Monthly Archives: September 2011

Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Jump!

To complete his Make Your Move series Simon Bornhoft looks at some inspiring training methods to start, improve and master your jumping skills. Photos:...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Jump!
Wave

Tabou Pocket Wave 75 (2010)

After four years of solid development, with quite a few changes throughout that time, Tabou have decided to keep this board the same as last...

Tabou Pocket Wave 75 (2010)
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Mega Manoeuvrability

With deep winter on its way Simon Bornhoft looks at a fun, dynamic, body warming windsurfing exercise with great added value. Photos: Karen Bornhoft...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Mega Manoeuvrability
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Swift Exits

As winter tightens its grip we all want to spend what time we can blasting over the cooler water rather than submersed in it....

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Swift Exits
Wave

Starboard Kode 74 (2010)

Starboard’s Kode shapes differ throughout the range to suit the conditions in which the board is most likely to be sailed, so every model tends...

Starboard Kode 74 (2010)
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Duck-Gybe

Can’t gybe? Don’t worry, you stand a very decent chance of duck-gybing! Simon Bornhoft breaks down this seemingly elusive ‘trick’ to make it achievable...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Duck-Gybe
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Gybing Pt 2

Simon Bornhoft strongly suggests working on these skill and move enhancing drills, which will help you MAKE YOUR MOVE while having a great time...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Gybing Pt 2
Wave

RRD Wave Cult 75 (2010)

The Wave Cults are marketed as RRD’s range to suit the broadest variety of wave conditions. They’re also said to excel in choppy water and...

RRD Wave Cult 75 (2010)
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Gybing Pt 1

Simon Bornhoft breaks key transitions down into component parts to dramatically speed up the understanding, training time and probability of actually MAKING YOUR MOVES!...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Gybing Pt 1
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Make Your Move!

In this new series Simon Bornhoft gives us the best possible method to achieve the ‘stock moves’. A self-coaching, run-by-run methodology and specific skills...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Make Your Move!
Wave

JP Wave 75 (2010)

The 2010 Wave line replaces the Real World Waves that have been around for the past few seasons. With this range, JP suggest that the...

JP Wave 75 (2010)
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Summer Session

Simon Bornhoft identifies a counterintuitive eureka moment that enables beginners and intermediates to master helicopter tacks, and links the same theme into the granddaddy...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Summer Session
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Sheet Out!

In the penultimate feature of the series Simon Bornhoft looks at a very counterintuitive action that influences waterstarting, non-planing and planing gybes, duck gybes...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Sheet Out!
Wave

Goya One 77 (2010)

The ‘one board quiver’ from Goya has seen a few improvements for 2010, with new straps and pads plus a few design tweaks. The Ones...

Goya One 77 (2010)
Intermediate

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Let It Be...

Simon Bornhoft looks at a very common counterintuitive moment that affects us every time we rotate our rigs at the end of a transition. Simon...

WindWise with Simon Bornhoft: Let It Be...
News

Team Pryde in Klitmoller 2011

Check out Robby Swift and Heidi Clawson’s movie of Team NeilPryde at PWA Cold Hawaii, Klitmoller, as Philip Koster entering the history books when he...

Team Pryde in Klitmoller 2011
Wave

Fanatic New Wave 76 (2010)

Although retaining the same name as last year, the three smaller New Waves are entirely new shapes with shorter, wider outlines and fuller, softer rails...

Fanatic New Wave 76 (2010)
News

When Skyeboy Met Brawzinho...

John ‘Skyeboy’ Skye talks to Marcilio ‘Brawzinho’ Browne during National Windsurfing Festival 2011 on Hayling Island… Filmed and edited by Dave White. http://mpora.com/videos/M8DVVIQ3s

When Skyeboy Met Brawzinho...
World Cup News

PWA Sylt 2011 – Preview

Reno PWA Sylt 2011 – event preview: The tension is rising on the island of Sylt as the greatest windsurfing event on the planet and...

PWA Sylt 2011 – Preview
UK Clubs

SWA Aussie Kiss 10 – Preview

Will Jones of the Student Windsurfing Association proudly presents the student windsurfing festival 2011 – Aussie Kiss 10! It’s once again time for the...

SWA Aussie Kiss 10 – Preview
Wave

Exocet U-Surf 68 (2010)

Dubbed as the perfect board to use in anything from big hollow surf to small mushy waves, the Exocet would seem to cover all bases...

Exocet U-Surf 68 (2010)
News

Marcilio 'Brawzinho' Browne's Europe 2011

Watch Marcilio ‘Brawzinho’ Browne’s European tour, with a session at Camber in the UK on his way to PWA Klitmoller in Denmark for PWA Cold...

Marcilio 'Brawzinho' Browne's Europe 2011
News

Team Datchet Go South!

Watch ‘You either Vulcan or Vulcan’t’ as Team Datchet headed to the coast in search of great conditions during a windy, freestyle filled September. Filmed in Poole...

Team Datchet Go South!
Competitions

Win a Jem Hall Coaching Super-Session

This competition is now closed – thank you all for entering. The winner was Matt Thorn. After an August spent posting Jem Hall’s seminal Wannabe a...

Win a Jem Hall Coaching Super-Session
production