PETER HART – THE JOY OF CROSSING OVER

The development and continual improvement of the freestyle wave board is surely one of windsurfing’s greatest success stories. Peter Hart tells you how to tweak technique and set-up to exploit the full range of possibilities.

Words  PETER HART  // Photos  WIGHTSHOTS/BARBARA CLOSE 

I  have an almost unnatural relationship with my 103 freestyle wave board. It has its own passport; lives in the spare bedroom and in the past 6 months I’ve probably seen more of it than my family. If I got points for the water-miles I’ve covered on it, I’d be able to fly around the world for nothing. I’ve just come back from Tarifa, where for 7 days the ‘levante’ blew between 15-30 knots – sometimes over a head high swell. Backed by 3 sails and 2 fins, I could handle every situation with the one board. I blasted; I rode waves; I did the odd trick (very odd in some cases). Yes a 103 is about 20 litres too bulky for 30 knots but it still offered so much more than pure in and out survival. When things get tricky, often the best board to sail is the one you know really well. A good freestyle wave covers so many bases that you get to sail it a lot and get to know it really well. You may have already surmised that I’m a bit of a fan. I can’t think of one reason why someone looking to experiment with styles, widen their general repertoire and become a more rounded windsurfer, wouldn’t have one. So, remaining as impartial as possible, over the next few pages I aim to clarify the concept and then explain how to make it perform in various areas. But first, to appease aging sceptics, let’s quickly turn the clock back.

‘Wave/slalom’ and ‘Chameleons’
Windsurfers of a certain vintage may wish a pox on the whole cross-over concept having been corrupted by early interpretations – ‘do everything’ boards which ‘did nothing’ very well.
In the 80’s and early 90’s design features were more polarised. Speed came from sharp, slab-sided rails and straight narrow outlines. Manoeuvrability came from soft edges, and heaps of rocker. Hence in that era, speedy boards carved only long precarious turns and wave boards were slow to plane and just … slow.

The new category, ‘wave/slalom’, therefore sounded oxymoronic. Shapers, who were asked to fashion this all-rounder, felt they’d been burdened with the impossible task of building the perfect partner for the sexually confused teenager. What they came up with was a hairy, beer swilling rugby type wearing scarlet lipstick and a tutu – i.e. something that failed to appeal to those on either side of the fence. It stunk of compromise.

Rigs were the issue. They were still quite ‘draggy’ producing a lot of sideways force that had to be resisted by long edges (260cm plus) and relatively big fins. The only way to make a board more manoeuvrable at speed was to make it smaller and thinner and load it with a smaller sail, which then demanded high winds. Hence the whole cross-over concept ran out of legs in boards much above 85ltrs. The deciding factor was, and still very much is, the fin. If you have to fit a big fin to resist the forces of the ‘grunty’ sail you need to get planing, the ‘wave’ bit of the ‘wave/slalom’ evaporates.
Cutting to the modern chase, the gradual development of ever more efficient rigs that produce less and less lateral drag, has allowed us to shorten the outlines. Losing 30-40 cm of edge brings huge benefits:
–  shorter boards turn better. There’s less resistance, less rail to trip over; they conform better to a curved wave and fit between chops.
– there’s less dead wood. The volume is more useable. It’s under your feet and in extra width, which means that smaller boards feel more stable and bigger boards are more controllable.
Today you don’t have to shape a board like a court jester’s slipper, with six inches of tail rocker, to make it turn. Manoeuvrability comes as much now from the blend of outline, rail profile, underwater shape AND the fact that more efficient rigs allow us to use smaller fins. So it is that the once distant qualities of speed and manoeuvrability are edging closer and closer together. Today’s boards are like cars. They all are fast. Some are faster than others determined mainly by the size of the engine.  Boards, purely in terms of shape and design, share more in common than ever. What makes them behave differently is the size and style of rig you use; where you stand; where you direct the power and the size and style of fin. We now have a board that allows you to really play with those alternatives. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the modern freestyle wave board.

EMBRACING THE INBOARD FEELING
Fsw’s offer inboard and outboard strap positions. It’s nice to have the option, but I believe going outboard is to miss a trick. The greatest transformation you can make to your sailing, if manoeuvres are on the agenda, is to learn to sail the board from the middle. To find comfort in a straight line, you have to stand taller and more inboard and drive the board, not the fin and rail. Not only are inboard straps easier to get into, but this upright stance nearer the centre line, with the front foot as the platform, is the best position from which to pop or drop up or downwind into carving moves.

//  Unless you stand tall and inboard using inboard straps, they will feel uncomfortable.  PHOTO by Hart Photography.

//  The 103, 5.7 sail and 26 wave fin = manoeuvre heaven. The in-straps carving 360 is a good test to see how well the fsw is set up for moves. It’s hard if you’re over-finned, over-sailed and standing on the edge. It’s a move, which forces you to keep the board flat and carve off the front foot.  PHOTO Wightshots/Barbara Close.

Making the Choice – understanding the design.
Freestyle wave boards all lie somewhere on the freestyle to wave spectrum. Which you plump for depends which aspects of those two designs most appeal to you. Let’s describe simply what both are good at.

Freestyle Board. The thrust of modern freestyle is to do big aerial moves (often off flat water) at huge speed. To achieve that, the modern freestyler needs a board that planes fast and early with a small sail (the smaller the sail the easier the trick is to control), and that pops (jumps) easily. What we have, therefore, is a low-nosed ‘slabby’ railed board with hard release edges with a flat, slalom board rocker-line and a very thick tail, which pops easily out of the water.
What isn’t it good at? Not much cop at carving. The thick rails make it bounce and trip– and thanks to the tiny fin it’s not the board you’d choose for screaming around in chop. Its application is very specific – get it planing and then immediately do something very dangerous.
Wave Board. Jumping is important but most wave designs are about smooth rail to rail carving. The key is to be able to initiate turns suddenly and steeply (i.e. without bearing away) engaging all the edge to draw tight fast arc turns on the wave face without tripping or out-running it.
Hence a wave board looks like a surfboard with a curved outline and thin grippy rails. Small outboard fins have a dual purpose of driving you around turns and holding the rails in. It has exaggerated nose rocker to help you bottom out of steep drops and jumps, and varying degrees of tail rocker to add a bit of ‘pivot’ and ‘snap’ to the end of turns.
What isn’t it good at? Nose and tail rocker mean it pushes a bit of water so can be slower to plane and marginally slower when on the plane. It’s not the best upwind.

