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  • How To Windsurf: Uphauling and Basic Position
    Take your first steps to learning how to windsurf. In this windsurfing how to, learn how to get up on the board and get the sail out of the water.
    2010-08-24 16:42:14 | 4816 views | 4 Comments
  • Teach Your Kids How To Windsurf
    If your kids can swim, then they’re ready to start windsurfing! In this windsurfing how to, learn some tips to teach your kids how to windsurf quickly and easily.
    2010-08-24 16:34:15 | 2762 views | 1 Comments
  • 6 Fundamental Freestyle Windsurfing How Tos
    Freestyle windsurfing is impressive, but for many recreational sailors the idea of trying it is intimidating. Get started on the basics with these fundamental freestyle windsurfing how tos...
    2010-07-16 13:54:54 | 11222 views | 0 Comments
  • How To Do A Vulcan
    In this windsurfing how to, learn how to do a Vulcan, which is the gateway to a number of freestyle windsurfing tricks. In essence, you are stalling the sail so that body and rig can go around 180 degrees and the sail is now technically out in front of you...
    2010-07-16 13:13:00 | 3527 views | 2 Comments
  • How To Do A Sail 360
    In this windsurfing how to, learn how to a sail 360, a freestyle windsurfing trick that can be done in planing and nonplaning conditions. Although no longer really considered a trick in its own right, the sail 360 is fundamental for learning how to duck the sail for duck jibes and other more complicated freestyle moves...
    2010-07-16 12:40:38 | 3376 views | 2 Comments
  • How To Do An Upwind 360
    In this windsurfing how to, learn how do a upwind 360, a freestyle windsurfing trick to practice in both planing and non-planing conditions. The upwind 360 is one of the most basic freestyle moves around, but it teaches sail handling for more advanced moves like the flaka...
    2010-07-16 12:03:31 | 3161 views | 0 Comments
  • How to Heli-Tack
    In this windsurfing how to, learn how to do a heli-tack, one of the most common first freestyle moves. Once dialed, the heli-tack can also be a more consistent way of tacking smaller windsurfing boards...
    2010-07-08 16:47:26 | 4673 views | 0 Comments
  • How To Master The Flaka
    In this windsurfing how to, learn how to do a flaka. Once mastered, the flaka — a jump-initiated upwind 360 — can be one of the easier freestyle windsurfing tricks to throw in a variety of conditions. While difficult to learn, the flaka is considered easy to execute as long as the setup is right.
    2010-06-16 13:20:05 | 3933 views | 5 Comments
  • How To Duck Jibe
    In this windsurfing how to, find out how to duck jibe like Robby Naish in the RIP video. One of the most fun flat-water moves, the duck jibe, done correctly, can often be easier than a regular jibe — and can help keep you planing in lighter winds.
    2010-05-24 12:39:25 | 6178 views | 3 Comments
  • Antoine Albeau's 7 Speed Secrets
    by Dan Weiss Windsurfing is always competition. Even rigging up is a race. We try hard to outsail each other. Nobody keeps score (well, nobody speaks of it openly) and we all want each other to do well...
    2010-04-22 13:27:09 | 6091 views | 7 Comments
  • How to Fix A Fin The Right Way
    In this windsurfing how to, learn how to fix a windsurfing fin the right way. Your first step: Put down that sandpaper.
    2010-04-08 11:23:42 | 4159 views | 8 Comments
  • Kevin Pritchard’s 5 Tips for Sailing Faster
    Feeling the need to pour on the speed? Check out this video introducing the 2010 Gaastra Vapor for some inspiration. In 2010 the Vapor features an inset clew for shorter boom length and a locked-in COE, and a fuller profile combined with a narrower head for tons of grunt with plenty of top-speed control...
    2010-02-25 15:27:13 | 4280 views | 8 Comments
  • How To: Jibe Like A Hero
    The wind is howling and the water is flat. You're coming in hot and there's only one thing to do: Jibe like a hero. In this windsurfing how to, learn the perfect jibe technique in five simple steps...
    2010-02-10 16:11:40 | 10153 views | 6 Comments
  • 6 Tips For Going Faster
    Feel like you’re getting left behind while everyone else speeds along? In this windsurfing how to, we'll share some tips to help you catch up — and then blast ahead of the pack. 1. Sheet in Your Sail ...
    2010-01-28 10:39:59 | 5071 views | 2 Comments