject to talk about at a windsurfing beach. A gybe is a turn you do downwind, and is a skill you must learn in windsurfing if you want to keep your hair dry! The better you get, the better the gybe! A goal for any windsurfer is…
The first iQFoiL Youth and Junior World Championships come to a happy end in Garda, Italy. A total of 14 Races in the iQFOiL Youth men fleet, 13 Races in the iQFOiL Women Youth and Boy Junior Fleet, and 11 Races in the Junior iQFOiL women fleet were completed. The first-ever youth and junior iQFOiL…
The first official iQFoiL Youth and Junior World Championships are set to take place this weekend at Lake Garda, Italy. 271 young racers from 23 nations are ready to fight it out on the racecourse. With 4 official World Titles up for grabs between Youth (u19) and Junior (u17), a staggering number of 271 young…
Front Hand Position – Windsurfing Tips Are you putting your front hand in the right position during your windsurfing manoeuvers? Watch the video above to see Sam Ross explaining his quick tip for your front hand position in windsurfing: Front Hand Position: This week’s windsurfing tips are about getting your front hand…
Learning to windsurf and unlocking new moves can be challenging. With today’s windsurfing tip you will learn how to have a better stance. Keeping and increasing your speed is all about having the correct stance. Being able to quickly adapt to choppy conditions is a prerequisite for all else. Windsurfing Stance: Often our…
Windsurfing Tip – Thumbs On Top can make a big difference: Learning windsurfing and unlocking new moves can be challenging. Something as little as putting your thumbs on top can have a big impact on how you hold your rig. Knowing how you hold your boom during different moves can help you sail more comfortably.…
Learning to windsurf and unlocking new moves can be challenging. With our windsurfing tips today, you will learn how to keep a more stable sailing position by keeping your elbows down. Increasing your speed is all about having the correct stance and adapting quickly to choppy conditions. Follow Sam’s brilliant tip and see how your…
Learn How To Carve Tack Making that perfect, almost planing, carve tack is pretty high up on most windsurfers ‘to learn’ list (no matter how many years you have been sailing). The tack is the most basic moves and probably the first one you will learn while doing your beginner windsurfing course, yet perfecting…
How To Get Into The Footstraps How To Get Into The Footstraps for Windsurfing: This weeks windsurfing quick tips from Starboard’s windsurf coach Sam Ross is about footstraps. Over the years boards have become shorter, hence the way we get into our footstraps has also changed. Often when people start trying to use…
