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…
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…