The Blend
So by blending the best of both you get a board, which planes early, is rapid, pops easily into jumps and carves hard fast turns. What is there not to like?
It’s easy to spot where boards lie on the spectrum. The most revealing indicators are the nose and tail. The lower the nose and the thicker the tail, the more oriented it is to speed, early planing and popping into ‘new skool’ freestyle. The thinner the rails and higher the nose, the more wave oriented it is. Choose a board for the conditions you get, not the ones you dream of getting, and then play to its strengths. But just a word about freestyle – it’s not all about mid air contortion. The style of tricks (I prefer to call it ‘classic’ rather than ‘old skool’) that most aspire to, such as duck gybes, up and downwind 360s etc, start with a fast, hard carve which is easier on a freestyle wave with a wave bias. And if you are interested in new skool, the ‘basic’ tricks such as Vulcans and Spocks, which involve a pop, a twist and a backwards slide, are arguably easier to learn on a freestyle wave than a dedicated freestyle board because its softer edges are less likely to catch.

THE FREESTYLE WAVE SAILING OPTIONS
Some are reluctant to go down the fsw route for fear of what it might say about them – i.e. they don’t know what they want. They’re not good or committed enough to sail a dedicated wave or freestyle board and so have plumped for a compromise. Tish and pish. Here are 3 good reasons to embrace a fsw.
1. There’s a clue in the title. It promotes a sailing style in its own right. Freestyle in the waves. It doesn’t have to be crazy stuff. In a spot like Jeri (Brazil) where the waves are small, the wind is windy and there are long flat patches between swells, fsws reign. Their early release and extra speed add another dimension to the session. On one run in you’ll do a full speed trick (old or new) on the flat. On the next you might tap into a wave – and on the way out no board is better at jumping. It’s a style of sea sailing where you’re getting your dynamism more from board speed than wave power.
2. A flat water wave board.  Wind is easier to find than waves. Wave boards are not so great on flat water especially if it’s gusty – they don’t have enough ‘glide.’ But using a fsw you have the extra speed to imitate wave moves, hard carving etc, but without the wave.
3. Inspires a change of style. It’s the perfect stepping stone from free-ride to wave. It’s a board which has free-ride/speedy qualities, but which encourages a lighter footed, more manoeuvre based set-up and stance.

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It’s ALL in the FIN
The tuning range of a FSW is huge and it’s largely down to fin choice. The one supplied covers the most options but that is just the beginning. All the fins displayed work with this board and totally change the feel and how you sail it. It’s currently set up with the tri fin thruster arrangement for proper waves. The 26 is a single fin option for more speed in waves and general manoeuvres. The 30 works with most things but specifically for a bit of blasting and sails of 6 and above. And the 22 freestyle fin works with the 5.2 sail if you’re into a bit of new skool pop and sliding – but not much else.

//  Many horses for many courses. PHOTO Hart Photography.

//  A bit of blasting. The 30 cm fin gives you a familiar free-ride feel. How much lift you get from the fin determines your stance and, upwind, whether you sail the board flat or windward edge down. PHOTO Wightshots/Barbara Close.

LIVING WITH THE 103
Fsw’s are many things to so many people depending on the size (of the person and board), sailing location and style. I am going to share my experiences of sailing and tuning my 103 for different occasions. They are not necessarily the views of the management – but it’s a start. I have chosen the big end of the fsw scale – 110 litres is about the chunkiest available – because they offer the widest possibilities. As you go under 90 litres, the need for control, usually in lumpy seas, mean they’re often almost indistinguishable from wave boards.  If you fear you’ll be spending half the day with a screwdriver constantly re-tweaking, let me reassure you that in every mode I use the inboard straps, a waist harness and 32” lines. All I’m changing is sail size, boom height and fin.

Scenario 1  – The FSW as a happy Blaster
We have 15-18 knots of wind. It’s bumpy/choppy. There’s open water and mates about who might want to spar. Although they’re committed speedsters, you may want to confound them by throwing in the odd gybe. If you’re from a blasting background, you need to recalibrate. For the same conditions on a free-ride board, you’d rig the 7.5 on a 120 with a 40cm fin. We need to introduce a different feel and will try to go as fast by lightening everything up, making better use of the power and sailing more efficiently off the toes.

The Fin

My 103 comes with a 30cm cross-over fin (straight in the middle, swept in the tip). The US style slotbox that accompanies SOME  fsw’s, won’t accommodate much bigger. (On test this month though, more boards house power boxes than US – 4PB v 3US). Although the blurb advocates a sail as big as 7 sq. m. for my 103, for that fin I feel a 6.5 is the best match. A wave/freestyle sail is best because the higher effort lifts you into a taller stance and unweights the board. A slalom design by contrast shoves the board down and relies on a big fin.

Setting UP

If you’re struggling to tell the difference between the wave boards and fsw’s, say in the rack of a hire centre, apart from the label on the flanks, the fsw reveals itself by offering inboard and outboard straps. This is a good thing. Outboard straps put your feet in the best position on the rails to drive the fin. You may want to use the board in a race.

If you’ve come from free-riding, even though the fsw outboard straps aren’t that outboard, the stance will feel familiar. But here comes the ‘but …’, I have actually never used the outboard straps on any of my fsw boards. If you’re looking to move towards wave sailing, or just improve your gybes, use the inboard settings from the get-go. It’s the biggest most significant change you will make to your style. Which holes you use for each strap depends on your height – but I go for the biggest spread (front straps forward, back straps back), which in turns gives you the greatest freedom to move and gets you used to the wider, more stable wave sailing stance. And here’s the biggest difference, open them up so your front toe reaches across the centre-line. From that position you can get into front foot carving – another major change.

