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Without a doubt, the most crucial part of any race is how you get off the startline. Sailing off the line at the favoured end in clean air, ahead of your competitors allows you to control the fleet in to the first tack and help cement your position in to the first upwind mark. That [...]
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Buoy roundings are an important part of any windsurfing race and a key area to make (or lose) places and positions in a race. Done correctly, bottom buoy roundings can set up your position for the next upwind beat and create opportunities for passing or protecting a lead early on in the next upwind beat. [...]
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High wind Formula racing! It doesn’t get any more exciting, challenging, fulfilling and hardcore than that! With class rules that allow the Formula boards to be raced in up to 35 knots, its important that regular racers learn the do’s and do not’s of setting up their equipment to stay in control in high winds. [...]
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Wojtek woos world By Shelley Shepherd Klaner Wojtek Brzozowski, 33, was recently back on US soil to compete at the Calema Midwinters and spent a short time in Miami before heading to Argentina to prepare for the world windsurfing championships. He sat down for a one-on-one interview about his challenges and victories. Wojtek had been [...]
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Steve Sylvester : 2007 Formula National Tour Champion , multiple time formula american tour champion and one of the most technical formula windsurfing sailor in the USA . Enjoy his tips 1) Reaching is the game Sailing a FW board is like sailing a slalom board. This isn’t surprising because that’s how it all started. [...]
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