Windsurfing Freestyle Instruction

Studying windsurfing freestyle online instruction is a good means to further your abilities and techniques once you have mastered the basics. Many sailors are perfectly happy to plane across the water on every available opportunity without further advancement of skills. For those seeking continual adrenaline rushes and physical challenges then freestyle maneuvers and tricks are for you.

Regardless of the class of sailing that you wish to pursue, windsurfing instruction should be continued throughout your sailing days. No one can learn everything there is to know about windsurfing. In addition there are new and improved techniques surfacing on a continual basis. Freestyle windsurfing is by far the most physically demanding class of the sport. Practicing the preliminary freestyle moves is a great way get through periods of low wind and still have an exciting time. 

Learning Freestyle Moves On-Line or In a Class

Freestyle instruction actually makes good sense for the intermediate windsurfer. Every trick and maneuver must be slowly choreographed and practiced persistently until the overall move feel right to you without rethinking every component. You must be patient when working on a new freestyle move and, with windsurfing instructions at hand, perseverance will pay off.

You'll know when you 'get it' and usually no single class session will speed up the process. Just practice, practice, and more practice. The number of freestyle moves already being done are endless and what can be done is only limited by your own imagination.

Really good windsurfing tutorial is available on-line regarding individual tricks and maneuvers. You will need to start out with the freestyle basic moves and build onto your current skill level slowly and systematically from there.

Freestyle Tricks and Maneuvers Categories

Freestyle online instruction should first begin with an understanding of the categories used in the freestyle class of windsurfing. The first category is 'starts' with at least 8 cool options. Your first practice sessions should involve these start options. The easiest being a beach start with your sail not touching the water and progressing to a fin-first start or a clew-first start or a combination of the two.

Other instructions covering jumps, jibes, tacks, 360's, classics, skippers, switch, aerials, flip aerials, loops, spocks, gruddies, flakas, radicals, waves, and undiscovered maneuvers. As you can see the possibilities and the adrenaline rushes are endless. Just remember to start out slow and build onto what you already know.

Here is a brief description of some of the less obvious freestyle categories. 'Classic' includes moves such as body drags, sailing backward, sail throws, and sailing on the opposite side of the sail. 'Skippers' involve jumping the board out of the water and doing at 180, this maneuver has named variations involving the sail. The 'switch' maneuvers begin with your feet being pointed upwind instead of downwind, and in the wrong straps. 'Spocks' are difficult maneuvers associated with the 'vulcan'. They are downwind aerial tricks.  A 'grubbie' is another aerial performed downwind. 'Flakas' are low wind 360's performed downwind. “Radical' is a maneuver in wave sailing. 'Undiscovered' are variations of the front and back loop.

Get started on some impressive water starts and classic maneuvers the next time you find low wind conditions and build your freestyle skills from there.

Practice results:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whNU01slX2I&feature=related

Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdkPwRWW91s&feature=relatedhttp://www.start-windsurfing.com/fr_go.htm
http://www.windsurfing-academy.com/information_bank/disciplines/freestyle.asp