Getting going. The whole thrust of manoeuvre based sailing is to be mobile between the feet and enter manoeuvres with speed, but NOT over-powered. In general that means you have to work a little to get going. Even though a 30cm offers reasonable resistance. It only starts to lift as you’re planing. You can’t hoof against it at slow speeds and hope for a reaction. Even on a big fsw with a 6.5, be of the mind set that it’s the rig, not fin power, that gets you planing. So basically unload the fin completely by bearing away much more than you might be used to.

Speed

Upwind sailing always demands the cutest trim. Fsw’s have a flatter rocker and a hard release edge that bites. But it’s now, if you’re an ex free-rider, that you have to begin to unplug that back foot. If you’re really powered up, yes you can run a flat board and push the fin quite hard. But just comfortably planing, you may have to unweight the tail, move the hips further forward and sail more off the front foot. You’ll know if you’re pushing too hard – you just stall.
Speed. Going fast on a fsw is about giving to the power and letting it pull you along rather than hunkering down against it.

“ It would be harsh to say that big free-ride kit makes you lazy … but it does ”

Trying to overtake someone when you’re maxed on slalom kit, you lower your stance, tighten the core and actively drive harder against the fin and rails, veins bulging, tendons straining. But on a fsw, stand up, drop the toes and concentrate on running a flat board – and then play with the fore/aft trim to make that perfect connection. On a more wave oriented fsw with nose-kick, you want to get the nose up a little to stop it slamming into chop. A higher boom helps, as does less outhaul and a little more back foot pressure.

DAVE WHITE and fsw love.
Dave White, former world champ speedster, is famous for making all boards go fast. His favourite party trick on photoshoots is to overtake pro slalom’rs on his fsw and is in little doubt as to the design’s speed and endless versatility.  “If the mobile network hadn’t already taken the initials we’d be talking about EE’s as this category covers Everything Everywhere. If you want to be pedantic you could find a few conditions where a FSW might not fit the bill, though apart from 8.0m sails I’m struggling to think of a time where I couldn’t have opted for a FSW and had a good sail.  The key to this versatility is the fin or fins. At its extreme, I’ve watched Shaun Cook win a slalom round on a FSW using a 38cm f-hot slalom fin. At the other end of the scale, I wouldn’t travel without a 22cm wave fin. Does that mean they’re providing the wrong fin, definitely not. It’s just the one that covers the most bases. I’ll use the 22cm wave fin in my 106 when it’s all about riding, though I have another fin that fits between the two for my everyday south coast conditions.”

//  Whitey tanking using a 28cm fin and ripping on the same 106 with a 22cm wave fin. PHOTO Shaun Cook

SCENARIO 2 – Carving tricks and Moves.
17-24 knots of wind – flat water with the odd breaking ramp – this is fsw heaven.  The emphasis changes to fast, fun carving tacks and gybes, ducks, 360’s, floaty chop hops etc. I go for a 5.7 and a 26cm wave fin. Sail and board match each other perfectly. For those coming off bigger kit, the fin feels … small. As one guy said as he stepped on such a set-up for the first time, “has this fffff thing got a fin?” The wave fin is less a lift device and more a means to help control turns. At 26cm, it is still huge by a pro wave or freestyler’s standard, but unless it’s howling you don’t get the free-ride, speed sensation of the board releasing onto the fin. The board rides a bit lower, feels a bit stuck on the water. But that’s a positive for carving moves where you WANT the board to hold in.

The general tip is again to react to the forces. With even less coming under your back foot, you should naturally favour the front foot more and more, to the point where you even place the back foot forward of the strap. Look down and on most points of sailing you’ll see your harness hook above your front foot. You’re standing more centrally using the front foot as your platform. The big change now is that sailing upwind, your windward edge rather than the fin is your source of resistance. Push it in with the heel of the front foot.

THE FSW as a WAVE MACHINE
The bigger fsw’s (100 ltrs +) are generally designed towards speed and early planing but still work brilliantly in small waves, especially in bog and ride conditions when you have control of speed and power. You need to be sympathetic to its design and favour a ‘pivoty’ style to make sure the thick rails don’t get stuck in the face.

//  Perfect size fun waves for a big fsw. Cutting back off the top is where thrusters can really help you maintain speed and control.
PHOTO  WIGHTSHOTS/BARBARA CLOSE

BLESSED BY A FSW Case Study 1:  Doug
Doug is a bit of an athlete. In-between sessions in Ireland, while I took the group on a SUP tour, he followed … swimming. He’s that sort of bloke. It’s an attitude that was mirrored in his sailing. He loved the physical challenge and therefore craved wind and big powerful kit; which was fine but not when it came to tackling waves and especially not when the wind was fluffy. The first step to ‘de-grunting’ him was to suggest a 103 fsw. But his first move, despite my suggestion, was to turn it into a free-ride board by loading it with a slalom 7.0 and having a 34cm fin specially made. It didn’t work that well. The big sail shoved it too deep. Since then he’s completely lightened up. In Kerry this year we reduced both fin and sail and he’s now using the fsw as nature intended – standing taller, sailing more and more on the toes, needing less and less power to achieve the same speed and above all, sailing and gybing more and more off the front foot.

//  Doug still a little too much on the back foot but in the process of being transformed by his 103 fsw. PHOTO Hart Photography.

BLESSED BY A FSW Case Study 2: Greg
Greg arrived on a wave course having learned his craft free-riding with huge kit on the lakes of his native Hungary. Short lines, seat harness, hunkered stance; he was the model of 90’s technique. He’s a very bright bloke (consultant cardiologist) and extremely fit and wiry. His approach was to buy a wave oriented 95 fsw with thrusters. We changed his basic set-up, longer lines, higher boom, waist harness to get him off the back foot. The rest came just from reacting to a new feeling. After a year, he’s now riding down the line with the best of them. “The fsw is fantastic,” he says, “it forces you to sail differently but at the same time isn’t so different and radical.”

//  Greg extended, relaxed and laying all the rail of his 95 fsw.
PHOTO Hart Photography.

