Synopses & Reviews
Windsurfing: Step by Step to Success offers comprehensive coverage of shortboard sailing techniques and equipment, and is aimed at everyone from the first-timer learning waterstart and gybe to the expert sailor attempting the latest moves. An experienced windsurfing instructor gives simple hints on mastering each manoeuver and has produced an exciting array of color photographs which make up detailed instructional sequences for more than 30 shortboard moves. The book also contains a study of top sailors as they perform complex moves, including forward and backward loops. With advice on buying boards, sails, and fins; tips on rigging; and notes on health for windsurfers, this is the ideal manual on a very popular hobby.
Synopsis
Closely linked to the structure of the RYA National Boardsailing Scheme, this book explains the skills required in a popular and rapidly developing sport. Opening with detailed advice to newcomers, including buying equipment, windsurfing theory, and basic techniques, the author goes on to describe how to improve those basic skills. Featuring superb photographs and clear diagrams, this book contains invaluable advice for participants at any level.
Synopsis
Arguably one of the most diverse, exciting, and accessible of water sports, windsurfing attracts an estimated 20 million participants worldwide. This instructional volume is packed full of information. Illustrated with photographs by John Carter, one of the worlds most respected water sports photographers, it will inspire both the beginner and the expert. It gives a full explanation of windsurfing equipment, including the different designs; a detailed description of "the basics" as well as intermediate and advanced techniques; the joys and dangers of sailing on open sea; and planing techniques, sailing smaller boards, gibing, and wave sailing.