The Best Part?! When your kids love windsurfing, it probably means more hours on the water for you! Nothing is more beautiful than sharing your passion with your kids. But it may sound easier than it is, as there are certainly a lot of factors that figure into whether or not windsurfing becomes their new…
What’s the definition of a freeride windsurf board, and how should you choose? A freeride board must be easy to use, cover an extensive range of conditions and be suitable for progressing riders of different abilities. Freeride boards are the most common and popular type of board that you see on most beaches. But with…
How To Beach Start When you are starting to windsurf it is smart to start practising the beach start as soon as possible. It will save your back from uphauling the sail and it is a great way to go if you want to later learn the water start. To make it as easy as…
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…