//  Smart folk buy the board to suit where they live. Harvey, resident of Tarifa where wind is plentiful and waves are sporadic, favours a small fsw for its speed and versatility.
PHOTO Hart Photography.

Carving
The fsw introduces you to a wave board styIe of full rail carving. You become more aware of the mastfoot as a carving device responsible for controlling the front section of rail and the feet the back section. It helps now to lower the boom a couple of inches to just under shoulder, which allows you to drop on top of the boom and apply that mastfoot pressure as soon as you lean the rig into the turn. But the biggest change is to shove the front foot deep into its strap and initiate turns with the toes of the front foot. To do that you have to bend the ankle, which projects your whole body forward and puts you in a far better position to control the exit. A good exercise is to practise edge to edge carving across the wind. Leave both feet in the straps. Because the back strap is so far back, you have to favour the front foot or you stall out.

NEWER SKOOL
We’re in the glorious force 5 zone where pretty much every combo planes (under the right guidance). Looking to go more new skool, my alternative in the same wind is to go for a bagged out 5.2 and replace the 26 with a 22cm freestyle fin. This is a good intro. to the ‘big board, small rig’ style of sailing. Less power makes many tricks easier, especially upwind ones involving a sail transition – eg duck tacks, push tacks, upwind 360s. And the smaller fin makes the ‘pop and slide’ tricks more achievable. How to get into modern freestyle is a tome for another time.

SCENARIO 3 – Into the waves
Read Tris Best’s fine review of 105 fsw’s in this very issue and you will note that fsw is a pretty broad category –  they are all equal in the waves – but some are more equal than others. Much depends on the stable and the shaper – some have taken their wave designs and made them a bit straighter – others have taken their freestyle designs and made them a bit curvier.  With all of them, notably these big ones, you accept what they are and play to their strengths. It’s not a board you’re looking to tuck, Kauli style, into the pocket of 15ft pitching Punta Preta lip. For the expert it’s the best option on semi-planing days when the swell is lazy. Its extra speed creates dynamism out of dead situations. On days when you might have taken a SUP with a rig, you could take it up a notch with a floaty fsw. For the amateur, the advantages are more obvious. 90kg Yorkshireman Steve Mather, learning to love the waves, describes his love for his 103. “It gives me confidence to get out and survive the lulls – but what I most like is that it’s flattering. You can give the edge a bit of a misguided kick and it will keep going!” When it comes to turning on the face – well you keep pushing until something catches. In general it’s good to favour more of a back foot style – that’s pressure back not weight back – to stop the straighter edges catching in the face. The lower nose on some models means you have to be a little more cautious taking steep drops.

The Thruster Option
Design advances are gradual but fsw’s seem to have come on enormously in the last few years – notably their wave performance. Many now come with an option for thrusters (small side fins). I was a little suspicious when I saw these appearing in the bigger models, believing they may be a market-led addition. Thrusters pull the taiI into the water, which is just what you don’t want when you’re trying to get a big board to release in marginal winds. So they’re not really a flat water option – unless it’s howling.  Interestingly, as you will read in this issue’s fsw review, several brands (Fanatic, Goya, Quatro) provide thruster boxes, but only supply the board with a single fin and blanking plates for the thruster boxes. So the option is there but with reasoning that single fin is best for most. But they really do help on the wave face giving you the confidence to push a little harder without the rail skipping out – they also keep the board driving round and stop the board stalling during the cutback.

Conditions permitting, in the next issue Harty will be looking at ways to get into and improve your wave riding when it’s onshore (and probably cold). Spaces on his courses are few and far between these days so check out the schedule on his site www.peter-hart.com and book early!

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VIDEO:

Short clip from Philip Koster, living the dream in perfect, uncrowded WA

filmed by Jorge Vera , Drone by Moritz Mauch

Living the dream from philip koster on Vimeo.

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Great clip with lots of spray filmed by Lucy Campbell!

Adam Lewis: “I spent most of the winter in the UK before heading to Maui in March, however I managed to sneak out to the Canaries for a month of training and sailing. It was so so busy in Tenerife this winter – chaos on the water! I ended up sailing a lot of the time on the lower tides because it felt safer with the rocks than with all the people:-) In the end I used footage from a few session that we had decent waves. It can be really fun when you get right up in that Cabezo bowl! It is like a skate park wave just enough punch to be fun, you still get a few trips up the reef when it goes wrong but its never too gnarly! Gotta say a big thanks to my girlfriend Lucy for filming too after the first few sessions getting sand blasted down by the bunker. I’m not sure she was having the best time ever but she stuck at it like a trooper haha.”

OFF SEASON – Adam Lewis in Tenerife from Fanatic International on Vimeo.

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99 INTO INDOOR

1st and 2nd April, Bercy (Paris), two amazing days for the Indoor de France come back. 99novenove team riders Kauli Seadi (BRA-253) and Nicolas Akgazciyan (F-400) have both performed top results amongs legends like Robby Naish, Antoine Albeau, Robert Teriitehau, Erik Thieme and new generation’s like Kye Lenny.

Nico won both Slalom and Jump competition in Day 2. Fastest boy of time-laps during the trials and almost untouchable during the final slalom. The cherry at the top came when he landed a spectacular Double Forward Loop, the first ever performed at Indoor event scoring the Higest points of Bercy Indoor Jumping event!

Kauli won the “All Star Wind Games”, ranking Slalom and Jump showing a great consistency in both nights, confirming his talent and amazing spirit with the sport of windsurfing. Crowd loved him and he was supported by his fan’s as real international star.

RESULTS INDOOR DE FRANCE 2016
Winner “All Star Wind Games” men: Kauli Seadi (Br)
Winner “All Star Wind Games” women: Alice Arutkin (Fra)

Slalom women: Maëlle Guilbaud (Fra)
Slalom men: Nicolas Akgazciyan (Fra)
Jump women: Nathalie Cottard (Fra)
Jump men: Thomas Traversa (Fra)

FILMED: G. Squitieri, Rideproduction, courtesy Indoor de France
EDITED: G. Squitieri

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RRD 2016 Sailboards – Freestyle Wave V4 HD 1080p from Dave White on Vimeo.

