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…
How To Gybe – Backhand Position Learning to windsurf and unlocking new moves can be challenging, but with this windsurfing quick tip you will learn to gybe like a pro in no time. Making that perfect almost planing gybe is pretty high up on most windsurfers goal list. To get out of the…
How To Foil Gybe Learning to foil is a whole new challenge for all of us windsurfers. The foiling gybe is the first big challenge in this new game. So after you start flying comfortably, flying through those gybes will be your number one mission. Sam identifies the key for flying all the…
Learning How To Carve Learning how to carve in windsurfing is an essential prerequisite for planing through that perfect race gybe, bottom turn, or carve tack. All moves that probably are pretty high up on most of our to-do lists. Unlocking new moves can be challenging, that’s why our windsurfing tips are here to…
How To Set Up Your Foil Knowing how to set up your foil correctly will have a crucial impact on your sailing no matter what kind of foil you use. To get a balanced angle of attack for your foil it is important that you find the right position for: Foot straps Mastfoot…
How To Foil Upwind One of the great aspects of foil windsurfing is the equipment’s ability to foil upwind. Learning how to foil upwind is therefore not difficult and in the following video, Sam explains that what will help you reach better upwind angels is: your head, hand and body position. Turning your hips…
How To Set Up The Kode Our Kode’s have footstrap and fin positioning options that make it possible to transform them from radical wave boards to comfortable and cruisy freeride boards. The Kodes also come with extra fins to allow for these changes to be as easy as possible. To transform your board from…
Within only a few years foiling has gone from a windsurfing discipline only accessible to a few, to something that is breaking new ground, bringing in new people and with it, new conditions and places. Much of the recent expansion has been driven by the quick development of equipment but while the choice has never…
FREERIDE OR FREESTYLE IT’S YOUR CHOICE Our Ignites might be high-performance freestyle boards at heart, but their early planing capabilities and fast rocker also make them great for bump and jump or pure freeriding. They are the ideal boards for when you are looking to have just 1 board for multiple conditions or perhaps…
Starboard will release a new video every day introducing a new board from our 2019 range. Stay tuned. This video is the 2019 Starboard Highlights video.
