Your feet and body are flying through the air, and your mast is heading full speed towards the nose of your beloved board; you are hooked in and powerless, awaiting immediate impact. Follow these 6 handy tips to avoid a windsurf catapult. That’s the dreaded catapult for you. Catapults are perhaps the worst possible…
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…
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…
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…