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Over the coming months I will be introducing 100 key windsurfing tips to get you moving on up in windsurfing. From stance to starts, tacks to gybes, jumps to rides I will be giving you simple tips to learn from and focus on whilst enjoying your water time. Here are 5 video tips. Stay tuned, watch, enjoy and share.

Windsurf Tacking Tip #1 HD

Windsurf Carve Gybing Tip #2 HD

Windsurfing Stance Tip #3 HD
Control your speed through gusts and lulls with this simple tip – go fast and enjoy.

Windsurf Jumping Tip #4 HD
Be inspired, educated and enthused about how to take off and get better jumps – watch, enjoy and share.

Windsurf Forward Looping Tip #5 HD
This is a top tip for the preparation phase of the forward loop. Get over the board and have your hand way back down the boom – this is the easiest thing to do but it is often forgotten. Pull that trigger! I believe in you.

Via JEMHALL.COM – youtube.com/user/jemhallcoach

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BRAWZHINO EL NIÑO/ WINDSURFING MAUI

A cool video from Marcilio Browne in Maui – El Niño Winter 2016.

Production Credits

Drone:
Karim LLIYA @Karimilya
Olaf Crato crato.eu
Idan Shemtov/Epicopter
Dan Norkunas
Ricardo Campello

Land:
Rodrigo Marcolini
Dan Norkunas
Jake Miller
Cody Carter
Roger Clawson
Jones

Water:
Jace Panebianco

Edit:
Cody Carter

Song: 
The Walking Who – With Roses

Via

 TAKE SHELTER PRODUCTIONS

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Tenerife Surfireis 2016 – Alex Mussolini from Teamvosa on Vimeo.

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TRAILER TWS TECHNIQUE SERIES – COMING SOON!

TWS Technique Series – a series of short instructional videos to explain you tips and tricks about windsurfing: from rigging to advanced manouvers!

Look out for the start slalom technique coming up each Thursday at 7pm UTC.

Via

 TWS Tenerife Windsurf Solution

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HIDEOUT

A video from Alex Sanllehy und Markus Caspari Windsurfing in Cape Town, 2016.

Via Markus Caspari

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TWS Technique Series – Episode 1
How to rig and tune your slalom sail? Rigging tips windsurfing

First episode of TWS Technique Series – a series of short instructional videos to explain you tips and tricks about windsurfing: from rigging to advanced manouvers!

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Robby Swift – When Mystic asked their team what our “dream” location for a travel story would be, I think most people wrote back Tahiti or Fiji. I certainly did. I didn’t really think much of it, you are often asked that question as a pro windsurfer and then nothing comes of it, but it was an easy choice. They were both places that I have never visited and both have left hand reef breaks that are known by people all over the world for their beauty and power. Little did I know my ‘dream’ was going to come true.

Words  Robby Swift & Boujmaa Guilloul // Photos  Ben Thouard

PSYCHED!
Shortly afterwards, Marijke, the marketing director at Mystic, wrote to me to ask me to please book a ticket from Maui to LA so that I could join the whole team on the final flight to Tahiti. I couldn’t believe my luck! I had dreamt of going to Tahiti so many times, watched countless Teahupo’o videos and spoken to so many people about the place that I almost felt like I had been there. Now I was actually going and with a whole film crew to document the story!! Only one thing beats playing in some of the world’s best waves, and that is being filmed and photographed while you are doing it!

On the final plane down there, they had the film Encoded as one of the viewing options. If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth a watch as it documents some of the biggest swells ever ridden at Teahupo’o. It was certainly enough to put the fear of God into us on the way down there and had Guilly (one of the Mystic kiters) and I quaking in our boots as we prepared to land in Tahiti. The forecast was for pumping swell right from day 1 and there were rumours that lots of pro surfers were heading down to catch the swell before their WSL event in Fiji the following week.

There were 10 of us on the trip, all staying in a basic but absolutely incredibly positioned house on the waterfront, about 15 minutes by boat from Teahupo’o itself. We arrived in the dark, picked our beds and tried to sleep, but you could hear the waves out on the reef and the mosquitoes were out in force, so it was tough to sleep with the combination of jet lag, insects buzzing and adrenaline pumping through the veins. It’s funny though how little you need to sleep when you have that much adrenaline coursing through your system as we were all right as rain in the morning and chomping at the bit to get out there!

With 10 people to get ready, including a photographer and a videographer, it’s never a hop, skip and a jump to get out to the break. There is always plenty of preparation to be done and Bouj and myself were rushing around like mad men trying to get everything into the boat and everybody ready to head out there. When we finally made it out into the channel, the view was absolute insanity. There were several boats sitting ridiculously close to the tight pack of about 20 surfers, and only about 10m away from the dry reef to our left. The view of the mountains was breathtaking and incredibly clear, and the water was so blue and crystalline; one of the most beautiful sights I have ever had the pleasure to experience.

When the first set came through, we were all whooping like little schoolboys and everyone was trying to get the best view to video the waves with their iPhones. That’s how close you get to the action, you almost don’t need a video camera with zoom, the iPhone gets you close enough to shoot all the action and the morning light is as pristine as you can get for photography. It makes you see why it is known as the most photogenic wave in the world. There are just no words to describe it. Every single wave that comes through heaves out of the deep pacific ocean to catapult over on itself and explode in absolute deafening perfection onto the live coral reef. In the boat you are lifted up by the shoulder of the wave and have a bird’s-eye view looking down at the surfer on the wave from 15 feet up in the air. It looks like there are barely 10cm or so of water between the surfer and the coral reef, and that’s because that is about how much water there really is. Teahupo’o is death-defyingly shallow but at the same time so picture perfect that it almost looks easy to make the barrels.

