Today marks 55 years of Windsurfing. On May 21st, 1967 on a sunny and breezy spring day, inventor Jim Drake sailed the world’s first windsurfer and changed water sports forever. He didn’t have anyone to teach him that first day and had not invented the uphaul yet, plus he forgot the fin at home, but…
Starboard´s Dream Team riders Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne from Windsurf University are here to help you to Get Ready For The Season! It´s time to have fun on the water and get everything ready for action. The main topics in this video: GEAR CHECK WINDSURF WORK OUT TRAIN YOUR MIND If you want…
Starboard´s Dream Team riders Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne from Windsurf University are here to help you to Get Ready For The Season! It´s time to have fun on the water and get everything ready for action. The main topics in this video: GEAR CHECK WINDSURF WORK OUT TRAIN YOUR MIND SUMMER IS JUST…
Another interesting Vlog by Nico Prien! In this entertaining Vlog, Nico will test 4 different fins without knowing which one he is using. Will 15 years of racing be enough to know which fins he is using just by feeling? His cameraman also puts on a “surprise” fin to make it even more interesting! All…
The 2021 PWA Foil Vice World Champion Helle Oppedal sent us a report from her winter training in Tenerife. You might think you will read about the wind and her training hours. But this takes you inside Helle´s world where she was learning about how to handle being a professional windsurfer. Trying to find the perfect…
There are two basic turns in windsurfing — the tack and the jibe. The tack is a turn upwind, and it takes the nose of the board through the wind. Tacking is one of the key maneuvers in windsurfing, and it keeps you upwind all time. The simple explanation is “Sail into the wind and, as the nose…
IT`S TIME TO LEARN TO WATERSTART Nico Prien is out with a new tutorial, and this is a good one! It´s time to let go of the uphaul rope and learn to beachstart and waterstart. Nico broke it down into 4 steps to make it easier for you. Make sure you get all the tips…
LIVING THE WINDSURFING LIFE Is Nico Prien living the best windsurfing life there is? Watching his latest Vlog, it looks like our Brand Manager has “fun at work”! Follow him when he takes the ferry from a windless Tenerife to a windy Pozo. His mission is to test his new 2022 iSonics. Nico shows some…
The German and Italian freestyle world knows Meiky Wieczorek with his elegant style on the latest power and double moves! He just started sailing the Starboard iGnite and we could not wait to ask Meiky for an interview about his return to Starboard boards, his love for freestyle, why he is not competing, and how…
We are happy to announce another team rider to the Starboard Dream Team! Welcome to the French wave sailor Alexandre Grand-Guillot. The 24-year-old wave sailor combines his windsurfing career with Business School in France. He is from La Manche, and you will always see him on the beach when the swell hits the French coast.…