LEARNING CURVE
However, when we jumped into the water to try to catch some waves from amongst the 20 or so professional surfers and Tahitian locals, it became clear that it wasn’t quite as easy as it looked! I felt like my eyes were popping out of my head with fear, while a couple of the Aussie surfers who were out there were just laughing and joking around with the local Tahitians. It was one of the most frightening experiences of my life and at the same time so exhilarating, just to sit there next to those guys that I am used to seeing in the movies at a wave I felt that I knew so well from all the photos and videos I had seen but that I had no idea how I was going to catch. Every time a set came in, the pack would move around but highly respected local surfer, Raimana Van Bastolaer, would call out who was going to get each wave and no matter how deep they were, they would have to go if he had called their name and everyone else would respect his call. It was truly insane to see how deep some of the surfers were taking off and making the barrels. It was amazing to be there so close to such a violent force of nature, but at the same time feel like it wasn’t going to get you because the waves were just so perfect.

In the end I had to try to get a smaller one, which were the first ones of the sets, as all the set waves had someone’s name on them and even so, when I got to my feet, my fins still spun out (I blame Boujmaa for that since he stole my nice fins that I had bought especially for the trip and left me with the crappy plastic ones ahem) and I ended up face planting at the bottom of the wave and getting absolutely slammed and lifted up and over and slammed once again into the reef. Then, to my dismay, I was laying in about ankle deep water and I looked out to see the much bigger second wave of the set looming up on me, ready to annihilate me. There was really nothing at all that I could do. I was in that proverbial situation between a rock and a hard place, only the hard place was a massive churning mass of white water travelling at me way too quickly and the rock was razor sharp coral that is supposed to be extremely good at giving you infections. I just decided to get to my feet and starfish jump into the white water and then try to stop the wave from flipping me over so I wouldn’t hit my head. In the end, I was lucky on that one and the wave took me over the reef to where I was able to swim through the lagoon and back out through the channel. Lesson learned – not quite ready for Teahupo’o on a surfboard yet, especially with that crowd!!

PARADISE
It was a couple of days until we had enough wind to windsurf but we had a couple of other very enjoyable but equally nail biting and gear/flesh destroying surfs at Teahupo’o and some of the other spots around our house. You have to get to all of them by boat and every boat journey is incredibly beautiful and enjoyable in itself. I had to pinch myself every day that it wasn’t a dream, such was the incredible beauty of the surroundings. In that time, we did all the Mystic brochure product shots and lifestyle shots. The whole team worked very hard to get a LOT of work done in the short time that we had and it was an extremely well organized shoot. They had an entire list of the shots that they wanted to obtain before we even arrived, and we just went through the list, ticking them all off as we shot them. It was great to see how much you can get done when working with such a professional crew and such a well thought out plan.

When the wind finally did arrive though, we were absolutely frothing to get out there. The swell was still up, although not quite as big as the first couple of days. On the plus side, the wind was keeping all the surfers off the water! This was more like it!! The light was still insanely beautiful and the wave there never fails to amaze, so we rigged our 4.8’s and jumped into the water.

GAME ON’
The problem for me was, as is quite often the case, my over eagerness to get the biggest, sickest looking wave possible and try to get an insane shot straight away. No sniffing the place out, feeling my way around. I thought that after my couple of surfs there, I knew the wave pretty well and knew what to line up with on the beach to be in the right spot. What I hadn’t counted on though was the fact that when we were surfing there, due to the crowd of pro surfers, we were only able to get the smallest of waves that didn’t have that much shoulder and therefore didn’t have much of a barrel. Now we were on our own, so I just picked up the biggest bomb that I could find and decided to go really deep so I could get a nice picture in front of the epic barrelling wave. Mistake. I flew down the line on the wave, easily powered up on the 4.8 due to the apparent wind. When I reached the point where it looked like I should drop in to do a deep bottom turn, I did exactly that only to see the wave warp and distort as it bent itself around the reef and threw out a heavy 10 foot barrel about 5m in front of where I had dropped into it. I couldn’t believe the speed of the wave, and in the same second that I realized I couldn’t believe the speed of it, I also realized that I had no idea how to take a wipeout on such a big wave in such shallow water, so I just did the sensible thing and jumped off the board.

PAIN
Ouch is all I can say. I got absolutely smashed on the reef and pummelled over and over again into it. I was so happy that Max (the boss!) had asked me to wear their impact vest for that shot or my back would have been torn to shreds. When I finally came up, I was in exactly the same predicament that I had been the other day surfing, no water and a massive set of white water heading towards me. Time for the star fish again, and it worked pretty well I must say, I got in over the scary part of the reef with just a couple of cuts and bruises and found my kit which was, no surprises here, completely torn to shreds. It took me about 45 minutes to swim around the lagoon to where the boat could come and pick me up and head out to try again. It was a little scary to say the least to jump back into the water after that but we had come here for windsurfing shots and I was not going to go home with just one big wipeout shot, so I rigged up my spare 4.7 and headed back out there, albeit much more carefully this time!

GAIN
The second session was much better. Unfortunately, there were no more massive sets like that one, but still plenty of 6-8 footers and Guilly, Boujmaa and I had the place to ourselves. You could see that Bouj had been there before as he was just playing around with the lip, timing sections perfectly and really looking in tune with the place. Guilly took a few waves to get the hang of it but after an hour or so was getting sick barrels. I had an amazing time once I learned the timing of the wave and the position where it was going to break. It was still hard to time perfectly as there was almost no wind on the wave, so you had to decide on your timing as you dropped into the wave, and just go with it. If you went too late, you had no chance of getting around the section and if you went too early, you couldn’t stall your bottom turn or you would get stuck and cleaned up by the barrelling lip. It was an absolute playground for the three of us out there. We were having so much fun. I didn’t want to stop! That’s a problem that I tend to have, I just can’t tell myself to call it a day as you never know when you will be able to have that much fun again! In the end it was the sun that decided our playtime would be over as we had to head in to the beach before the boat driver was unable to see where he was going any more!

On the drive back to the house, Ben Thouard, our photographer, showed us some of the photos on the back of his camera and they were absolutely stunning. The colours and scenery, perfect light and awe inspiring power of the wave just came together and made some shots that I really don’t think you could replicate anywhere else in the world. I just can’t wait to go back!

BOUJY TIME
Boujmaa Guilloul – Tahiti has always been my hottest trip, I wish I could make it a ritual. I have been going there since my friend Baptiste Gossein moved to Tahiti from Maui and I can say it was love at first sight; from the first time I visited, I fell in love with the place. It is magic, it has everything that makes it very unique, there is no one place I have visited that could be like Tahiti; the people, the waves, the landscape, everything is so beautiful.

I have always loved the pictures that have been shot there, like the first one I saw of Baptiste when he went there with Levi for the first time, I guess it was in 2005 or even earlier, a nice jump with a beautiful Jurassic park kinda looking background. The colours were unbelievable and I just wished I was there.

After a few years I managed to accumulate enough frequent flyer miles to get my first airline ticket to Tahiti and my heart was conquered by the magical power of that place, I couldn’t resist it anymore and I felt like I had to go every year.
I had been 3 times already before I convinced Mystic to have the photo shoot there as I had a contact through Baptiste at Air Tahiti Nui that helped us out with tickets. They are the best airline for gear to travel to Tahiti, they go from Paris through LAX and they usually have better prices than the rest of the airlines. Long story short, the conditions were amazing, actually a little too hard core for any level as the waves usually are not very forgiving and the reef very sharp, like very very sharp and if you get cut there, it takes forever to heal, and you need to kill the bacteria on your wounds with the lemon juice squeezed on your cuts straight out of the water and on the boat. The earlier the better, or for sure you will get bad infections. I personally missed sick windsurfing sessions and surfing sessions because I was hurt and lost a piece of my heel one time which took more than a month to heal. This time I cut my foot on the reef and my back, which was very painful and became infected, keeping me away from an insane session where I was sitting on the boat watching Robby getting the waves of his life.

To be able to charge at Teahupo’o you have to have a lot of confidence and loads of gear as back up as well as know the people there, it’s not a wave open for just anyone, you need to deserve the wildcard to be able and go catch waves in the middle of surfers and also when its windy local kitesurfers go charge the monster. Beside Chopes (Aussie slang for Teahupo’o!), there are many other breaks that are sailable, I have windsurfed many of them but this trip we mainly sailed Chopes. There is another spot called Vairao, which is super fun and a little easier when smaller. It’s a bit longer, but the longest rides are in Peru!, so Tahiti is mostly a short ride that you just send it and go for the biggest manoeuvre you can!

To get around you need a car and you need to arrange a boat depending where the action is happening, as there are many breaks which are potentially ‘sailable’ and ‘surfable’. There are also jumping spots on the other side of the island and a freeride spot, Motu Martin, which is very popular. If you need a car, best options are at the airport, and for boats there is plenty of options in the Teahupo’o area. Mainly we go with Timothy Farere, who is the best boat driver there, he takes you to the right spots for either surfing or windsurfing. If the wind called the Mara’amu is strong, usually it’s cloudy and rainy in the Teahupo’o area and is best to sail at Mara, situated between the peninsula and the city. It’s a solid wave with plenty of wind and easy access sailing from the beach rather than needing the boat.  I look forward to going back to Tahiti, hopefully soon! Maruru (Tahitian for thanks) to Mystic for making it possible and to Air Tahiti Nui for all their help.

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“THIS IS ANGULO”

A way to share our passion and our joy. Stay tuned for more…..

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EZZY FREERIDE IN ACTION

Have a fun watch at the Ezzy Freeride sails in action! The Cheetah, Lion, and Legacy blasting around the North Shore of Maui.

Film- Ian Boyd @ Reel lFresh

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Words Lena Erdil // Photos Yann Macherez

Ra’iatea is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia. Widely regarded as the

‘centre’ of the Eastern Islands in ancient Polynesia, it is considered likely that the organised migrations to Hawai’i, New Zealand and other parts of East Polynesia started here. For Lena Erdil, Ra’iatea was the start of an adventure into ‘’A little piece of paradise on earth, like windsurfing in an aquarium!’’. Lena tells us more about her tropical tale!

From the moment I first set foot on the island of Ra’iatea, everything was like a dream. The scenery, the people, the sea and nature, everything was amazing! I was lucky enough to be there for the Ra’iatea Gliss Festival, an annual celebration of all kinds of gliding on water and land, between catamaran sailing, windsurfing and the infamous ‘blop-jump’ (google it!). What I loved most about the festival however was how everyone involved was a volunteer and the great community spirit that comes with it. 

The windsurfing conditions in this paradise were equally amazing! What was especially awesome about windsurfing in Ra’iatea is that the island is connected by reef to the island of Taha’a. The lagoon between these two islands is perfectly flat water, warm and has one of the most amazing clear turquoise tones I have ever seen! It’s such a unique windsurfing experience to be able to sail from island to island and stop in some of the Motos on the way. Moto means uninhabited island, there is so many of them that I think people thought it unnecessary to name them all, so they are simply all called Moto! What makes windsurfing here even more special is the fact that you are basically sailing on top of a massive aquarium with so much beautiful sea life that it can quite easily be an overwhelming experience. Sailing or Sup’ing over the surface you see so many fish, turtles and beautiful corals so clearly that at times you feel you are about to hit your fin! I think windsurfing in Ra’iatea should be on everyone’s bucket list!! In the harbour town of Uturoa there is also a windsurfing and sailing centre called “Ra’iatea Activities” run by Gwenael Zampieri and his family. So if you don’t want to carry your board bags on the long journey to Ra’iatea, they will be happy to help you by renting you equipment or teaching you how to windsurf, catamaran sail, SUP and much more.

After the event I had another week to discover the island and all its beauties. I was really lucky to be hosted by a very friendly family with three little daughters who within a week became like a real family to me! Our house, like about 50% of the houses on the island, was beachfront with a little aluminium boat in the garden (ocean). With a keen surfer as host dad, I was lucky enough to be shown lots of amazing surf spots all around the island’s reefs and Mutos.
Since I spent most of my days on the water I also got to see an abundance of aquatic life: blacktip sharks, Mantas, Whales, Dolphins and all sorts of little reef inhabitants. I unfortunately also got to feel that reef slightly too much on a few occasions! Was I scared of sharks? Well actually I was pretty terrified or let’s say uncomfortable at first until a magic day trip to BoraBora! When the organiser’s family invited me to a speedboat trip to BoraBora I actually wasn’t sure whether I was living a dream or dreaming reality all day long. Our first stop was an outside reef of BoraBora where we were going to see the ‘roquin citrone’ (Lemon Shark). In my mind I was picturing a bright, taxi yellow smiling shark; what I got was an ocean full of big scary blacktip sharks. Looking down at them from the boat I was amazed by their sheer number, I had always thought of them more as lone hunters! Going into the water did not even cross my mind as I watched the boat next to us throwing bread in the water trying to attract more fish and birds and obviously sharks!

The next thing I see, one person after the other starts to dive in and swim with them! All of a sudden I am almost the only person left on the boat and the prospect of also going to look at the sharks from under the water seemed more likely. At least probability wise the risk of them attacking me out of the 20 people in the water seemed less or that’s what I was telling myself! I’m sure I have been in the water with quite a few sharks around on previous occasions but maybe never quite so aware, and definitely never wearing a scuba mask in the middle of the Pacific ocean. I’m so happy I overcame my fear and went in, as being underwater with them and seeing them glide through the ocean effortlessly was one of the most impressive things I have ever seen. After this rather epic start to the morning, the day just kept getting better: eating fresh Tahitian dishes on a Moto off palm leaves with my feet in crystal clear turquoise water; going to look for Mantas and swimming in an ocean teeming with wildlife!

The next day when I went SUP-surfing on one of the reefs in Ra’iatea I saw the fins of some more blacktip sharks but where before I would have probably slightly freaked out, I felt like they were my friends and that we were both enjoying the ocean together, it was really a wonderful feeling. But more than just the ocean, the whole island is also home to lush green mountains, waterfalls and historical sites. In fact Ra’iatea, which translates to “faraway heaven”, was once the cultural and religious centre of the Society Islands. Known in legends as Hawaiki, “the homeland,” many cultures believe that this is where the great Polynesian migration began, from which large double-hulled sailing canoes set out to colonise Hawaii and New Zealand. On the Island people live with the sun, this means that everyone gets up around 5:30 am and goes to bed at around 9 pm.

After a busy summer season in Turkey I really enjoyed being so in tune with nature and the simplicity of life on this island. Within a week I felt that I had made many new friends and I was especially taken with the families who had sailed all around the world and had chosen to simply stop in Ra’iatea and settle there, continuing to live on their boats but never leaving again, I think that says it all! I strongly recommend Ra’iatea to anyone who’s looking for a little piece of heaven on earth  and why not go during the Gliss festival or the Tahiti / Ra’iatea version of the Defi Wind to add some extra spice! Rumour has it that the winner of the 2016 Gruissan Defi Wind will win some tickets to go to this Polynesian edition of the Defi Wind, so if winning the Defi was not yet your personal goal this most definitely should provide some extra motivation to step up the long distance windsurfing training! 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 

Windsurf equipment hire, activities on the island and all other help to plan your trip:

www.raiatea-activites.com

How to get there: 

Fly via Tahiti, a great place to stop off, visit legendary Teahupo’o and then take a flight or boat to Ra’iatea.

Best time to go for windsurfing:
May-October, when the typical wind speeds of the Maraamu (the trade winds) is 15 – 25 knots and the water temperature is always the same: approximately 27°C. No wetsuit needed, just a lycra rash vest and sunscreen!

Gear to bring:
Slalom or freeride board, 100 – 120 litres and 3 sizes of sails – 6, 7 and 8 m².

Accommodation:
Lots of options from hotels to self catering bungalows, but it’s also possible to rent a multihull with a charter company (Moorings, Tahiti Yacht Charter) to discover the Raiatea Lagoon and the other islands (Bora Bora, Huahine) and stay on the boat.

Eats:
Great restaurants or little snacks from street food vendors (called roulotte)

Transport:
Avis, Hertz are present on the island but you can also rent bicycles or scooters. 

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WINDSURF WITH SARAH HÉBERT 

Wave sailing is always fun specially when nice spring days are here. Watch the last session of windsurfing champ Sarah Hébert in south Brittany, on St Barbe spot…with friends.

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2016 BWA FUNSPORT RHOSNEIGR CLASSIC REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

(PRESS RELEASE) In association with The Mailing Room

22nd – 24th April 2016 for Pros. 23th – 24th for Ladies, Ams, Masters, Youths & Juniors (under 20yrs).

Registration is now open, and online only. CLICK HERE

The Mailing Room 2016 BWA season kicks of at Rhosneigr.

Rhossy has been firing lately (check out Phil Horrocks’ page FaceBook) and can deliver when nowhere else is. A great turn out is expected following a windy winter. All the regulars, and irregulars, have been training hard and the level of competition should be as high as ever.

We are very honoured to have both of the top PWA Judges in attendance, Duncan Coombs and Mark “Sparky” Hosegood.  They will keep things running ship shape. If anyone want to get involved with the judging have chat to one of us.  It’s amazing what can be learned about your own windsurfing from watching others comperete.

Sparky will also be running his amazing Clinics with guest Pro’s. Alfie Hart is the official photographer, so give him some big smiles.

Activities being planned include
Bucky’s famous “Party of the Year!”
SUP comp / races.
Go-Karting
Quiz
BBQ
Pro Clinics from Mark “Sparky” Hosegood.

Geoff Hautman
BWA – UK Tour Director

The BWA UK Wave Tour is kindly funded and supported by the following members of the BWA Sponsors Pool:

BWA Contact: geoff@britishwavesailingassociation.com

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THE FOURTH SEASON

The Fourth Season portraits a darker, colder and more harsh side of windsurfing. The raw northwest coast of Denmark gets battered by deep low pressures all winters, this produced strong westerly winds and massive swells. Top Danish windsurfers, Kenneth Danielsen and Mads Bjorna have Klitmoller has their home training grounds, during the years here they have grown immune to the cold, it doesn’t matter if the water is 5 C or 20 C. The cold is no reason to miss out on a good session.

A film by Finn Noer and the streamfactory.dk

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